Performance Vistas...
...was formed in 1998. Our people have worked together under contract in the southeast and mid-west for over thirty years. Since 1981 our team has served state agencies in seven states. Our current work is with Research Triangle International and the Justice Research and Statistical Association, on client outcome measurement. We are also working with the Georgia Commission on Family Violence and the Fanning Institute at the University of Georgia to identify policy issues and possible solutions in firearm-related family violence fatalities. Before that, we worked with the Georgia Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and the Georgia Commission on Family Violence. Before that, we worked with Tennessee’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs, Tennessee’s Department of Health, Tennessee’s Department of Finance and Administration. We have worked with the Departments of Human Services in Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio and Minnesota. We have also worked with Florida’s Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, South Carolina’s Department of Social Services, the Virginia Department of Child Support and Enforcement. and Florida’s Administrative Office of the Courts.
Performance Vistas’ Principals
Performance Vistas calls on the following principals for a typical engagement:
J. Douglas Bailey, MSW. Founder and President. Mr. Bailey serves as project director and administrative point person, but he also leads project teams. He trains, provides on-site technical assistance, facilitates planning sessions, and manages technical functions such as data collection and analysis.
Performance Vistas calls on the following principals for a typical engagement:
J. Douglas Bailey, MSW. Founder and President. Mr. Bailey serves as project director and administrative point person, but he also leads project teams. He trains, provides on-site technical assistance, facilitates planning sessions, and manages technical functions such as data collection and analysis.
Jon Douglas Bailey has managed eighty projects for state, county and regional agencies in Georgia, Tennessee, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota.
- Doug is currently serving as an adviser to the team building universal outcome measures for family violence victim services providers under contract with the Justice Information and Resource Network and RTI International in Research Triangle Park, NC.
- Doug recently served as lead data analyst and reporter for the Georgia Commission on Family Violence's Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN) effort to analyze firearm violence in the state's family violence cases. This project was funded by the Northern District of Georgia, US Attorney's Office.
- Doug completed his work in June 2020 directing the analysis of Family Violence trends data for the Georgia Commission on Family Violence, to be used for developing the state strategic plan to end family violence.
- Doug (2019) finished coordinating the training team and curriculum development efforts for Georgia's Criminal Justice Coordinating Council's Statewide Crime Victims Advocacy Academies.
- Doug (2019) completed "success case method" interviews of registered users of the Center for Victim Research on behalf of the Justice Research and Statistics Association.
- Doug has served private agencies in the ten states noted above, as well as in Illinois, Texas, Utah, Wyoming and Massachusetts.
- He has led teams in community violence prevention, crime victim services and compensation, children’s and adult protective services, foster care and adoptions, welfare reform (TANF), food stamps, child support enforcement, juvenile justice, local and state law enforcement, the courts, mental health, family counseling, community residential and institutional care for troubled youths.
- He has been a featured speaker and trainer for the National Organization for Victim Assistance, the National Association of VOCA Agency Administrators, the American Public Human Services Association, the National Juvenile Detention Association, the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the National Staff Development & Training Association.
- Regionally, he has presented for the Mid-Atlantic States’ Corrections Association, the Florida Group Child Care Association, the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare, the Tennessee Coalition against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Georgia Network to End Sexual Assault, and other social service associations.
- He has also facilitated sessions for the South Carolina DSS County Directors’ and Supervisors’ Association and The Florida Network of Runaway Shelters.
- Bailey has presented at the National Child Abuse Prevention Conference, the Southern Regional Conference of the National Association of Crime Victim Boards, and an annual conference of National Association of VOCA Agency Administrators.
- He has coordinated development of training curricula for state victim assistance academies for the Georgia Conference on Victim Advocacy.
- He has conducted training sessions for dozens of crime victim services agencies on how to collect and use outcome evaluation to manage crime victim services agencies.
- He has led evaluation teams for training and TA on three-part community crime reduction strategies for TN Office of Criminal Justice Programs. He was also the lead evaluator for Tennessee’s JAG-funded Encouraging Innovations grant
- He has presented on outcome measurement and program evaluation for the National Association of VOCA Agency Administrators.