Before joining Damar's executive team in 2002, Dr. Dalton was director of Behavioral Health Services at Community Hospitals of Greater Indianapolis and COO of Lutheran Child and Family Services. In the late 1990s, Dr. Dalton was a special educational consultant to the Indianapolis Public Schools. He also has provided private practice clinical consultation in the Indianapolis area.

After earning a bachelor's degree in psychology at Anderson (Ind.) University, Dr. Dalton attended Spalding University in Louisville, Ky., where he earned a master's in psychology and graduated first in his doctoral class in child psychology. Both his pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral residency programs were completed at the Ohio State University School of Medicine where he also was an adjunct professor of pediatric and clinical child psychology.

Dr. Dalton provides insightful and positive leadership in the mental healthcare industry — particularly in the field of clinical child psychology — through innovative practices in child psychiatric residential care and as cofounder of IN-AJSOP, Indiana's credentialing and certification program for professionals serving youth with sexually aggressive behaviors.

He was appointed in 2005 as the Child Psychologist Representative for the Indiana Governor's Commission on Abused and Neglected Children and continues to serve as a driving and directional force in a groundbreaking research initiative to assist primary care physicians in directing patients with developmental and mental health challenges to appropriate community resources.

Highly regarded for his innovation in child behavioral health care, Dr. Dalton often serves as a keynote speaker and presenter for state, local and national industry conferences.