CHILDREN RESOURCES
DATA/REPORTS
EXPERTS
ACADEMIC/RESEARCH EXPERTS
ADVOCACY/NONPROFIT EXPERTS
FEDERAL/STATE EXPERTS
Children's Oral Health Resources, Division of Oral Health
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Tooth decay is one of the most common infectious diseases among U.S. children, reports this center, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Kids Count Data Center, The Annie E. Casey Foundation
The nonprofit foundation's Kids Count Data Center is an outgrowth of the child well-being report released by the foundation each summer. It contains national, state- and city-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including health.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
The center's Division of Adolescent and School Health (DASH) conducts the annual, in-school survey. It examines: child injuries and accidents; tobacco, alcohol and other drug use; school-related violence; sexual behavior; and diet and physical activity.
"The Right Start for America's Newborns", The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, this annual KIDS COUNT report ranks the 50 largest cities and all states based on eight measures of the circumstances and condition under which children are born.
Laura Beavers, research associate, 410.223.2975; lbeavers@aecf.org
National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services/SAMHSA
NCSACW staff are experts on cross-system issues involving child welfare, substance abuse, dependency courts and tribal and family judicial systems. They collect and disseminate analysis and research to help child welfare and other professionals improve their services and policies.
Faststats, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The center provides state and territorial data and demographics on diverse health topics.
statehealthfacts.org, Kaiser Family Foundation
Statehealthfacts.org provides health and health policy data on all 50 states. It includes data on more than 450 health topics including Medicaid, Medicare, health insurance coverage, health costs and budgets, providers, minority health, women's health and HIV/AIDS.
Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/yrbs/index.htm
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/index.cfm
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nichd.nih.gov
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.cdc.gov/
Contact: press office, 404.639.3286; in.the.news@cdc.gov
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/pub-res/atlas-summary/default
The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info3133/pubs-info
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.insurekidsnow.gov/states.asp
Foundation for Child Development
http://www.fcd-us.org/initiatives/initiatives_show.htm?
Institute and the National Council of La Raza
http://www.urban.org/publications/411566.html
http://childstats.gov
Columbia University
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_860.html?utm_sourc
Columbia University
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_860.html?utm_sourc
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_860.html?utm_sourc
Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative
http://childhealthdata.org/content/Default.aspx
RAND Corp.
http://www.rand.org/child/projects/safeschools.html
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/wisqars/default.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/CategoryQuestions.asp?Ca
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5630a3.htm
Executive Director
Children's Environmental Health Network
Address:
110 Maryland Ave. NE, Suite 505
Washington, DC 20002
Phone:
202.543.4033 x14
E-mail:
noot@cehn.org
Web:
www.cehn.org...
The Resource Guide on Children's Environmental Health provides information on and links to organizations working to protect children from environmental health hazards; data and information on environmental hazards, health effects and exposure routes; and a glossary of children's environmental health terms.
Chief of Psychology
Child Study Center
Yale University
Address:
Yale Child Study Center
230 South Frontage Road, Sterling Hall of Medicine, I-Wing
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.785.3372
E-mail:
laurie.cardona@yale.edu
Web:
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/training/psychfe...
Cardona is also Chief Psychologist at Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service, and coordinator of Pediatric Psychology at Yale New Haven Hospital. Her major areas of interest include school psychology, group therapy and pediatric psychology.
Sue Ellen Abdalian M.D.
Head of Adolescent Medicine
Tulane University Health Sciences
Address:
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone:
504.988.3881
E-mail:
sabdali@tulane.edu
Web:
http://cgi.photobooks.com/scripts/troll.cgi?dbase=...
Dr. Abdalian's area of expertise includes: general adolescent medicine; reproductive health care; medical care of youth with eating disorders; health care of adolescents living with HIV; and adolescent medicine trials network for HIV/AIDS interventions. She is medical director of several community-based clinics, and has a special interest in community-based adolescent health care.
J. Lawrence Aber Ph.D.
Professor of Applied Psychology
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University
Address:
New York, NY 10053
Phone:
212.998.5410
E-mail:
la39@nyu.edu
Web:
http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/faculty_bios/view/J._Law...
Aber is a professor of applied psychology and public policy, and he's also board chair of New York University's Institute for Human Development and Social Change. He previously taught at Barnard College, Columbia University and at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, where he directed the National Center for Children in Poverty. Aber's basic research examines the influence of poverty and violence, at the family and community levels, on the social, emotional, behavioral, cognitive and academic development of children and youth. An internationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, Aber has written extensively about issues. His most recent book is "Child Development and Social Policy: Knowledge for Action" (2007, APA Publications).
Francesca Adler-Baeder
Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Auburn University
Address:
286 Spidle Hall
Auburn, AL 36849
Phone:
334.844.3234
E-mail:
adlerfr@auburn.edu
Web:
http://www.aces.edu/users/adlerfr//...
Adler-Baeder's research interests focus on families under stress and children's experiences in diverse family types, including post-divorce and stepparenting. She has been involved in building services in Marriage Education in Alabama for the past 4 years and coordinates the Alabama Healthy Marriage Initiative in collaboration with the Alabama Children's Trust Fund.
Constance Ahrons Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California
Address:
Department of Sociology
Los Angeles, CA 90089
Phone:
858.274.8943
E-mail:
cahrons@usc.edu
Paula Allen-Meares Ph.D.
Dean and Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Socia
University of Michigan
Address:
1080 S. University, 4728 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone:
734.764.5347
E-mail:
pameares@umich.edu
Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-pameares....
Allen Meares' research interests include the tasks and functions of social workers employed in educational settings; psychopathology in children, adolescents, and families; adolescent sexuality; premature parenthood; and various aspects of social work practice.
Arthur Anastopoulos Ph.D.
Associate Professor Dept of Psychology
UNC-Greensboro
Address:
278 Bruce M. Eberhart Bldg
Greensboro, NC 27412
Phone:
336.256.0006
E-mail:
ada@uncg.edu
Web:
http://www.uncg.edu/psy/people/fac_anastopoulos_a....
Anastopoulos is interested in child and adolescent psychopathology, with a special interest in the assessment and treatment of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, including parent-child relations and parent training.
Craig Anderson Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University
Address:
W112 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3180
Phone:
515.294.3118
E-mail:
caa@iastate.edu
Web:
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~caa/...
Anderson’s main research interests are in social and personality psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive psychology. His studies include depression, loneliness, shyness and aggression. Most of his current research focuses on aggression and its relationship to media violence, particularly that in movies and video games.
Claudia Angelelli Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portugese
San Diego State University
Address:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1234
Phone:
619.594.1678
E-mail:
claudia.angelelli@sdsu.edu
Web:
http://angelelli.sdsu.edu...
Angelelli developed the first empirically driven language proficiency and interpreter readiness test. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association and the American Translation Studies Association and as an advisor for the National Council of Interpreters in Healthcare and Hablamos Juntos.
Morris Ardoin
Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
National Center for Children in Poverty
Address:
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
Phone:
646.284.9616
E-mail:
ardoin@nccp.org
Web:
www.nccp.org...
A division of Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonpartisan research organization promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. The site has a basic-needs budget calculator, plus demographics and policy tools to create custom tables of national- and state-level statistics about low-income or poor children. In October, it published two reports: “Who Are America’s Poor Children” and “Basic Facts About Low-Income Children.” Founded in 1989 at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, the nonprofit research center promotes the economic security, health and well-being of America’s low-income families and children. It pushes family-oriented solutions at the state and national levels, producing reports and fact sheets that highlight strategies to end child poverty. (See its fact sheet, “Basic Facts About Low-Income Children in the United States,” http://www.nccp.org/topics/childpoverty.html)
Ileana Arias Ph.D.
Director
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
4770 Buford Hwy, NE
Atlanta, GA 30341-3717
Phone:
404.639.3286
E-mail:
cdcinfo@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/director.htm...
The CDC established the center in 1992 as the lead federal organization for violence prevention. It has three divisions, including one on violence prevention. Before becoming the center's director, Arias was chief of the violence prevention division's Etiology and Surveillance Branch. She has research expertise in intimate partner and family violence.
Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Ph.D.
Research Professor
Department of Psychology
Clark University
Address:
950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610
Phone:
508.799.2834
E-mail:
arnett@jeffreyarnett.com
Web:
http://www.jeffreyarnett.com...
Arnett is the author of “Emerging Adulthood: The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the Twenties” (Oxford University Press, 2004) and “Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: A Cultural Approach” (Prentice Hall, 2004). He has and extensively researched young adults, ages 18-29.
Adrienne Asch Ph.D.
Professor
Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction
Yeshiva University
Address:
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
Phone:
212.960.5400
E-mail:
asch@yu.edu
Web:
http://www.wellesley.edu/ReproIssues/homepage.html...
Asch is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction at Wellesley College. She is currently on leave and is working at Yeshiva University in New York. Her work focuses on issues regarding human reproduction and the family. Areas of interest include abortion rights; the rights of women, minorities and the disabled; prenatal testing; the parent-child relationship; and assisted reproduction such as sperm and egg donations and surrogate motherhood.
Christopher Auffrey Ph.D.
Associate Professor
School of Planning
University of Cincinnati
Address:
P.O. Box 210016
University of Cincinnati
Cincinatti, OH 45221
Phone:
513.556.0579
E-mail:
chris.auffrey@uc.edu
Web:
http://www.daap.uc.edu/people/faculty.php?userID=a...
Christopher Auffrey, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of health planning for the Health Planning/ Administration Program at the University of Cincinnati which combines professional education in health care planning and administration with the School of Planning's traditional emphasis on research program planning and policy analysis. Auffrey's areas of expertise include urban community health planning and environmental planning. Recently, he has used geographic information systems (GIS) to assess the impact of community structure on infant mortality. He also has used GIS to analyze the health effects of environmental hazards. Other recent work includes measuring the cost-effectiveness of medical procedures and evaluation of an Internet-based health information network.
Catherine Ayoub
Associate Professor of Education, Co-director
Risk and Prevention Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Address:
613 Larsen Hall, 711 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:
617.496.1183
E-mail:
catherine_ayoub@gse.harvard.edu
Web:
http://hugse9.harvard.edu/gsedata/Resource_pkg.pro...
Catherine Ayoub is a developmental and licensed counseling psychologist with research and practice interests in the impact of childhood trauma across the life span, and the development and implementation of prevention and intervention systems to combat risk and promote resilience with emphasis on young children. Her present research centers on the developmental consequences and emotional adjustment of children who have experienced child maltreatment (including child sexual abuse and Munchausen by Proxy), chronic illness, difficult parental divorce, and witnessed domestic violence. Ayoub also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School and is senior staff at the Law and Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she serves as a forensic mental health expert for children and adults involved with the legal system.
Jerald Bachman Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
P.O. Box 1248
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone:
734.764.8354
E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu
Don Bailey
Director and Senior Scientist
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Address:
Campus Box 8180, 105 Smith Level Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone:
919.966.4250
E-mail:
Don_Bailey@unc.edu
Web:
http://www.fpg.unc.edu/people/search_people.cfm?st...
The Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center is one of the nation's oldest multidisciplinary centers for the study of young children and their families. Most of the institute’s work addresses young children ages birth to 8 years. They have a special focus on children who experience biological or environmental factors that challenge early development and learning.
Rosalind Barnett
Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University
Address:
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454
Phone:
781.736.2287
E-mail:
rbarnett@brandeis.edu
Web:
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/Scho...
Barnett's focus includes: Work-family, gender, job stress—illness relationship, dual earner couples, alternative work schedules, after-school stress. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center.
Theodore Beauchaine Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of WashingtonCenter on Human Development and Disability
University of Washington
Address:
Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
Phone:
206.685.2734
E-mail:
tbeaucha@u.washington.edu
Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/mrddrc/res_aff/be...
Beauchaine's research interests lie in examining the motivational and emotional substrates of psychopathology in children. He focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression, and on environmental influences on regulation of emotion and on impulsivity. He's studied how children’s developing brains respond to incentive, mild punishment and social threat.
Henry J. Becker
Professor
Education Department
University of California, Irvine
Address:
2048 Berkeley Place
Irvine, CA 92697
Phone:
949.824.8260
E-mail:
hjbecker@uci.edu
Web:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/doehome/DeptInfo/faculty/ha...
Becker is an expert on technological equity among children and the use of computers in the classroom.
Myron Belfer, M.D.
Professor
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard U. Medical School
Address:
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.432.2114
E-mail:
Myron_Belfer@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/peop...
Belfer is a child and adolescent psychiatrist and Senior Associate in Psychiatry at the Boston Children's Hospital. He is currently working with the World Health Organization in Geneva.
Carol Berkowitz M.D.
Executive Vice Chair, Professor of Pediatrics
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Address:
1000 W. Carson St., Box 437
Torrance, CA 90509
Phone:
310.222.3091
E-mail:
carolb@pol.net
Berkowitz is executive vice chair of pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., and professor of clinical pediatrics at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine. Her clinical interests are in general and emergency pediatrics, with a focus on child maltreatment. As president of the American Academy of Pediatrics in 2004-2005, she focused on setting a national agenda for child health and well-being -- including providing access to care.
David Bickham Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Center on Media and Child Health
Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
Address:
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.355.2000
E-mail:
cmch@childrens.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.cmch.tv/about/memberProfile.asp?id=12...
Bickham’s research focuses on the changing effects of media throughout the course of children’s development. His studies include an examination of the effects of television rating systems on children’s viewing preferences, educational television’s ability to increase children’s literacy skills and violent television’s interference with peer relationships. Bickham's work includes a 2006 study that found an association between violent video games and maladjusted social behaviors.
Rebecca Bigler
Director, Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab
Address:
1 University Station A8000
Austin , TX 78712-0187
Phone:
512.471.6261
E-mail:
bigler@psy.utexas.edu
Web:
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Group/Bigl...
The Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab conducts research on children’s intergroup attitudes, including social stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Its areas of study include the consequences of gender and racial attitudes for children’s development, how children’s intergroup attitudes affect conceptions of the self, factors that contribute to the formation of intergroup attitudes (e.g., stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination), and mechanisms of gender and racial attitude change.
Sandra J. Bishop--Josef Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale Univeristy
Address:
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone:
203.432.9935
E-mail:
sandra.bishop@yale.edu
Web:
www.yale.edu/bushcenter...
The center brings research-based knowledge of child development to the federal and state policy arenas in an effort to improve social policy affecting the lives of children and families in the United States.
Bruce Black M.D.
Director
Address:
372 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Phone:
781.239.3550
Web:
http://www.wellpsych.com/...
Dr. Black's expertise is in psychopharmacology, mood and anxiety Disorders, and Attention Deficit Disorder. In the early 90's, Dr. Black did one of the first studies of Prozac for selective mutism, when he was a researcher at the National Institutes of Mental Health.
Robert W. Blum M.D.
William H. Gates Sr. Professor of Pediatrics
Chair, Department of Population and Family Health Sciences
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Address:
615 N. Wolfe St., Suite E4527
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone:
410.955.3384
E-mail:
rblum@jhsph.edu
Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Robert&L=Blum...
Dr. Blum’s research interests include adolescent sexuality, chronic illness and international adolescent health care issues. He was co-investigator for the National Longitudinal Study on Adolescent Health, the largest survey of American youth ever undertaken. Recently, he published a study in the American Journal of Public Health debunking the myths that race, income, and family structure can be major predictors of youth health risk behaviors.
Warren Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Iowa State University
Address:
N128 Lagomarcino
Ames, IA 50011-3191
Phone:
515.294.5931
E-mail:
wblumen@iastate.edu
Web:
http://www2.hs.iastate.edu/database/faculty/direct...
Blumenfeld works on reducing bullying in schools, particularly for gay and lesbian students. He is also a member of the advisory board for Iowa State's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services. His book, "Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies," asserts that sexual identity and racial roles assigned by society are basic to an understanding of gender and race. Blumenfeld has published four other books, all dealing with gay, lesbian, homophobia, diversity and social justice issues. He is currently working on two other books, one on cyber-bullying and the second investigating religious oppression and Christian privilege in the United States.
Kelly Botteron M.D.
Associate Professor
Psychiatry (child psychiatry)
Washington University in St. Louis
Address:
Campus Box 8134
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
Phone:
314.747.6790
E-mail:
Botteronk@wustl.edu
Web:
http://www.psychiatry.wustl.edu/c/Faculty/FacultyD...
Dr. Botteron's research investigates structural brain differences in children with affective disorders and attention deficit disorder. The populations of interest in her research include major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. Other areas of Clinical Interest: child and adolescent psychiatry, refractory mood disorders, early onset depression, mania, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette's disorder and neuropsychiatry.
Margaret Bridges
Research Director
Child Development
UC Berkeley
Address:
2140 Shattuck #705
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.9163
E-mail:
mbridges@berkeley.edu
Bridges is the director of Child Development Projects at PACE. She is the author of a study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers who found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The findings are found in: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide"
Xavier de Souza Briggs
Director and Associate Professor of Sociology and Urban Planning
The Community Problem-Solving Project
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 9-521
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:
617.253.7956
E-mail:
xbriggs@mit.edu
Web:
http://www.community-problem-solving.net/...
Briggs is an expert on urban neighborhoods as contexts for children and families, race and inequality, housing and community development policy, and local politics and governance.
Claire D. Brindis Ph.D.
Executive Director
National Adolescent Health Information Center
University of California - San Francisco
Address:
3333 California St., Box 0503
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone:
415.502.4856
E-mail:
brindis@itsa.ucsf.edu
Web:
http://nahic.ucsf.edu/...
Brindis' research interests are in the area of developing and evaluating community-based services for children and youth. Her writings in the field of adolescent pregnancy prevention were extensively utilized in the planning and implementation of various state and federal initiatives. Brindis is also Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Adolescent Medicine at UCSF, an Associate Director of the Policy Center for Middle Childhood and Adolescenc, and Director of the Center for Reproductive Health Policy Research at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF.
Jane Delano Brown
James L. Knight Professor
Journalism and Mass Communications
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
Address:
360 Carroll Hall
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone:
919.962.4089
E-mail:
jane_brown@unc.edu
Web:
http://www.jomc.unc.edu/directories/faculty/brown....
Brown’s research focuses on how adolescents’ health, including their sexual health, is affected by the mass media and how the media can help adolescents live healthier lives. She is a principal investigator on the project “Teen Media: The Mass Media and Adolescents’ Sexual Health,” funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Melissa J. Brymer
Manager
School Crisis and Intervention Unit (SCIU), Terrorism and Disaster Branch
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Phone:
310.235.2633 ext. 227
E-mail:
mbrymer@mednet.ucla.edu
Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=ctr_terr_a...
Brymer, a licensed clinical psychologist, oversees both the School Intervention Work Group and the TDB Task Forces of the NCTSN. Brymer carried out one of the first systematic school-wide psychological needs assessments conducted after a school shooting.
Jessie Buerlein
Project associate, Improving perinatal and infant oral health
Children's Dental Health Project
Address:
2001 L St. N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.833.8288
E-mail:
jbuerlein@cdhp.org
Web:
www.cdhp.org...
The nonprofit program works to improve oral health for children, especially those who have limited resources. Its executive director is Nancy Gralla, at ngralla@cdhp.org
Brad Bushman Ph.D.
Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone:
734.615.6631
E-mail:
bbushman@umich.edu
Bushman’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of human aggression, particularly its relationship to violent media, self-esteem and narcissism. Bushman is researching video game violence under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
Sandra L. Calvert
Director and Professor
Children's Digital Media Center/Department of Psychology
Georgetown University
Address:
309 White Gravenor Building
37th and O St. NW
Washington, DC 20057
Phone:
202.687.7019
E-mail:
cdmc@georgetown.edu
Web:
http://cdmc.georgetown.edu...
The center is a five-university consortium of scholars, researchers, educators, policy-makers and industry professionals whose goal is to improve the digital media environment in which children live and learn. It is located at Georgetown University, the University of California, Riverside, the University of California at Los Angeles, Northwestern University and the University of Texas at Austin.
Maria Cancian
Director
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)
Address:
305 Observatory Hill Office Building
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Madison, WI 53706-1211
Phone:
608.263.6633
E-mail:
cancian@lafollette.wisc.edu
Web:
http://www.irp.wisc.edu/home.htm...
IRP is a center for interdisciplinary research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the U.S. One of three Area Poverty Research Centers sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, it has a particular interest in poverty and family welfare in the Midwest. Cancian is also a professor of Social Work and Public Affairs. Her research interests include poverty, welfare and child support policy, and the economic well-being of families with children.
Arthur Caplan
Head of Medical Ethics
Center for Bioethics
University of Pennsylvania
Phone:
215.898.7136
E-mail:
caplan@mail.med.upenn.edu
Web:
http://bioethics.upenn.edu/people/?last=Caplan&fir...
Dr Caplan's research interests include: transplant research ethics, genetics, reproductive technologies, health policy and general bioethics. He has served on a number of national and international committees including as the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations on Human Cloning, the Chair of the Advisory Committee to the Department of Health and Human Services on Blood Safety and Availability, and the special advisory panel to the National Institutes of Mental Health on human experimentation on vulnerable subjects.
Randy Capps Ph.D.
Senior Policy Analyst
Immigration Studies
Migration Policy Institute
Address:
1400 16th St. NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.266.1938
E-mail:
rcapps@migrationpolicy.org
Web:
http://migrationpolicy.org/...
Capps researches welfare and immigration policy. Formerly an analyst at the Urban Institute, his recent report, “The Health and Well-Being of Young Children of Immigrants,” centered on the 5.1 million children of immigrants under age 6 in the U.S. and their access to TANF, food stamps, center-based child care and schooling. Other areas of study include illegal immigration, the application and eligibility determination process for immigrants, and the role of immigrants in the No Child Left Behind Act.
Gilberto Cardenas
Director
The Institute for Latino Studies
University of Notre Dame
Address:
McKenna Hall, Room 230
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone:
574.631.3819
E-mail:
Gilberto.Cardenas.7@nd.edu
Web:
http://www.nd.edu/~latino/academics/facultybios-ht...
Cardenas is also executive director of the Inter-University Program for Latino Research, a consortium of sixteen Latino-focused research centers located at major U. S. higher education institutions. His areas of study include immigration and border studies, Mexican-American Studies, and links between Latino communities in the United States and countries of origin.
Joan Carter
Instructor
Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics
Baylor College of Medicine
Address:
1100 Bates St.
Houston, TX 77030
Phone:
713.798.6782
E-mail:
joanc@bcm.tmc.edu
Web:
http://www.kidsnutrition.org...
Joan Carter is a dietitian who teaches in the department of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, where she also is director of communications for the Children’s Nutrition Research Center. She edits the center’s “Nutrition and Your Child” newsletter and is a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association. Previously she was the general manager and executive chef at Santa Clara University’s Adobe Lodge, and was a food service director for Marriott Management Services in San Bruno, Calif. Carter earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from the University of Illinois, a master’s degree in business administration from Santa Clara University, and a Cordon Bleu certificate from L’Ecole de Cuisine Francaise in England.
Prudence L. Carter Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Sociology Department
Harvard University
Address:
504 William James Hall
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:
617.495.7569
E-mail:
plcarter@wjh.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/soc/faculty/carter...
Carter is an expert on cultural explanations for differences in social mobility among teens of varied racial and ethnic backgrounds. Her latest book, “Keepin’ It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White” (Oxford University Press, 2005), focuses on the intersections of race, ethnicity, class and gender, and their influences on culture and academic achievement among low-income African-American and Latino youths.
Robert Casey Ph.D.
Associate Research Scientist
Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
Address:
230 South Frontage Rd.
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.785.2513
E-mail:
Robert.Casey@yale.edu
Web:
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy/faculty/...
Robert L. Casey, Ph.D. is an associate research scientist at the Yale Child Study Center in New Haven, Conn. He was recently appointed to the position of Director of Training in Psychology at the Center. Casey earned his bachelor's degree from Colby College in Waterville, Maine in 1986 and his doctorate from Georgia State University in Atlanta in 1998. Casey completed his pre-doctoral internship and two post-doctoral fellowships at the Child Study Center prior to being appointed to the faculty in 1998. He has been a member of the Child Development-Community Policing Program since 1996 and has spoken nationally and internationally about the police-mental health collaborative model. His current clinical and research interests include children exposed to domestic violence and other traumatic events.
Stephen John Ceci Ph.D.
Helen L. Carr Professor of Developmental Psycholog
Cornell University
Address:
NG25 Martha Van
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone:
607.255.0828
E-mail:
sjc9@cornell.edu
Web:
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/sjc9/...
Ceci’s expertise is child witness research, particularly the accuracy of children's memory and courtroom testimony in regard to allegations of physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. His studies of children's suggestibility detailed in his 1995 APA bestselling book, "Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony," have been cited by courts at all levels. In addition to conducting scientific research, Ceci prepares curriculum to assist judges in assessing children's competence; delivers workshops for judges, mental health and law enforcement professionals across the U.S. and Canada; and conducts translational research for the legal community on child witness issues.
Mark Chaffin
Director of Research
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Address:
P.O. Box 26901, CHO 3B3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
Phone:
405.271.8858
E-mail:
mark-chaffin@ouhsc.edu
Web:
http://devbehavpeds.ouhsc.edu/ccanindex.asp...
