About Richard Fiene
Rick Fiene has been working in prevention research for more than 50 years, focusing on child care policy, child care quality and human service regulatory administration and science. He initially started in prevention research because he wanted to have a positive impact on children’s lives. He believed that researchers were not paying enough attention to the licensing of child care programs and decided to base his career on improving this area of research.
Fiene is regarded as a leading international researcher/scholar on human services licensing measurement and differential monitoring systems. His theory of regulatory compliance has altered human services regulatory science and licensing measurement dramatically in thinking about how best to monitor and assess licensing rules and regulations through targeted and abbreviated inspection methodologies: differential monitoring, risk assessment, and key indicators.
He received the National Association for Regulatory Administration President’s Award in 2015 and the Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children’s Distinguished Career Voice for Children Award in 2020.
