MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

 

  

Task Force on Mental Health
U.S. Department of Defense
http://www.ha.osd.mil/dhb/mhtf/MHTF-Report-Final.pdf

Its June 2007 report assesses the military's mental health services and recommends improvement. A key finding of the 100-page report: Neither troops nor their families receive adequate mental health care from the military. It set four goals: establishing a culture of support; providing a full continuum of excellent care; providing sufficient resources; and developing visible and empowered leaders in promoting psychological care.

 

 

Juvenile Justice: National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice
http://virlib.ncjrs.org/JuvenileJustice.asp

The site features data, trends and reports on topics such as adjudication of juvenile cases, crime in schools, female juvenile delinquents, gangs, curfews, juvenile sex offenders and more. 

 

 

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nichd.nih.gov

NICHD conducts and supports research on children, adults, families and specific populations. Its research touches all aspects of child health, from reproductive health to growth and development. NICHD is leading the National Children's Study, which is following 100,000 children from birth to age 21 to determine how their genes and environments interact to affect health and development. The first results aren't expected until at least 2010. Contact: Robert Bock, press officer, 301.496.5133; bockr@mail.nih.gov

 

 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://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
Contact: press office, 404.639.3286; in.the.news@cdc.gov 

 

 

National Center for Injury Prevention and Control
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

Its Division of Violence Prevention provides statistics and background on child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, suicide and youth violence. 

 

 

Indian Health Service
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.ihs.gov/

IHS’ 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. Contact: Thomas Sweeney, public affairs director, 301.443.3593; Thomas.Sweeney@ihs.gov 

 

 

Monitoring the Future
University of Michigan
http://www.monitoringthefuture.org/data/data.html

Each year since 1975, researchers have surveyed a nationwide sample of high school seniors regarding smoking, drinking, and illicit drug use. Since 1991, the project has also included nationwide samples of eighth-graders and sophomores. In addition, annual follow-up surveys are mailed to a sample of each graduating class for a number of years after their initial participation. 

 

 

American School Counselor Association
http://www.schoolcounselor.org/

The association supports school counselors' efforts to help students focus on academic, personal/social and career development. ASCA provides professional development, publications and other resources, research and advocacy to more than 23,000 professional school counselors worldwide. It's in Alexandria, Va. Contact: Kathleen Rakestraw, communications director, 703.864.8734; krakestraw@schoolcounselor.org

 

 

Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
http://childstats.gov

A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on education, family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, behavior, physical environment and safety. It releases the "America's Children" report each July. For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov

 

 

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.samhsa.gov/

SAMHSA is the lead federal agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention, addiction treatment and mental health services. Its Web site has stats, data and other resources.

 

Office of National Drug Control Policy
Executive Office of the President
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/index.html

The principal goals of ONDCP are to reduce illicit drug use, manufacturing, and trafficking, drug-related crime and violence, and drug-related health consequences. The ONDCP Web site contains relevant facts, figures and links. 

 

Laurie Cardona, Chief of Psychology
Child Study Center, Yale University
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520
203.785.3372; laurie.cardona@yale.edu
Cardona is also the director of the Yale Child Study Center Psychological Assessment Service, the Chief Psychologist at Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service, and Co-Director of the Child Study Center Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service. She conducts various clinical and training activities within Yale-New Haven Hospital. Her major areas of interest include school psychology, group therapy and pediatric psychology

 

 

J. Lawrence Aber Ph.D., Professor of Applied Psychology
Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
New York, NY 10053
212.998.5410; la39@nyu.edu
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). 

 

 

Joseph P. Allen Ph.D., Director
Virginia Adolescence Research Group, University of Virginia
Gilmer Hall, Room 102
Charlottesville, VA 22903
804.982.4727; allen@virginia.edu
The group conducts longitudinal studies that examine the influence of social relationships on adolescent development. Allen's research focuses on adolescent social development, family relations, peer relations & problematic behaviors (ranging from delinquency and teen pregnancy to depression and anxiety). Specific topics of Allen's research include: development of peer influence and peer pressure in adolescence; prevention of teen pregnancy; and development of autonomy and relatedness in adolescent social interactions. 

 

 

Paula Allen-Meares Ph.D.
1080 S. University, 4728 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.764.5347; pameares@umich.edu
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.

 

 

Lisa Amaya-Jackson Ph.D., Associate Director
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress, Duke University Medical School
P.O. Box 3613
Durham, NC 27710
919.682.1552, Ext. 253; laj@acpub.duke.edu
Amaya-Jackson also is an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the medical school. Her research involves psychological trauma and exposure to violence -- particularly risk factors, protective factors and treatment effects. She's interested in psychopharmacology and psychotherapy for children and adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder and related problems. The traumatic stress center, a joint program of Duke and UCLA, coordinates the National Child Traumatic Stress Network. 

 

 

Arthur Anastopoulos Ph.D., Associate Professor Dept of Psychology
UNC-Greensboro
278 Bruce M. Eberhart Bldg
Greensboro, NC 27412
336.256.0006; ada@uncg.edu
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
W112 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3180
515.294.3118;caa@iastate.edu
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.

 

 

Morris Ardoin, Director of Communications and Public Affairs
Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University
National Center for Children in Poverty
215 W. 125th St., 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9616; ardoin@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)

 

 

Jeffrey Jensen Arnett Ph.D., Research Professor
Department of Psychology
Clark University

950 Main St.
Worcester, MA 01610
508.799.2834;arnett@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
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033
212.960.5400; asch@yu.edu
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. 

 

 

Catherine Ayoub, Associate Professor of Education, Co-Director
Risk and Prevention Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education
613 Larsen Hall, 711 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.496.1183; catherine_ayoub@gse.harvard.edu
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.

 

 

Don Bailey, Director and Senior Scientist
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Campus Box 8180, 105 Smith Level Rd.
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
919.966.4250; Don_Bailey@unc.edu
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. 

 

 

Robert Balfanz, Associate Research Scientist
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Social Organization of Schools
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
410.516.8800; rbalfanz@csos.jhu.edu
Balfanz's translates research findings into effective reforms for high-poverty secondary schools. He has published widely on secondary school reform, high school dropouts, and instructional interventions in high-poverty schools. Recent work includes "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with co-author Nettie Legters, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified. In addition, Balfanz is co-director of the Talent Development High School with Career Academies, a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores, and dropout rates.

 

 

Rosalind Barnett, Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454
781.736.2287; rbarnett@brandeis.edu
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
Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525
206.685.2734; tbeaucha@u.washington.edu
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. 

 

 

Myron Belfer M.D., Professor
Department of Social Medicine
Harvard Medical School
641 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617.432.2114; Myron_Belfer@hms.harvard.edu
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. 

 

 

Sheryl A. Benton, Assistant Director of Training, Staff Psychologist
University Counseling Services
Kansas State University
232 English/Counseling Services Building
Manhattan, KS 66506
785.532.6927; benton@ksu.edu
Benton is an expert on college mental health trends. She trains and supervises pre-doctoral psychology interns and post-doctoral psychology fellows and provides group therapy and individual psychotherapy to students. 

 

 

Fred Berlin M.D., Consultant
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Johns Hopkins University
410.955.4150; fredsberlinmd@comcast.net
Berlin is the founder of the Johns Hopkins Sexual Disorders Clinic and director of the National Institute for the Study, Prevention and Treatment of Sexual Trauma. In his clinical practice, Berlin specializes in the evaluation and treatment of adults and adolescents with psychosexual disorders including pedophilia, voyeurism and exhibitionism. He also treats patients suffering from sexual trauma. Berlin's published research has focused on reducing sexual offenses through cognitive-behavioral therapies and medication. 