The Center on Child Abuse and Neglect conducts research in several areas related to child maltreatment. These include research on child abuse fatalities in Oklahoma, children and adolescents with sexual behavior problems and their caregivers, physically abusive parents and their children, drug effected infants and their mothers, Family Preservation and Family Support programs in Oklahoma, Oklahoma Children's Services programs statewide, and prevention of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in children. Chaffin has studied children with sexual behavior problems for nearly 25 years.
Rosemary Chalk
Director
Board on Children, Youth and Families
The National Academies
Address:
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
Phone:
202.334.1935
E-mail:
rchalk@nas.edu
Web:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/...
Created by the National Academies in 1993, the nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.
Harry Chugani M.D.
Director and Chief of Pediatric Neurology and Developmental Pediatrics
Detroit Medical Center
Children's Hospital of Michigan
Address:
3901 Beaubien
Detroit, MI 48201
Phone:
313.993.0000
E-mail:
hchugani@pet.wayne.edu
Web:
http://pet.wayne.edu/harrybio.html...
Dr. Chugani's research has been in the area of cerebral metabolism in brain development, epilepsy surgery, and brain plasticity. He uses PET techniques in children, and is also involved in basic research in which reorganization following lesions is studied using a variety of methods. He is also a member of the American Academy of Neurology, Society for Neuroscience, American Epilepsy Society and the International Child Neurology Association.
Rebecca Clark
Program Official
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.496.5133
E-mail:
rclark@mail.nih.gov
Marylene Cloitre Ph.D.
Director
Institute of Trauma and Stress
NYU Child Study Center
Address:
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Phone:
212.263.6622
E-mail:
marylene.cloitre@med.nyu.edu
Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/cloitre.html...
Cloitre is the Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has published widely in the area of traumatic stress and has been awarded several grants from the National Institute of Health and other agencies to assess and intervene in the psychological and social effects of trauma in children and adults.
NCTSN Primary Media Contact
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Address:
National Resource Center for Child Traumatic Stress - Duke University
905 W. Main St., Suite 23-D
Durham, NC 27701
Phone:
202.965.0580
E-mail:
codycom@earthlink.net
Web:
http://www.NCTSNet.org...
Treatment centers across the U.S. are part of a coalition called the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network is funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a joint program of UCLA and Duke University, the network focuses on developmental understanding of child traumatic stress and public mental health strategies to reach the large population of children, families, and communities affected by traumatic events.
Jeffrey Cole
Director
Center for the Digital Future
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Address:
300 S. Grand Ave., Suite 3950
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Phone:
213.437.4433
E-mail:
digitalcenter@digitalcenter.org
Web:
http://www.digitalcenter.org...
The research center is conducting a long-term longitudinal study on the impact of computers, the Internet and related technologies on families and society. Also at the center are John C. Beck and Mitchell Wade, co-authors of the study “Got Game” (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), which suggests that gamers will be more successful in business than non-gamers.
Rebecca Collins Ph.D.
Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation
Address:
1700 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 7247
E-mail:
collins@rand.org
Denice Cora-Bramble M.D.
Executive Director
The Diana L. and Stephen A. Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health
Children's National Medical Center
Address:
111 Michigan Ave., N.W.
Washington, DC 20010
Phone:
202.884.5857
E-mail:
dcorabra@cnmc.org
Web:
http://www.dcchildrens.com...
Denice Cora-Bramble, M.D., is executive director of The Diana L. and Stephen A. Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. As a bicultural and bilingual pediatrician, Cora-Bramble has developed a number of programs to help people get access to health care. A native of Puerto Rico, Cora-Bramble completed her medical training at Howard University College of Medicine in Washington. She has held several faculty positions at the George Washington University Medical Center, including course director at the School of Public Health and Health Services. She also worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services as director of the quality center in the Bureau of Primary Health Care. Cora-Bramble is a recent graduate of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Leadership Fellowship and is completing a master’s degree in business administration at Johns Hopkins University. She is an expert in the cultural competence field and has been a consultant throughout the United States, South America, Europe and the Caribbean.
David Corwin M.D.
Professor and Division Chief
Child Protection and Family Health Division
Primary Children's Center for Safe and Healthy Families
Address:
University of Utah
100 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
Phone:
801.588.3650
E-mail:
david.corwin@ihc.com
Web:
http://www.ihc.com/xp/ihc/primary/docsclinics/clin...
Dr. Corwin is board certified in psychiatry, child psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He directed a treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. He founded and chaired the Los Angeles Task Force on Interviewing Sexually Abused Children. He evaluates and reviews cases involving concerns about child sexual abuse, child custody and visitation, psychological trauma, and professional practice in these areas.
Gerard Costa Ph.D.
Director
YCS Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health
Address:
60 Evergreen Place, 10th Floor
East Orange, NJ 07018
Phone:
973.395.5500, ext. 301
E-mail:
gcosta@ycs.org
Gerard Costa is the founding director of the Institute for Infant and Preschool Mental Health at Youth Consultation Service (YCS). With more than 84 programs in 33 communities, YCS is the largest provider of social services to children in New Jersey. The institute offers a graduate training program with Rutgers University Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology, as well as post-graduate and continuing education programs. Costa is a licensed psychologist and psychotherapist in Bergen County, N.J. He teaches in the psychiatry department at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, New Jersey Medical School. He also is a trainer for Safe Havens, a program that shows people who work in early childhood development how to work with children and families exposed to violence. He earned his doctorate in developmental psychology from Temple University. He has a special interest in relationship-based approaches to autistic disorders. He recently wrote a chapter in “Attachment Therapy on Trial: The Torture and Death of Candace Newmaker” (Praeger Publishers, 2003).
Mark Courtney Ph.D.
Executive director
Partners for Our Children
University of Washington
Address:
4516 University Way
Seattle, WA 98105-6299
Phone:
206.221.3144
E-mail:
mark.courtney@partnersforourchildren.org
Web:
http://www.partnersforourchildren.org...
In 2007, Courtney became founding executive director of the child welfare research and development center. He also joined the university's School of Social Work as the Ballmer Chair in Child Well-Being. Previously, he had been at the University of Chicago, directing its Chapin Hall Center for Children from 2001 to 2006. He has conducted extensive research on individual, family and societal contributors to the well-being of children placed in out-of-home care. Courtney is widely acknowledged as an expert on the child welfare system. His studies of youth aging out of foster care have been used extensively by legislators, agency administrators and courts around the country.
Philip A. Cowan
Professor of Psychology and Director
Institute of Human Development
University of California, Berkeley
Address:
1123 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.643.6095
E-mail:
pcowan@berkeley.edu
Web:
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/pcowan.htm...
Cowan's research and clinical interests center on family systems and children's development. He studies how variations in children's cognitive, social and personality development and in their adaptation to school can be understood in the context of the family. With Carolyn Pape Cowan, he examined how five domains of family life combine to predict, and sometimes affect, the ability of young children to deal with the academic and social challenges of elementary and high school: (1) parents' experiences in their families of origin; (2) parents' and children's personality characteristics; (3) the parents' marital relationship quality; (4) the way in which parents and children interact; and (5) parents' outside the family-work lives and children's outside the family relationship.
Allen Crocker
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Childrens Hospital
Harvard University
Address:
Childrens Hospital, Pediatrics
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.355.6509
E-mail:
allen.crocker@tch.harvard.edu
Crocker is director of the Down Syndrome Program at Children's Hospital Boston.
Emily Dammeyer
Public Relations Manager
Children's Research Institute
Address:
111 Michigan Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20010
Phone:
202.476.4500
E-mail:
edammeye@cnmc.org
Web:
http://www.dcchildrens.com/research/...
Part of the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C., it researches pediatric disease prevention and treatment. Its 300-plus scientists, trainees and staff – supported by more than $33 million in grants last year from the National Institutes of Health – contribute to research projects in metropolitan Washington, D.C., and nationally. Its Web site offers experts on concerns such as adolescent pregnancy, diabetes, depression, autism and sleep disorders.
Alan DeCherney M.D.
Professor and Physician
Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Gynocology Practice
UCLA
Address:
10833 Le Conte Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone:
310.794.1884
E-mail:
adecherney@mednet.ucla.edu
Web:
http://www.healthcare.ucla.edu/institution/physici...
Dr. DeCherney's clinical interests include: endometriosis, infertility and reproductive endocrinology
Diane DePanfilis Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work/Co-Director
Baltimore Center for Families
Ruth Young Center for Families & Children
Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone:
410.706.3609 work or 410
E-mail:
ddepanfilis@ssw.umaryland.edu
Web:
http://www.family.umaryland.edu...
Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and co-director of the Center for Families, an interdisciplinary center that promotes safety, health and well-being for children, families and communities. She has 30 years of experience in the child maltreatment field as a caseworker, supervisor, program manager, national trainer, consultant and researcher. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops. DePanfilis is currently leading a university research team that is evaluating the effect of early intervention to prevent child neglect and substance abuse. She is also collaborating with two Maryland Department of Social Services agencies in their evaluation of child welfare service outcomes. She is co-editor of the “Handbook for Child Protection Practice” and is a past president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pa., a master’s in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
Karen E. Diamond
Director, Child Development Lab
Purdue University
Address:
Child Development and Family Studies Building, Room 204
101 Gates Road, Purdue University
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2020
Phone:
765.494.0942
E-mail:
diamond@cfs.purdue.edu
Web:
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/CDFS/pages/fac_staff/dia...
Diamond has studied the development of children's attitudes towards children with disabilities. Her current research focuses on relations between preschool children's cognitive development and their ideas about including peers with disabilities in play activities.
Angela Diaz M.D.
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Address:
320 East 94th St., Second Floor
New York, NY 10128
Phone:
212.423.2900
E-mail:
angela.diaz@msnyhealth.org
Web:
http://www.mountsinai.org/msh/msh_program.jsp?url=...
Diaz is the director of Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. She is also director of Health Services for the Children’s Aid Society in New York City and is active in adolescent health advocacy and policy in the United States. Dr. Diaz's practice and policy work is focused on providing comprehensive mental and primary health services to trauma-affected adolescents. She has published numerous articles on topics such as child and adolescent sexual abuse, adolescents' access to health care and health services for immigrants.
Thomas Dishion Ph.D.
Director of Research
Child and Family Center
University of Oregon
Address:
195 West 12th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401
Phone:
541.346.3620
E-mail:
tomd@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Web:
http://cfc.uoregon.edu...
Dishion's interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents, as well as designing effective interventions and prevention programs. He is also a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oregon. He has published a book for parents on family management, and two books for professionals working with troubled children and their families.
Joan Dodge Ph.D.
Senior Policy Associate
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Child Development Center
Address:
3307 M St. N.W., Suite 401
Washington, DC 20007
Phone:
202.687.5054
E-mail:
dodgej@georgetown.edu
Web:
http://gucdc.georgetown.edu/cassp.html...
Joan M. Dodge, Ph.D., is a senior policy associate with the National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health at Georgetown University’s Child Development Center. She is coordinating a series of policy academies to help selected states and jurisdictions develop and implement a major child mental health policy initiative. Previously, she directed a targeted technical assistance initiative to all 50 states and a few territories, overseeing a small cadre of faculty and consultants who conducted individual needs assessments to build systems of care and improve service delivery for children and families. Previously, Dodge developed and implemented interagency program models for youth with multiple needs as well as infants and toddlers with developmental delays in Montgomery County, Md. Her background is in special education for children with emotional and behavioral disturbances. She received her doctorate from the Institute for Child Study at the University of Maryland in 1982.
Kenneth A. Dodge Ph.D.
Director
Center for Child and Family Policy
Duke University
Address:
Box 90545
302 Towerview Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0545
Phone:
919.613.9334
E-mail:
dodge@duke.edu
Web:
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/child...
Dodge, the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies, directs the center, which aims to solve problems facing children by bringing together policy makers, practitioners and scholars from many disciplines. It's addressing issues of early childhood adversity, education policy reform and youth violence and problem behaviors. Dodge was a principal investigator on the Fast Track project, a federally funded longitudinal study of youth from age 8 to young adulthood to identify early risk factors for adolescent disorders, particularly involvement in violence and antisocial behavior. His other interests include education policy, child maltreatment and the science of child and adolescent development.
Elisabeth H. Donahue
Associate Editor of The Future of Children Journal
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
Phone:
609.258.0340
E-mail:
edonahue@Princeton.edu
Web:
http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qna...
Donahue worked for the National Women’s Law Center, focusing on child support, welfare reform and child care issues. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on child support, welfare reform, childcare, children’s health, family policy and social policy financing.
Howard Dubowitz M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Center for Child Protection
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Address:
22 South Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
Phone:
410.328.8919 (media) or 4
E-mail:
hdubowitz@peds.umaryland.edu
Web:
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/howard__dubowitz.html...
Special Interests: Failure to Thrive; General Pediatrics; Child Abuse and Neglect. Co-wrote "Handbook for Child Protection Practice" (Sage Publications, 2004) and "Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy" (Sage Publications, 1999.)
Professor of Education
Department of Education
University of California, Irvine
Address:
Berkeley Place 2062
Irvine, CA 92697-5500
Phone:
949.824.7831
E-mail:
gduncan@uci.edu
Web:
http://www.gse.uci.edu/person/gduncan/gduncan_biog...
Duncan is an expert on family and neighborhood poverty and child development. He formerly worked at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. Dunca's research focuses on the effects of poverty on families and neighborhoods, and the intergenerational consequences of welfare use. He has investigated the concentration of persistent poverty among certain population subgroups, in particular African-Americans. Duncan and colleagues also have examined the life consequences for adolescents in families that receive at least partial income from welfare. He has written extensively about income distribution, child poverty and welfare dependence and is the co-author or co-editor of several books. A former principal investigator of the Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Duncan was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001. He was elected president of the Population Association of America for 2008 and president of the Society for Research in Child Development for 2009-2011.
Helen DuPlessis M.D.
Assoc.Professor, Senior Advisor
Center for Healthier Children Families and Communities (CHCFC)
University of California, Los Angeles
Address:
1100 Glendon Avenue, Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90024-6946
Phone:
310.794.2583
E-mail:
hduplessis@verizon.net
Web:
http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/dropdownmenu/staf...
Dr. DuPlessis, a pediatrician, works for the Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities at the University of California, Los Angeles. She serves as an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine and as an adjunct assistant professor at the School of Public Health, developing health policy for women and children. Before joining UCLA in 2002, DuPlessis was the chief medical officer of L.A. Care Health Plan, which serves the county’s Medicaid and other low-income beneficiaries. Earlier, she directed student medical services for the Los Angeles Unified School District
Felton Earls Ph.D.
Professor of Human Behavior and Development
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Address:
1430 Massachusetts Ave., College House,
Fourth Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:
617.495.5381
E-mail:
felton_earls@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.hms.harvard.edu/dsm/WorkFiles/html/peop...
Among his work, Dr. Earls is the scientific co-director of The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods — a longitudinal interdisciplinary study aimed at understanding the causes and pathways of juvenile delinquency, adult crime, substance abuse and violence. (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/PHDCN/)
Burton Edelstein M.D.
Professor of Clinical Dentistry
College of Dental Medicine - Community Health
Columbia University
Address:
Physicians & Surgeons
601 West 168th Street, Suite 32
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.342.3550
E-mail:
ble22@columbia.edu
David Elkind
Professor and Chair
Child Development
Tufts University
Address:
Eliot Pearson Center
105 College Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
Phone:
617.627.3455
E-mail:
david.elkind@tufts.edu
Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=...
Elkind's expertise includes: cognitive and social development in children and adolescents; causes and effects of stress and anxiety on children, youth and families. He is a consultant to state education departments, clinics, mental health centers, government agencies and private foundations. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series, "Kids These Days." He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled "No Time for Play: The Over-Programmed Child."
Gabriel Escobar M.D.
Research Scientist, Director/Staff Pediatrician
Division of Research, Perinatal Unit
Kaiser Permanente
Address:
3505 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611
Phone:
510.891.3502
E-mail:
gabriel.escobar@kp.org
Web:
http://www.dor.kaiser.org/staff/investigators/esco...
Dr. Escobar's research interests include: the outcome of neonatal intensive care, the epidemiology of neonatal and perinatal care in general, severity of illness scoring, medical informatics, quantification of care processes in obstetrics, and electronic decision support for human error reduction.
David Fassler M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Vermont College of Medicine
Address:
C/O Otter Creek Associates, 86 Lake St.
Burlington, VT 05401
Phone:
802.865.3450
E-mail:
David.Fassler@uvm.edu
Web:
http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/experts/?Page=experts.ph...
Fassler researches child and adolescent mental health issues such as the effects of stress and trauma, divorce, depression and the use of psychotropic drugs. He is the co-author of several books, including: "Help Me, I'm Sad: Recognizing, Treating, and Preventing Childhood and Adolescent Depression" (Penguin Books, 1997), "Coming to America: The Kids' Book About Immigration" (Waterford, 1993).
Armando Favazza M.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri - Columbia
Address:
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
Phone:
573.882.8913
E-mail:
FavazzaA@health.missouri.edu
Web:
http://www.umcpsychiatry.com/Faculty/favazza.htm...
Favazza has done extensive research on self-mutilation and skin-cutting. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists, and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
Barry Feld
Centennial Professor of Law
University of Minnesota
Address:
340 Mondale Hall
229 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone:
218.743.3118
E-mail:
bfeld@bigfork.net
Mary Flanagan
Associate Professor, Digital Art & Culture
Department of Film and Media Studies
Hunter College
Address:
695 Park Ave., Room 433HN
New York, NY 10021
Phone:
212.650.3219
E-mail:
mary@maryflanagan.com
Web:
http://www.maryflanagan.com...
Flanagan designs and develops online educational games for girls. She is currently developing a game environment designed to teach computer programming to girls.
Glenn Flores M.D.
Director, Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Epidemiology, and Health Policy
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children
Medical College of Wisconsin
Address:
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone:
414.456.8273
E-mail:
gflores@mail.mcw.edu
Web:
http://www.mcw.edu/display/router.asp?docid=2249...
Dr. Flores speaks nationally and internationally on Latino children's health, access to health care, and culture and clinical care. His current research includes an investigation of medical interpreter errors and their clinical consequences, studies of innovative interventions for insuring uninsured children, a randomized trial of the effectiveness of parent mentors in improving childhood asthma outcomes, and a randomized trial of a culturally appropriate weight loss intervention for overweight Latino children.
Norman Fost M.D.
Director
Program in Medical Ethics
University of Wisconsin
Address:
600 Highland Avenue
H4/452 Clinical Science Center
Madison, WI 53792-4108
Phone:
608.263.8562
E-mail:
ncfost@facstaff.wisc.edu
Web:
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/adminmed/faculty/nfost....
Fost is a professor of pediatrics and the former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Bioethics. His current research interests include regulation of human subjects research and the use of so-called "enhancing" medical technologies such as growth hormone and anabolic steroids. He also has spoken on the issue of a federal law that allows doctors to use approved drugs and devices for unapproved procedures and patients, including kids.
Professor of Maternal and Child Health
School of Public Health
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Address:
Rosenau Hall, CB# 7445
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-7445
Phone:
919.966.3773
E-mail:
emfoster@unc.edu
Web:
www.unc.edu/~emfoster ...
E. Michael Foster, Ph.D., is a professor of maternal and child health in the School of Public Health at the University of North Carolina. His work focuses on the social policies shaping the lives of children. His interests include identifying children in need and evaluating services, programs and interventions that might meet those needs, particularly those that are delivered in real-world settings. He is an associate member of the Network on the Transition to Adulthood sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.
Scott Frank
Associate Professor
Division of Public Health
Case Western Reserve University
Address:
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone:
216.368.3725
E-mail:
scott.frank@case.edu
Web:
http://epbiwww.case.edu/mph/people_faculty.html...
Frank's research areas include abstinence, behavior change, smoking cessation, substance abuse, clinical assessment of stress and the role of spirituality and religion in the medical setting.
Greg Fritz M.D.
Professor, Director
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Brown University
Address:
P.O. Box 426
Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St.
Providence, RI 02903
Phone:
401.444.7573
E-mail:
Gregory_Fritz@brown.edu
Web:
http://www.lifespan.org/services/childhealth/resea...
Dr. Fritz is the medical director of Bradley Hospital, as well as the media professor in the department of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and director of child and adolescent psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital. Fritz is an expert on emotional difficulties confronting children and adolescents, particularly those with asthma and other medical disorders. He is also a national authority on the shortage of child mental health professionals.
Bruce Fuller
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of California
Address:
Tolman Hall 3659
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.0709
E-mail:
B_FULLER@UCLINK4.Berkeley.EDU
Chair, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Network on Transitions to Adulthood
University of Pennsylvania
Address:
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone:
215.898.6718
E-mail:
fff@pop.upenn.edu
Web:
http://www.pop.upenn.edu/transad/about/index.htm...
The network examines the changing nature of early adulthood and the policies, programs and institutions that support young people as they move into adulthood. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the network documents cultural and social shifts and explores how families, government and social institutions shape the course of young adults’ development. Furstenberg's current research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being and urban education. His most recent book is "Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods." His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families and the public.
James Gabarino Ph.D.
Co-director
Family Life Development Center
Cornell University
Address:
G-20 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone:
607.225.7794
E-mail:
jg38@cornell.edu
Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/fldc/...
Garbarino’s research interests are bullying and the community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
NYU Child Study Center
Address:
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Phone:
212.263.6622
E-mail:
richard.gallagher@med.nyu.edu
Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/gallagher.html...
Gallagher designs and evaluates parent education programs. Gallagher is the leader of the Special Interest Group in Child and School-Related Issues of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He also served as Co-Investigator on a treatment development grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for an organizational skills intervention for ADD/ADHD children and continues to investigate the neuropsychological profile of childhood ADHD.
Maude C. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology; Professor
Psychology
Loyola University Chicago
Address:
6525 N. Sheridan Road
628 Damen Hall
Chicago, IL 60626
Phone:
773.508.3017
E-mail:
jgarbar@luc.edu
Web:
http://www.luc.edu/psychology/psyfaculty/Garbarino...
Garbarino researches depression in children, child abuse, psychological maltreatment, community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention.
Paula Gardiner M.D.
Research Fellow in Medicine
Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies
Harvard Medical School
Address:
Landmark Building
401 Park Drive, Suite 22A-West
Boston, MA 02215
Phone:
617.384.8550
E-mail:
paula.gardiner@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.osher.hms.harvard.edu/...
Dr. Gardiner has done extensive research on alternative therapies for children with special needs. She oversees the acupuncture and stress management clinic programs at the Tufts University Family Medicine Residency. Her main interest is the safety and efficacy of herbs and dietary supplements for children and their families -– a topic on which she has been widely published and quoted. A member of the panel on dietary supplements for the US., Gardiner is currently involved in two NIH educational grants regarding complementary and alternative medicine. She is a research associate at the Center for Holistic Pediatrics Education and Research at Children’s Hospital, an adjunct professor at the Mass College of Pharmacy, and a clinical instructor in Tufts Department of Family Medicine and Community Health.
President
The Hyde Foundation, Hyde Schools
Address:
616 High St.
Bath, ME 04530
Phone:
207.443.7381
E-mail:
jgauld@hyde.edu
Joseph Gauld has been an educator for 53 years. He is the founder of Hyde Schools in Bath, Maine, and Woodstock, Conn.; of the Hyde Leadership Public High School in New Haven, Conn.; and the Hyde Leadership Public Charter School in Washington, D.C. Gauld is president of the Hyde Foundation and an authority on character development in youth, teachers, parents and families. He has written two books, “Character First” (ICS Press, 1993), and “Hyde: Preparation for Life” (Hyde Press, 2004). Gauld has appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” ABC’s “20/20” and NBC’s “Today” show, and he also serves as an educational and corporate consultant. He received his bachelor’s degree from Bowdoin College and a master’s degree in mathematics from Boston University.
President, Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)
Address:
9000 Airline Highway Suite 670
Baton Rouge, LA 70815-4114
Phone:
225.926.6886
http://www.sart.org/index.html...
Dr. Gibbons is president of SART, which aims to promote and advance the standards for the practice of assisted reproductive technology. Dr. Gibbons also practices at A Woman's Center For Reproductive Medicine, which specializes in the treatment of infertility. His research interests include pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and other methods to screen embryos for genetic disease. He has been widely quoted on reproductive issues such as infertility, egg donation, sex selection, in vitro fertilization and stem cell research.
Walter Gilliam
Assistant Professor
Child Study Center
Yale University
Address:
Yale University
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.785.3384
E-mail:
walter.gilliam@yale.edu
Web:
http://myprofile.cos.com/WGilliam...
Gilliam’s major areas of interest are: early childhood development and assessment; preschool mental health consultation; preschool and early intervention effectiveness research; and child social policy. The mission of the Child Study Center is to understand children's mental health problems and prevent or alleviate the symptoms of patients who suffer from them.
Chief
Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Address:
Adolescent Div, Yawkey 6C
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.2730
E-mail:
mgoldstein@partners.org
Web:
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/MGHfc/MGHfC_medspec_ado...
Dr. Goldstein is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein’s areas of interest include eating disorders, sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, health insurance, gynecology and male health.
Alison Gopnik
Professor
Psychology Dept./Institute of Cognitive Science
University of California, Berkeley
Address:
3317 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.2752
E-mail:
gopnik@socrates.berkeley.edu
Web:
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/gopnik.htm...
Gopnik is an expert on young children’s cognition, language development and play.
