Who We Are
Meet Dr. Dallas M. Stout
For someone who decided to go to college at the last minute during his senior year in high school, Dr. Stout has made quite a name for himself. He grew up in a racially diverse suburb of Los Angeles County. Many of the youth that he attended public school with did not attend college. Dallas takes his opportunity seriously. He has worked in the Southern California non- profit community for 30 years.
Among his varied work projects, Dallas ran one of the larger programs for developmentally disabled adults in L.A. County. He managed all marketing & admissions for a regional drug treatment center. Additionally, he spent many years as Managing Director of the largest residential drug treatment center and sober high school for substance abusing youth in Orange County. Currently, Dr. Stout runs his own business, “DoctorS Nonprofit Consulting,” which he co-founded in 2004 with his wife Dr. Debra Stout. Dallas has been a member of the faculty of California State University Fullerton since 2007 where he teaches in the department of Child and Adolescent Studies. In early 2018 Dr. Stout joined the Online Faculty at Brigham Young University – Idaho where he teaches a popular undergraduate Abnormal Psychology course. In late 2020, Ashford University, where he taught since 2009, became the University of Arizona Global Campus. He is now an Associate Online Faculty Member at U of A where he teaches a variety of graduate courses in Psychology, Human Services, Wellness, and Leadership as well as Non-Profit Principles, Practices, Governance & Finance.
Social justice issues and community involvement is very important to him. For nearly 30 years he has served on a variety of networks, coalitions, and Boards of Directors at the State, County and Community level for issues surrounding educational issues, troubled youth, substance abuse, gang prevention, and violence.
Meet Dr. Debra Stout
Many years ago, Debra Stout left a lucrative, 15 year management career in the Southern California teen retail clothing industry to earn her Doctorate degree in Psychology. She has since established herself as an advocate for those in need in Orange County. Dr. Stout specializes in all aspects of community development work with an emphasis in the areas of positive youth development and resiliency as well as homelessness issues and collaboration. She strongly advocates approaches that involve youth and college students in all levels and steps of the prevention and intervention process in our communities. In many ways, Dr. Stout mentors in her college aged young adults exactly what she has done for herself.
Debra spent over 6 years working for the Orange County Department of Education’s alcohol, tobacco and other drug use and violence prevention programs. In that capacity, Debbie coordinated a nationally acclaimed gang prevention and intervention program in conjunction with the Boys and Girls Club of Westminster. Debbie is currently the Executive Director of the Fullerton Collaborative. She is also still involved in DoctorS Nonprofit Consulting, a company she co-founded with her husband Dallas Stout, Psy.D. in 2004. As a consultant to the Orange County Department of Education, she assisted in the development of the O.C. Safe from the Start Coalition facilitator manual as well as their “train the trainer” programs. Debbie has been a member of the faculty at California State University Fullerton since 2006 where she teaches courses in both the graduate program in Counseling and the undergraduate department of Child and Adolescent Studies.
In late 2020, Ashford University, where she taught since 2010, became the University of Arizona Global Campus. She is now an Associate Online Faculty Member at U of A where she teaches a variety of Doctoral courses in Human Services and Psychology.