 

 

David Bickham Ph.D., Research Scientist
Center on Media and Child Health
Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
617.355.2000; cmch@childrens.harvard.edu
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
1 University Station A8000
Austin , TX 78712-0187
512.471.6261; bigler@psy.utexas.edu
The Gender and Racial Atittudies 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. 

 

 

Bruce Black M.D., Director
Comprehensive Psychiatric Associates
372 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
781.239.3550
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
615 N. Wolfe St., Suite E4527
Baltimore, MD 21205
410.955.3384; rblum@jhsph.edu
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
N128 Lagomarcino
Ames, IA 50011-3191
515.294.5931; wblumen@iastate.edu
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. 

 

 

Deborah Both, Senior Advisor
University Of Maryland
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE)
School of Public Policy
College Park, MD 20742
301.405.2790; dboth@excelgov.org
The Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, or CIRCLE, promotes research on the civic and political engagement of Americans between the ages of 15 and 25. Although CIRCLE conducts and funds research, not practice, the projects that it supports have practical implications for those who work to increase young people's engagement in politics and civic life. 

 

 

Kelly Botteron M.D., Associate Professor
Psychiatry
Washington University in St. Louis
Campus Box 8134
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130
314.747.6790; Botteronk@wustl.edu
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.

 

 

Danah Boyd, Researcher
School of Information
University of California
University of California, Berkeley
102 South Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4600
510.642.1464; dmb@sims.berkeley.edu
Boyd, a graduate student at UC Berkeley and a researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley, studies new media use among young people. Her dissertation looks at how youth develop a sense of individual and cultural identity in "public" online environments like LiveJournal, Xanga and MySpace. Boyd has spoken often on the topic of social networking sites. 

 

 

Carol Boyd, Director
University of Michigan
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
734.764.9537; caroboyd@umich.edu
Boyd's focus is in the study of women and substance abuse. She has several NIH-funded projects, all of which examine the relationship of gender to drug seeking and drug abuse prevention. She examined the circumstances under which women begin to use heroin and crack, but has expanded her focus to include cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs. Currently, Boyd is studying gender differences in prescription drug abuse among secondary and college students.

 

Margaret Bridges, Research Director
Child Development
UC Berkeley
2140 Shattuck #705
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.9163; 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." 

 

 

Claire D. Brindis Ph.D., Executive Director
National Adolescent Health Information Center
University of California - San Francisco
3333 California St., Box 0503
San Francisco, CA 94143
415.502.4856; brindis@itsa.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.

 

 

Kelly D. Brownell, Professor of Psychology
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders (YCEWD)
Yale University
Yale Center for Eating and Weight Disorders
P.O Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520
203.432.7790; brownell@pantheon.yale.edu
Brownell's research currently includes a number of issues related to eating disorders, obesity, and more generally, health psychology. Projects are underway on the effects of stress and depression on eating, the effects of the "toxic environment" that encourages overeating and physical inactivity, bias, prejudice, discrimination and obesity, cognitive predispositions to eating disorders, interpersonal and cognitive-behavioral treatments for eating disorders, disordered eating and body image problems in athletes, exercise and body weight regulation, and public policy as a means of changing eating and activity in the population. 

 

 

Melissa J. Brymer, Manager
School Crisis and Intervention Unit (SCIU), Terrorism and Disaster Branch
National Child Traumatic Stress Network
310.235.2633 ext. 227; mbrymer@mednet.ucla.edu
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. 

 

 

Cynthia Bulik Ph.D., William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Program
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
10505 Neurosciences Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.843.1689; cbulik@med.unc.edu
Bulik is the director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program, a comprehensive treatment program for individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders. Her current research focuses on genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to eating disorders. 

 

 

Brad Bushman Ph.D., Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106
734.615.6631; 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).

 

 

David Buss Ph.D., Professor
Psychology
The University of Texas at Austin
Psychology Dept., SEA 3.228, 1 University Station
Austin, TX 78712
512.475.8489; dbuss@psy.utexas.edu
After completing his doctorate in 1981 at the University of California, Berkeley, David Buss spent four years as Assistant Professor at Harvard University. In 1985, he migrated to the University of Michigan, where he taught for 11 years before accepting his current position at the University of Texas in 1996. His primary interests include the evolutionary psychology of human mating strategies; conflict between the sexes; prestige, status, and social reputation; the emotion of jealousy; homicide; anti-homicide defenses; and stalking. 

 

 

Eric Caine M.D., Professor and Director
Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide
University of Rochester
300 Crittendon Blvd. 14642
RM 1-9021H
Rochester, NY 14642
585.275.3574; eric_caine@urmc.rochester.edu
Dr. Caine's ongoing research includes: risk factors for suicide, attempted suicide and violence, plus research in suicide prevention. 

 

Robert Casey Ph.D., Associate Research Scientist
Child Study Center
Yale School of Medicine
230 South Frontage Rd.
New Haven, CT 06520
203.785.2513; Robert.Casey@yale.edu
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.

 

 

Mark Chaffin, Director of Research
Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
P.O. Box 26901, CHO 3B3406
Oklahoma City, OK 73190
405.271.8858; mark-chaffin@ouhsc.edu
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
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001
202.334.1935; rchalk@nas.edu
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. 

 

 

Claude M. Chemtob Ph.D., Visiting Clinical Professor, Psychology and Pediatrics
Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1230
New York, NY 10029
808.780.4443
claude.chemtob@mssm.edu
Chemtob is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in trauma in adults and children. He pioneered the use of community-based interventions following disasters and terrorist attacks as well as information processing approaches to understanding trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Chemtob recently served as a consultant to the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism; he was also a consultant to the Presidential Commission of the French Republic that established France’s post-terrorism recovery system. His current research and publications focus on public health approaches to the identification and treatment of children in the wake of terrorism, natural disasters and domestic violence. Chemtob is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded collaborative between Mount Sinai and JBFCS aimed at translating evidence-based approaches to child trauma assessment and intervention to community service settings. He also directs several child recovery projects in New York City, including a program providing long-term services to the bereaved children of 9/11 and the Ground Zero Infant and Toddlers screening and treatment initiative. The treatment methods developed in the latter initiative have been disseminated to Jerusalem, Netanya and Sderot, Israel; for the past four years he has also served as the UJA Federation’s adviser on its trauma initiatives and has helped guide the development of the Israel Trauma Coalition. He received his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1980.

 

 

Marylene Cloitre Ph.D., Director
Institute of Trauma and Stress
NYU Child Study Center
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
212.263.6622; marylene.cloitre@med.nyu.edu
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. 

 

 

Joseph Cocozza Ph.D., Vice President for Research
The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System
Policy Research Associates, Inc.
345 Delaware Ave.
Delmar, NY 12054
800.311.4246; jcocozza@prainc.com
Cocozza is vice president for research with Policy Research Associates Inc. (PRA). He has worked on a number of projects, including a national survey of pre-trial forensic evaluations, a multi-site study of welfare reform and an assessment of comprehensive approaches to child and family services. Cocozza is director of the recently established National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice, located within PRA, which promotes awareness of and develops programs regarding the mental health needs of youth in the juvenile justice system. Cocozza also directs a national study, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to determine the prevalence rates and mental health service needs of justice-involved youth. He has co-directed The National GAINS Center for People with Co-Occurring Disorders in the Justice System, focused on improving the systems responsible for people with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders. Cocozza also directs the coordinating center for the federally supported, nine-site Women and Violence Study. 