Madelyn Gould Ph.D.
Professor in Clinical Public Health
Epidemiology
Columbia University
Address:
1051 Riverside Dr, Annex 216
New York, NY
Phone:
212.543.5329
E-mail:
msg5@columbia.edu
Web:
http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/sphdir/pers.asp?ID=...
Gould is also a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Gould has worked on projects that examine risk factors for teenage suicide, various aspects of cluster suicides, the impact of the media on suicide, the effect of suicide on fellow students, and the utility of telephone crisis services for teenagers. A study she worked on found that simply asking troubled students about any suicidal impulses appears to ease their distress and might make some of them less likely to try killing themselves.
Stanley I. Greenspan M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics
The George Washington University Medical School
Address:
4938 Hampden Lane, Suite 229
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone:
301.657.2348
E-mail:
stanleygreenspanmd@comcast.net
Web:
http://www.stanleygreenspan.com...
Greenspan is the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health’s Clinical Infant Development Program and Mental Health Study Center. He has written 38 books, including “The Child with Special Needs” (Perseus, 1998), co-authored with Serena Wieder, and is an expert on child mental health and social skills.
Thomas Grisso Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist and Professor of Psychiatry
Center for Mental Health Services Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School
Address:
55 Lake Ave. N.
Worcester, MA 01655
Phone:
508.856.3625
E-mail:
thomas.grisso@umassmed.edu
Web:
http://www.umassmed.edu/cmhsr/mental and http://ww...
Grisso is a professor of psychiatry, director of the center's mental health and law core and coordinator of medical school's law-psychiatry program. His research interests include clinical forensic assessment in criminal and juvenile cases, developmental issues in juvenile law, mental health needs of young offenders, and risk of violence in adults and youths with mental disorders.
Betsy McAlister Groves LICSW
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Director
Child Witness to Violence Project
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Address:
91 East Concord St., Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02118
Phone:
617.414.4244
E-mail:
betsy.groves@bmc.org
Web:
http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/special/CWTV/overvie...
Betsy McAlister Groves is the author of “Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project” (Beacon Press, 2003), based on her experience as the founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center. She also is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a past fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at Harvard University. She trains police, social workers, health providers, teachers, judges and court personnel on a range of topics associated with children and violence. Groves serves on the Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. In addition, she’s been a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Judicial Institute, the producers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Groves received her master’s degree in social work from Boston University.
Robin H. Gurwitch Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Pediatrics
Unviersity of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Address:
Child Study Center
1100 N.E. 13th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73117
Phone:
405.271.6824, Ext. 45122
E-mail:
robin-gurwitch@ouhsc.edu
Gurwitch is a clinical child psychologist and marriage and family therapist. She is also a program manager for the Terrorism and Disaster Branch of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress. Since the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, Gurwitch has studied the impact of trauma and disaster on children. She co-authored a treatment manual for use with young children after a trauma or disaster and a training curriculum for mental health providers who work with children after disasters.
Neil B. Guterman Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Columbia University School of Social Work
Address:
622 West 113th St.
New York, NY 10025
Phone:
212.854.5371
E-mail:
neil.guterman@columbia.edu
Web:
www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/guterman....
Neil B. Guterman, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an associate professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where he teaches courses in clinical practice and children and family services. He conducts research on the prevention of physical child abuse and neglect, and adolescents’ exposures to violence outside the home, funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Mental Health and several private foundations. Guterman has published and presented widely on these topics and is the author of “Stopping Child Maltreatment Before It Starts: Emerging Horizons in Early Home Visitation Services” (Sage Publications, 2001). He has provided expert consultation on the problem of children’s exposure to violence and its prevention to federal, state and local governments, the media, private foundations and legal bodies. Guterman is the associate editor overseeing the prevention section for the APSAC Advisor, an official publication of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children.
Neal Halfon M.D.
Professor, Pediatrics and Public Health; Director
Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
UCLA School of Public Health
Address:
1100 Glendon Ave., Suite 850
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Phone:
310.206.1898
E-mail:
nhalfon@ucla.edu
Diane Halpern Ph.D.
Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College
Address:
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711
Phone:
909.607.9647
E-mail:
diane.halpern@claremontmckenna.edu
Web:
http://berger.claremontmckenna.edu/...
The Berger Institute offers information about a wide range of work and family issues, including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health and child development. also see: http://academic.claremontmckenna.edu/faculty/profile.asp?Fac=302
Neal Halsey
Professor and Director
International Health/Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for Vaccine Safety
Johns Hopkins University
Address:
Wolfe St W5041
Baltimore, MD 21205
Phone:
410.955.6964
E-mail:
nhalsey@jhsph.edu
Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Neal&L=Halsey...
Halsey's primary research is toward the prevention of infectious diseases with the safest vaccines possible. He has conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of such vaccine-preventable diseases as hepatitis B and hepatitis A. The control of measles has been a particular focus of interest.
Christian Hanna
Program Director
National Farm Medicine Center
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Address:
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449
Phone:
715.389.3116
E-mail:
neverswimalone@charter.net
Web:
http://research.marshfieldclinic.org/children/...
Hanna is the program director for the National Children’s Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety. The program is affiliated with the National Farm Medicine Center at the Marshfield Medical Research Foundation in Marshfield, Wis. The center provides technical assistance and research in injury control for children in rural and agricultural communities, with a focus on agricultural injuries, off-road recreation and violence. Hanna received a bachelor of science degree in natural resources from the University of Michigan and a master's degree in public health from the University of Northern Colorado. His previous work includes environmental education, community-based substance abuse prevention and rural community development. Current research includes the prevention of violence-related injuries to children in rural communities, particularly self-inflicted injury.
Kathleen Mullan Harris
Assistant Chair of Sociology
Sociology Department
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address:
Carolina Population Center, CB #8120 University Square
123 W. Franklin St.
Chapel Hill, NC 27516
Phone:
919.962.1388
E-mail:
kathie_harris@unc.edu
Web:
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/bios/index.php?person=harri...
Harris has conducted research on risk behavior among adolescents in immigrant families. She found that adolescents born in the U.S. to immigrant parents suffer poorer health and engage in riskier behaviors than children born in other countries who then immigrate to the U.S. with their parents.
J. David Hawkins Ph.D.
Director
Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
University of Washington
Address:
9725 Third Ave., N.E., Suite 401
Seattle, WA 98115
Phone:
206.543.7655
E-mail:
jdh@u.washington.edu
Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/sdrg/page3.html...
Hawkins researches the prevention and treatment of health and behavior problems among young people, including drug abuse, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, violence and school dropout. His "social development strategy" identifies risk and protective factors.
Kati Haycock
Director
Education Trust, Inc.
Address:
1250 H St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.293.1217, x311
E-mail:
khaycock@edtrust.org
Web:
http://www2.edtrust.org/edtrust...
The Education Trust works for the high academic achievement of all students at all levels, pre-kindergarten through college, and focuses on closing the achievement gaps that separate low-income students and students of color from other youth. Haycock and her colleagues are often invited by Congressional Committees to testify on educational improvement issues in both K-12 and higher education.
Cheri Hayes
Executive Director
The Finance Project
Address:
1401 New York Ave. NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.628.4200
E-mail:
chayes@financeproject.org
Web:
http://www.financeproject.org...
Hayes is executive director of The Finance Project. She has 20 years’ experience in public policy research on issues affecting the well-being of children and families. Earlier, Hayes served as executive director of the National Commission on Children, a bipartisan presidential/congressional commission charged with assessing the status of America’s children and families and presenting a national policy agenda for improving health, education, income security and social supports. Prior to that appointment, Hayes directed the National Academy of Science/National Research Council policy research program on children and families. She is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on public policies for children and families. At The Finance Project, she manages an array of policy research, development and technical assistance activities to improve financing for education, other children’s services and community building and development.
Margaret Heagarty M.D.
Professor Emeritus
Pediatrics
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Address:
Hhc 17 101 King Pavilion
506 Lenox Ave.
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.939.4012
E-mail:
mch2@columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.columbia.edu...
Margaret C. Heagarty, M.D., was director of the Division of Pediatric Ambulatory Care Services at the Cornell University, New York Hospital for almost ten years. Since 1978 she has been director of Pediatrics at the Harlem Hospital Center, a public general hospital located in an urban disadvantaged community, Central Harlem. She is a professor of pediatrics at Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. Heagarty is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, past president of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the New York Academy of Medicine. She is a former member of the Institute of Medicine Council and has participated on several committees, including the Steering Group of the National Forum on the Future of Children and Their Families, the Committee to Study Outreach for Prenatal Care, and the Committee for the Study of U.S. Health Goals for the Year 2000. Her interests include the delivery of health care for low-income children, as well as the development of programs for women and children with HIV disease. She has held grants to study such topics as teenage pregnancy, pediatric residency training, asthma, and ways to reduce childhood injuries in Harlem.
Jane Healy Ph.D.
Address:
4266 Columbine Dr
Vail, CO 81657
Phone:
home: 970.476.9351
E-mail:
janetomh@vail.net
Healy is an educational psychologist and author of "Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds - for Better and Worse," (Simon & Schuster, 1998); "Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence," (Doubleday, 1994); and "Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think," (Touchstone, 1990).
David Herzog M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychiatry
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
Harvard Medical School
Address:
55 Fruit Street
YAW 6900
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.8470
E-mail:
info@hedc.org
The center is an interdisciplinary community of scholars dedicated to cutting-edge research, education, and public discourse in the field of eating disorders. Dr. Herzog established the center to expand knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment and prevention.
Jody Heymann
Associate Professor of Health and Social Behavior
Harvard Center for Society and Health
Harvard University
Address:
Kresge Building, Room 723
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.432.3914
E-mail:
jheymann@hsph.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/society/index.html...
The center is dedicated to the task of identifying the social and economic determinants of health and intervening to improve the public’s health. Heymann is currently principal investigator on "The Behavioral and Cognitive Development of Children Living in Poverty: How is it Affected by Parental Working Conditions," a research project using large national databases.
Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology-Infant Language Laboratory
Temple University
Address:
1701 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone:
215.204.5243
E-mail:
kathryn.hirsh-pasek@temple.edu
Web:
http://www.temple.edu/psychology/Faculty/index.htm...
Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D., is Stanley and Debra Lefkowitz Professor in the Department of Psychology at Temple University, where she directs the Infant Language Laboratory. She received a doctorate in psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Hirsh-Pasek’s research in the areas of early language development and infant cognition has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and Human Development, resulting in seven books and numerous publications. She is a fellow of the American Psychological Association and the American Psychological Society, serves as the associate editor of Child Development and is treasurer of the International Association for Infant Studies. Her recent co-authored book, “Einstein Never Used Flashcards: How Children Really Learn and Why They Need to Play More and Memorize Less” (Rodale Books, 2003), won the Books for Better Life Award as the best psychology book of 2003. The National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health and Human Development have funded Hirsh-Pasek’s research in early language development and infant cognition. She has written and co-authored nine books. Her recent book, “Einstein Never used Flashcards: How children really learn and why they need to play more and memorize less,” (Rodale Books) won the Books for Better Life Award as the best psychology book in 2003.
Associate Professor of Urban Education
College of Education
Temple University
Phone:
215.204.8263
E-mail:
erin.mcnamara.horvat@temple.edu
Web:
http://www.temple.edu/education/faculty/horvat_e.h...
Horvat's areas of interests include: sociology of education; access and equity; race, class and education; African American students; urban schools; and the achievement gap. She co-authored, "Beyond Acting White: Reframing the Debate on Black Student Achievement" (Rowman and Littlefield).
Ruth-Arlene Howe MSW
Professor
Boston College Law School
Address:
Law School
EW322
Boston, MA
Phone:
617.552.4377
E-mail:
howeru@bc.edu
Web:
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-facu...
Howe has written extensively regarding family law, foster care, adoption and child abuse and neglect. She was a member of the Board of Advisors for the 2002 PBS television film Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America, and she has been a member of the Study Group on Intercountry Adoption since 1990.
David Huffaker
Doctoral Student
Media, Technology and Society
Northwestern University
Address:
1444 W. Berwyn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640
Phone:
202.550.4559
E-mail:
d-huffaker@northwestern.edu
Web:
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/huffa...
David Huffaker is a doctoral candidate in the media, technology and society program at Northwestern University. Huffaker researches youth and technology, focusing on the development of online youth communities, including blogs, and the design of educational technology. He has a master’s degree in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University.
Aletha Huston Ph.D.
Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development
Human Ecology
University of Texas at Austin
Address:
1 University Station A2700
SEA 2.444
Austin, TX 78712
Phone:
512.471.0753
E-mail:
achuston@mail.utexas.edu
Michael Jellinek M.D.
Chief of Child Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
Address:
Massachusetts General Hospital
WAC 725
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.2711
E-mail:
Mjellinek@partners.org
Web:
http://www.massgeneral.org/allpsych/PediatricSympt...
Dr. Jellinek specializes in both child and adult psychiatry. He developed the Pediatric Symptom Checklist as a screening tool to help pediatricians improve recognition of children with psychosocial dysfunction. He has served as a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Chair of Bright Futures: Mental Health.
Renee Jenkins M.D.
President
Pediatrics and Child Health
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone:
847.434.4000
E-mail:
rjenkins@howard.edu
Jenkins serves as the 2007-2008 American Academy of Pediatrics president. Jenkins also is a professor and chair of the Department of Pediatrics and Child Health at Howard University, an adjunct professor of Pediatrics at George Washington University, and Principal Investigator at Howard for the DC-Baltimore Research Center on Child Health Disparities. Adolescent health and underserved children have been the focus of Jenkins' career. She has served on many AAP task forces and committees, including the Committee on Adolescence, the Task Forces on Pediatric AIDS and Reimbursement and the Committee on Teen Pregnancy Prevention.
Henry Jenkins Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 14N-437
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:
617.253.3068
E-mail:
henry3@MIT.EDU
Web:
http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/faculty/jenkins.html ...
Henry Jenkins, Ph.D., is Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He has written or edited nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including “Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture” (Routledge, 1992), “Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture” (Duke, 2003) and “From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games” (MIT, 1998). Jenkins writes monthly columns on media and cultural change for Technology Review online and Computer Games magazine. He is one of the principal investigators for the Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games. He was also a principal investigator in a collaboration with Initiative Media designed to monitor audience response to the Fox television show "American Idol,” with an eye towards developing new approaches to audience measurement. He is currently completing a book, “Convergence Culture,” which deals with the shifting relations of media producers and consumers in an age of media change. He has a master of art degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Detailed information about Jenkins and his specific research interests is available at http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/.
Brenda Jones Harden Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Child Study
University of Maryland
Address:
3304 Benjamin Bldg
College Park, MD 20740
Phone:
301.405.2580
E-mail:
bj34@umail.umd.edu
Theodore Joyce
Professor of Economics
Economics and Finance
Baruch College
Address:
Box B13/ 289
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010
Phone:
646.312.3541
E-mail:
Ted_Joyce@baruch.cuny.edu
Web:
http://www.healthcaremba.org/fac_tj.html...
Joyce's focuses are on health, healthcare policy, and the economics of infant and reproductive health. Joyce's present research includes the effect of cigarette excise taxes on maternal smoking and the impact of welfare reform on birth and abortion rates.
Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology
Harvard University
Address:
33 Kirkland St, Room 1514
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:
617.495.3870
E-mail:
jk@wjh.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.harvard.edu...
Kagan's research, on the cognitive and emotional development of a child during the first decade of life, focuses on the origins of temperament. Kagan’s research indicates that shyness and other temperamental differences in adults and children have both environmental and genetic influences.
Ariel Kalil Ph.D.
Associate professor, developmental psychologist
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago
Address:
1155 E. 60th St.
Suite 110
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
773.834.2090
E-mail:
a-kalil@uchicago.edu
Web:
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/faculty/web-pages...
Kalil, a developmental psychologist, studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning. Her projects have examined how transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children, barriers to employment for welfare recipients, and family process and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent and cohabiting-couple households. She has had a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award and is in the Foundation for Child Development's Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars Program.
Francine Kaufman M.D.
Director
Comprehensive Childhood Diabetes Center
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
Address:
4650 Sunset Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Phone:
323.669.4606
E-mail:
fkaufman@chla.usc.edu
Web:
http://www.usc.edu/about/health_care/kaufman.html...
Dr. Kaufman is a pediatric endocrinologist and author of "Diabesity: The Obesity-Diabetes Epidemic That Threatens America - and What We Must Do to Stop It" (Bantam, 2005). A professor of pediatrics at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California, her research focuses on many aspects of diabetes, including prevention, treatment and complications. She is chair of the NIH-funded STOPP-T2 trials, which investigate strategies to prevent and treat (the TODAY trial) type 2 diabetes in children and youth. She was also a principle investigator in the Diabetes Prevention Trial - type 1 and is now an investigator in TrialNet-the NIH study to try to prevent type 1 diabetes and preserve beta cell function.
Alan Kazdin Ph.D.
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Director
Yale Child Conduct Clinic
Yale University
Address:
P.O. Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.432.9993
E-mail:
Alan.Kazdin@yale.edu
Web:
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Kazdin.html...
Kazdin researches the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of childhood disorders, including aggression, theft, truancy, firesetting and related behaviors as well as depression, hopelessness and suicidal ideation. His team works to identify effective treatments requires research designed to understand the nature and scope of child dysfunction, parent and family factors (e.g., stress, clinical dysfunction) that contribute to adjustment, and contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, domestic violence) in which child dysfunction may be embedded.
Kathi Kemper M.D.
Professor
General Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Address:
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
Phone:
336.716.1292
E-mail:
kkemper@wfubmc.edu
Web:
http://www1.wfubmc.edu/oprd/physdetail.htm?Physici...
Dr. Kemper is also a practitioner at the university’s Brenner Children’s Hospital. Dr. Kemper’s focus is on complementary and alternative medicinal practice and research, such as that regarding culture, spirituality, herbs and dietary supplements. Among Kemper’s findings is the Center for Holistic Pediatric Education and Research at Boston's Children's Hospital, the Herb and Dietary Supplement Task Force at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, and the Section for Holistic and Integrative Medicine within the American Academy of Pediatrics. Her book, The Holistic Pediatrician, serves as a key reference for families and pediatric educators and clinicians.
Madhulika Khandelwal
Associate Professor
Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York
Address:
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367
Phone:
718.997.3056
E-mail:
Madhulika.Khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu
Web:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Asian_American_Center/...
Madhulika S. Khandelwal is the director of the Asian/American Center and associate professor in the Urban Studies department at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught Asian American studies at a number of universities and has conducted research on contemporary Asian American communities. Khandelwal’s main interests include immigrants, women, the South Asian diaspora, Asian American communities and multicultural issues in the United States. Her ethnographic research on South Asian immigrant communities in the New York area has been published in her book, “Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City” (Cornell University Press, 2002). Born in India, Khandelwal was educated in both India and the United States and has a doctorate in history from Carnegie-Mellon University. Her academic career focuses on engaging diverse cultural and community issues.
Elizabeth Kiss
Associate Professor of the Practice of Political Science and Philosophy and Director
Kenan Institute for Ethics
Duke University
Address:
P.O. Box 90432
Durham, NC 27708
Phone:
919.660.3033
E-mail:
ekiss@duke.edu
Web:
http://www.poli.duke.edu/people/faculty/kiss.html...
Kiss’s research focuses on human rights, the application of rights theories to issues of ethnic conflict and nationalism, and justice in the aftermath of human rights violations. She has also developed and led interactive ethics workshops for groups including middle-school students, undergraduates, community leaders and elected officials.
Jonathan Klein
Associate Professor
Pediatrics
University of Rochester Medical Center
Address:
Adolescent Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone:
585.275.7760
E-mail:
jonathan_klein@urmc.rochester.edu
Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/s_f/KLEIN_J.HT...
Dr. Klein's research is on the organization and effectiveness of adolescent health services and on health promotion and disease prevention for children and adolescents. Klein’s ongoing studies address issues regarding adolescents such as access to health care, smoking cessation counseling, and obesity prevention.
Jane Knitzer
Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
Address:
215 W. 125th St., Third Floor
New York, NY 10027
Phone:
646.284.9600
E-mail:
knitzer@nccp.org
A psychologist, Knitzer has spent her career in policy research and analysis of issues affecting children and families, including mental health, child welfare and education policy. She is dedicated to the study of how public policies can improve outcomes of low-income children and better support families, particularly those who are most vulnerable. She wrote a landmark 1982 report on children’s mental health, "Unclaimed Children: The Failure of Public Responsibility to Children and Adolescents in Need of Mental Health Services." Knitzer serves on the New York State Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Children and the board of Family Support America. Among her many awards, she received the first Nicolas Hobbs Award for Distinguished Service in the Cause of Child Advocacy from the American Psychological Association.
Susan Kogut
Lecturer
Department of Kinesiology
University of Maryland
Address:
2356 Health & Human Performance Building
College Park, MD 20742
Phone:
301.405.2511
E-mail:
spkpe4life@msn.com
Susan Kogut teaches health and physical education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Previously she taught physical education and health to children in kindergarten through 12th grade in Maryland public schools for 30 years. In 1985, the National Association for Sport and Physical Education named her teacher of the year. Kogut has created several educational tools designed to get parents more involved in their children’s physical education. Kogut received her bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Towson State University in Maryland and her master’s degree in the same major from West Virginia University.
Harold S. Koplewicz M.D.
Director
NYU Child Study Center
Address:
NYU Child Study Center
577 First Avenue
NY, NY 10016
Phone:
212.263.6622
E-mail:
ld.Koplewicz@msnyuhealth.org
Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/koplewicz.html...
Koplewicz is the founder of the Child Study Center. He is the Arnold and Debbie Simon Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and serves as the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Professor of Pediatrics at the New York University School of Medicine. Koplewicz is the Director of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the Bellevue Hospital Center. He is recognized as one of the nation's premier child and adolescent psychiatrists.
Jill Korbin Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University
Address:
210 Mather Memorial Bldg, 11220 Bellflower Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone:
216.368.2278
E-mail:
jill.korbin@case.edu
Web:
http://www.case.edu/artsci/anth/faculty/korbin.htm...
Korbin is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. She is co-director of the Schubert Center for Child Development and of the Childhood Studies Program. She has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment and has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment; cross-cultural childrearing and child maltreatment; health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population; and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being.
Mindy Korol Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Psychology
Mount St. Mary's College
Address:
118 C Science Bldg.
Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
Phone:
301.447.6122, Ext. 4636
E-mail:
korol@msmary.edu
Mindy Korol, Ph.D., is associate professor and chair of the psychology department at Mount St. Mary's College in Emmitsburg, Md. She also has a part-time private practice. Korol's research focuses on psychological trauma and stress response syndromes in children and women. Her clinical practice includes individual, couples and family therapy. She is co-author of a chapter called, Dam Break: Long-Term Follow-up of Children Exposed to the Buffalo Creek (W.Va.) Disaster, in the forthcoming book, “Helping Children Cope with Disasters,” (APA Books, June 2002). Korol received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Cincinnati in 1990 with specialized training in child and adolescent treatment. Her graduate research experience was under Dr. Bonnie Green at the University of Cincinnati's Traumatic Stress Study Center, and focused on children and their parents who lived within five miles of a nuclear waste disaster in Fernald, Ohio.
Teresa D. LaFromboise
Associate Professor
School of Education
Stanford University
Phone:
650.723.1202
E-mail:
lafrom@stanford.edu
Velma LaPoint Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Human Development and Psychoeducational Studies
Howard University School of Education
Address:
Academic Support A, Room 305
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.806.6514 or 202.806.8
E-mail:
vlapoint@howard.edu
Web:
http://www.howard.edu/schooleducation/Faculty_Staf...
LaPoint researches child and adolescent development, behavioral problems among children and adolescents, African-American child and family development, and child development and public policy.
Danielle Laraque M.D.
Professor, Chief
Department of Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Address:
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1198
New York, NY 10029
Phone:
212.241.5866
E-mail:
danielle.laraque@mssm.edu
Web:
http://directory.mssm.edu/faculty/facultyInfo.php?...
Dr. Laraque is a professor of pediatrics and the chief of the Division of General Pediatrics at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Her focus is injury prevention, child abuse, children with special health care needs, adolescent health risk behaviors and issues critical to health care delivery in underserved communities.
Barbara Lee Ph.D.
Director
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
Address:
Marshfield Medical Research Foundation
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449
Phone:
715.389.4999
E-mail:
lee.barbara@mcrf.mfldclin.edu
Lee directs this federally funded center to improve children's safety in rural areas, and lessen the number of agricultural injuries on U.S. farms and ranches.
Richard Lerner Ph.D.
Psychologist
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Tufts University
Address:
105 College Ave.
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
Phone:
617.627.3355
E-mail:
Richard.Lerner@tufts.edu
Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=...
Lerner researches the social development in adolescence; developmental methodology; programs and policies for children, youth, and families. He wrote: "Liberty: Thriving and civic engagement among America’s youth" (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications) and was a co-editor on "Handbook of Adolescent Psychology" (Wiley, 2004).
