Allen, Shea & Associates
A Certified California Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise since 1986
50 Chapel Hill Drive, Napa, CA 94559
Telephone: (707) 738-0342
Allen, Shea & Associates was organized in 1986. We provide professional services in the area of planning, research, training, materials development, and evaluation within the field of human services with an emphasis on disabilities. We’ve been serving you on the web since 1996. To reach us by email, we’re always at allenbill@mac.com.
The firm:
William T. Allen, Ph.D., Sole Proprietor, Co-founder (1986-Present)
John R. Shea, Ph.D., Retired Partner, Co-founder (1986-2020)
Principal Interests
Allen, Shea & Associates is a technical assistance workgroup, originally organized in March 1986, as a general partnership. It provides professional services in the program development, implementation and reporting of evaluation, program and individual planning, and research, training in person centered thinking and planning, website content. These services are primarily focused on the field of human services with an emphasis on disabilities and mental health. The firm seeks, through its work, to inform policymakers, to improve the work of practitioners, to enhance services and supports, and to improve quality life of individuals with disabilities and their families.
Background
Bill Allen, ASA sole proprietor, was Executive Director (1983- 87) of the Area IV Board on Developmental Disabilities (regional office of the State of California Council on Developmental Disabilities). He also served as Resource Developer and Program Evaluator (1980-83) for North Bay Regional Center. His work experience includes program evaluation, advocacy, field-based research, mental health day treatment therapist, resource development, teaching, person-centered planning, technical assistance and consultation.
John Shea, ASA retired partner, was Executive Director (1979-89) of Bayberry, Incorporated, a non-profit agency providing residential services for adults with developmental disabilities, in Napa, California. John served as a Senior Fellow (1973-79) with the Carnegie Commission (and, later, Council on Policy Studies) on Higher Education, Berkeley, California, as a Research Economist (1974-75), University of California – Berkeley, Center for Research and Development on Higher Education.
Education:
Bill has a Ph.D. in Special Education from the University of Washington, with an emphasis on autism. John has a Ph.D. in Economics from the Ohio State University, with an emphasis on manpower and educational planning, human resource policy, and labor economics.
Sample of Contract Agencies (1987-)
- American Institutes of Research
- ARC/Vallejo-Benicia
- ARCA Integrated Service Systems Project
- Area Boards I, IV and VII
- Berkeley Planning Associates
- Becoming Independent
- Bush Foundation
- California Association of Children’s Homes
- California Department of Developmental Services
- California Department of Education
- California Department of Mental Health
- California Department of Rehabilitation
- California Early Intervention Technical Assistance Network
- California Institute on Human Services
- California State Council on Developmental Disabilities
- Child Trends
- CHOICESS
- CITY Education and Employment Services
- COLE Vocational Services
- Colorado Department of Institutions, Division of Developmental Disabilities
- Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center
- Families United
- First 5 California
- Fresno State University
- Harbor Regional Center
- Housing Foundation & Human Conservancy
- Illinois Rehabilitation Services
- Integrated Resources
- Irvine Unified School District
- MATRIX Parent Resource Center
- Minnesota Governor’s Planning Council
- Mission Analytics
- Napa County Office of Education
- Napa County Health and Human Services
- Napa Headstart
- Napa Personnel Services
- Napa Valley Support Services
- New Mexico Department of Health Services
- North Bay Regional Center
- North Bay Rehabilitation Services
- Oklahoma Supported Employment Project
- Redwood Coast Regional Center
- Regional Center of the East Bay
- Resolution
- Santa Barbara City Schools
- Solano Developmental Services
- Solano Workshop Services
- South Central Los Angeles Regional Center
- Southern California Association of Regional Center Directors
- State of Idaho
- State of Colorado
- State of Connecticut Department of Mental Retardation
- Towards Maximum Independence
- Training Towards Self-Reliance
- UCPA of the North Bay
- University of California at Davis
- University of San Francisco
- Upper Solano ARC/PACE
- Victoria House
- Westside Regional Center
- Western University of Health Sciences
- Whittier Unified School District