The Center for Global Initiatives is run by a 100% volunteer group of Directors, Advisors, and Friends. All donations go to projects and operations.

DIRECTORS

 

Dale W. Glassier, M.A., M.SMr. Dale W. Galassie has served as the Executive Director of the Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center since 1992, an organization that employs in excess of approximately 1000 staff with resources of $60 million, providing a comprehensive array of public health, primary care, behavioral health and environmental health services in Lake County. Prior to that position, Dale served as the Director of Management Services for the Health Department since 1981. His pre-public health life was in higher education serving as Business Manager of Lewis University, a Christian Brothers institution in Will County, IL. from 1975 to 1981. His years of senior level, administrative experience are complimented by his academic accomplishments including a Baccalaureate degree in Political Science and Business, a Master of Arts in Administration, and a second Master of Science in Social Justice from Lewis University. He is also a Fellow in the University of Illinois School of Public Health Leadership Institute and a Primary Care Fellow through the United States Bureau of Primary Health Care. He is Chair of Midwest American Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, and as a self-committed and life-long learner, ABD in his doctorate degree in Administration and Leadership through Vanderbilt University

 

Galassie routinely speaks to professional organizations, special interest groups, and legislative bodies. In order to promote social justice, he has testified before numerous state and federal Congressional Committees as an outspoken member of the public health community to promote social justice. He is an active Adjunct Faculty member for Webster University since 1982, teaching graduate courses in Health Administration and Human Resource Management. He is also the proud father of three young adult daughters raised here in Lake County, Illinois. His association affiliation includes Past Chair of the Illinois Association of Public Health Administrators, President 1996-97; Illinois Public Health Association Executive Council, 1993 to 1996; Illinois Primary Health Care Association, Past President, and currently serves on that Legislative and Public Policy Committee. Galassie currently serves on the National Association of Community Health Centers Legislative Policy Committee. Other association activities include Past Co-Chair of the Illinois Department of Public Aid, Medicaid Advisory/Managed Care Sub-Committee. He is also a member of the National Association of County & City Officials, Committee to Promote Public Health and Legislative Committees, National Association for Public Health Policy, and representation on other public health advisory committees. He served as the Vice-Chair of the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Metro-Forum Group and maintains current membership in that group. Galassie is also an active member of the Northern Illinois Public Health Consortium.

 

Edith Grotberg, PhDThe late Dr. Grotberg was a founding director of the center and is sorely missed. She spent five years in Sudan, teaching at the Ahfad University for Women in Omdurman. There she began her work on resilience, which culminated in an international study of the promotion of resilience, with data gathered from 27 sides in 22 countries. Her books on resilience include, A Guide to Promoting Resilience in Children: Strengthening the Human Spirit; Tapping Your Inner Strength: How to Find the Resilience to Deal with Anything; and was Editor of Resilience for Today: Gaining Strength from Adversity. She conducted work with UNICEF, OECD, UNESCO, and ICC. She worked with colleagues in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Brazil, to enhance resilience skills and behaviors. Her last work-involved life long well being in the western hemisphere.