Jodie Levin-Epstein
Senior State Policy Analyst
Center for Law & Social Policy
Address:
1616 P St. NW, Suite.150
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.328.5174 or 202.328.5
E-mail:
jodie@clasp.org
The Center for Law and Social Policy is a public interest law firm seeking to improve economic conditions of low-income families with children. Levin-Epstein focuses on welfare initiatives and provides technical assistance to policy makers and agency staff. The Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity initiative, launched in October 2007, aims to focus attention on the poor during the 2008 presidential campaign. It features a growing cache of data, analyses and reports. Its advisory council includes: Rebecca Blank, director of the University of Michigan’s National Poverty Center; Geoffrey Canada of the Harlem Children’s Zone; Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Institution’s Center on Children and Families; and William S. Cohen, former secretary of defense. Initial support comes from the Annie E. Casey and Eos foundations. http://www.spotlightonpoverty.com
Susan Lewis
Communications Director
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
Address:
123 North Enola Drive
Enola, PA 17025
Phone:
717.728.9740
E-mail:
slewis@nsvrc.org
The NSVRC is a comprehensive collection and distribution center for information, research and emerging policy on sexual violence intervention and prevention. The NSVRC provides an extensive online library and customized technical assistance, as well as coordinates National Sexual Assault Awareness Month initiatives.
Susan Linn
Instructor in Psychiatry
Judge Baker Childrens Center
Harvard University
Address:
3 Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.232.8390
E-mail:
susan_linn@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.consumingkids.com/...
Linn is an associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center. She is also co-founder of the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In Consuming Kids, she takes a look at the demographic of consumers that the advertisers call "the kid market." Also see: http://www.hmag.harvard.edu/on-line/010526.html
Kristin Luker Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley
Address:
2240 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.4038
E-mail:
luker@socrates.berkeley.edu
Web:
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/LUKER/...
In 1994, the White House solicited her testimony on teenage pregnancy. Her book "Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Luker has received several awards, including Ford and Guggenheim fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of UCSD.
Paula Madrid
Director
Psychosocial Preparedness Division
National Center for Disaster Preparedness
Address:
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
722 W. 168th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.342.0555
E-mail:
pam2109@columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/...
Madrid is an associate research scientist, a licensed clinical psychologist and an instructor of clinical psychology. She has presented at national and international conferences on the treatment of trauma, particularly in bilingual and minority individuals, as well as on innovative community responses following the attacks of September 11.
Jennifer Manlove Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate and Director
DataBank, Fertility and Family Structure Content Area
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20006
Phone:
202.362.5580
E-mail:
jmanlove@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/about2.cfm#JenM...
Manlove has worked on research projects examining teenage sexuality, pregnancy and childbearing. Her current research assesses demographic trends in sexual activity, contraceptive use and childbearing among American teens and young adults. Dr. Manlove has also been involved in several projects that assess the potential effects of community context, including welfare policies, on teenage and nonmarital childbearing in the U.S.
John March M.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Co-director
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Duke University
Phone:
919.416.2403 (Office); Pa
E-mail:
jsmarch@acpub.duke.edu
Web:
http://www2.mc.duke.edu/pcaad/pcaad_march.htm...
March is an expert in the treatment of child and adolescent mental disorders. He holds a K24 career development award from the NIMH devoted to clinical trials methods, is a member of the Steering Committee of the Multimodal Treatment of ADHD Study and is principal investigator of several NIMH funded treatment outcome studies: the Pediatric OCD Treatment Study, Research Units on Pediatric Psychopharmacology/Psychosocial Interventions, the Child Anxiety Management Study and of the Coordinating Center for the Treatment of Adolescent Depression Study. In addition, he has extensive experience conducting and consulting to industry in the design and implementation of Phase III and IV clinical trials in pediatric psychopharmacology.
Anna Mastroianni
Assistant Professor of Law and Public Health Genetics
School of Law
University of Washington
Phone:
206.616.3482
E-mail:
amastroi@u.washington.edu
Web:
http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Mastroianni/...
Mastroianni teaches health law and bioethics in the School of Law, the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine. She is a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and does research on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive technologies.
Joan McCord Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice
Department of Criminal Justice
Temple University
Address:
Temple University, Department of Criminal Justice
Gladfelter Hall, Room 553
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Phone:
215.204.8080
E-mail:
mccord@astro.temple.edu
Lolita McDavid M.D.
Director of Child Protection, Medical Director of Child Advocacy
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
University Hospitals Health System
Address:
11100 Euclid Ave., Mailstop RBC 6003
Cleveland, OH 44106
Phone:
216.844.3886
E-mail:
lolita.mcdavid@UHhospitals.org
Web:
http://www.rainbowbabies.org...
Dr. McDavid, a pediatrician, is the medical director of child advocacy and protection at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She oversees community outreach and programming and coordinates medical services for at-risk children and families in northeast Ohio.
Jane McGrath M.D.
State School Health Officer
Albuquerque Office of School Health
Address:
625 Silver Avenue SW, Suite 201
Albuquerque, NM 87102
Phone:
505.841.5877
E-mail:
jane.mcgrath@state.nm.us
Web:
http://www.health.state.nm.us/...
Jane McGrath, M.D., is a pediatrician with certification in adolescent medicine and an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of New Mexico. She is also the school health officer for the Albuquerque Office of School Health, where she is responsible for guiding the development of school health policy and overseeing a number of school health programs. She is a former member of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on School Health and past president of the National Assembly on School-Based Health Care.
Sara McLanahan Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW)
Princeton University
Address:
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
Phone:
609.258.5894
E-mail:
mclanaha@princeton.edu
Web:
http://crcw.princeton.edu/...
CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy.
Vonnie C. McLoyd
Senior Research Scient
Center for Human Growth & Development
University of Michigan
Address:
300 N. Ingalls, 10th Floor
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone:
734.764.2443
E-mail:
vcmcloyd@umich.edu
Web:
http://www.umich.edu/~chgdwww/faculty/mcloyd.html...
McLoyd, who also is a professor of psychology, focuses on the impact of economic hardship on family processes and children’s mental health and beliefs. She recently examined the effects of maternal unemployment and income loss on the mental health of single African-American mothers and their adolescent children.
Ruth McRoy
Associate Dean for Research, Ruby Lee Piester Cent
Center for Social Work Research
University of Texas at Austin
Address:
1 University Station D3500
Austin, TX 78712
Phone:
512.471.0551
E-mail:
r.mcroy@mail.utexas.edu
Heino F.L. Meyer Bahlburg Ph.D.
Professor and Research Scientist
Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Columbia University
Address:
1051 Riverside Drive
NYSPI Unit 78
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.543.5299
E-mail:
meyerb@child.cpmc.columbia.edu
Web:
http://childpsych.columbia.edu/...
Meyer Bahlburg is a professor of clinical psychology, a research scientist in child psychiatry for the New York State Psychiatric Institute, and a psychologist for the Psychiatry Service of New York Presbyterian Hospital. His research areas include: intersexuality and related conditions, gender identity disorder, sex hormone abnormalities, sex chromosome abnormalities, the development of gender identity and gender-related behavior and their variants as a function of biological and social factors, the development of sexuality, and sexuality and HIV/AIDS.
Professor, Community Health Education and Health and Social Behavior
School of Public Health, Health and Social Behavior
University of California, Berkeley
Address:
316 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.4397
E-mail:
mink@berkeley.edu
Web:
http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/minkler.htm...
Minkler is an expert on grandparents raising grandchildren. She has studied their physical and mental health and the impact of welfare reform on their families.
Beth Molnar
Assistant Professor
Society, Human Development and Health
Harvard University
Address:
Kresge Building, Room 601
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.432.2433
E-mail:
bmolnar@hsph.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/BethMolnar.htm...
Beth E. Molnar, Sc.D., is a social and psychiatric epidemiologist and an assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health. Her work centers on the prevalence, etiology, and mental health/behavioral consequences of child and adolescent maltreatment, and the effects of exposure to family and community violence. She will describe the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods and some preliminary findings on the effects of exposure to family and community violence. She has a master’s of science degree in public health from Harvard’s School of Public Health and a bachelor’s of science in psychobiology from UCLA.
Kristin Moore
President and Senior Scholar
Child Trends, Inc.
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6000, ext. 6002
E-mail:
kmoore@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...
Moore is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, the effects of family structure and social change on children, the determinants and consequences of adolescent parenthood, and the effects of welfare and welfare reform on children. She is a member of the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Professor and Director of Graduate Studies
School of Literature, Communication and Culture
Georgia Institute of Technology
Address:
Skiles Classroom Building, Room 335
Atlanta, GA 30332
Phone:
404.894.6202
E-mail:
janet.murray@lcc.gatech.edu
Web:
http://www.lcc.gatech.edu/~murray/...
Murray is an expert on interactive narrative, story-games and interactive television. She is the author of “Hamlet on the Holodeck: The Future of Narrative in Cyberspace” (Free Press, 1997), which offers a roadmap to the coming broadband art, information and entertainment environments.
Principal Investigator
Child Welfare Research Center
University of California at Berkeley
Address:
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720
Phone:
510.642.1893
E-mail:
bneedell@uclink.berkeley.edu
Web:
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/staff/staffbio.asp?name=n...
Needell's interests include administrative data and child welfare services; foster care reform (Family to Family Initiative); the overrepresentation of black children in the child welfare system; and infants in foster care.
Charles Nelson, III M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Developmental Medicine Center
Children's Hospital Boston
Address:
Lab of Cognitive Neuroscience
1 Autumn Street, Office AU621, Mailbox #713
Boston, MA 55455
Phone:
617.355.0401
E-mail:
charles.nelson@childrens.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/d...
Charles A. Nelson III, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School’s Developmental Medicine Center, studies the effects of early experience on brain and behavioral development. His specific interests lie in the effects of early adverse experience, particularly biological adversity (such as pre- or perinatal risk factors) and psychosocial adversity (such as being reared in an orphanage; he has studied Romanian orphans since 2001). He studies both typically developing children and children at risk for falling off a typical developmental trajectory. Before joining Harvard and Children’s Hospital Boston in 2005, Nelson taught and conducted research at the University of Minnesota for roughly 19 years. Earlier, he taught at Purdue University. While at Minnesota, he chaired the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network on early experience and brain development and served on the National Academy of Sciences panel that wrote “From Neurons to Neighborhoods” (2000). Nelson is editor or associate editor of many scientific journals, including the Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. He belongs to many professional organizations, such as the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the International Society for Infant Studies and the Society for Research in Child Development. Nelson graduated from McGill University, then earned a master’s degree in psychology from the University of Wisconsin and a Ph.D. in development and child psychology from the University of Kansas.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone:
734.764.8354
E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu
Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...
The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
Frank M. Ochberg M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Michigan State University
Address:
4211 Okemos Road, Suite 6
Okemos, MI 48864
Phone:
517.349.6333
E-mail:
ochberg@earthlink.net
Web:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ochberg/index.html; htt...
Ochberg, a psychiatrist and adjunct professor of criminal Justice at Michigan State University, has worked extensively to educate journalists about victims of trauma. He is the former director of the Michigan State Department of Mental Health and a former associate director of the National Institute of Mental Health.
David Olds Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
Address:
1825 Marion St.
Denver, CO 80218
Phone:
303.864.5205
E-mail:
olds.david@tchden.org
Web:
http://www.uchsc.edu/peds/subs/prc/index.htm...
Olds researches the long-term impact of early preventive intervention on the health and development of children and their families, including the results of prenatal and infancy home visitation programs for low-income, first-time mothers. The center has been established to design, test and disseminate interventions that improve the health and development of low-income children and their families, particularly in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, unintentional injuries to children, welfare dependence and crime.
Yolanda Padilla Ph.D.
Professor of Social Work and Women's Studies
Population Research Center
University of Texas at Austin
Address:
School of Social Work
1 University Station D3500
Austin, TX 78712-0358
Phone:
512.471.6266
E-mail:
ypadilla@mail.utexas.edu
Web:
http://www.prc.utexas.edu/profiles/padilla_y.html...
Padilla’s research focuses on racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being in the United States, particularly among Mexican Americans. She looks at poverty, immigration, family structure, early childhood health and development, and social welfare policy. Padilla also does research on gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender populations. The Society for Social Work and Research gave her an outstanding research award for a study on factors influencing Mexican immigrants' earnings potential.
Russell Pate Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Research
School of Public Health
University of South Carolina
Address:
102 Health Sciences Building
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone:
803.777.6184
E-mail:
rpate@gwm.sc.edu
Web:
http://www.sph.sc.edu/facultystaffpages/facstaffde...
Pate is an exercise physiologist with interests in physical activity and physical fitness in children and the health implications of physical activity. He has published more than 150 scholarly papers and has authored or edited five books. Pate has served in several leadership positions with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), and in 1993-94 served as that organization’s president. He is a past-president of the National Coalition on Promoting Physical Activity.
Robert Patton
Program Manager
Center for Information Technology and Society
University of California
Address:
CITS North Hall 2215
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Phone:
805.893.5910
E-mail:
patton@cits.ucsb.edu
Web:
http://www.cits.ucsb.edu/...
CITS promotes and supports multi-disciplinary research dealing with the human and societal dimensions of information technology. Toward that end, it funds research, sponsors meetings and workshops and supports human-technology laboratory facilities. Researchers are currently studying the implications of technology in college courses.
Greg Payne
Chair and Professor
Dept. of Kinesiology
San Jose State University
Address:
San Jose, CA 95192
Phone:
408.924.3028
E-mail:
vgpayne@hup.sjsu.edu
Web:
www.sjsu.edu/depts/casa/hup...
Payne is chair and professor of the Department of Kinesiology at San Jose State University in California. He is an expert in motor development and is a member of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction’s Task Force on Obesity, Type II Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease. He is an elected fellow of the Academy of Kinesiology and Physical Education, and has published over 100 papers and four books. His awards include the Distinguished Service Award from the California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports; the Southwest District AAHPERD (American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance) Scholar Award, and the AAHPERD Honor Award. He is the former president of the National Association for Sports and Physical Education and the California Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance.
Peter J. Pecora Ph.D.
Professor, University of Washington School of Soci
Senior Director of Research Services
Casey Family Programs
Address:
1300 Dexter Ave. North, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98109
Phone:
206.270.4936
E-mail:
ppecora@casey.org
Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/faculty/facpage...
Pecora is a leading international researcher and educator on foster care, evaluation of family-based service programs and child protection risk assessment, and the emancipation of children from out-of-home placement.
Frederica Perera M.D.
Professor of Environmental Health Sciences, Director
Columbia University, Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health (CCCEH)
Address:
100 Haven Ave 25F
New York, NY 10027-6902
Phone:
212.304.7280
E-mail:
fpp1@columbia.edu
Web:
http://cpmcnet.columbia.edu/dept/sph/ehs/15.html...
Dr. Perera's areas of interest include environmental causes of disease, disease prevention, molecular epidemiology, environmental risks to children, environment- susceptibility interactions in cancer and developmental damage, breast and lung cancer, cancer prevention, chemoprevention, and risk assessment. Asthma prevention is also a part of the research of the CCCEH.
James Perrin M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Director, Center for Child and Adolescent Health Policy
MassGeneral Hospital for Children
Address:
50 Staniford St., Suite 901
Boston, MA 02114
Phone:
617.726.8716
E-mail:
perrin.james@mgh.harvard.edu
Bruce Perry M.D.
Senior fellow
ChildTrauma Academy
Address:
5161 San Felipe
Suite 320
Houston, TX 77056
Phone:
713.446.1491
E-mail:
childtrauma1@aol.com
Web:
http://www.childtrauma.org/aboutCTA/bio_bruce.asp...
Perry, a physician, was the founding director of the ChildTrauma Academy, a training and research institute working to improve the lives of high-risk children. He remains the medical director for provincial programs in children's mental health for the Alberta (Canada) Mental Health Board. Perry's research examines the long-term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of childhood trauma in children, adolescents and adults.
Betty Pfefferbaum M.D.
Director
Terrorism and Disaster Branch
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress Network
Phone:
405.271.5121
E-mail:
betty-pfefferbaum@ouhsc.edu
Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=abt_main...
NCTSN has 54 sites across the country, and includes three categories: bicoastal coordinating center at UCLA and Duke Universities; intervention, development and evaluation centers (most of which are academic); and community centers. At the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, where Dr. Pfefferbaum holds the Paul and Ruth Jonas Chair, she is a professor in and the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She helped plan and organize clinical services after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and provided consultation regarding clinical and research efforts associated with the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Director of Communications
Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Address:
PO Box 2393
600 Alexander Park
Princeton, NJ 08543
Phone:
609.275.2372
E-mail:
jpfleiderer@mathematica-mpr.com
Web:
http://www.mathematica-mpr.com...
Mathematica conducts public policy research and surveys on health care, education, welfare, employment, nutrition, child development, and other policy issues. The Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) is an affiliate research organization that designs and conducts studies focused on the U.S. health care system.
Director
Psychological Services
Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District
Phone:
713.460.7825
E-mail:
SCOTT.POLAND@cfisd.net
Web:
http://www.cfisd.net/dept2/psych/psych.html...
Poland is a former chair and current member of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) emergency team, and was president of NASP. He was a member of the U.S. Department of Education's assistance team that advised the superintendent of the Oklahoma City schools in the aftermath of the 1995 bombing of the Murrah building. He led the National Organization for Victim Assistance team that responded to the school shootings in West Paducah, Ken., and near Jonesboro, Ark., and provided onsite assistance to schools in Littleton, Colo., after the shooting at Columbine High School. He also led U.S. Department of Education violence response teams after school shootings in El Cajon and Santee, Calif. He has written numerous books, book chapters, and articles on school crisis intervention.
Co-Director, Clinical Psychologist
Centers for Men and Young Men
Harvard University
Address:
115 Mill St.
Belmont, MA 02178
Phone:
617.855.2750
E-mail:
info@williampollack.com
Web:
http://www.williampollack.com/bio.html...
An authority on boys and men, Pollack's expertise includes boy's development and education; male violence, suicide and depression; school safety (including bullying prevention); workplace violence; and gender studies and parenting.
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
University of California, San Francisco
Address:
Box 0984, LPPI CAS 114
San Francisco, CA 94143
Phone:
415.664.3039
E-mail:
lynnponton@aol.com
Web:
http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty/faculty_index.asp...
Ponton is a psychoanalyst and researcher specializing in adolescent risk behavior. She is the author of the books “The Sex Lives of Teenagers: Revealing the Secret World of Adolescent Boys and Girls” (E.P. Dutton, 2000) and “Romance of Risk: Why Teenagers Do the Things They Do” (Basic Books, 1997).
Kyle Pruett M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Child Study Center
Yale University
Address:
230 South Frontage Rd.
New Haven, CT 06520
Phone:
203.737.2490
E-mail:
kyle.pruett@yale.edu
Web:
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy...
Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., is a clinical professor of child psychiatry and nursing at Yale University’s School of Medicine; he also is the director of medical studies at the university’s Child Study Center. Earlier, he was president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families in Washington, D.C. Pruett has experience in helping the media cover child psychiatric issues. He is a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping, Parents and Child magazines. He has been a consultant to Oprah Winfrey as well as the news staff of CBS and ABC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history and music at Yale and his medical degree from Tufts University. Pruett maintains a private practice in child and family psychiatry in New Haven.
Robert Pynoos M.D.
Co-Director and Professor of Psychology
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
University of California at Los Angeles
Address:
11150 W. Olympic Blvd.
Suite 650
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Phone:
310.235.2633
E-mail:
rpynoos@mednet.ucla.edu
Robert S. Pynoos, M.D., M.P.H., is co-director of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress funded by the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). He is a professor in the UCLA School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Pynoos is also the director of the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Service and the executive director of the UCLA Anxiety Disorders section. He has edited several books on post-traumatic stress in children and adolescents and authored numerous articles in professional journals. Pynoos has written extensively on child development and the impact of disaster, violence and loss on families and school communities. He is conducting several major school-based projects that are providing systematic identification, assessment and specialized interventions for high-risk children and adolescents who have been exposed to community and family violence. In addition to developing state-of-the-art clinical protocols, Pynoos has been a leader in research into the neurobiology of childhood trauma and the impact of trauma on moral development. He has received the American Psychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law award for his outstanding contribution on child witnesses to homicide, the National Organization for Victim Assistance Award for research and the American Psychiatric Association Bruno Lima Award for excellence in disaster psychiatry. In 2001, Pynoos was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. He is a graduate of Harvard University and of the Columbia University schools of Medicine and Public Health.
Harrison Rainie
Project Director
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Address:
1615 L St. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.419.4500
E-mail:
lrainie@pewinternet.org
Web:
http://www.pewinternet.org...
The Pew Internet & American Life Project will create and fund original, academic-quality research that explores the impact of the Internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project aims
Judith Rapoport
Researcher
Child Psychiatry Branch (CPB)
National Institutes of Health
Address:
National Institutes of Health
10 Center Drive, NIMH, Building 10 / Room 3N202
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.496.6080
E-mail:
rapoport@helix.nih.gov
Web:
http://gpp.nih.gov/Researchers/Members/NIMH/Judith...
Rapoport's areas of expertise include: Obsessive Compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, ADD), Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depressive Illness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Schizophrenia.
Irwin Redlener M.D.
President and Co-Founder
The Children's Health Fund
The Children's Hospital at Montefiore
Address:
317 East 64th Street
New York, NY 10021
Phone:
212.535.9400
E-mail:
iredlener@chfund.org
Web:
http://www.childrenshealthfund.org...
Dr. Redlener has researched, published and spoken widely on indigent children's access to preventive, hospital and specialized medical care. The Children's Health Fund initiates and supports pediatric programs that provide health care to underserved children in a variety of urban and rural communities. Redlener is also Associate Dean of the Columbia University Mailman School Of Public Health and directs its National Center For Disaster Preparedness.
Gina Reiss
Vice President of Development
True Child
Address:
1731 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Fourth Floor
Washington, DC 20009-1108
Phone:
202.462.6610
E-mail:
g.reiss@truechildhood.org
Web:
http://truechildhood.org/...
True Child works to help children break through stereotypes, particularly gender stereotypes, by raising awareness, empowering parents and educators, and shaping the media and marketplace to promote children’s healthy development. Reiss was a founder of GenderPAC in 1996. Earlier, Reiss served as a vice president of NOW-NJ and executive director of the New Jersey Lesbian and Gay Coalition. She also helped found and co-chaired the Federation of Statewide LGBT Advocacy Organizations (now Equality Federation).
Michael Resnick M.D.
Director, Professor
Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health
Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center
Address:
University Gateway Suite 260
200 Oak St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Phone:
612.624.9111
E-mail:
resni001@umn.edu
Web:
http://allaboutkids.umn.edu/cfahad/ ...
Resnick researches effective approaches to teenage pregnancy prevention. He conducts large-scale studies of adolescent health, risk behavior, resilience and protective factors.
Arthur Reynolds Ph.D.
Professor
Institute of Child Development
University of Minnesota
Address:
51 E. River Road
202 Child Development
Minneapolis, MN 55455-0345
Phone:
612.625.4321
E-mail:
ajr@umn.edu
Web:
http://education.umn.edu/icd/faculty/Reynolds.html...
Reynolds studies the effects of early childhood intervention on youngsters' development from school entry to early adulthood. He also investigates the family and school influences on children's educational success. Reynolds directs the Chicago Longitudinal Study, one of the largest and most extensive studies of the effects of early childhood intervention. Reynolds' project team also is documenting the determinants of child maltreatment, delinquency and crime, educational attainment and economic well-being.
Michael Rich M.D.
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine
Children's Hospital Boston
Address:
300 Longwood Ave.
1 Autumn-5
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.355.5420
E-mail:
michael.rich@childrens.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.childrenshospital.org/cfapps/research/d...
Dr. Rich focuses on media as a force that affects child development, health, and behavior. In 2002, he founded the Center on Media and Child Health (CMCH), which conducts research, clinical interventions and education on the effects of media on the physical, mental and social health of children and adolescents. The Society for Adolescent Medicine honored Dr. Rich in with their New Investigator Award in 1998 for the creation of Video Intervention/Prevention Assessment, a research method where child and adolescent patients make video illness narratives to show and tell their clinicians about their experience of illness. To date, VIA has been used with children and adolescents to study chronic health conditions ranging from asthma and obesity to spina bifida and HIV. (See http://www.viaproject.org).
Britt Rios-Ellis Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Latino Health Professionals Project (LHPP)
California State University, Long Beach
Address:
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-4902
Phone:
562.985.4127
E-mail:
bellis@csulb.edu
Web:
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/urad/papubs/experts/peo...
The LHPP is a scholarship and training project for Latinos designed to ameliorate the lack of Latinos in management positions in the health care professions. Rios-Ellis teaches courses in Latino health care access, human sexuality, community health and maternal/child health promotion. She is also the project director of the National Council for La Raza’s Latino Family HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. Rios-Ellis’ doctoral research at the University of Oregon studied the HIV/AIDS-related experience of migrant Latina adolescents.
Thomas Robinson M.D.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and of Medicine
Stanford Prevention Research Center
Stanford University School of Medicine
Address:
1000 Welch Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone:
650.723.5331
E-mail:
tom.robinson@stanford.edu
Web:
http://prevention.stanford.edu/facultystaff/detail...
Dr. Robinson's research interests are child and adolescent obesity prevention and treatment, cardiovascular disease and cancer risk factor prevention, weight control, promotion of physical activity, nutrition, smoking prevention, effects of television viewing and video games on child health and behavior, health behavior change, school-based interventions and general pediatrics.
Jeannette Rogowski Ph.D.
