Chief Executive Officer, Human Services Management Corporation
Dennis Vicars is presently CEO of Human Services Management Corporation (HSMC) and Executive Director of the Professional Association for Childhood Education Alternative Payment Program (PACEAPP). Dennis has guided both organizations’ growth to where the Professional Association for Childhood Education (PACE) is now the largest early care and education association in California and HSMC has become a significant child care management company. In his career, Dennis Vicars has served as a child care corporate executive, preschool company founder and advocate on both the public and private side of early childhood education. Dennis has a unique understanding of early childhood education and has experience in every area of the profession. Dennis has been a speaker and workshop host for various organizations including the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), the National Child Care Association (NCCA), PACE and the Exchange’s World Forum. Dennis is presently a featured writer in the Child Care Exchange magazine, which is the most recognized early childhood magazine in the world. Dennis has assisted and been a consultant on numerous early care and education advisory Boards including Blue Ribbon Commissions in Maryland, Virginia, Oregon, Washington and Arizona.. Dennis served on California’s Master Plan for early childhood education and was recently chosen by Governor Schwarzenegger as his representative on the 13-member Early Learning Quality Improvement System Advisory Committee.
Dennis is presently involved in Sacramento County’s Superintendent Preschool Committee and participates on PACE’s Public Policy Committee and is President of Child Development Policy Institute (CDPI).