 

 

Patrick Cody, NCTSN Primary Media Contact
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress
Duke University
905 W. Main St., Suite 23-D
Durham, NC 27701
202.965.0580; codycom@earthlink.net
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. 

 

 

Rebecca Collins Ph.D., Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation
1700 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138
310.393.0411, Ext. 7247; collins@rand.org
Collins studies health risk behavior. She examines associations between exposure to sexual content on television and adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, the effects of alcohol advertising on underage drinking and substance use and sexual risk behavior of young adults of people with HIV. 

 

 

Jon R. Conte Ph.D., Professor
School of Social Work
University of Washington
4101 15th Ave. NE
Seattle, WA 98195
206.543.1001; contej@u.washington.edu
Past president, American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children, a nonprofit organization that works to support and the dissemination of state-of-the-art practice in all professional disciplines related to child abuse and neglect.

 

 

David Corwin M.D., Professor and Division Chief
Child Protection and Family Health Division
Primary Children's Center for Safe and Healthy Families
University of Utah
100 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113
801.588.3650; david.corwin@ihc.com
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
60 Evergreen Place, 10th Floor
East Orange, NJ 07018
973.395.5500, ext. 301; gcosta@ycs.org
http://www.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).

 

 

Michael Cunningham, Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Tulane University
3050 Percival Stern Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118
504.862.3308; mcunnin1@tulane.edu
http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/psych/facultyPages/c...
Professor Cunningham's primary research interests include examining adolescent development in diverse contexts. Specifically, he examines resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents. 

 

 

Angela Diaz M.D., Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
320 East 94th St., Second Floor
New York, NY 10128
212.423.2900; angela.diaz@msnyhealth.org
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
195 West 12th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401
541.346.3620; tomd@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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. 

 

 

Kenneth A. Dodge Ph.D., Director
Center for Child and Family Policy
Duke University
Box 90545
302 Towerview Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0545
919.613.9334; dodge@duke.edu
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.

 

 

Joan Dodge Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate
National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
Georgetown University Child Development Center
3307 M St. N.W., Suite 401
Washington, DC 20007
202.687.5054; dodgej@georgetown.edu
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.

 

 

Bernardine Dohrn, Director
Children & Family Justice Center
Northwestern University
Law Legal Clinic
375 E. Chicago Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611
312.503.8576; cfjc@law.northwestern.edu
http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/doh...
Dohrn is the center's founding director and a clinical associate professor of law. She teaches, lectures and writes about children's law and justice as well as the international human rights. Dohrn was a member of the Expert Work Group for the Adoption 2002 Project of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the Domestic Violence Child Abuse Working Group of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the steering committee of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Committee. In the late 1960s, Dohrn was a member of the radical Weathermen group, which plotted against the U.S. government.

 

 

Elisabeth H. Donahue, Associate Editor of The Future of Children Journal
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013
609.258.0340; edonahue@Princeton.edu
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
22 South Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
410.328.8919; hdubowitz@peds.umaryland.edu
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).

 

 

Felton Earls Ph.D., Professor of Human Behavior and Development
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health
Harvard School of Public Health
1430 Massachusetts Ave., College House,
Fourth Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.5381; felton_earls@hms.harvard.edu
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/)

 

 

Jeffrey L. Edleson Ph.D., Director
Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse
University of Minnesota
105 Peters Hall, 1404 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
612.624.8795; jedleson@umn.edu
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jedleson/; http://www.minca...
Edleson is a professor in the University of Minnesota School of Social Work, where he directs the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He has published extensively on domestic violence, group work and program evaluation. Edleson has conducted intervention research at the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis for more than 16 years. He has provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in Germany, Australia, Israel, Cyprus, Korea and Singapore. He was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Violence Against Women and is a consultant to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

 

 

David Elkind, Professor and Chair
Child Development
Tufts University
Eliot Pearson Center
105 College Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
617.627.3455; david.elkind@tufts.edu
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."

 

 

Robert E. Emery Ph.D., Professor
Center for Children, Family and the Law
University of Virginia
102 Gilmer Hall, Box 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434.924.0671; ree@virginia.edu
http://www.virginia.edu/~ccfl...

The center researches trends in marriage and family life. Emery's research focuses on family conflict, divorce, family violence, legal and policy issues, divorce mediation, and the consequences of parental conflict on children Publications include "Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Readjustment" (1998), "Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation" (1994) and "The Truth About Children and Divorce" (2004).

 

 

David Fassler M.D., Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry
University of Vermont College of Medicine
C/O Otter Creek Associates, 86 Lake St.
Burlington, VT 05401
802.865.3450; David.Fassler@uvm.edu
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
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212
573.882.8913; FavazzaA@health.missouri.edu
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
340 Mondale Hall
229 19th Ave. South
Minneapolis, MN 55455
218.743.3118; bfeld@bigfork.net
http://www.law.umn.edu/facultyprofiles/feldb.html...
Feld teaches criminal procedure, juvenile law, torts, and education and law. In addition to his law degree, he holds a doctorate in sociology. He has written eight books and about 70 articles and book chapters on juvenile justice, focusing on serious young offenders, procedural justice in juvenile court, police interrogation of juveniles, youth sentencing policy and race. “Bad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court” (Oxford University Press, 1999) was named an outstanding book by the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Feld was a prosecutor in the Hennepin County (Minn.) Attorney’s Office and a co-reporter of the Minnesota Supreme Court’s Juvenile Court Rules of Procedure Advisory Committee. 

 

 

David Finkelhor Ph.D., Professor of Sociology and Director
Crimes Against Children Research Center
University of New Hampshire
20 College Rd., 126 Horton Social Sciences Center
Durham, NH 03824
603.862.2761; david.finkelhor@unh.edu
http://www.unh.edu/frl/finkelhor/...
Finkelhor researches child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence. He was one of the first people to develop estimates about the prevalence and characteristics of child sexual abuse. His recent work has focused on understanding how the nature and impact of crime and violence change as children mature. 

 

 

James Alan Fox, The Lipman Family Professor of Criminal Justice
Northeastern University
School of Criminal Justice, 400 CH
Boston, MA 02115
617.373.3296; jfox@neu.edu
http://www.jfox.neu.edu/...
An expert on multiple murder, juvenile crime, school violence, workplace violence and capital punishment, Fox has written sixteen books, including "The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder," (Allyn & Bacon, 2004) and "Extreme Killing: Understanding Serial and Mass Murder" (Sage Publications, 2005). 

 

 

Scott Frank, Associate Professor
Division of Public Health
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.368.3725; scott.frank@case.edu
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
P.O. Box 426
Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy St.
Providence, RI 02903
401.444.7573; Gregory_Fritz@brown.edu
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
Tolman Hall 3659
Berkeley, CA 94720
510.642.0709; B_FULLER@UCLINK4.Berkeley.EDU
http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/BFuller/BFuller.ht...
Fuller co-authored a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers that found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The study is called: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide." 