Senior Economist
Center for the Study of Social Welfare Policy
RAND Corporation
Address:
1776 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407
Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 5356
E-mail:
jeannette_rogowski@rand.org
Web:
http://www.rand.org/labor/staff/rogowski/...
Rogowski directs the RAND Center for Employer-Sponsored Health and Pension Benefits and co-directs RAND’s Center for Health Care Markets and Vulnerable Populations. Her research includes studying the effects of changing health care market structure on access to care for vulnerable populations and on the quality of care provided by safety net hospitals. Other work on vulnerable children includes developing measures of quality of care for high-risk infants and studying the effects of welfare reform on disabled children.
Alvin Rosenfeld M.D.
Psychiatrist and Author
Address:
4 E 89th Street
New York, NY 10128
Phone:
212.348.5900
Web:
http://www.hyper-parenting.com/abouttheauthors.htm...
Author of the book "The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap" (2001, with Nicole Wise), Dr. Rosenfeld has also studied "typical" families and how they teach sexual values and attitudes to their 2 - 10 year old children. He has been a contributor over the years to our thinking about sexual rearing styles and "normal" sexual development. Dr. Rosenfeld is also founder of a grass roots movement, National Family Night (www.nationalfamilynight.org) which is devoted to rebalancing family priorities.
Helaine Ross M.D.
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago
Phone:
773.702.1234
E-mail:
lross@uchicago.edu
Web:
http://medicine.uchicago.edu/faculty_profile/facul...
Dr. Ross serves on both the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Bioethics and the American Philosophical Association Section on Medicine and Philosophy. Her research interests are research ethics, genetics and ethics, transplant ethics, and pediatric ethics. She is currently working on an NIH funded grant on newborn screening.
Lorry Rubin M.D.
Professor, Chief
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Schneider Children's Hospital
Address:
269-01 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040
Phone:
718.470.3480
E-mail:
Lrubin@lij.edu
Web:
http://www.schneiderchildrenshospital.org/...
Dr. Rubin is a professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Schneider Children's Hospital. He has been quoted in numerous news stories about infectious diseases, immunizations and childhood vaccines.
John Santelli M.D.
Heilbrunn Professor of Clinical Populations & Family Health
Mailman School of Public Health
Columbia University
Address:
60 Haven Ave. B-2
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.304.5634
E-mail:
js2637@columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/popfam/...
Dr. Santelli has written extensively on adolescent risk behaviors, family planning, HIV/STD prevention, school-based health centers, clinical preventive services, and research ethics. He was formerly Chief of Applied Sciences in the Division of Reproductive Health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the director of School and Adolescent Health Services for the Baltimore City Health Department. Dr. Santelli has served on editorial boards for Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, the Journal of Adolescent Health, and AIDS Education and Prevention, and he chaired the effort by the Society for Adolescent Medicine to create Guidelines for Adolescent Health Research.
Narayan Sastry Ph.D.
Research associate professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
426 Thompson St., Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248
Phone:
734.936.0462
E-mail:
narayan_sastry@rand.org
At the center, Sastry focuses on child health, international child poverty, ethnic disparities, health insurance coverage of immigrants, and the effects of neighborhood and family on children’s well-being. He's also a senior social scientist for the RAND Corp., where he co-directs the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a longitudinal study. Sastry is the principal investigator for several other National Institutes of Health grants to analyze children’s health and development. He's examining the effects of Hurricane Katrina on family resettlement patterns and the future population of New Orleans.
David Satcher M.D.
Director
National Center for Primary Care
Morehouse School of Medicine
Address:
720 Westview Drive S.W., NCPC Building, Room 301
Atlanta, GA 30310
Phone:
404.756.5740
E-mail:
mbonds@msm.edu
Web:
http://www.msm.edu/ncpc/ncpc.htm...
David Satcher, M.D., is director of the new National Center for Primary Care at the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta. Previously he was the U.S. surgeon general and assistant secretary for health. In that position, Satcher led the department’s effort to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health. He also released surgeon general’s reports on tobacco and health; mental health – including children’s mental health; and overweight and obesity. From 1993 to 1998, Satcher was director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to those jobs, he was president of Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He was also professor and chairman of the department of Community Medicine and Family Practice at Morehouse and a faculty member of the University of California – Los Angeles School of Medicine and Public Health. Satcher graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Morehouse in 1963. He received his medical and doctorate degrees from Case Western Reserve University in 1970. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Preventive Medicine, and the American College of Physicians.
Ritch Savin-Williams
Professor
Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Cornell University
Address:
G77C Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
Phone:
607.255.0849
E-mail:
rcs15@cornell.edu
Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/bio.cfm?netid=rcs...
Savin-Williams' current research interests focus on the psychological well-being of same-sex attracted youth and adults. Emphasis is placed on developmental processes among sexual minorities, especially differential developmental trajectories, identity development, relations with family, and gender nonconformity.
Harriet Scarupa
Director of Communications
Child Trends, Inc.
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6000
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...
Child Trends is dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs and policies that affect children and their families.
Merritt Schreiber Ph.D.
Program Manager
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
Address:
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677
Phone:
949.727.0509
E-mail:
Mschreiber@mednet.ucla.edu
Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main...
Schreiber specializes in the development of emergency psychological services to children, youth and families in mass casualty events including natural disasters and those caused by weapons of mass destruction.
John E. Schulenberg Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone:
734.764.8354
E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu
Nancy Segal Ph.D.
Producer/Director
Psychology
California State University, Fullerton
Address:
800 N. State College Blvd
Fullerton, CA 92834
Phone:
714.278.2142
E-mail:
segal@fullerton.edu
Web:
http://psych.fullerton.edu/nsegal/...
Segal is the director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton. In addition she is an associate editor for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics. Her studies include the biology of twinning, twin research methodology, findings on intelligence, personality, mental disorders and athletic prowess, twin relationships, and genetic and environmental influences on human behavior.
Martin Seligman
Professor
Psychology
University of Pennsylvania
Address:
University of Pennsylvania
3815 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone:
215.898.7173
E-mail:
seligman@psych.upenn.edu
Web:
http://www.ppc.sas.upenn.edu/bio.htm...
Seligman is president of the American Psychological Association. His areas of study include positive psychology, learned helplessness, depression, and optimism and pessimism.
David Shaffer M.D.
Director and Professor
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Child Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Columbia University
Address:
Nyspi-Unit 78
1051 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10027
Phone:
212.543.5948
E-mail:
shafferd@childpsych.columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.kidsmentalhealth.org/DavidShafferM.D..h...
Dr. Shaffer is an Irving Philips Professor of Child Psychiatry and Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics. He also is the director of the Division of Child Psychiatry in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. He is the president of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Dr. Shaffer is an active researcher in the field of children's mental health. He has directed a number of studies on suicide prevention, including a controlled examination of suicide-awareness programs that raised questions about the usefulness and safety of a purely educational approach to suicide prevention. He has been a strong advocate of school-based screening of older teenagers for depression and suicidality. Also see: http://www.teenscreen.org/cms/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=54&I...
Charoll Shakeshaft
Professor
Foundations, Leadership and Policy Studies
Hofstra University
Address:
260 Hagedorn Hall
Hempstead, NY 11549
Phone:
516.463.5758
E-mail:
Charol.S.Shakeshaft@hofstra.edu
Web:
http://people.hofstra.edu/faculty/charol_s_shakesh...
Shakeshaft, an authority on school sexual abuse, says that an estimated 15 percent of students will have been sexually abused by a school staff member by the time they finish high school. This can mean anything from kissing and fondling to oral sex and intercourse. She has done research on the subject for the U.S. Department of Education.
Elisa Shipon-Blum
Executive Medical Director
Selective Mutism Group Childhood Anxiety Network (SMG~CAN)
Childhood Anxiety Network (CAN)
Address:
505 Old York Road
Jenkintown Square- Lower level
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Phone:
888.452.8747
Web:
http://selectivemutismcenter.org/...
SMART provides a comprehensive center for families and children that addresses the needs of the Selectively Mute child/teen. Shipon-Blum is also the president & director of the Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (SMART-Center) located in NE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr Shipon-Blum is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology and Family Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a board certified family physician who specializes in the childhood anxiety disorder, Selective Mutism. Dr Shipon-Blum practices in Philadelphia, PA and has dedicated years studying, researching and treating individuals with Selective Mutism. She consults worldwide with families, treating professionals and educators and has helped countless children from around the world overcome Selective Mutism.
Elisa Shipon-Blum M.D.
Director
Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (Smart)
Address:
505 N. Old York Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046
Phone:
215.887.5748
E-mail:
smartcenter@selectivemutism.org
Web:
www.selectivemutismcenter.org...
Dr. Shipon-Blum is a clinical assistant professor of psychology & family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also is a board certified family physician who specializes in Selective Mutism. Dr. Shipon-Blum has developed Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (SCAT) from her years studying & researching individuals with Selective Mutism.
Robert Shoop Ph.D.
Professor of Educational Law
Kansas State University
Address:
Dept. of Educational Law
Manhattan, KS 66506
Phone:
785.532.5533
E-mail:
rshoop@k-state.edu
Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan
Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Phone:
734.763.6201
E-mail:
ksiefert@umich.edu
Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....
Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.
Brian Skotko
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University
Phone:
617.432.0442 (press)
E-mail:
brian_skotko@hms.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.ndsccenter.org/speech_survey.asp...
Skotko authored the study, "Prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome: Mothers who continued their pregnancies evaluate their health care providers" released March 1, 2005 in the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology". For the study, Brian surveyed 2,945 mothers of children with Down syndrome from five parent support groups in five different states (CA, CO, MA, NC, RI).
Christian Smith
Co-Principal Investigator
National Study of Youth and Religion
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address:
CB# 3057
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3057
Phone:
919.918.5294
E-mail:
cssmith@email.unc.edu
Web:
http://www.youthandreligion.org/...
The National Study of Youth and Religion is a research project being conducted under the direction of Dr. Christian Smith, Professor in the Department of Sociology. The project began in August 2001 and will continue until December 2007. The project is designed to enhance our understanding of the religious lives of American adolescents and includes a national telephone survey of youth and their parents, as well as in-depth interviews with a sub-sample of these youth.
Anastasia Snyder Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology
Ohio State University
Address:
135 Campbell Hall
1787 Neil Avem
Columbus, OH 43210
Phone:
614.688.4169
E-mail:
asnyder@ehe.osu.edu
Snyder's research focuses on children, youth and families, with two central themes: rural youth development and the changing American family. Her focus is primarily in understanding how the family institution is evolving in rural areas – and its implications for policy. Her research examines outcomes specifically for rural Native Americans, African Americans and Latino immigrants. Snyder is the principal investigator on "Education, Careers and Migration of Rural Youth" in declining areas, a federally funded, four-year study ending in 2010. Her other research includes studies of youth agricultural workers; and risk-taking behaviors involving sex and alcohol use.
Susan Solomon Ph.D.
Author
Address:
47 Hardy Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
Phone:
609.937.6939
E-mail:
info@curatorialresources.com
Web:
http://www.recentamericanplaygrounds.com/...
Solomon is an expert in public playgrounds. She is the author of "American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space" (University Press of New England, 1995), which examines problems with contemporary playgrounds, suggests improvements and addresses undervalued public space. She also explores American attitudes on safety and how that impacts play and places for public assembly. Trained as an art historian with a concentration on 20th-century architecture, she heads her own research firm, Curatorial Resources and Research, in Princeton, N.J.
Debora Spar Ph.D.
Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research
Harvard University
Harvard Business School
Address:
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
Phone:
617.495.6000
E-mail:
research-site-mail@hbs.edu
Web:
http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&f...
Spar's research focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment. Other areas of study include the Internet, economic policymaking, sweatshop labor, human rights and the pharmaceutical industry. She is widely quoted in reference to her latest book, The Baby Business (Harvard Business School Press 2006), which examines the politics of reproductive science, such as egg donation, stem cell research, human cloning, surrogacy, and gender selection.
Carol Spigner
Professor
School of Social Work
University of Pennsylvania
Address:
3701 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone:
215.898.2507
E-mail:
spignerdsw@aol.com
Matthew Stagner
Executive Director
Chapin Hall Center for Children
University of Chicago
Address:
1313 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone:
773.753.5900
E-mail:
mstagner@chapinhall.org
Web:
http://www.about.chapinhall.org/research/researchd...
Stagner is a nationally recognized authority on policies affecting children and families. His research includes work on youth risk behaviors, children aging out of foster care, and programs that support social services. Before joining Chapin Hall in 2006, Stagner directed the Center on Labor, Human Services and Population at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Earlier, Stagner directed the Division of Children and Youth Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has directed research for the National Research Council and the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
Peter Stearns
Provost
History
George Mason University
Address:
4400 University Drive
Mason Hall D109
Fairfax, VA 22030
Phone:
703.993.8776
E-mail:
pstearns@gmu.edu
Web:
http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/faculty/faculty_bio...
Stearns is a social historian whose research has focused on U.S. and European social and cultural history. Recent research has focused on parenting.
William Stixrud Ph.D.
Address:
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 300
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:
301.565.0534
E-mail:
wstixrud@stixrud.com
Stixrud is a clinical neuropsychologist and director of William Stixrud and Associates in Silver Spring, Md., a group practice specializing in the neuropsychological evaluation and treatment of children, adolescents and adults with learning, attentional/executive, and/or emotional disorders. He is a member of the clinical supervisory faculty of the Children’s National Medical Center and holds an appointment in the Department of Psychiatry, George Washington University School of Medicine.
Partner and Co-Founder
LifeCourse Associates
Address:
9080 Eaton Park Rd.
Great Falls, VA 22066
Phone:
703.821.0871
E-mail:
strauss@lifecourse.com
Web:
http://www.lifecourse.com/about/williamstrauss.htm...
Strauss is an expert on American generations and has advised numerous public and private organizations about generational trends, including MTV, Disney Imagineering, Procter & Gamble, the Ford Motor Company, national college and graduate school admissions organizations, and the U.S. armed forces. His book “Millennials Rising” (Vintage, 2000), co-authored by Neil Howe, makes the argument that today’s teens and kids are new, post-Generation-X, and on the whole are doing better than most adults think. The most recent book by Strauss and Howe is “Millennials Go to College” (American Association of Collegiate Registrars, 2003).
Ruth Striegel-Moore Ph.D.
professor and chairwoman
Psychology
Wesleyan University
Address:
Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT 06459
Phone:
860.685.2328
E-mail:
rstriegel@wesleyan.edu
Web:
https://wesep.wesleyan.edu/cgi-perl/faculty/facult...
Striegel-Moore's areas of focus are etiology and the treatment of eating disorders, and gender and psychopathology. She has done studies about minorities and eating disorders, such as bulimia and anorexia.
Carola Suárez-Orozco Ph.D.
Co-Director of Immigration Studies, Chair and Professor
Steinhardt School of Education
New York University
Address:
239 Greene St., East Building Room 408
New York, NY 10003
Phone:
212.998.5282
E-mail:
cso2@nyu.edu
Web:
http://education.nyu.edu/immigration/team/carola.h...
Suárez-Orozco is the Co-Director of Immigration Studies @ NYU. Prior to moving to NYU, Dr. Suárez-Orozco co-directed the Harvard Longitudinal Immigrant Student Adaptation Study, an interdisciplinary research project examining the adaptations of Central American, Chinese, Dominican, Haitian, and Mexican immigrant adolescents to American schools. She is the author of Children of Immigration and numerous other books and articles.
Gregory Thomas M.S.
Director
Program on School Preparedness and Planning
National Center for Disaster Preparedness
Address:
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
722 West 168th St., 10th Floor
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.342.0408
E-mail:
gat2101@columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.ncdp.mailman.columbia.edu/personnel.htm...
Thomas works with city, state and federal education and emergency management officials to assist schools and other child congregate facilities in the assessment and improvement of their current level of emergency preparedness. In New York, Thomas worked with officials from state and federal law enforcement agencies to address security and disaster-related issues that arose for the many schools in the lower Manhattan area that were affected by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of the School Crisis and Intervention Unit of the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress.
Kimberly Thompson
Associate Professor of Risk Analysis and Decision Science and Director
Kids Risk Project
Harvard School of Public Health/Department of Health Policy and Management
Address:
Kresge Bldg., Third Floor
677 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Phone:
617.432.4285
E-mail:
kimt@hsph.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.kidsrisk.harvard.edu...
Kimberly M. Thompson, Sc.D., is associate professor of risk analysis and decision science and director of the Kids Risk Project at the Harvard School of Public Health. She created the Kids Risk Project in 2000. The project empowers kids, parents, policy makers and others to make better decisions when managing all types of children’s risks. Thompson’s research promotes better understanding of children’s risks and helps put children’s risks in perspective. She earned her doctorate from Harvard School of Public Health in Environmental Health.
Michael Thompson
Psychologist
Phone:
781.646.5230
Web:
http://www.michaelthompson-phd.com/...
Thompson is a psychologist specializing in children and families. He is the clinical consultant to The Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than two hundred fifty schools across the United States. He co-wrote, "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" (Ballantine Books, 1999).
Christopher Thurber Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Counseling
Phillips Exeter Academy
Address:
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833
Phone:
603.722.4311
E-mail:
chris@campspirit.com
Web:
http://campspirit.com/contactchris.html...
Thurber conducts staff training and consultation with camps in the U.S. and Canada and is the co-author of the “Summer Camp Handbook,” a resource for new campers and families (Perspective Publishing, March 2000).
Patrick Tolan Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Juvenile Research
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School
Address:
CSB-840 S. Wood St., Room 345G
Chicago, IL 60612
Phone:
312.413.1893
E-mail:
Tolan@uic.edu
Web:
http://www.psych.uic.edu/faculty/tolan.htm...
Patrick Tolan, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tolan’s major interests include the development of urban children and families from a developmental-ecological perspective; prediction and prevention of antisocial and violent behavior; family systems theory; and adolescence. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified supervisor for family therapy training. Tolan holds positions on several national and international boards and committees, including the MacArthur Foundation’s Cook County Juvenile Court Clinical Evaluation Services Initiative; the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence; and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Youth Violence’s program on Blueprints for Violence Prevention/Reduction. He also works on community action initiatives such as the Attorney General’s Safe to Learn Initiative and the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. He is author or co-author of more than 80 books, monographs, articles and technical reports. He is a fellow of three divisions of the American Psychological Association and of the International Society for Research on Aggression. He is a regular consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, among others. He is the principal investigator on three federal grants and co-investigator on four others. Tolan earned a bachelor’s degree at Temple University, and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago in clinical research on adolescence.
Norida Torriente
Assistant Public Relations Director
National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions
Address:
401 Wythe St.
Alexandria, VA 22314
Phone:
703.797.6059
E-mail:
ntorriente@nachri.org
Web:
www.childrenshospitals.net...
The 215-member organization, based in Alexandria, Va., conducts public policy research, analysis, education and advocacy on behalf of children. Its online media center offers extensive data on children’s health, as well as an interactive expert database of more than 500 contacts.
Stacey Tovino Ph.D.
Professor, Lawyer
School of Law
Hamline University
Address:
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104-1237
Phone:
651.523.2941
E-mail:
stovino01@gw.hamline.edu
Web:
http://www.hamline.edu/law/health/faculty/stacey_a...
Tovino's Her research interests lie in the areas of confidentiality and privacy, midwifery and the law, mental health care and health care ethics. She has written extensibly on legal and ethical issues regarding brain-injured subjects.
Leonardo Trasande M.D.
Instructor
Departments of Pediatrics and Community and Preventive Medicine
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Address:
One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box1512
New York, NY 10029
Phone:
212.241.8029
E-mail:
leo.trasande@mssm.edu
Web:
http://www.childenvironment.org...
Leonardo Trasande, M.D., is a pediatrician and environmental health specialist at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. He also is the assistant director for the school’s Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, a policy research center that works to protect children from environmental threats. After graduating from Harvard College cum laude in chemistry in 1994, Trasande earned his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government and a medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He later served as a Dyson Foundation health policy fellow to U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., on environmental and child health issues. In addition to his work at Mount Sinai, he practices clinically in New York and in Boston, where he is a faculty member of the pediatrics department at Harvard Medical School.
Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Director, Division Public Behavioral Health & Justice Policy
University of Washington School of Medicine
Address:
146 N. Canal St., Suite 100
Seattle, WA 98103
Phone:
206.685.2085
E-mail:
trupin@u.washington.edu
Web:
http://www.uwpsychiatry.org/...
Eric Trupin, Ph.D., is professor and vice chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle. A child psychologist, Trupin directs the university’s division of public behavioral health and justice policy, which runs clinical, research and training programs focused on youths and adults who manifest mental illness and substance abuse and are involved with the justice system. He conducts research on topics including the prevalence and prevention of mental illness in children and adolescents, and the involvement of mentally ill youth and adults in the criminal justice system. For 12 years, Trupin directed the Division of Adolescent Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle. From 1993 to1994, he was a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow, working with the U.S. Congress. Trupin received his bachelor’s degree from City College, N. Y., and his Ph.D. from the University of Wyoming.
James Trussell
Director, Office of Population Research
Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
Phone:
609.258.4946
E-mail:
trussell@princeton.edu
Web:
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/trussell/...
Trussell also is the John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs; director of the Program in Population Studies; and professor of Economics and Public Affairs. His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure and the cost-effectiveness of contraception. He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion; in addition to his research on this topic, he maintains an emergency contraception website (not-2-late.com) and designed and launched a toll-free emergency contraception hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE).
M. Belinda Tucker Ph.D.
Professor
Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
University of California, Los Angeles
Address:
SBG Box 62 - NPI
760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90024
Phone:
310.825.0285
E-mail:
mbtucker@ucla.edu
Web:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/caas/programs/tucker.ht...
M. Belinda Tucker is a social psychologist at the University of California at Los Angeles. Tucker has written numerous articles on marriage and personal relationships, including the Russell Sage Foundation volume, "The Decline in Marriage Among African Americans: Causes, Consequences and Policy Implications." She has participated in the direction of a number of landmark studies, including the National Survey of Black Americans in 1979. In collaboration with anthropologist Claudia Mitchell-Kernan and with funding from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, she conducted a 21-city national survey that examined the social context and social and psychological correlates of family formation behaviors and attitudes. They are currently conducting a five-year follow-up to that study. She is also currently working with Keith Kernan on an ethnographic examination of transition to adulthood in three culturally distinct groups of African-descended adolescents in Los Angeles. Other research interests include inter-ethnic relations and the psychosocial impact of cancer. Tucker serves on a number of national panels, including the Family Research Consortium III and the African American Mental Health Research Program Advisory Board. She received her undergraduate training at the University of Chicago and her doctorate from the University of Michigan.
Sherry R. Turkle
Professor and Director
Social Studies of Science and Technology/Initiative on Technology and Self
MIT
Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room E51-296C
Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone:
617.253.4068
E-mail:
sturkle@mit.edu
Web:
http://web.mit.edu/sturkle/www...
Turkle is the author of “Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet” (Simon & Schuster, 1995). She is an expert on personal identity in a digital world and on gender and the Internet.
Jean Twenge
Professor
Psychology
San Diego State University
Address:
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4611
Phone:
619.594.4437
E-mail:
jtwenge@sunstroke.sdsu.ed
Web:
http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/faculty/twenge.html...
Twenge’s studies include gender roles, social rejection and generational differences. Her most recent book, "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before," uses data from 1.3 million young people regarding issues such as self-esteem, individualism, anxiety, and sexuality. The book proposes that young people today are less concerned with social approval and society's standards than were past generations.
J. Richard Udry Ph.D.
Kenan Professor of Maternal and Child Health and Sociology
Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address:
403D University Square East
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Phone:
919.966.2829
E-mail:
udry@unc.edu
Web:
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/...
The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors. Udry's main research interest is the integration of biological and sociological models of human behavior, including studies of adult women's gendered behavior, sexual behavior and adolescents.
Luis Vargas Ph.D.
Assocaite Professor
Psychiatry
University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Address:
MSC 10 8000
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Phone:
505.272.2948
E-mail:
lvargas@salud.unm.edu
Web:
http://hsc.unm.edu/som/psychiatry/faculty/vargas.h...
Luis A. Vargas, Ph.D., is a clinical child psychologist and an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, where he was previously the director of the psychology internship program for 14 years. During those years, the internship program had a strong focus on training psychology interns to be culturally responsive and to serve culturally diverse patient populations within the public sector. He is co-editor of “Working with Culture: Psychotherapeutic Interventions with Ethnic Minority Children and Adolescents” (Jossey-Bass, 1992), and a co-author with Joan D. Koss-Chioino of “Working with Latino Youth: Culture, Development, and Context” (Jossey-Bass, 1999).
Eric M. Vernberg Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Director
Clinical Child Psychology Program
University of Kansas
Address:
2006 Dole Human Development Center, 1000 Sunnyside Ave.
Lawrence, KS 66045
Phone:
785.864.3582
E-mail:
vernberg@ku.edu
Web:
http://www.ku.edu/~clchild/faculty/vernberg.shtml...
Vernberg's research initiatives include children's recovery from severely traumatic experiences such as terrorism and natural disasters. He was on faculty at the University of Miami when Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992 and subsequently led a research team that conducted a longitudinal study of children's post-hurricane adjustment.
Francisco Villarruel Ph.D.
Professor of Family and Child Ecology
Michigan State University
Address:
1407 S. Harrison Road
East Lansing, MI 48823-5286
Phone:
517.432.1317
E-mail:
fvilla@msu.edu
Web:
http://www.msu.edu/~fvilla/...
Villarruel also is a senior research associate with MSU's Institute for Children, Youth and Families and the Julian Samora Research Institute, a policy research center focused on Latinos. Villarruel studies Latino youth and families, positive youth development, and developmental contextualism. He co-wrote "Lost Opportunities: The Reality of Latinos in the U.S. Criminal Justice System" (2004), which looked at factors underlying Latinos' overrepresentation and the special problems associated with prosecuting and treating substance abusers. Villarruel was co-principal investigator of a study that found Latino and Latina youth receive disparate and more punitive treatment than their white peers charged with the same types of offenses. The 2002 report, “¿Dónde Está la Justicia?” is available online at: www.buildingblocksforyouth.org/latino_rpt/index.html
Sunita Vohra M.D.
Director
Complementary and Alternative Research and Education Program (CARE)
Stollery Children’s Hospital, University of Alberta
Address:
4051 Research Transition Facility
8308-114 Street
Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2E1
Phone:
780.407.2106
E-mail:
CARE@med.ualberta.ca
Web:
http://www.care.ualberta.ca/...
Vohra is a pediatrician and clinician scientist, as well as an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Alberta . She is also the founding director of the Canadian Pediatric CAM Network (PedCAM) and program director for Canada’s first fellowship program in pediatric integrative medicine. Her expertise in complementary and alternative medicine, or CAM, has been recognized internationally with invitations to sit on various committees and editorial boards. She has published widely on the efficacy of the use of natural health product in children.
Clarice Dibble Walker
Professor Emeritus
School of Social Work
Howard University
Web:
http://www.howard.edu/schoolsocialwork/default.htm...
Clarice Dibble Walker is Professor Emeritus at Howard University's School of Social Work. She previously was Commissioner of Social Services for the District of Columbia. Mrs. Walker is president of the board of Safe Shores-The D.C. Children's Advocacy Center, and is the former chair of the board of The National Black Child Development Institute. She also serves on a number of other boards, including The Freddie Mac Foundation, D.C. Action for Children, Covenant House (D.C.), and the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse.
John Wallace Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Monitoring the Future Study
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
Address:
P.O. Box 1248
462 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
Phone:
734.764.8354
E-mail:
isr-info@isr.umich.edu
Web:
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org...
The Monitoring the Future Study is an ongoing investigation of the behavior, attitudes and values of America’s secondary school students, college students and young adults. Each year the study surveys a total of some 50,000 eighth-, 10th- and 12th-grade students. Study results are used to monitor trends in substance use and abuse among teens and young adults.
Judith Wallerstein
Director
Center for the Family in Transition
Address:
PO Box 157
Corte Madera, CA 94976
Phone:
415.435.3417
Web:
http://www.divorceinfo.com/judithwallerstein.htm...
Wallerstein has studied the effects of divorce on children and their parents for 30 years. Her books include "What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce" (Hyperion, 2003), with co-author Sandra Blakeslee; and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study" (Hyperion, 2001), with Blakeslee and Julia Lewis.
B. Timothy Walsh M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Columbia University
Address:
Physicians & Surgeons
630 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032
Phone:
212.305.6001
E-mail:
btw1@Columbia.edu
Web:
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.as...
Dr. Walsh served as the president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and on advisory and review committees of the National Institutes of Health and of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the director of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has writeen numerous books on eating disorders, the most recent being "If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder" (Oxford University Press 2005).
Heather B. Weiss
Director
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard University
Address:
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 3 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Phone:
617.495.9108
E-mail:
heather_weiss@harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hfrp/...
Weiss is the founder of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and a senior research associate and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. HFRP's mission is to help create more effective practices, interventions, and policies to support children's successful development from birth to adulthood. Weiss conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research, and develops tools that encourage professional and organizational learning, support evaluation, continuous improvement and accountability, and that spark innovation.
John Weisz
Professor, CEO
Judge Baker Children's Center
Harvard University
Address:
53 Parker Hill Avenue
Boston, MA 02120-3225
Phone:
617.278.4280
E-mail:
info@jbcc.harvard.edu
Web:
http://www.jbcc.harvard.edu/research/steps.htm...
Weisz' written work includes books and articles focused primarily on youth problem behavior and disorders, cultural factors in development and dysfunction, and psychotherapy for children and adolescents. He is president and CEO of Judge Baker Children's Center, a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the lives of children whose emotional and behavioral problems threaten to limit their potential.
Michael Weitzman M.D.
Executive Director
Center for Child Health Research
University of Rochester
Address:
1351 Mount Hope Ave., Suite 130
Rochester, NY 14620
Phone:
585.275.1544
E-mail:
mweitzman@aap.org
Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/cchr/...
Dr. Weitzman is an authority on pediatric research and practice. He has been a practitioner, educator and researcher for more than 20 years, having served as Maternal and Child Health Director of the City of Boston and a professor and director of pediatrics at two universities; he has also trained more than three dozen active pediatric researchers. The center was created by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1999 to improve the physical, mental and social health of children by conducting and synthesizing research across academic disciplines and institutions and using the research to inform public policies and improve medical practices.
Nora Wells
Data Project Director
Family Voices, Inc.
Address:
2340 Alamo SE, Suite 102
Albuquerque, NM 87106
Phone:
505.872.4774
E-mail:
nwells@fcsn.org
Web:
http://www.familyvoices.org...
Nora Wells is a child advocate and project director of Family Voices, a national clearinghouse for information and education on the special health care needs of children, at the Federation for Children with Special Needs in Boston, Mass. She is one of the founding members of this grassroots network of families speaking for all children with special health needs. She has held numerous positions at the Federation and has been responsible for planning and facilitating national technical assistance training efforts for early intervention systems held around the country and establishing a parent-organized, coordinated national system to enhance family collaboration with public and private agencies and individuals promoting the welfare of children with special health needs. Wells has authored numerous publications, including ?What Parents Need to Know about Managed Care? in Early Childhood Bulletin of the Federation for Children with Special Needs (December 1997); a report on survey results with families of children with special needs and their experiences in non-managed care and managed care health plans; a survey and report on family participation in Title V Children with Special Health Care Needs programs in 50 states; and Paying the Bills: Tips for Families on Financing Health Care for Children with Special Needs. She taught a graduate level course on ?Family Support: Working with Families of Children with Special Needs? at Wheelock College. She was the first president and a founding member of Parents and Friends of Handicapped Children, a consumer group for parents of children with cerebral palsy, and is the parent of a young adult with cerebral palsy.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Co-Director
National Marriage Project
Address:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
25 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone:
732.445.7922
E-mail:
marriage@rci.rutgers.edu
Web:
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/codirectors.html...
Dafoe Whitehead speaks and writes about family and child wellbeing, particularly related to marriage, divorce, teen pregnancy and sex education. Her books include "The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and seeks to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.
Rebecca Wind
Senior Communications Associate
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Address:
120 Wall St.
New York, NY 10005
Phone:
212.248.1111, ext. 2203
E-mail:
rwind@guttmacher.org
Web:
http://www.agi-usa.org/...
Paul Wise M.D.
Professor of Child Health and Society
Center for Health Policy, Center for Primary Care and Outcomes Research
Stanford University
Address:
117 Encina Commons
Stanford, CA 94305-6019
Phone:
650.725.5645
E-mail:
pwise@stanford.edu
Web:
http://healthpolicy.stanford.edu/mediaguide/paulhw...
Wise’s areas of study focus on the health of children, women and families, particularly children's health policy; disparities in health outcomes by race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status; and the impact of medical technologies on disparities in health outcomes. Before coming to Stanford in July 2004, he was a professor of pediatrics at Boston University and vice chief of Social Medicine and Health Inequalities at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Earlier, he directed emergency and primary care services at the Children's Hospital of Boston, and he led the Harvard Institute for Reproductive and Child Health. He also has served as a special expert at the National Institutes of Health and as special assistant to the Surgeon General.
Joseph Wright Ph.D.
Executive Director
Child Health Advocacy Institute
Children's National Medical Center
Address:
111 Michigan Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20010
Phone:
202.884.4930
E-mail:
jwright@cnmc.org
Web:
http://www.dcchildrens.com...
Wright, M.D., leads the organization in its advocacy mission, public policy positions and community partnership initiatives. At The George Washington University schools of medicine and public health, he’s a professor and vice chairman in the pediatrics department and a professor of emergency medicine, prevention and community health. He is a founding director of the Institute for Prehospital Pediatrics and Emergency Research. His major scholarly interests include emergency medical services for children, injury prevention, and addressing the needs of underserved communities. He currently serves as chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on violence prevention, and he has been appointed to several other national advisory bodies, including within the Institute of Medicine.
James Youniss Ph.D.
Wylma R. and James R. Curtin Professor of Psychology
Catholic University of America
Life Cycle Institute
Address:
Washington, DC 20064
Phone:
202.329.5999
E-mail:
youniss@cua.edu
Web:
http://lifecycle.cua.edu/faculty/youniss.cfm...
James Youniss, Ph.D., is the Wylma R. and James R. Curtin Professor of Psychology at The Catholic University of America. He studied the social and moral development of children and youth for over four decades. For the past 12 years, he has focused on civic and political awakening in youth, especially as it is stimulated by community service done in the context of clear value traditions. He is the author and editor of several books including “Parents and Peers in Social Development” (University of Chicago Press, 1980); “Adolescent Relations with Mothers, Fathers, and Friends” (University of Chicago Press, 1985); “Community Service and Social Responsibility in Youth” (University of Chicago Press, 1997); “Roots of Civic Identity: International Perspectives” (Cambridge, 1999); and “Catholic Schools at the Crossroads” (Teachers College Press, 2000).
Edward Zigler Ph.D.
Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale University
Address:
Yale University, Department of Psychology
310 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone:
203.432.9935
E-mail:
edward.zigler@yale.edu
Web:
http://www.yale.edu/bushcenter...
Zigler is a Sterling Professor of Psychology. His areas of interest include: Social policy, child development, preschool education and daycare. As former director of the Office of Child Development, Zigler was responsible for administering the Head Start Program and was instrumental in establishing innovative programs such as Health Start, Home Start, Education for Parenthood and the Child and Family Resource Program. The goal of the center is to bring research-based knowledge of child development to federal and state policy arenas. The Head Start Research Unit conducts research and policy analysis related to Head Start and other early childhood programs.
Nicholas Zill
Director
Child & Family Study Area
Westat, Inc.
Address:
1650 Research Blvd., Room TA-2126
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone:
301.294.4448
E-mail:
ZILLN1@WESTAT.COM
Web:
http://www.westat.com/...
Zill, a psychologist, has written on changing family behavior in the U.S. and its effects on children. He is currently heading a five-year effort to develop program performance measures for the national Head Start program, and is a senior advisor for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which Westat is conducting for the U.S. Department of Education. Westat is a research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.
Julie Magno Zito Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy
Address:
Lombard Building Room 252
Baltimore, MD
Phone:
410.706.0524
E-mail:
jzito@rx.umaryland.edu
Web:
http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/apps/specializat...
Zito is the lead author of several published studies on the use of psychotropic drugs on children. In a 2003 report, she and colleagues reported that the number of children receiving psychotropic drug treatment had tripled from 1987 to 1996, to 6 percent of U.S. children. In a 2000 report, they estimated that 150,000 preschoolers (10 percent of them 2-year-olds) were on psychotropic drugs in 1995, up from 100,000 in 1991. She has also looked at the use of such drugs in child welfare systems and Medicaid.
Executive Director
WiredSafety
Address:
1 Bridge St., Suite 56
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533
E-mail:
askparry@wiredsafety.org
Web:
http://www.wiredsafety.org...
WiredSafety is an online safety and help group headed by Aftab, a security, privacy and cyberspace lawyer, as well as an author and child advocate. WiredSafety focuses on providing assistance and support to law enforcement, training law enforcement and regulatory agencies, creating awareness and cybercrime prevention programs. Its patrol groups are made up entirely of volunteers.
Bill Albert
Deputy Director
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
Address:
1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.478.8510
E-mail:
balbert@teenpregnancy.org
Web:
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/press/...
The campaign’s goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 2006 and 2015. From the campaign's 2007 report: -Teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have declined by about one-third since the early 1990's. -Even so, three in ten girls in the United States get pregnant by age 20. -Teens say parents most influence their decisions about sex. -The U.S. leads the fully industrialized world in teen pregnancy and birth rates by a wide margin. -Between 1995 and 2010, the number of girls aged 15-19 is projected to increase by 2.2 million. -About two-thirds of sexually active teens wish they had waited longer to lose their virginity.
MaryLee Allen
Director
Child Welfare & Mental Health
Children's Defense Fund
Address:
25 E St. N.W.
Washington, DC 20001
Phone:
202.628.8787
E-mail:
mallen@childrensdefense.org
Jeanne Allen
President and Founder
Center for Education Reform (CER)
Address:
1001 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 204
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.822.9000
E-mail:
cer@edreform.com
Web:
http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=secti...
CER creates opportunities for and challenges obstacles to better education for America's communities. CER seeks to combine education policy with grassroots advocacy to work within the nation's communities to foster positive and bold education reforms. CER advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, such as strong charter school laws, school choice programs for children most in need, common sense teacher initiatives, and proven instructional programs.
Joan Almon
U.S. Coordinator
Alliance for Children
Address:
7303 Dartmouth Ave
College Park, MD 20740
Phone:
301.699.9058
E-mail:
joan.almon@verizon.net
Web:
http://www.allianceforchildhood.net...
This alliance of educators, psychologists and others, opposes the increasing emphasis on computers in early childhood and elementary education and advocates that children spend less time on computers.
Jacqueline Ancess
Associate Director
Columbia University
The National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, and Teaching
Address:
Teachers College
411 Main Hall, TC Box 110
New York, NY 10027
Phone:
212.678.3432
E-mail:
ja127@columbia.edu
Web:
http://www.tc.edu/ncrest/home.htm...
NCREST supports school restructuring efforts by documenting successful initiatives, teacher learning, assessment, the documentation of successful school reform efforts in elementary and secondary schools, educational technology in schools, and the development of local, state, and national policies based on practice. NCREST is involved in a variety of projects including Professional Development Schools, teacher learning, assessment, the documentation of successful school reform efforts in elementary and secondary schools, educational technology in schools, and the development of local, state, and national policies based on practice.
Ann Avery
Director
Northwest Michigan Health Services
Address:
10767 Traverse Hwy., Suite B
Traverse City, MI 49684
Phone:
231.947.0351
E-mail:
aavery@nmhsi.org
Since 1968, Northwest Michigan Health Services, Inc. (NMHS) has been responsible for providing primary health care services to migratory farmworkers and their families in eight counties in Northwest Lower Michigan. Among the services offered are diagnosis and treatment by physicians, referrals, emergency medical care, follow-up, outreach, transportation, pharmaceutical services, dental care, and health education. Services are offered at three sites, and each site maintains evening hours, employs bilingual personnel, and establishes linkages with other service agencies in its area.
Claire Barnett
Executive Director
Healthy Schools Network, Inc.
Address:
773 Madison Ave.
Albany, NY 12208
Phone:
518.462.0632
E-mail:
healthyschools@aol.com
Web:
http://www.healthyschools.org/...
The network is a national organization that focuses on children's environmental health. It is dedicated to assuring that every child and school employee has an environmentally safe, healthy school.
Richard Baron M.D.
President and CEO
Healthier Babies, Healthier Futures, Inc.
Address:
260 S. Broad St., Suite 1800
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone:
215.985.2517
E-mail:
hbabies@phmc.org
Healthier Babies was established in 1997 with funding received from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Center for Health Care Strategies, Inc. as part of their national Medicaid Managed Care Program. The HB program was undertaken in an effort to improve birth outcomes in the Medicaid population.
Marilyn Barr
Executive Director
National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome
Address:
2955 Harrison Blvd., #102
Ogden, UT 84403
Phone:
801.627.3399
E-mail:
mail@dontshake.org
Web:
http://www.dontshake.org/...
In 1999, Barr founded NCSBS, the only global organization dedicated solely to preventing this form of child abuse. The nonprofit organization focuses its efforts in two areas: professional training for those who work with SBS cases, and education for parents and those who work to prevent child abuse. Earlier, she served as executive director in the Utah office of Prevent Child Abuse America, a national nonprofit advocacy organization.
Laura Beavers
Research Associate
Kids Count
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Address:
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone:
410.223.2975
E-mail:
lbeavers@aecf.org
Web:
http://www.aecf.org/kidscount/...
The annual Kids Count Data Book is a national and state-by-state project of the Casey Foundation to track the status of children in the United States. Data from the 2008 “Right Start for America’s Newborns” report are available. State- and city-level data on birth outcomes are available on the online database, Kids Count Data Center, which allows users to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or download the entire data set. The 2007 Kids Count Data Book, to be released on June 26, 2007, looks at the goal of permanence or ensuring that every child and young person served by the child welfare system achieves a lifelong family connection. Alternative Kids Count contact: William O'Hare, senior fellow, Annie E. Casey Foundation; WOhare@aecf.org; 410.547.6600, ext. 2049; 443.472.7434 (cell)
Carl Bell M.D.
President and CEO
Community Mental Health Council
Address:
8704 South Constance Ave.
Chicago, IL 60617
Phone:
773.908.0076
E-mail:
carlcbell@pol.net
Web:
http://www.thecouncil-online.org/Carl_C_Bell.htm...
Bell, M.D., is president and CEO of the Community Mental Health Council Inc. and is a clinical professor of psychiatry and public health at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He co-directs UIC’s Interdisciplinary Violence Prevention Research Center and is the principal investigator on a National Institute of Mental Health grant to reduce the risk of HIV infection among youths in a South African township. During his 35-year career, Bell has written and spoken extensively about violence-related traumatic stress, black-on-black crime, and violence prevention. He is the author of “The Sanity of Survival: Reflections on Community Mental Health and Wellness” (Third World Press, 2004) and roughly 400 articles on related issues. He has been an expert guest on national programs such as “The Today Show,” “Nightline,” “CBS Sunday Morning” and “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.” A former director of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists, Bell was given the American Psychiatric Association’s presidential award for his efforts to reduce violence. In 2004, he received the American Psychiatric Foundation’s first minority service award. He graduated from University of Illinois at Chicago and earned a medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. He completed his psychiatric residency at the Illinois State Psychiatric Institute in Chicago, working with children, adolescents and adults.
Peter L. Benson
President
Search Institute
Address:
The Banks Building
615 First Ave. NE Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Phone:
612.376.8956
E-mail:
si@search-institute.org
Web:
http://www.search-institute.org...
The institute works to advance the well-being of adolescents and children by generating knowledge and promoting its application. Its staff conducts research and evaluation, develops publications and practical tools and provides training and technical assistance. It developed a framework of developmental assets that identifies 40 critical factors for young people’s growth and development.
Deb Bialescki Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation
American Camp Association
Address:
5000 State Road 67 North
Martinsville, IN 46151-7902
Phone:
765.342.8456
E-mail:
dbialescki@ACAcamps.org
Web:
www.ACAcamps.org...
The ACA accredits more 2,400 camps collaborates with other youth-serving organizations and associations. ACA-accredited camps meet strict standards for health, safety, and program quality. Bialeschki develops surveys, trains people to utilize research results and plans and conducts studies that provide practical insights for camps and for the broader field of youth development.
Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Native American Programs
Indian Country Child Trauma Center
405.271.8858
E-mail:
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu
The center develops trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children and their families.
Senior Consultant
Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group
Address:
3212 Northbrook Drive
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone:
678.427.5600
E-mail:
myrenebird@aol.com
Bird is a senior consultant with the Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group and has worked in the human services field for 25 years. In his work with state child welfare systems, he designs processes to ensure that families are involved in all aspects of their children’s case management and that agency services are culturally competent. Bird previously worked on system-wide reform efforts in several states and has served as project director for Western Washington University’s Children and Family Services Training Academy. He helped develop the Foster Parent Staff Development Institutes in Georgia and was a group facilitator at the Domestic Violence Resource Center’s Men Anger Control Program in Hillsboro, Ore. He was a subject matter expert for the publication Guidelines for Facilitating Child and Family Team Meetings with Family with a History of Domestic Violence, by the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco.
Helen Blank
Director of Leadership and Public Policy
National Women's Law Center
Address:
11 Dupont Circle, N.W., # 800
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.588.5180
E-mail:
hblank@nwlc.org
Web:
http://nwlc.org/index.cfm...
The National Women's Law Center works on getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families. The center's focus is on education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families.
David Bloomfield
Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Policy
Brooklyn College
Educational Leadership Program
Address:
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210
Phone:
718.951.5608
E-mail:
davidb@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Web:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/schooled/bloomfi...
Bloomfield specializes in education law, school district management and technology, school reform, and legislative matters. He is the author of ground-breaking charter school, parent rights, and school governance legislation.
Craig Bowman
Executive Director
National Youth Advocacy Coalition
Address:
1638 R Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.319.7596
E-mail:
craig@nyacyouth.org
Web:
http://www.nyacyouth.org/...
The National Youth Advocacy Coalition is the only national organization focused solely on improving the lives of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth through advocacy, education, and information.
Brett Brown Ph.D.
Director of Social Indicators Research
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.362.5580, ext. 6052
E-mail:
bbrown@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...
Brown manages numerous projects related to the development and use of social indicators of child and family well-being at the international, national and state levels. Other areas of research interest include single-father families and the determinants of successful transitions from youth to adulthood.
Jane Rinzler Buckingham
President
Youth Intelligence
Address:
9 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011
Phone:
212.982.5428
E-mail:
info@youthintelligence.com
Web:
http://www.youthintelligence.com/...
Youth Intelligence is a research and trend analysis service for the youth market. It works with clients on projects such as marketing, brand positioning and new product development.
Charlene Burgeson
Executive Director
National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)
Address:
1900 Association Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Phone:
703.476.3410
E-mail:
cburgeson@aahperd.org
Web:
http://www.aahperd.org/naspe/template.cfm?template...
Charlene R. Burgeson is executive director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE), a nonprofit membership organization of over 18,000 professionals in physical activity and fitness. NASPE is dedicated to strengthening basic knowledge about sport and physical education among professionals and the general public and putting that knowledge into action in U.S. schools and communities. From 1997-2003, Burgeson worked for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta as a health scientist in the Division of Adolescent and School Health and a public health advisor in the Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity. In 2000 she co-authored a report from the Secretaries of Health and Human Services and Education to the President of the United States titled “Promoting Better Health for Young People through Physical Activity and Sport.” She was also the lead author for the physical education chapter of the 2000 School Health Policies and Programs Survey published by CDC. In 2001, Burgeson was honored by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance with the Mabel Lee Award for achieving national recognition as a professional leader before reaching age 36. A former elementary physical education teacher in the Fairfax County, Va., public schools, she also coached local youth sports. Burgeson received her master’s degree in physical education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and bachelor’s degree in health and physical education from Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania.
William Butz
President
Population Reference Bureau
Address:
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 520
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.483.1100
E-mail:
wbutz@prb.org
The PRB offers information about reproductive health and fertility; children and families; population and the environment; and population futures—aging, inequality and poverty, migration and urbanization, and gender. Butz's research has focused on the adequacy of the scientific and technical work force in the United States; the technology transfer process that links basic science to industrial production; implications of the worldwide adoption patterns of genetically modified crops; and fertility and migration policy options for the European Union.
Eliza Byard Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Director
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004
Phone:
212.727.0135
E-mail:
ebyard@glsen.org
GLSEN is a national education organization dedicated to ending bias and harassment directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in K-12 schools. GLSEN publishes an annual report: the National School Climate Survey, the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's schools.
Steven Camarota
Director of Research
Center for Immigration Studies
Address:
1522 K St. N.W., Suite 820
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.466.8185
E-mail:
sac@cis.org
The center supports admitting fewer immigrants to the United States but providing “a warmer welcome” for those who have been admitted. It conducts research and policy analysis of the economic, social, demographic, fiscal and other impacts of immigration on the U.S. Research director Steven Camarota is author of a 2007 report that found that immigrants and their U.S.-born children account for one in four people living in poverty and that they’ve contributed to nearly three-fourths of the increase in the uninsured population since 1989. His most recent report is “How Many Americans.”
Geoffrey Canada
President & CEO
Harlem Children's Zone
Address:
1916 Park Ave., Suite 212
New York, NY 10037
Phone:
212.234.6200
E-mail:
info@hcz.org
Canada is an advocate for and expert on issues concerning violence, children and community redevelopment. His initiatives include the Beacon School, which provides support 12 hours a day, 365 days a year to children and families in Central Harlem; and the Harlem Children's Zone Project, which works with all of the children and families in a 23-block area in Central Harlem. Previously he was director of the Robert White School, a private day school for troubled inner-city youth in Boston. He has a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College and a master's degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
David Carrier
Outreach Director
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6138
E-mail:
dcarrier@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...
The nonprofit, nonpartisan research center studies children at every stage of development. It is a key source of information on a wide range of topics, including early childhood development, foster care and adoption, education, teen sex and pregnancy, and marriage and family. The Child Trends DataBank is a one-stop source for the latest national trends and research on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. Its recent reports include “Child Care Use by Low-Income Families: Variations Across States.” The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization provides research guidance to improve policies, programs and practices affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood and youth development; child welfare; education; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (e.g., by race/ethnicity, family income, immigrant status). Its online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 indicators of well-being.