 

 

Donna Gaffney Ph.D., Faculty
International Trauma Studies Program
New York University
57 Winchip Road
P.O. Box 300
Summit, NJ 07901
908.464.7328; donnagaffney@verizon.net
http://www.nyu.edu/trauma.studies...
Donna A. Gaffney, DNSc., the coordinator for the Traumatic Loss Coalition in Essex County, N.J., is also on the faculty of the International Trauma Studies Program at New York University. She is currently working with families affected by the World Trade Center terrorist attacks through Project Phoenix and the Family Assistance Center of the New Jersey Department of Mental Health. Gaffney also provides post-Sept. 11 training for schools, communities and professionals. She worked with schools following the Challenger explosion and with grieving children and families following the Pan Am 103 crash in Scotland. In addition to numerous academic publications, Gaffney is the author of “The Seasons of Grief, Helping Children Grow Through Loss.” She holds a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College and master’s degrees from both Teachers College and Rutgers University. She earned her doctorate in child cognitive development at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1997 she was awarded a Prudential Fellowship for Children and The News at the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University. 

 

 

Richard Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
NYU Child Study Center
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016
212.263.6622; richard.gallagher@med.nyu.edu
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.

 

James Garbarino Ph.D., Maude C. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology; Professor
Psychology
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Road
628 Damen Hall
Chicago, IL 60626
773.508.3017; jgarbar@luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/psychology/psyfaculty/Garbarino...
Garbarino researches depression in children, child abuse, psychological maltreatment, community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention. 

 

 

Walter Gilliam, Assistant Professor
Child Study Center
Yale University
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520
203.785.3384; walter.gilliam@yale.edu
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. 

 

 

Mark Goldstein M.D., Chief
Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital
Adolescent Div, Yawkey 6C
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114
617.726.2730; mgoldstein@partners.org
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. 

 

 

Frederick Goodwin, Clinical Professor, Director on Neuroscience, Medical Progress and Society
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
George Washington University
2150 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.741.2900

 

Madelyn Gould Ph.D., Professor in Clinical Public Health
Epidemiology
Columbia University
1051 Riverside Dr, Annex 216
New York, NY
212.543.5329; msg5@columbia.edu
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
4938 Hampden Lane, Suite 229
Bethesda, MD 20814
301.657.2348; stanleygreenspanmd@comcast.net
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
55 Lake Ave. N.
Worcester, MA 01655
508.856.3625; thomas.grisso@umassmed.edu
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
91 East Concord St., Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02118
617.414.4244; betsy.groves@bmc.org
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
Child Study Center
1100 N.E. 13th St.
Oklahoma City, OK 73117
405.271.6824, Ext. 45122; robin-gurwitch@ouhsc.edu
http://www.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
622 West 113th St.
New York, NY 10025
212.854.5371; neil.guterman@columbia.edu
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.

 

 

Michael Haines M.S., Director
National Social Norms Resource Center
Northern Illinois University
National Social Norms Resource
Northern Illinois University
Dekalb, IL 60115
815.753.9745; mhaines@niu.edu
http://www.socialnorms.org/Contacts/hainesvita.php...
Haines was a certified addiction counselor and has worked in the substance abuse field since 1970. His main areas of study include social norms and teen drinking and smoking. In 1990, he and his NIU staff launched a ten-year social norms campaign that cut drinking and related harm in half. More recently, Haines was senior consultant to a community coalition that was the first to successfully use social norms to reduce teen tobacco and alcohol use. 

 

 

Diane Halpern Ph.D., Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711
909.607.9647; diane.halpern@claremontmckenna.edu
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. 

 

 

Christian Hanna, Program Director
National Farm Medicine Center
National Children's Center for Rural and Agricultural Health and Safety
1000 N. Oak Ave.
Marshfield, WI 54449
715.389.3116; neverswimalone@charter.net
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. 

 

 

J. David Hawkins Ph.D., Director
Social Development Research Group (SDRG)
University of Washington
9725 Third Ave., N.E., Suite 401
Seattle, WA 98115

206.543.7655; jdh@u.washington.edu
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. 

 

Kathryn Hirsh-Pasek Ph.D., Lefkowitz Professor of Psychology
Department of Psychology-Infant Language Laboratory
Temple University
1701 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
215.204.5243; kathryn.hirsh-pasek@temple.edu
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. 

 

Erin McNamara Horvat Ph.D., Associate Professor of Urban Education
College of Education
Temple University
215.204.8263; erin.mcnamara.horvat@temple.edu
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
Law School
EW322
Boston, MA
617.552.4377; howeru@bc.edu
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. 

 

 

Sylvia Hurtado, Professor/Director
UCLA
Higher Education Research Institute
3005 Moore Hall
Box 951521
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1521
310.825.1925; shurtado@gseis.ucla.edu
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/heri/heri.html...
The Higher Education Research Institute serves as an interdisciplinary center for research, evaluation, information, policy studies and research training in postsecondary education. HERI's research program covers a variety of topics including the outcomes of postsecondary education, leadership development, faculty performance, federal and state policy, and educational equity. Hurtado has published numerous articles and books related to her primary interest in student educational outcomes, campus climates, college impact on student development, and diversity in higher education.

 

 

Peter Jaffe Ph.D., Special Advisor on Violence Prevention
Centre for Children and Families in the Justice System
London Family Court Clinic
254 Pall Mall St., Suite 2F
London, Ontario, N6A5P6 CANAD
519.679.7250, Ext. 109; peter@lfcc.on.ca
http://www.lfcc.on.ca/index.htm...

Jaffe is the founding director for the Center for Children and Families in the Justice System and a special adviser on violence prevention for the center. The Canadian organization is a children's mental health center specializing in issues that bring children and families into the justice system. He is a member of the clinical adjunct faculty for the department of psychology and professor for the department of psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario. Most of Jaffe's clinical work and research involves children and adolescents involved with police or the courts, either as offenders or victims of family violence or custody disputes. He also works with individuals traumatized by violence in childhood or adult relationships. He has been a trustee for the London Board of Education since 1980 where he has helped develop violence prevention programs in the school system. Jaffe was a member of the federally appointed Canadian Panel on Violence Against Women. He has co-authored numerous books, chapters and articles. Jaffe's awards include the Commemorative Medal for the 125th anniversary of the confederation of Canada for his contributions to the community. His doctorate degree is in clinical psychology from the University of Western Ontario.

 

 

Michael Jellinek M.D., Chief of Child Psychiatry
Massachusetts General Hospital
WAC 725
Boston, MA 02114

617.726.2711; Mjellinek@partners.org
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)
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
847.434.4000; rjenkins@howard.edu
http://www.aap.org/...
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.

 

 

Russell Jones Ph.D., Professor
Department of Psychology
Virginia Tech University
4088-A Derring Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24060
540.231.5934; rtjones@vt.edu
http://www.psyc.vt.edu/?p=faculty&f=rtjones...
Jones and his team have studied the influence of major technological and natural disasters on children's functioning for the past 20 years. He recently completed grants assessing the impact of residential fire on children and their parents, and on injured and non-injured children following fire-related trauma. He is currently spearheading a project in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center designed to treat children following residential fire.