Lorraine Carter
President and CEO
V.E. Carter Child Development Group
Address:
2001 W Vliet St.
Milwaukee, WI 53205
Phone:
414.933.0953
Madeline Carter
Project Director
Center for Sex Offender Management
Address:
c/o Center for Effective Public Policy
8403 Colesville Road, Suite 720
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:
301.589.9383
E-mail:
cartermm@cepp.com
Center for Sex Offender Management's (CSOM) goal is to enhance public safety by preventing further victimization through improving the management of adult and juvenile sex offenders who are in the community. CSOM is sponsored by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, in collaboration with the National Institute of Corrections, State Justice Institute, and the American Probation and Parole Association. CSOM is administered through a cooperative agreement between OJP and the Center for Effective Public Policy.
Lynette Ciervo
Communications Strategist
Zero To Three
Address:
2000 M St. N.W., Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.638.1144
E-mail:
l.ciervo@zerotothree.org
Web:
http://www.zerotothree.org...
ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers ages 0-3.
Kathy Cowan
Director of Marketing and Communications
National Association of School Psychologists
Address:
4340 East West Highway, Suite 402
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone:
301.657.0270, ext. 226
E-mail:
kcowan@naspweb.org
Web:
http://www.nasponline.org/index2.html...
The National Association of School Psychologists represents and supports school psychology to enhance the mental health and educational competence of all children.
Susan Crockin
Attorney, Author
Adoption, Reproductive Law
Law Office of Susan L. Crockin
Address:
29 Crafts Street, Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460
Phone:
617.332.7070
E-mail:
susan.crockin@crockinlaw.com
Web:
http://www.seronosymposia.org/reproductive/cme_fac...
Crockin heads a private legal and consulting practice specializing in adoption and reproductive law. She has dealt with legal issues related to parenthood after cancer, stem-cell research, in-vitro fertilization, pre-pregnancy testing, embryo and egg donation and abortion. In addition to her law practice, Crockin has taught bioethics at Northeastern University School of Law and is an active lecturer and author.
Carmon Cunningham
Vice President
Technology and Communications
Jobs for the Future
Address:
88 Broad Street
Boston, MA 02110
Phone:
617.728.4446
E-mail:
ccunningham@jff.org
Carmon Cunningham is vice president for technology and communications for Jobs for the Future, a nonprofit research, consulting and advocacy organization that promotes quality high school and post-secondary education for workplace preparation. It partners with states, communities, foundations and others to accelerate education and career opportunities for those most in need. Cunningham joined JFF in 2000, after more than 20 years in management and marketing for Xerox Corp., the former Digital Equipment Corp. and the MIT Sloan School of Management. At JFF, Cunningham looks at how technology can enhance learning for youth and adults. He helps build strategic alliances around the country to identify noteworthy models and best practices – and to move them from the margins to the mainstream. A longtime community activist, Cunningham serves on the boards of Concerned Black Men of Massachusetts Inc., the Big Brothers Association of Massachusetts Bay and the Northeast Human Resources Association. He’s a former president of the National Black MBA Association’s Boston chapter. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Pacific University and a master’s degree in business from Boston University.
Halle Czechowski
Communications Vice President
Voices for America’s Children
Address:
1000 Vermont Ave., NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.289.0777, Ext. 8
E-mail:
czechowski@voices.org
Web:
www.voicesforamericaschildren.org...
The nonpartisan national organization advocates for the well-being of children at the federal, state and local levels of government. It is an advocacy network with 60 members in 46 states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands.
Kevin Dwyer
Principal Research Scientist
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
National Association of School Psychologists
Address:
4340 East West Highway
#402
Bethesda, MD 20814
Phone:
301.229.8251
E-mail:
kdwyer@naspweb.org
Web:
http://www.air.org/cecp/school_violence.htm...
Dwyer is a leading national expert on children’s mental health. Dwyer was President of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), a professional organization representing more than 21,000 school psychologists. Dwyer acted as principal investigator for the federally funded school violence prevention project, which distributed in September 1998 Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools to the nation’s 115,000 schools." "Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide" is a follow-up document he co-authored last year with David Osher of AIR for the U. S. Departments of Education and Justice.
Martin R. Eichelberger M.D.
CEO and President
National Safe Kids Campaign
Address:
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004
Phone:
202.662.0600
Web:
http://www.safekids.org...
The campaign is dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury, the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
Carol Emig
President
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6003
E-mail:
cemig@childtrends.org
Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...
Emig has run Child Trends since late 2006. The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization provides guidance to improve policies, programs and decisions affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood development; child welfare; education; youth development and the transition to adulthood; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (by race/ethnicity, family income, parents’ marital status, immigrant status, etc.). Child Trends’ online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
Margorie Engel Ph.D.
President
Stepfamily Association of America
Address:
25 Walnut St.
Boston, MA 02108
Phone:
800.735.0329
E-mail:
engel@neu.edu
Web:
http://www.saafamilies.org/aboutsaa/board_bios.htm...
Marjorie Engle is an author, speaker and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Her credentials include a 38-year business career, MA in Education Program Development, MBA in Management, and PhD in Law, Policy and Society. Her stepfamily life began with husband Stephen Boyle and five teenage daughters (she's mother to two and stepmother to three). This grandmother of eight is President and CEO of the Stepfamily Association of America - the only national non-profit membership organization providing information, education, support, and advocacy for stepfamilies and those who work with them. Author of The Divorce Decisions Workbook, The Canadian Divorce Decisions Workbook, Divorce Help Sourcebook, and Weddings A Family Affair: The New Etiquette for Second Marriages and Couples With Divorced Parents, Margorie has also written numerous stepfamily financial management booklets, law journal articles, and chapters in family law and pediatric books in the U.S. and overseas.
Janette Fennell
President
Kids and Cars
Address:
2913 West 113th Street
Leawood, KS 66211
Phone:
913.327.0013
E-mail:
email@kidsandcars.org
Kids and Cars' mission is to assure no child dies or is injured in a non-traffic, non-crash motor vehicle related event. It maintains a national database tracking deaths and injuries to children left unattended in or around motor vehicles. The organization says that no federal or state agency is collecting information related to deaths and injuries that occur as non-traffic incidents on private property.
Sue Ferguson Ph.D.
Senior Vice President, Research
Insurance Institute for Highway Safety
Address:
1005 N. Glebe Road, Suite 800
Arlington, VA 22201
Phone:
703.247.1580
E-mail:
sferguson@iihs.org
Web:
http://www.highwaysafety.com...
Susan A. Ferguson, Ph.D., is senior vice president of research at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety where she has worked since 1991. The Institute is an independent, nonprofit, scientific and educational organization that focuses on reducing losses — deaths, injuries and property damage — from highway crashes. She has done research in various highway safety areas with emphasis on vehicle safety, young drivers, child occupant protection and alcohol and driving. Ferguson has also published over 70 scientific papers. She chairs the Blue Ribbon Panel on Advanced Airbags and serves on various committees and advisory boards including Partners for Child Passenger Safety Advisory Board, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis Advisory Board. Ferguson obtained a bachelor’s degree in psychology in 1980 and a doctorate in experimental psychology from the George Washington University in 1991.
Michael Fix
Vice President and Director of Studies
Migration Policy Institute
Address:
1400 16th St. N.W., Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.266.1924
E-mail:
mfix@migrationpolicy.org
Web:
http://www.migrationpolicy.org/...
Fix's work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants and the impact of immigrants on the U.S. labor force. Fix served as a principal research associate at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program from 1998 through 2004. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ panel on the redesign of the U.S. citizenship test.
Alex Formuzis
Director of Communications
Environmental Working Group
Address:
1718 Connecticut Ave NW # 600
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.667.6982 main
The Environmental Working Group works to protect public health and the environment through its own research on public health threats and by disseminating information. It has a number of resources for journalists, and has offices in Washington, D.C. and Oakland, Calif.
Beth Fredrick
Senior Vice President, Director of Communications and Dev
Alan Guttmacher Institute
Address:
1301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.296.4012
E-mail:
bfredrick@guttmacher.org
Web:
http://www.agi-usa.org/...
The institute conducts research and gathers, analyzes and reports data related to sexual activity, contraception, abortion and childbearing. Its state-level report on "Parental Invovlement in Minors' Abortions" is at http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/spibs/spib_P
IMA.pdf.
Ellen Galinsky
President
Families & Work Institute
Address:
330 Seventh Ave. 14th Fl
New York, NY 10001
Phone:
212.465.2044
E-mail:
emgalinsky@aol.com
Web:
http://www.familiesandwork.org/...
Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, it offers comprehensive research on the U.S. workforce, including "The National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW )." Other recent research includes "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" and Generation & Gender in the Workplace."
Amy Garcia
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses
Address:
8484 Georgia Avenue
Suite 420
Silver Spring, MD 20910
Phone:
240.821.1130
E-mail:
nasn@nasn.org
The association works to improve the health and educational success of children by advocating for school health services by professional registered school nurses. Garcia can speak to school nurse shortages and other topics.
Sid Gardner
President
Children and Family Futures
Address:
4940 Irvine Blvd., Ste. 202
Irvine, CA 92620
Phone:
714.505.3525
E-mail:
sgardner@cffutures.org
Web:
http://www.cffutures.org...
Gardner is president of Children and Family Futures, a nonprofit consulting organization in Irvine, Calif., that focuses on the problems of children affected by alcohol and other drugs, with special attention to child welfare and welfare systems. Previously, Gardner has served as director of the Center for Collaboration for Children at California State University Fullerton, and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare under President Nixon. He has been a program officer of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, a staff member of the White House Domestic Council and director of State and Local Affairs for the Children’s Defense Fund. He also has been a consultant to the National Governors Association, the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and the National League of Cities, among others. Gardner has taught on the adjunct faculty of seven universities in California, Washington, D.C., and Connecticut, and he has published widely on the subjects of children and family services, results-based funding, school-linked community services and ethics and public policy. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Occidental College in Los Angeles in 1963 and master’s degrees from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School and from Hartford Seminary.
Robert Gebbia
Executive Director
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
Address:
120 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Phone:
212.363.3500
E-mail:
inquiry@afsp.org
Web:
http://www.afsp.org/index-1.htm...
The foundation is exclusively dedicated to funding research, developing prevention initiatives and offering educational programs and conferences for survivors, mental health professionals, physicians and the public. The "Facts" section of the Web site has information and statistics on child and adolescent suicide.
Cornelia Grumman
Vice President
First Five Years Fund
Ounce of Prevention Fund
Address:
33 W. Monroe St., Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60603
Phone:
312.922.3863
E-mail:
CGrumman@ffyf.org
Web:
http://www.ounceofprevention.org/...
The fund strives to give children who are born into poverty a chance for success in school and in life by providing direct services for at-risk children from birth to age five; training childhood professionals in Illinois; conducting research and advocating for sound public policies and sustained funding streams on early childhood development. Grumman, a former reporter and editorial board writer for the Chicago Tribune, is the recipient of three Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a 2001 Studs Terkel award.
Selena Guber
President
Children's Market Research, Inc.
Address:
1385 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021
Phone:
212.794.0983
E-mail:
TRENDS2000@AOL.COM
Web:
http://www.kidtrends.com/about.html...
The company provides qualitative and quantitative research, trend analysis and strategic insights into the youth market. Clients include advertising agencies, the media, toy marketers, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. Guber is currently the chairperson of the American Marketing Association/N.Y, Children's Marketing Leadership Council. Guber also is the executive editor of KIDTRENDS & TARGETING TEENS, two monthly newsletters about the youth market.
Roderick Harrison Ph.D.
Director
DataBank
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Address:
1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.789.6374
E-mail:
rharrison@jointcenter.org
Web:
http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/index.htm...
Harrison's expertise is demographic trends among African Americans. He is the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations. In 1998, the American Statistical Society awarded him the Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for his work in revising the racial and ethnic classifications used by all federal agencies and efforts in developing new classifications on race and ethnicity for the 2000 Census.
Geraldine Henchy
Director, Early Childhood Nutrition
Food Research and Action Center
Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.986.2200
E-mail:
ghenchy@frac.org
Web:
www.frac.org...
The national nonprofit organization works to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and poor nutrition in the United States. FRAC collaborates with national, state and local nonprofits, public agencies and corporations to address hunger and poverty. It coordinates the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.
Peter Hodges
Marketing Manager
Search Institute
Address:
615 First Avenue NE, Suite 125
Minneapolis, MN 55413
Phone:
612.692.5525
E-mail:
peterh@search-institute.org
Web:
www.search-institute.org...
The Minneapolis-based nonprofit organization researches child and adolescent development and studies how communities attend to young people’s needs. Its Developmental Assets framework identifies 40 critical factors for young people’s growth and development.
Judith Jackson MSW
National Office Consultant
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW)
Address:
2305 Martin Luther King Ave. S.E.
Washington, DC 20020
Phone:
202.678.4570
E-mail:
nabsw.harambee@verizon.net
NABSW was founded to address the social welfare needs of black people across the country. Jackson focuses the organization’s efforts in four areas: family preservation/child Welfare, youth development, health and wellness and civil liberties. Jackson is also interested in issues regarding blacks and education, family and community.
Susan Jekielek Ph.D.
Research Associate
Social Indicators
Child Trends
Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
Phone:
202.572.6054
E-mail:
sjekielek@childtrends.org
Kevin Jennings
Executive Director
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)
Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004
Phone:
212.727.0135
E-mail:
kjennings@glsen.org
The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network wants to assure that everyone in the school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Peter S. Jensen M.D.
Director
The REACH Institute
Address:
71 W. 23rd St.
New York, NY 10010
Phone:
212.845.4486
E-mail:
peter.jensen@reachinstitute.net
Web:
www.reachinstitute.net...
The REACH Institute aims to accelerate the acceptance and use of proven interventions that foster children's emotional and behavioral health. The institute, established in 2007, provides training and outreach to health care practitioners, parents, schools and community organizations. It focuses on the latest evidence-based interventions for identifying, diagnosing, treating and managing child and adolescent emotional and behavioral disorders. Jensen, a psychiatrist, helped launch REACH after directing Columbia University's Center for the Advancement of Children's Mental Health. Jensen has also served as associate director of child and adolescent research at the National Institute of Mental Health. He has edited two books and written more than 100 scientific articles and chapters on children's mental health research. Jensen has received many national honors, including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry's Norbert Rieger Award.
Dixie Jordan
Director
Families and Advocates Partnership for Education
PACER Center
Address:
210 E. Madison
Riverton, WY 82501
Phone:
307.851.5097
E-mail:
djordan@pacer.org
PACER provides information and training to support the education of children with disabilities and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education. Jordan is the parent of a son with mental health concerns and has worked for nearly 20 years to reform children's mental health systems. Jordan is the parent of a son with mental health concerns, and director of the national Families and Advocates Partnership for Education at the PACER (Parent Advocacy Coalition for Educational Rights) Center. Based in Minneapolis, PACER provides information and training to support the education of children with disabilities, and is supported by the U.S. Department of Education. Jordan, who is based in Wyoming, has worked for nearly 20 years to reform children’s mental health systems, and is an advocate for making families’ knowledge and strengths the foundation for effective mental health services for children.
Martha Kempner
Director of Public Information
SIECUS/Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.
Address:
130 W. 42nd St, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036
Phone:
212.819.9770, ext 324
E-mail:
mkempner@siecus.org
Web:
http://www.siecus.org/...
Each year, SIECUS distributes hundreds of thousands of print and electronic resources to educators, advocates, parents, researchers, physicians and others working to expand sexual health programs, policies and understanding. SIECUS also helps individuals locate research, write accurate news articles, create sexual health curriculum and build support for high quality programs in their community.
Dennis Kouba
Director of Communications
National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP)
Address:
50 Monument Square, Suite 502
Portland, ME 04101
Phone:
207.874.6524
E-mail:
dkouba@nashp.org
William Lassiter
Manager
Center for the Prevention of School Violence
Address:
1801 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699-1801
Phone:
919.733.3388 Ext. 332
E-mail:
william.lassiter@ncmail.net
Web:
http://www.ncdjjdp.org/cpsv/...
The Center for the Prevention of School Violence serves as a resource center and think tank for efforts that promote safer schools and foster positive youth development. The Center's efforts in support of safer schools are directed at understanding the problems of school violence and developing solutions to them.
Wendy Lazarus
Co-President
The Children's Partnership
Address:
2000 P St. NW, Suite 330
Washington , DC 20036
Phone:
202.429.0033
E-mail:
wlazarus@childrenspartnership.org
Web:
http://www.childrenspartnership.org...
The partnership studies the quality and safety of digital media for children as well as advocating for equal access to digital media for all children.
Claire Lerner LICSW
Director
Parenting Resources
Zero to Three
Address:
2000 M St., NW
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.638.1144
E-mail:
clerner@zerotothree.org
Lerner is a licensed clinical social worker, child development specialist, and director of parenting information and resources at Zero To Three where she oversees development of all parenting content, including its web site and numerous publications. She is also the co-author of Zero To Three's parent books, "Learning & Growing Together" and "Bringing Up Baby." Lerner writes a regular column in American Baby Magazine on young children's behavior. She is frequently quoted in Parents Magazine, Parenting, Child Magazine and Fit Pregnancy. In addition, she has been quoted in numerous national daily newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and London Times. Lerner has been a practicing clinician for over 17 years, providing parent education and counseling services to families with children of all ages. She also trains early childhood professionals and pediatricians on early childhood development and working effectively with parents. Lerner has participated on numerous national advisory panels and task forces related to early child development. She is currently on the Council of the National Parenting Education Network and is a liaison to the American Academy of Pediatric's Committee on Early Childhood Development.
Debbie Linchesky
Media Relations Manager
Public Affairs
American Academy of Pediatrics
Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Phone:
847.434.4000
E-mail:
dlinchesky@aap.org
The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Along with its monthly scientific and continuing education journals, Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org) and Pediatrics in Review, the academy publishes patient education guides. Its Web site provides topical information on childhood health, on issues ranging from breast feeding to autism to obesity to disaster preparedness. It also posts policy statements, practice guidelines and other child health resources.
Laurie Lipper
Co-Founder
The Children's Partnership
Address:
2000 P St. NW, Suite 330
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.429.0033
E-mail:
llipper@childrenspartnership.org
Web:
http://www.childrenspartnership.org...
The partnership studies the quality and safety of digital media for children as well as advocating for equal access to digital media for all children.
Mike Livingston
Media Assistant
National Safe Kids Campaign
Address:
1301 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20004
Phone:
202.662.0600
E-mail:
mlivingston@safekids.org
Web:
http://www.safekids.org...
The campaign is dedicated to the prevention of unintentional childhood injury, the number one killer of children ages 14 and under.
Daniel Macallair
Executive Director
Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Address:
54 Dore St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone:
415.621.5661, ext. 310
E-mail:
dmacallair@cjcj.org
Web:
http://www.cjcj.org/index.php...
Macallair is the co-founder of the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice. His expertise is in the development and analysis of correctional policy for youth and adult offenders. He has implemented model programs throughout the country. His programs have received national recognition and were cited as exemplary models by the United States Department of Justice and Harvard University's Innovations in American Government program. He authored a 1999 study on youth curfew.
Elizabeth Marquardt
Affiliate Scholar
Institute for American Values
Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023
Phone:
212.246.3942
E-mail:
info@americanvalues.org
Web:
http://www.americanvalues.org...
Marquardt authored a study about the effect of divorce on children. She currently is researching and writing a book on the moral and spiritual lives of children of divorce.
Patrick McCarthy
Vice President
Ssytem and Service Reform
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Address:
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone:
410.223.2852
E-mail:
media@aecf.org
Web:
www.aecf.org...
McCarthy oversees the foundation's work in income security; child welfare; general, reproductive and mental health; substance abuse; juvenile justice; education; and early childhood and youth development.
Joe S. McIlhaney Jr. M.D.
Founder, Chairman
The Medical Institute
Address:
1101 S. Capital of TX Highway
Building B, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746
Phone:
512.328.6268
E-mail:
dcampos-nemoto@medinstitute.org
Web:
http://www.medinstitute.org/...
The Medical Institute is designed to confront the world epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data. Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
Matthew Melmed
Executive Director
Zero to Three
Address:
2000 M St. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.638.1144
E-mail:
mmelmed@zerotothree.org
Web:
http://www.zerotothree.org...
Matthew Melmed is the executive director of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families in Washington, D.C. The nonprofit promotes healthy development of infants and toddlers by strengthening and supporting parents, professionals, programs and policymakers. Under Melmed’s leadership, Zero to Three established the Early Head Start National Resource Center that provides training and technical assistance to more than 700 new Early Head Start programs nationwide. The organization also initiated a national public awareness campaign for parents on the importance of the early years and forged strong partnerships with corporate partners. In December 2001, Worth Magazine named Zero to Three one of the United States’ 100 best charities. Before Melmed came to Zero to Three nine years ago, he was the executive director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harpur College, State University of New York (SUNY)-Binghamton; he earned his law degree at SUNY-Buffalo.
Wanda Miller
Executive Director
National Association of School Nurses/Eastern Office
Address:
Box 1300
Scarborough, ME 04070
Phone:
207.883.2117
E-mail:
wmiller@nasn.org
The association works to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students.
Alicia Moag-Stahlberg M.S.
Executive Director
Action for Healthy Kids
Address:
4711 Golf Road, Suite 806
Skokie, IL 60076
Phone:
847.329.1803
E-mail:
alicia@actionforhealthykids.org
Web:
http://www.actionforhealthykids.org...
Moag-Stahlberg is a registered dietician and an adjunct clinical instructor at Northwestern University Medical School’s Department of Preventive Medicine. She also served as director for the U.S. National Dietary Data Center/U.S. Country Nutritionist for INTERMAP, a study on diet, nutrition and blood pressure.
Ann Morse
Program Manager
The Immigrant Policy Project
National Conference of State Legislatures
Address:
444 North Capitol Street, N.W., Suite 515
Washington, DC 20001
Phone:
202.624.8697
E-mail:
ann.morse@ncsl.org
William O'Hare Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
KIDS COUNT
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Address:
701 St. Paul St.
Baltimore, MD 21202
Phone:
410.547.6600, Ext. 2049
E-mail:
WOhare@aecf.org
Web:
http://www.kidscount.org...
O’Hare is a senior fellow at Casey and a visiting senior fellow at the University of New Hampshire’s Carsey Institute. At Casey, he has worked on Kids Count, a national and state-by-state effort that tracks the status and well-being of U.S. children, since 1990. He directed the project from 1993 to 2006. At Carsey, he joins in policy research on youth and working families in small cities and rural communities. Earlier, the social demographer directed policy studies at the Population Reference Bureau in Washington, D.C., and population and policy research at the University of Louisville’s Urban Studies Institute. O’Hare has testified before Congress on issues related to measurements of poverty and race. He has served on an advisory committee to the U.S. Census Bureau and as president of the Southern Demographic Association.
David Osher
Managing Research Scientist and Director
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
American Institutes for Research, Pelavin Research Center
Address:
1000 Thomas Jefferson St. N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20007
Phone:
202.944.5373
E-mail:
dosher@air.org
Craig Palosky
Communications Officer
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Address:
1300 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.347.5270
E-mail:
cpalosky@kff.org
Web:
www.kff.org...
An independent philanthropy focused on major health care issues, the foundation runs research and communications programs. Its work includes health policy; media and public health, and health insurance. For its resources on child and family health coverage, including a link to state-by-state coverage initiatives, see http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu051607pkg.cfm For state-level data, see www.statehealthfacts.org
Lynn Parker
Director, Child Nutrition Programs and Nutritional
Food Research and Action Center (FRAC)
Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 540
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.986.2200 (main)
E-mail:
lparker@frac.org
The national nonprofit organization works to improve public policies and public-private partnerships to eradicate hunger and poor nutrition in the United States. FRAC collaborates with national, state and local nonprofits, public agencies and corporations to address hunger and poverty. It coordinates the Campaign to End Childhood Hunger.
David Partenheimer
Office of Public Affairs
American Psychological Association (APA)
Address:
750 First St. N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Phone:
202.336.5700
E-mail:
dpartenheimer@apa.org
The American Psychological Association (APA) is the largest scientific and professional organization representing psychology in the United States and is the world's largest association of psychologists. APA's media referral service will connect reporters to adolescent mental health experts throughout the country. It also created a brochure to alert young people to the "Warning Signs of Youth Violence."
Terry Portis
Executive Director
SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People)
E-mail:
tportis@hearingloss.org
SHHH is the nation’s largest organization for people with hearing loss. According to 2003 CDC data, every day in the U.S., approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns (or 33 babies every day) is born profoundly deaf with another 2-3 out of 1,000 babies born with partial hearing loss.
Suzanne Ripley
Vice President and Director
Academy for Educational Development
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)
Address:
P.O. Box 1492
Washington, DC 20013-1492
Phone:
202.884.8200
E-mail:
sripley@aed.org
Web:
http://www.nichcy.org/...
NICHCY is an information clearinghouse that provides information, referrals and publications on disabilities and disability-related issues, particularly those involving youth. Ripley advises families and educators on how best to serve children with special needs. Her focuses include special education, the rights of disabled children and early intervention.