 

 

Brenda Jones Harden Ph.D., Assistant Professor
Institute for Child Study
University of Maryland
3304 Benjamin Bldg
College Park, MD 20740
301.405.2580; bj34@umail.umd.edu
http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/...
Brenda Jones Harden is an associate professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute for Child Study/Department of Human Development. She also directs Advocates for Children, one of the College Park Scholars’ 12 special living-learning programs for academically talented first- and second-year students. Trained as a social worker and psychologist, Jones Harden has devoted her career to practice and research relevant to children at environmental risk. Much of her work has centered on those in the child welfare system, children exposed to violence and children prenatally exposed to drugs. She has developed and evaluated interventions, including a Head Start violence prevention initiative and an Early Head Start infant mental health initiative. Jones Harden is particularly interested in the evaluation of home visiting and early intervention programs, and in using research to inform policy and practice. Her four federal research grants include the current Early Head Start initiative and another on preschool children in foster care. She has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and is the author of “Infants in the Child Welfare System” (Zero to Three, forthcoming) and co-author of “Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being and the Evidence for Policy Reform” (Transaction, 2005). In 2000-2001, Jones Harden had a Society for Research in Child Development fellowship with the federal Administration for Children, Youth and Families. She earned a master’s degree in social work at New York University and a Ph.D. in developmental-clinical psychology at Yale University. While at Yale, she studied child development and social policy as a Bush Fellow. 

 

 

Theodore Joyce, Professor of Economics
Economics and Finance
Baruch College
Box B13/ 289
One Bernard Baruch Way
New York, NY 10010

646.312.3541; Ted_Joyce@baruch.cuny.edu
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.

 

Richard Kadison M.D., Psychiatrist, Chief of Mental Health Services
University Health Services
Harvard University
75 Mt. Auburn St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.2042; rkadison@uhs.harvard.edu
http://huhs.harvard.edu/ClinicianDirectory/MentalH...
Kadison, a board certified child and adult psychiatrist, has been working in college mental health for the past 25 years. He wrote, “College of the Overwhelmed: The Campus Mental Health Crisis and What to Do About It” with co-author Theresa Foy DiGeronimo (Jossey-Bass, 2004).

 

 

Jerome Kagan Ph.D., Professor
Psychology
Harvard University
33 Kirkland St, Room 1514
Cambridge, MA 02138
617.495.3870; jk@wjh.harvard.edu
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. 

 

Alan Kazdin Ph.D., John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Director
Yale Child Conduct Clinic
Yale University

P.O. Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520
203.432.9993; Alan.Kazdin@yale.edu
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
Medical Center Boulevard
Winston-Salem, NC 27157
336.716.1292; kkemper@wfubmc.edu
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.

 

 

Jane Knitzer, Director
National Center for Children in Poverty
Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
215 W. 125th St., Third Floor
New York, NY 10027
646.284.9600; knitzer@nccp.org
http://www.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.

 

 

Cheryl Kodjo M.D., Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics, Adolescent Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642
585.275.2189; cheryl_kodjo@urmc.rochester.edu
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/...

Dr. Kodjo’s research focuses on adolescents: parent-adolescent communication, mental health, youth violence and access to mental health services. Kodjo is interested in the associations between mental health and youth violence. She has done extensive research on the risk factors associated with weapon carrying among adolescents. 

 

Harold S. Koplewicz M.D., Director
NYU Child Study Center
577 First Avenue
NY, NY 10016

212.263.6622; Harold.Koplewicz@msnyuhealth.org
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
210 Mather Memorial Bldg, 11220 Bellflower Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106
216.368.2278; jill.korbin@case.edu
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
118 C Science Bldg.
Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, MD 21727
Emmitsburg, MD 21727
301.447.6122, Ext. 4636; korol@msmary.edu
http://www.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
650.723.1202; lafrom@stanford.edu
www.stanford.edu/~lafrom ...

LaFromboise focuses on stress-related problems of ethnic minority youth. She is currently investigating parental drinking, parenting, and alcohol use among American Indian adolescents. She teaches seminars on Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective, American Indian Mental Health and Education, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Development. 

 

 

John Landsverk Ph.D., Professor and Director
Child & Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC)
San Diego State University School of Social Work
3020 Children's Way, MC 5033
San Diego, CA 92123
858.966.7703, Ext. 3755; jlandsverk@casrc.org
http://www.casrc.org...

Landsverk directs the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center at Children’s Hospital in San Diego, and is senior scholar at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. He has received numerous grants from the NIMH and other federal agencies to conduct research on the mental health care for children and adolescents involved with child welfare, including the Child and Adolescent Interdisciplinary Research Network. He just completed the NIMH-funded study, Caring for Children in Child Welfare, that examined the use of mental health and developmental services for children involved in the national child welfare study, the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being. He is a co-author of “Beyond Common Sense: Children Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform” (Aldine Transaction, 2005). 

 

 

Department of Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1198
New York, NY 10029
212.241.5866; danielle.laraque@mssm.edu
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. 

 

 

John H. Laub Ph.D., President
American Society of Criminology (ASC)
1314 Kinnear Road
Columbus, OH 43212
614.292.9207; jlaub@crim.umd.edu
www.asc41.com/...
ASC is an international organization of scholars, scientists and professionals concerned with the etiology, prevention, control and treatment of crime and delinquency. Its Web site provides a directory of members by name and state.

 

 

Nettie Legters, Co-Director, Associate Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University
Talent Development High School with Career Academies (TDHS)
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218
410.516.8800; nlegters@csos.jhu.edu
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/tdhs/...
The Talent Development High School with Career Academies is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores and dropout rates. Legter's co-wrote "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with Robert Balfanz, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified. 

 

 

Amanda Lenhart, Senior Research Specialist
Pew Internet & American Life Project
Pew Research Center
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
202.419.4500; alenhart@pewinternet.org
http://www.pewinternet.org...
Lenhart is the principal author of several studies, including “Teenage Life Online: The Rise of the Instant-Message Generation and the Internet’s Impact on Friendships and Family Relationships” and “The Ever-Shifting Internet Population: A New Look at Internet Access and the Digital Divide.” Lenhart is an expert in the field of youth and their Internet use, as well as on topics such as the digital divide, instant messaging and blogging. 

 

 

Richard Lerner Ph.D., Psychologist
Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development
Tufts University
105 College Ave.
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
617.627.3355; Richard.Lerner@tufts.edu
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).

 

 

Susan Lewis, Communications Director
National Sexual Violence Resource Center
123 North Enola Drive
Enola, PA 17025
717.728.9740; slewis@nsvrc.org
http://www.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.
 

Michael Lindsey Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.706.8781

E-mail:
mlindsey@ssw.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/faculty_and_research/...

Lindsey trained as a social worker, with a specialization in mental health services research. He studies African American males' development in high-risk communities, depressed African American youths' access to mental health services, school-based violence prevention and early interventions, and university and community partnerships.
 

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
 

Andrew London Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
Kent University

Address:
#312 Merrill Hall
Kent, OH 44242

Phone:
330.672.3712

E-mail:
alondon@kent.edu

Web:
http://www.kent.edu...

London is assistant professor of sociology at Kent State University. London received his doctorate in sociology and demography from the University of Pennsylvania, and held a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in a program on psychosocial issues and mental health services for people with HIV/AIDS in the department of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. His primary research interests include medical sociology, demography, sociology of mental health, sociology of HIV/AIDS and health services and policy research. He contributed to an ethnographic study titled “My Children Come First: Welfare-Reliant Women’s Post-TANF View of Work-Family Trade-offs and Marriage.” He is engaged in several research projects related respectively to stress, social support and emotional well-being among informal caregivers to people with HIV/AIDS, and mental health service utilization by people with HIV/AIDS.
 

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.
 

Anthony Mannarino Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents
Allegheny General Hospital

Address:
4 Allegheny Center, 8th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Phone:
412.330.4312

E-mail:
amannari@wpahs.org

Web:
http://www.wpahs.org/patients/physician/bio.cfm?ph...

Mannarino is the principal investigator of the "Child and Adolescent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screening Project," a two-year study that aims to identify children and adolescents ages 8-16 years with significant post-traumatic stress symptoms secondary to a history of exposure to traumatic life events, and provide brief psychoeducation interventions for those with significant symptoms. He is current president (2004-2006) of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. http://apsac.fmhi.usf.edu/
 

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

Web:
http://astro.temple.edu/~mccord/...

McCord's teaching interests include theories of crime and deviance, violent behavior, and family and crime. Her research interests include juvenile criminality, and causes and prevention of crime. She has written books and articles on urban crime, on crime intervention, on some causes for crime, and on theories of crime.
 

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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/faculty/mcroy/...

McRoy's areas of focus include: Open adoptions, outcomes for birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted children, trans-racial adoptions, family preservation, special needs adoptions, post adoption services, female sexual abuse perpetrators, racial identity issues, adolescent pregnancy, effectiveness of residential treatment services.
 

Gary B. Melton Ph.D.
Director
Institute on Family & Neighborhood Life
Clemson University

Address:
158 Poole Agricultural Center
Clemson, SC 29634

Phone:
864.656.6271

E-mail:
gmelton@clemson.edu

Web:
http://www.childwatch.uio.no/key_institutions/nort...

Gary B. Melton, Ph.D., is director of the Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life and a professor of psychology at Clemson University. He was principal architect of the national child protection strategy proposed by the U.S. Advisory Board on Child Abuse and Neglect in 1993. Melton's work has been cited in the court system at all levels, including the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also president of Childwatch International, a global research network sponsored by the Norwegian government. Melton has served on numerous national and state advisory boards, led a congressional briefing series for more than a decade and served as a consultant to state social service, mental health, legislative and court-administrative agencies. He has written more than 275 publications on child and family policy and psychology. Much of his recent work has focused on the application of international human rights law to child and family policy. He is currently leading a multimillion-dollar project in southern Greenville County, S.C., funded by the Duke Endowment, to develop, implement and evaluate a comprehensive approach to prevent child abuse and neglect. He produces and moderates the "Community Matters" segment that airs weekly on South Carolina Educational Radio. He received his master's degree and doctorate from Boston University.
 

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.
 

Meredith Minkler
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.
 

Sarah Newlin
Program Coordinator
Depression Center
University of Michigan

Address:
1500 E. Medical Center Drive
F6321 MCHC
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.763.7495

E-mail:
snewlin@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.med.umich.edu/depression/...

The center is a multi-disciplinary research, education and treatment program specializing in depression among college students. At the center’s annual conference on depression on college campuses, nationally prominent scholars and practitioners have addressed subjects as stigma, gender differences, and how depression plays out differently among students of various ethnicities and races.
 

Katherine Newman
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs
Sociology/Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Address:
151 Wallace Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone:
609.258.8723

E-mail:
knewman@princeton.edu

Newman's interests lie in the qualitative study of social stratification, with a special emphasis on the cultural meaning of mobility, work, poverty and violence. Her latest book, with Victor Tan Chen, is "The Missing Class: The Near Poor Experience in Modern America" (Beacon Press, 2007). She also has written "Chutes and Ladders: Navigating the Low Wage Labor Market" (Harvard University Press and Russell Sage, 2006), which studies African American and Latino service workers; "A Different Shade of Gray: Midlife and Beyond in the Inner City" (New Press, 2003); and "No Shame in My Game: The Working Poor in the Inner City" (Knopf/Russell Sage, 1999). She edited "Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings" (Basic Books, 2004). Newman previously taught at Columbia, Berkeley and Harvard.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Scott Poland
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.
 

William Pollack Ph.D.
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.
 

Deborah Prothrow-Stith M.D.
Director, Division of Public Health Practice and A
Dept. of Health Policy and Management
Harvard School of Public Health

Address:
1552 Tremont St.
Boston, MA 02120

Phone:
617.496.0713

E-mail:
dp-s@hsph.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/faculty/deborah-prothr...

As a physician working in inner-city hospitals and neighborhood clinics, Dr. Prothrow-Stith recognized violence as a significant public health issue that could be prevented through implementing effective public health strategies. She developed and wrote the first violence prevention curriculum for schools and communities and co-authored the first book to present the public health perspective on violence to a mass audience. She continues to develop programs and nurture partnerships with community-based programs. She has received many awards, including the World Health Organization’s 1993 World Health Day Award, and nine honorary doctorates.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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).
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Barry Schwartz
Dorwin Cartwright Professor of Social Theory and Social Action
Psychology
Swarthmore College

Address:
500 College Ave.
Swarthmore, PA 19081

Phone:
610.328.8418

E-mail:
bschwar1@swarthmore.edu

Web:
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bschwar1/index.ht...

Schwartz focuses on psychology and economics. His specific research interests are: decision making, the creation of values, the interaction of morality and self interest; work satisfaction; the role of ideology in assessing psychological theories; and basic learning processes.
 

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

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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.
 

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.
 

Laurence Steinberg Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Temple University

Address:
1701 N. 13th St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122

Phone:
215.204.7485

E-mail:
lds@temple.edu

Web:
www.temple.edu/psychology/FacultyWebs/Steinberg/in...

A nationally recognized expert on psychological development during adolescence, Steinberg researches topics including parent-child relationships, employment, high school reform and juvenile justice. His work has been funded by public and private organizations, including the federal departments of education and justice, the MacArthur and William T. Grant foundations and the Lilly Endowment. Steinberg has been a frequent consultant to state and federal agencies and lawmakers on child labor, secondary education, and juvenile justice policy. He is the author or editor of 10 books, including "Adolescence" (McGraw-Hill, 2005), a leading college textbook now in its seventh edition. Steinberg is president of the Society for Research on Adolescence; he also heads the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Adolescent Development and Juvenile Justice.
 

William Stixrud Ph.D.

Address:
8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 300
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Phone:
301.565.0534

E-mail:
wstixrud@stixrud.com

Web:
http://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.
 

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.
 

Linda Teplin Ph.D.
Professor of Psychiatry and Director
Psycho-Legal Studies Program
Northwestern University Medical School

Address:
710 N Lake Shore Dr, #900
Evanston, IL 60208

Phone:
312.503.3500

E-mail:
l-teplin@nwu.edu

Web:
http://www.northwestern.edu/ipr/people/teplin.html...

Teplin has done empirical studies on the criminalization of the mentally ill, epidemiologic characteristics of jail detainees and correlates of violence. She is currently conducting two studies -- the Northwestern Juvenile Project: a longitudinal study of a sample of 1,800 youth who were subjects in her study of juvenile detainees, examining the service needs of youths for help with alcohol, drugs and mental health; and behaviors that put them at increased risk for violence, drug use and HIV/AIDS; and (2) the Northwestern Victimization Project:a unique study of criminal victimization patterns among severely mentally ill persons living in the community.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Eric Trupin Ph.D.
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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Hill Walker Ph.D.
Co-director
Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior
University of Oregon

Address:
1265 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403

Phone:
541.346.2583

E-mail:
hwalker@oregon.uoregon.edu

Web:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/%7Eivdb/index.html...

Hill has a long-standing interest in behavioral assessment and in the development of effective intervention procedures for use in school settings with a range of behavior disorders. He has been engaged in applied research since 1966. His research interests include social skills assessment, curriculum development and intervention, longitudinal studies of aggression and antisocial behavior, and the development of early screening procedures for detecting students who are at-risk for social-behavioral adjustment problems and/or later school drop-out of school.
 