Jennifer Rodriguez
Legislative and Policy Coordinator
California Youth Connection
Address:
604 Mission St., Ninth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105
Phone:
415.442.5060, Ext. 21
E-mail:
jennar22@hotmail.com
Web:
http://www.calyouthconn.org...
Rodriguez is the legislative and policy coordinator for the California Youth Connection (CYC), a nonprofit advocacy organization of current and former foster youth. CYC has 22 county-based chapters and over 400 members. It works on the local, state and national levels to educate legislators and policymakers about how policies and programs affect foster youth. As a former foster youth with years of placement in group homes and institutions, Rodriguez has both personal and professional experience with the issues facing foster children. She was emancipated from foster care to homelessness without a high school diploma, job skills or any adult support. After receiving a G.E.D. and vocational training, Rodriguez graduated in 2001 from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor’s degree in sociology with high honors. She now attends law school at UC Davis.
Roger Rosenthal
Executive Director
The Migrant Legal Action Program
Address:
2001 S Street, NW Suite 310
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.462.7744
E-mail:
HN1645@handsnet.org
The Migrant Legal Action Program (MLAP) is a national advocacy center which provides legal representation to and works on behalf of indigent migrant and seasonal farmworkers. MLAP works to enforce rights and to improve public policies affecting farmworkers' working and housing conditions, education, health, nutrition, and general welfare.
Lois Salisbury
Director
Children, Families and Communities
David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Address:
300 Second St., Suite 200
Los Altos, CA 94022
Phone:
650.948.7658
E-mail:
cfc@packard.org
Web:
www.packfound.org...
The Los Altos, Calif.-based foundation’s Families and Communities Program supports quality early education for all children, especially those in California. It promotes two other goals: implementing after-school programs for all California students in elementary and middle schools and expanding health insurance access to all children.
Tom Salyers
Communications Director
Zero to Three
Address:
2000 M Street, NW, Ste 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.857.2608
E-mail:
tsalyers@zerotothree.org
The national nonprofit organization supports the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. It publishes research-based information on best practices and the latest developments in the field for professionals. Hallmark publications include the bimonthly Zero to Three Journal and a text on the first developmentally based system for diagnosing mental health and developmental disorders in infants and toddlers. Since Early Head Start’s inception in 1995, Zero to Three has operated the program’s national resource center.
Richard Sarles M.D.
President
The American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Address:
3615 Wisconsin Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone:
202.966.7300
AACAP represents more than 7,400 child and adolescent psychiatrists nationwide. Representatives will put journalists in touch with experts on a range of child development and mental health issues.
Ann L. Schrader
Executive Director
Colorado Chapter
Federations of Families for Children's Mental Health (FFCMH)
Address:
901 W. 14th Ave., Suite 1
Denver, CO 80204
Phone:
303.572.0302
E-mail:
a_Schrader@coloradofederation.org
Web:
http://www.coloradofederation.org...
Ann Schrader is executive director of the Colorado chapter of the Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health, a group that helps families with support and advocacy on mental health issues. Before joining the federation, Schrader was founding director of the Victim Offender Reconciliation Program of Denver, in which she worked to help juveniles take responsibility and make amends for their crimes and/or offenses. She also has worked as a vocational rehabilitation counselor and university instructor, and is author of a family cookbook. In addition to her professional experience in the mental health field, Schrader has faced challenges in her personal life similar to those faced by families with whom she works. Schrader has a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from the University of Northern Colorado and a master’s degree in religion, pastoral care and counseling from the Iliff School of Theology in Denver.
Allison Seale
Communications Manager
Hamilton Fish Institute
Address:
12031 Hoffman Street N3
Studio City, CA 91604
Phone:
818.505.1942
E-mail:
aliseal@aol.com
Web:
http://www.hamfish.org/...
The Institute is a national resource to test the effectiveness of school violence prevention methods and to develop more effective strategies. The institute can connect reporters with multidisciplinary researchers across the country who test violence prevention programs in urban, rural and suburban schools.
Annetta Seecharran
Executive Director
South Asian Youth Action
Address:
54-05 Seabury St.
Elmhurst, NY 11373
Phone:
718.651.3484
E-mail:
annetta@saya.org
Annetta Seecharran is the executive director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), a community-based organization dedicated to creating social change and opportunities to help South Asian youth realize their fullest potential. Prior to joining SAYA! she spent five years at the International Youth Foundation, serving as program manager for YouthNet International, a network of youth development organizations in over 30 countries. Seecharran also founded YouthActionNet, a global initiative promoting youth social entrepreneurship. In addition to her extensive work with youth in New York City’s African American and Latino communities, she has worked with abandoned and disabled children in India and coordinated after-school programs in Poland. She serves on the boards of directors of the New York Immigration Coalition, Peoples Production House, and The Rajkumari Center for Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture. Seecharran also advises numerous initiatives serving immigrants. She earned a master’s degree in international political economy and development at Fordham University, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manhattanville College, and executive management certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School.
Eric Sigmon
Immigration Program Assistant
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children
Address:
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.347.3507
E-mail:
NationalCenter@uscridc.org
Web:
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1260&subm=...
The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children provides pro bono legal and social services to unaccompanied children released from detention in the United States. Sigmon provides support by reviewing and processing case referrals, matching children with pro bono attorneys, and coordinating the pro bono trainings.
Alvaro Simmons
Chief operating officer
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care
Address:
2333 Ontario Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
Phone:
202.483.8196
E-mail:
ASimmons@maryscenter.org
Alvaro Simmons has served as Mary's Center's chief operating officer since early 2006. The center, established in 1988, serves families and individuals in metro Washington, D.C., who have limited or no access to health-related services. Alvaro has 18 years experience in the health care field, in addition to nearly 20 years as an educator in New York public schools and colleges. In his professional roles at various medical centers and hospitals, Alvaro has led multiple units working toward the best health care of patients in obstetrics, drug use treatment, mental health, and adolescent health units. For the past six years, Alvaro has worked in federally qualified health centers while leading the organizations to comply with FQHC regulations.
Rakesh Singh
Communications Officer
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Address:
1300 G St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.347.5270
E-mail:
rsingh@kff.org
An independent philanthropy focused on major health care issues, the foundation runs research and communications programs. Its work includes health policy; media and public health, and health insurance. For its resources on child and family health coverage, including a link to state-by-state coverage initiatives, see http://www.kff.org/medicaid/kcmu051607pkg.cfm For state-level data, see www.statehealthfacts.org
Executive Director
Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.
Address:
915 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.783.1112
E-mail:
mspeers@aahrpp.org
Web:
http://www.aahrpp.org/www.aspx...
Dr. Speers served as Acting Executive Director at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she oversaw the development of "Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants." AAHRPP offers accreditation to institutions that conduct or review research with human participants.
Peter Sybinsky Ph.D.
CEO
Association of Maternal and Child Health Programs
Address:
1220 19th Street, N.W., Suite 801
Washington, DC 20036
Phone:
202.775.0436
E-mail:
psybinsky@amchp.org
Web:
http://www.amchp.org/index.htm...
AMCHP represents state public health leaders and others working to improve the health and well-being of women, children, youth and families, including those with special health care needs. Collectively, its members manage public health programs that serve more than 27 million women, children and youth.
Joe Theissen
Vice President for Policy and Government Affairs
Voices for America’s Children
Address:
1000 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.289.0777
E-mail:
theissen@voices.org
Web:
http://www.voicesforamericaschildren.org/Template....
Theissen leads federal lobbying efforts for Voices, a nonpartisan, national organization committed to speaking out for the well-being of children at the federal, state and local levels of government. It represents member organizations in nearly every state, as well as the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Before joining Voices in spring 2007, he was special assistant to the president for the Points of Light Foundation. Contact Halle Czechowski, vice president for communication, at 202.380.1781 or czechowski@voices.org.
Donna Thompson Ph.D.
Director
National Program for Playground Safety
Address:
University of Northern Iowa
Phone:
800.554.7529
E-mail:
donna.thompson@uni.edu
Web:
http://www.playgroundsafety.org/home.htm...
The National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) conducts research on playground safety. Thompson has been certified as a playground safety inspector by the National Recreation and Parks Association.
Carl Tubbesing
Deputy Director, D.C. headquarters
National Conference of State Legislatures
Phone:
202.624.5400
E-mail:
carl.tubbesing@ncsl.org
Web:
www.ncsl.org...
The bipartisan organization serves legislators and staffs. Its experts – on subjects from child well-being and social services to family economic success to immigration – can identify trends, and its Web site suggests story ideas.
Stephanie Ventura
Senior Demographer and Chief, Reproductive Statistics Branch
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Phone:
301.458.4547
E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov
James Wagoner
President
Advocates for Youth
Address:
2000 M St. NW, Suite 750
Washington, DC 20005
Phone:
202.419.3420
E-mail:
questions@advocatesforyouth.org
Web:
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org/...
Advocates for Youth is a national organization that creates programs and supports policies to help young people make safe, responsible decisions about sex.
Pam Willenz
Manager of Public Affairs
750 First St. N.E.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Address:
750 First St. N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Phone:
202.336.5707
E-mail:
public.affairs@apa.org
Jim Wood
Director Development and Communications
American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP)
Address:
3615 Wisconsin Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20016
Phone:
202.966.7300, ext. 120
E-mail:
jwood@aacap.org
AACAP provides timely responses to current events involving or affecting children and adolescents. AACAP also provides updates on Academy activities and reports on the latest research findings in child and adolescent mental illnesses as published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Director, Health Communications
Division of Violence Prevention, National Center for Injury Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
4770 Buford Highway N.E., MS K-60
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone:
770.488.4277
E-mail:
pabamonte@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc and http://www.safeyouth...
Abamonte directs health communications within the Division of Violence Prevention at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The division serves as the federal government’s primary health resource in the epidemiology, statistics, prevention and control of violence-related injuries and deaths. Abamonte has extensive professional experience in the design and implementation of public health initiatives. He has been a member of the CDC’s Bio-Terrorism Response Team. Abamonte is a criminologist by training and a behavioral scientist in practice with degrees in political science and criminology.
Duane Alexander M.D.
Director
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
National Institutes of Health
Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.496.5133
E-mail:
da43@nih.gov
Web:
http://www.nationalchildrensstudy.gov/events/ncsac...
Dr. Alexander is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, most of which relate to his research in developmental disabilities. He was also instrumental in the founding of the journal Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health. It sponsors research on development before and after birth; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.
Christine Bachrach Ph.D.
Chief
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Address:
Executive Building, Room 8B13E
6100 Executive Blvd., MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.496.1174
E-mail:
cbachrach@nih.gov
Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/...
The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is within the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Bachrach's areas of research include: Fertility; sexual behavior; adolescent health; marriage, co-habitation, and divorce; adoption; abortion; immigration and migration; population composition and projection; formal demography; family formation and structure; inter-generational demography.
S. Kimberly Belshe
Secretary
California Health and Human Services Agency
Address:
1600 Ninth Street, Suite 460
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone:
916.654.3345
Web:
http://www.chhs.ca.gov/...
Robert Bock
Press Officer
Department of Health and Human Services
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Address:
Bldg 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892-2425
Phone:
301.496.5133
E-mail:
bockr@mail.nih.gov
W. Alan Coulter Ph.D.
Project Director
National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring
Phone:
504.556.7559
E-mail:
acoulter@lsuhsc.edu
Web:
http://www.monitoringcenter.lsuhsc.edu/aboutus.htm...
NCSEAM), also known as the National Monitoring Center, is federally funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education to assist states, local agencies, and OSEP in the implementation of focused monitoring and evidenced-based decision-making about compliance with federal law so that improved results are achieved for children with disabilities and their families. NCSEAM is housed at the Human Development Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
William Dietz Ph.D.
Director, Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity
National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
4770 Buford Highway N.E., MSK-24
Atlanta, GA 30341
Phone:
770.488.6042
E-mail:
wcd4@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/bb_nutrition/index.htm...
Dietz specializes in childhood obesity. A nutritionist, he is the author of over 150 publications in the scientific literature, and the editor of three books, including "Policy Tools for the Childhood Obesity Epidemic" (2002) and "The American Academy of Pediatrics Guide to Your Child’s Nutrition," (1998). He is an honorary member of the American Dietetic Association and received the Holroyd-Sherry award for his outstanding contributions to the field of children, adolescents and the media.
Gerard Donovan
Sergeant
Family Services Unit
New Castle County Police
Address:
87 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720
Phone:
302.395.7760
E-mail:
GDonovan@co.new-castle.de.us
Donovan is a 12-year veteran of the New Castle County (Del.) Police, and since 1995 has worked in the Domestic Violence Unit, the past two years as its commander. Donovan has conducted training seminars throughout the United States on domestic violence and abuse, and the relationship between domestic violence and other crises; his work on the latter was the model for a statewide program for hostage negotiators in California. Donovan helped produce two videos on domestic abuse, one to enhance public awareness, the other to standardize the way police investigate domestic violence calls. The federally funded videos were distributed throughout the United States and abroad. Donovan is also the commander of the department's Crisis Negotiation Team.
Maureen Dunn
Division Director
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)
Division of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)
Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20447
Phone:
202.401.5709
E-mail:
MDunn@acf.hhs.gov
Web:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/mission/ducs....
DUCS, in accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, assumes responsibility for care and placement of unaccompanied alien children. It also consults with appropriate child welfare professionals and the Department of Homeland Security. It develops placement policy, decisions and recommendations to ensure that children are receiving appropriate care.
Katherin Galatas
Communications Officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Address:
1600 Clifton Road
Atlanta, GA 30333
Phone:
404.639.3286
E-mail:
katherine.galatas@cdc.hhs.gov
Web:
www.cdc.gov...
The CDC covers the spectrum of child and youth disease prevention and health issues. It provides information on birth defects; vaccination; nutrition, overweight and obesity; reproductive and sexual health; and disease outbreaks or threats. Its Web site offers state fact sheets on healthy youth (see http://www.cdc.gov/healthyyouth/profiles/facts.htm).
Kay Garvey
Director, Office of Communications
Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Address:
P.O. Box 10809
Rockville, MD 20849
Phone:
301.443.3376
E-mail:
nyvprc@safeyouth.org
Established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications research and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens, the center is a partnership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. It collects information on youth violence and risks such as unsafe driving and alcohol use among teens and college students.
Blair Gately
Press Officer
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services
Address:
6001 Executive Blvd
Rockville, MD 20852
Phone:
301.594.6145
E-mail:
bg130m@nih.gov
Web:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html...
NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.
Roque Gerald
Deputy Director
Office of Clinical Practice
Child and Family Services Agency
Address:
400 Sixth St.SW, Suite 4000
Washington, DC 20024
Phone:
200.727.2388
E-mail:
roque.gerald@dc.gov
Web:
www.cfsa.dc.gov...
Gerald has provided training, technical assistance and clinical consultation to private and public child welfare agencies locally and nationally. His expertise and training is in child welfare clinical service delivery.
Jay Giedd M.D.
Chief of Brain Imaging
National Institute of Mental Health
Address:
Building 10, Room 4C110
10 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892
Phone:
301.435.4517
E-mail:
GieddJ@intra.nimh.nih.gov
Web:
http://intramural.nimh.nih.gov/research/pi/pi_gied...
Shara Godiwalla
Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Phone:
301.458.4256
E-mail:
sgodiwalla@cdc.gov
Web:
http://www.childstats.gov/topiccontacts.asp...
A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2007 data, see http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov
Michael Hogan Ph.D.
Director
Ohio Department of Mental Health
Address:
30 East Broad St., Eighth Floor
Columbus, OH 43215
Phone:
614.466.2337
E-mail:
hoganm@mhmail.mh.state.oh.us
Web:
http://www.mh.state.oh.us...
Michael Hogan is director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Since joining the department 13 years ago, he has focused on moving mental health in Ohio from an institutionally oriented system to one focused on locally managed community care. President George W. Bush appointed him to chair the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; the commission concluded its work in July 2003. He is the current president of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Before taking his job in Ohio, Hogan held leadership positions with mental health agencies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In Massachusetts, he helped make the western part of the state one of the only regions in the country where people with mental retardation and mental illness are treated almost entirely in community care instead of state institutions. As commissioner of mental health in Connecticut, Hogan was credited with reducing state hospital use and costs, and expanding and improving community services. Hogan holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from Syracuse University. In 2002, Hogan was recognized with awards from the National Governor’s Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
Wade Horn Ph.D.
Director
U.S. / State Government Sector
Deloitte Consulting LLP
Address:
12010 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 500
Reston, VA 20190
Phone:
703.885.6000
Louis Kincannon
Director
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.2135
E-mail:
charles.louis.kincannon@census.gov
Web:
http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/KincannonBio.html...
President George W. Bush nominated Kincannon for director of the Census Bureau on July 27, 2001, and the Senate confirmed him unanimously on March 13, 2002. He began his career as a statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau in 1963.
Rosalind B. King Ph.D.
Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510
Phone:
301.496.1174
E-mail:
rozking@mail.nih.gov
Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/dbs.htm#staff...
King's areas of scientific responsibility include: early child development; socioeconomic contexts of child/adolescent social and physical development; research using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; infertility and fertility; adoption; work, family, and health. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
Martin O'Connell
Chief
Fertility and Family Statistics Branch
U.S. Census Bureau/Population Division
Address:
Room 2351, Building 3
Washington, DC 20233
Phone:
301.763.2406
E-mail:
martin.t.oconnell@census.gov
Web:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fa...
O’Connell is the author of many papers on fertility, child-care and demographic issues related to children, youth and families. The division collects supplemental data regarding fertility for the most current U.S. population survey.
Lynn Okagaki Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Science
Institute of Education Sciences
U.S. Department of Education
Address:
555 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20208
Phone:
202.219.2006
E-mail:
Lynn.Okagaki@ed.gov
Web:
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/cdfs/pages/fac_staff/oka...
Okagaki is deputy director for science at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. She is a developmental psychologist who was professor of Child Development and Family Studies and associate dean of the School of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University. Her research has focused on parenting and minority children’s school achievement and on the socialization of children’s values.
.Kenneth Olden Ph.D.
Director
National Toxicology Program
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Address:
P.O. Box 12233
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2233
Phone:
919.541.3201
E-mail:
olden@niehs.nih.gov
Web:
http://www.niehs.nih.gov/od/...
Kenneth Olden, Ph.D., Sc.D., L.H.D., was named as the third director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) and the second director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP) on June 18, 1991, by Dr. Louis Sullivan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is the first African-American to become director of one of the 18 institutes of the National Institutes of Health during the history of the agency. Dr. Olden is a cell biologist and biochemist by training, and has been active in research into the properties of cell surface molecules and their possible roles in cancer for more than two decades. He was director of the Howard University Cancer Center and professor and chairman of the Department of Oncology at Howard University Medical School (1985-1991), Washington, D.C., before coming to NIEHS. He joined Howard in 1979 as Associate Director for Research after a stint at the National Institutes of Health, first as a senior staff fellow, then expert, then research biologist in the Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, National Cancer Institute. Ken Olden was born in Parrottsville, TN. He earned his bachelor's degree in biology from Knoxville College, his master's degree at the University of Michigan, and his doctoral degree from Temple University, with research done at the University of Rochester. He held postdoctoral fellowships and then was a Macy Faculty Fellow as an instructor at Harvard Medical School before joining NIH. The NIEHS/NTP director has served on the editorial boards of cancer and cell biology journals, is a member of a number of professional societies, and was named by President Bush to the National Cancer Advisory Board in January 1991. He has participated widely as an invited speaker at scientific symposia and seminars, as a reviewer for programs in his field, and has authored and co-authored more than 130 publications. He published two of the "One Hundred Most Cited" papers in 1978-1979, and one on the subject of cancer cell biology is now deemed a "Citation Classic." One of Dr. Olden's recent research interests, the anti-cancer drug Swainsonine, is proposed as a colony stimulating factor in the treatment of cancer. It was approved June 3, 1991, by the Decision Network of the Treatment Division of the National Cancer Institute for its list of drugs for "high priority development" for possible clinical trials in humans. Dr. Olden's laboratory made several seminal contributions to cell and cancer biology. He was the first to demonstrate that carbohydrate moieties of secretory glycoproteins are not required for their export or secretion. This finding reversed the dogma that had been in existence for more than 15 years. Dr. Olden was the first to demonstrate that the "bulk-flow" or "conveyor-belt" model of intracellular transport or externalization of secretory proteins was incorrect. These studies showed that such proteins are exported at discrete rates, consistent with the existence of specific pathways or mechanisms. Also, Dr. Olden was the first to demonstrate that one could prevent organ specific metastasis of malignant cells by blocking the specific interaction between fibronectin and the integrin receptor. Dr. Olden is considered among the world's leading experts on the structure and function of the extracellular matrix glycoprotein fibronectin. As a result of Dr. Olden's outstanding contributions, he was elected to membership in the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences in 1994, he won the City of Medicine Award in 1996, and, in 1997, he was presented an inaugural award for public policy leadership in protecting health and the environment by the National Association of Physicians for the Environment. In addition, he was the recipient of the Presidential Distinguished Executive Rank Award and the Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award in 1997 and 1996 respectively. Dr. Olden has also received the NIH Quality of Life Award and the NIH Quality of Work Life Award for outstanding efforts to improve the quality of work life for NIH employees. More recently, he was inducted into the Academy of Toxicological Sciences and was honored at the Jubilation Concert 2000 by the Children's Health Environment Coalition for Leadership Role in Children's Environmental Health Research.
Joy D. Osofsky Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health & Psychiatry and Direc
Violence Intervention Program
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Address:
1542 Tulane Ave., Room 315F
Phone: 504-568-4450 Fax: 504-568-6246 E-mail: josofs@lsuhsc.edu Web: www.m
New Orleans, LA 70112
Phone:
504.568.4450
E-mail:
josofs@lsuhsc.edu
Web:
http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/vip...
Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D., is a professor of public health and psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans and adjunct professor of psychology at the University of New Orleans. She is director of the Violence Intervention Program for Children and Families and the Harris Center for Infant Mental Health in New Orleans. She is editor of “Children in a Violent Society” (Wiley, 1997), two editions of the “Handbook of Infant Development” (Wiley, 1979; 1987), and most recently, co-editor of the four-volume “WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health” that received the American Publishers Association award as the best social science reference book in 2000. In 1995, she published an article, “The Effects of Violence Exposure in Young Children” (American Psychologist, 1995) that was chosen by the American Psychological Association as one of the top articles published in this journal in the past 50 years. She is past president of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, on the Research Committee of the International Psychoanalytic Association, and vice president of the Board of Directors of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families. Osofsky has conducted research, intervention and clinical work with infants, children, and families at high psychosocial risk, including those exposed to violence. She received her bachelor’s, master’s and doctorate degrees in psychology from Syracuse University and received her psychoanalytic training at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
Thomas Sweeney
Public Affairs Director
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Indian Health Service
Address:
801 Thompson Ave., Ste. 400
Rockville, MD 20852-1627
Phone:
301.443.3593
E-mail:
thomas.sweeney@ihs.gov
Web:
www.ihs.gov...
HIS’ mission is to raise the physical, mental, social and spiritual health of American Indians and Alaska natives to the highest level. IHS has fact sheets on Indian populations, health disparities, diabetes, collaboration with states, and more.
Mark Tolbert
Deputy Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau
Phone:
301.763.8327
E-mail:
mark.tolbert.iii@census.gov
Web:
http://www.census.gov/...
The Census Bureau serves as the leading source of data about the nation's people and economy.
Stephanie J. Ventura Ph.D.
Chief, Reproductive Statistics
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782
Phone:
301.458.4547
E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov
Mark Weber
Director, Office of Communications
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Health and Human Services
Address:
P.O. Box 10809
Rockville, MD 20849
Phone:
301.443.8956
E-mail:
nyvprc@safeyouth.org
Web:
http://www.safeyouth.org ...
Established as a central source of information on prevention and intervention programs, publications research and statistics on violence committed by and against children and teens, the center is a partnership of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal agencies. It collects information on youth violence and risks such as unsafe driving and alcohol use among teens and college students.
Kenneth Wolfe
ACF Acting Deputy Director
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201
Phone:
202.401.9215
E-mail:
kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov
Web:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html...
ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, and fatherhood and marriage.
Gardenia Wright
Social Worker
Special Education
Richmond County Board of Education
Address:
3114 Lake Forest Dr., Building 309
Augusta, GA 30909
Phone:
706.731.8787
E-mail:
AlstonAmie@knology.net
Gardenia C. Wright, MSW, is a school social worker in Richmond County, Ga. She works with special needs students, serving as a link between the home, school and community to insure these students receive the maximum services and benefits from their educational experience. Wright received her bachelor's degree in social work from Columbia College in Columbia, S.C., and her master's degree in social work from the University of Georgia. She has been a social worker for 22 years, working in medical, mental health and other community settings. Wright has spoken at numerous conferences on issues related to children and families. She has held several offices in professional social work organizations, and was 2000-2001 president of the School Social Workers Association of Georgia.
Leah Young
Director of Media Services
Office of Communications
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
Address:
1 Choke Cherry Road, Room 8-1035
Rockville, MD 20857
Phone:
240.276.2130
E-mail:
Leah.Young@SAMHSA.HHS.gov
Web:
http://modelprograms.samhsa.gov/template.cfm?page=...
SAMHSA's mission is to build resilience and facilitate recovery for people with or at risk for substance abuse and mental illness. The Web site offers stats, trends and data.