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).
 

David Weinberger Ph.D.
Research Fellow
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Harvard University

Phone:
617.495.7547

E-mail:
self@evident.com

Web:
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/david_weinberger...

Weinberger's career has included everything from teaching philosophy to freelance writing for Wired, Salon and USA Today. He studies the nature of social networks and is working on a book about how the digitization of information is changing the most basic ways that we organize and classify the things of our world.
 

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.
 

Elaine Wethington
Associate Professor, Human Development and Sociology
Institute for the Social Sciences
Cornell University

Address:
G52 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
607.255.2918

E-mail:
ew20@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cf...

Wethington, co-director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging, is a medical sociologist, specializing in the sociology of mental health and illness. Her research interests are in the areas of stress and the protective mechanisms of social support. Three current interests frame her work: 1) longitudinal studies of the impacts of life events, chronic difficulties, and their accumulation on changes in mental and physical health: 2) adaptation to work and family demands during midlife; 3) social isolation, social integration and health among older people.
 

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/...

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).
 

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.

 

 

 

 

Parry Aftab
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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.childrensdefense.org...

The division is responsible for CDF's programmatic and policy work on behalf of children most vulnerable to being left behind. Nationally, the division plays a leadership role in expanding supports for families to enable them to better nurture and protect their children, preventing family crises from intensifying, and promoting permanent families when crises occur.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Ellen Bassuk M.D.
President
National Center On Family Homelessness

Address:
181 Wells Ave.
Newton Centre, MA 02459

Phone:
617.964.3834, Ext. 10

E-mail:
ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org

Web:
http://www.familyhomelessness.org...

Dr. Bassuk researches the impact of homelessness and the roles of violence, trauma and mental illness. She has worked on applied research projects like the Worcester Family Research Study, a comprehensive longitudinal study of sheltered homeless and low-income housed families and their children. Dr. Bassuk is currently project director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative's National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children, directs the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, and is technical project director for the federal Chronic Homelessness Initiative.
 

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.
 

Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.

Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Native American Programs
Indian Country Child Trauma Center

Phone:
405.271.8858

E-mail:
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.icctc.org/...

The center develops trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children 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.
 

Wayne Bowers
Executive Director
Sex Abuse Treatment Alliance

Address:
P.O. Box 1191
Okemos, 48805-1191

Phone:
405.639.7262

E-mail:
wayne@arq.net

Web:
http://www.satasort.org/index.html...

The alliance advocates for policies that treat sexual abuse as a public health issue, saying that most people who have sexually abused can successfully learn not to abuse. Director Bowers is a former sexual offender.
 

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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.csom.org/...

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.
 

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.
 

Rachel Crawford
Peer Health Advocate
FACES for the Future
Children's Hospital & Research Center at Oakland

Address:
747 52nd St.
Oakland, CA 94609

Phone:
Cell: 510.875.8106

E-mail:
rara600@aol.com

Web:
http://www.facesforthefuture.org ...

Rachel E. Crawford is a former youth health leader and graduate of the FACES for the Future Program, a minority youth internship program in Oakland, Calif., that introduces students of color to health and science careers. The program is offered by the Children’s Hospital & Research Center at Oakland. In her part-time position as a peer health advocate at Children’s Hospital, Crawford counsels students in the Oakland and Berkeley public school districts, including students in the FACES for the Future program. She helps students analyze the psychological motives for their behavior and serves as part of their active support system, empowering them to live positive and productive lives. She is a full-time student at Diablo Valley Community College in Concord, Calif., and is planning a career in mental health.
 

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-vetro fertilization, prepregnancy testing, embyro 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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Michael Faenza
Former President and CEO
National Mental Health Association

Address:
2001 N. Beauregard St., 12th Floor
Alexandria, VA 22311

Phone:
703.684.7722

E-mail:
mfaenza@nmha.org

Web:
http://www.nmha.org/...

Michael M. Faenza is the former president and chief executive officer of the National Mental Health Association, based in Alexandria, Va. The association provides technical assistance and program development in public policy, systems advocacy and public education for 340 state and community-based mental health associations across the country. Faenza has worked as a clinician, administrator and public policy advocate for 30 years. He earned a master’s degree in social work from the University of Texas at Arlington and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Indiana University. Faenza has received numerous accolades, including the Washington Psychiatric Association’s Paul and Sheila Wellstone Award for improving the care of people with mental illness; the National Executive Leadership Award from the National Assembly of Voluntary Health and Human Services Organizations; and the American Psychiatric Association’s President’s Award for advocacy in mental health.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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.
 

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.
 

Dee Dee Gordon
Founding Partner
Look-Look

Address:
6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Phone:
323.856.5555

E-mail:
brandy@look-look.com

Web:
http://www.look-look.com/dynamic/looklook/html/ind...

Look-Look is a research company that specializes in youth culture. Gordon has done interviews on the subject of marketing to teens, and the best way to gauge teens' preferences.
 

Libby Gray
Director
Project Reality

Address:
1701 E. Lake Avenue
Suite# 371
Glenview, IL 60025

Phone:
847.729.3298

Web:
www.projectreality.org...

Project Reality specializes in the development, teaching and evaluation of abstinence programs. Gray is regularly involved in media communications on the subject of abstinence.
 

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.
 

Dennis Hunt Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Multicultural Human Services

Address:
701 W. Broad St., Suite 305
Falls Church, VA 22046

Phone:
703.533.3302, ext. 111

E-mail:
dhunt@cmhs.org

Web:
http://www.cmhs.org/...

CMHS provides a broad range of multilingual mental health, educational, consulting, training and social services to immigrants and refugees. Hunt is a clinical psychologist who previously directed a foster care program for refugee children. He has consulted for the media, school systems and human service programs throughout the United States and Canada on refugee mental health issues.
 

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

Web:
http://www.nabsw.org...

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

Web:
www.childtrends.org...

Susan Jekielek, Ph.D., is a research associate for Child Trends, a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information. Her concentration is in family research, and her work has examined the impacts of family status and family processes for children’s emotional well-being. She also studies parental work characteristics and their implications for both family stability and family relationships. Jekielek has a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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.
 

Denise Johnston M.D.
Director
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Address:
65 S. Grand Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105

Phone:
626.449.2470

E-mail:
ccip@earthlink.net

Web:
http://www.e-ccip.org/index.html...

Denise Johnston, M.D., is the founding director of the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Her expertise is in children of criminal offenders. The center has conducted more than 40 educational, family reunification and therapeutic projects serving children of criminal offenders, their parents and families. In 2002, Johnston will oversee the MIRACLE Project at Los Angeles County Jails, the second jail nursery to be established in the United States. She is currently adviser to the National Institute of Corrections’ Resource Center on Children of Prisoners. As principal investigator, Johnston has completed 12 major research projects for the center. Among those studies is the first longitudinal investigation of children of criminal offenders, begun in 1991 in Southeast Los Angeles County. She has been a founding board member of organizations serving women offenders, including: Phase ReEntry Programs; the National Network for Women in Prison; and Girls and Gangs in Los Angeles County. Johnston is the editor of the first American text on incarcerated parents and their children, which was published by Lexington Books in 1995. Johnston received her doctorate from Stanford University School of Medicine.
 

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

Web:
http://www.fape.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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.nashp.org...

NASHP is an association of state health policy leaders that conducts policy analysis and provides technical assistance to states, as well as case studies of best practices. Recent projects include an initiative to improve the screening of all children to detect development delays, studies on the operation and effectiveness of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and how to improve Medicaid coverage of youth in the juvenile justice system.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Alison K. Malmon
Founder and Executive Director
Active Minds, Inc.

Address:
4831 36th St. NW, #309
Washington , DC 20008

Phone:
202.232.5545

E-mail:
amalmon@activemindsoncampus.org

Web:
http://www.activemindsoncampus.org...

Alison K. Malmon is the founder, president and executive director of Active Minds, Inc., a student-run mental health awareness, education and advocacy organization on college campuses. She started Active Minds in 2001, while a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, following the suicide of her older brother. Malmon is currently developing chapters of the student group on campuses around the country. She also serves on a variety of boards and planning committees. Malmon has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
 

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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.nasn.org...

The association works to advance the delivery of professional school health services to promote optimal health and learning in students.
 

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

Web:
http://cecp.air.org/ or http://cecp.air.org/vc/top...

Osher focuses his work on knowledge use, violence prevention, schoolwide and community-wide interventions for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, and building meaningful collaborations at federal, state, and local levels. Osher is Principal Investigator of The Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice; The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health; The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention; The National Coordinator Training and Technical Assistance Center for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program; The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk; and of research that focuses on the impact of specific types on prevention and treatment interventions. Osher has authored, co-authored, or edited over 150 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports. He helped the U. S. Department of Education develop The National Agenda for Improving Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and is an expert on making collaboration work.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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."
 

Vaughn I. Rickert
President
The Society for Adolescent Medicine (SAM)

Address:
1916 Copper Oaks Circle
Blue Springs, MO 64015

Phone:
212.304.5766

E-mail:
vir2002@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.adolescenthealth.org/...

SAM is a multidisciplinary organization of professionals committed to improving adolescents’ physical and psychosocial health and well-being. It promotes the development, synthesis and dissemination of scientific and scholarly knowledge about adolescents’ unique health needs.
 

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.
 

Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Senior Research Associate
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

Address:
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936

Phone:
415.476.3375

E-mail:
hector.sanchez@ucsf.edu

Web:
www.dhs.ca.gov/pcfh/ofp/Programs/MIP...

Héctor Sánchez-Flores is a senior research associate and member of the statewide evaluation team for the Male Involvement Program. He also serves as the liaison to the California Department of Health Services, Office of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health – Office of Family Planning. Sánchez-Flores works closely with over 20 local projects in California that develop teen pregnancy prevention services specifically for young and teen males. He serves on national boards and advisory committees that address teen pregnancy prevention and male involvement, and he advises policy analysts and legislative leaders on community-based solutions to teen pregnancy and the inclusion of males in prevention efforts and reproductive health education.
 

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

Web:
http://www.aacap.org...

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.
 

Ben Saunders Ph.D.
Professor
National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center
Medical University of South Carolina

Address:
165 Cannon St., Box 250852
Charleston, SC 29425

Phone:
843.792.2945

E-mail:
saunders@musc.edu

Web:
http://www.musc.edu/psychiatry/faculty/saundersb.h...

Saunders, a licensed independent social worker and marriage and family therapist, directs the center's family and child program. He's also on the faculty of MUSC's National Violence Against Women Prevention Research Center. Saunders’ research, training and clinical interests include the impact of violence and abuse on children and adolescents; the epidemiology of trauma, violence and abuse; treatment approaches; and effective methods for disseminating evidence-based practices. His work on child abuse victims, sexual offenders and incestuous families has been funded by several federal agencies. Saunders maintains a clinical practice and serves on the editorial boards of several professional journals.
 

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.
 

Tammy Seltzer
Senior Staff Attorney
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Address:
1101 15th St. N.W., Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.467.5730, ext. 116

E-mail:
tammy@bazelon.org

Web:
http://www.bazelon.org/about/staff/seltzer.htm...

Tammy Seltzer is a senior staff attorney at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, a national nonprofit public interest organization formed in 1972 to advance the legal rights of people with mental disabilities. She is working on a project to prevent the unnecessary criminalization of mentally ill adults who have committed nonviolent offenses. She also is involved in a project to improve special education services for children and teens with emotional and behavioral problems who are at risk of arrest and detention. Seltzer has given technical assistance to states and mental health advocates on issues in children’s mental health. Bazelon recently published her reports “Suspending Disbelief,” in which she analyzed the positive behavioral support provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); and “Teaming Up,” which describes how IDEA and Medicaid can be used to provide comprehensive mental health and support services for children and youth. Her law degree is from the David Clark School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in public policy from Cornell University.
 

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

Web:
www.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.
 

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.
 

Lloyd Thacker
Executive Director
The Education Conservancy

Address:
805 SW Broadway, Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97205

Phone:
503.290.0083

E-mail:
lthacker@educationconservancy.org

Web:
http://www.educationconservancy.org...

Thacker is founder of the Education Conservancy, which helps students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions. Its mission is to return control of college admissions to those who are directly involved in education: students, colleges, parents and high schools.
 

Paul Vincent
Director
Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group

Address:
428 E. Jefferson St.
Montgomery, AL 36104

Phone:
334.264.8300, Ext. 13

E-mail:
pv@childwelfaregroup.org

Web:
http://www.childwelfaregroup.org...

Vincent, a former director of Alabama's Division of Family and Children's Services, is a co-founder of the group. The private nonprofit, staffed by child welfare and mental health professionals, assists child welfare systems in designing and managing organizational changes that improve outcomes for children and their families. Vincent and his colleagues have consulted with at least a third of the nation's child welfare systems.
 

Gail Wasserman M.D.
Director
Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice (CPMHJJ)
Columbia University

Address:
1051 Riverside Dr., Unit 74
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.543.5298

E-mail:
WassermG@childpsych.columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.promotementalhealth.org...

CPMHJJ assists juvenile justice facilities and local communities in establishing and maintaining effective diagnostic procedures for identifying mental health problems among youth in contact with the justice system.
 

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

Web:
http://www.apa.org/pi/cyf...

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."
 

Joan Williams
Professor of Law, Director
Law
The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL)

Address:
200 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone:
415.565.4640

E-mail:
williams@uchastings.edu

Web:
http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=3624...

Williams is an author, who researches work and family issues. Her studies focus on social psychology, conflicts between work and family, caregiving issues and workplace bias against mothers. Williams also is founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law (WLL), a research and advocacy center that seeks to eliminate employment discrimination against caregivers such as parents and adult children of aging parents.
 

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

Web:
http://www.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.

 

 

 

 

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.
 

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

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/...

NICHD, part of the National Institutes of Health, conducts and supports research on children, adults, families and specific populations. Its research touches all aspects of child health, from reproductive health to growth and development; from preventing and treating birth defects, mental retardation and developmental disabilities to improving health and rehabilitation over a lifetime. It leads the National Children’s Study, which is following 100,000 children from before birth to age 21 to examine the interaction of genes and environments.
 

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.
 

Robert DeMartino M.D.
Associate Director for Program in Trauma and Terro
Center for Mental Health Services
U.S. Public Health Service

Address:
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 17C-26
Rockville , MD 20857

Phone:
301.443.2940; cell 301.60

E-mail:
rdemarti@samhsa.gov

Web:
www.mentalhealth.org/cmhs/EmergencyServices...

Robert DeMartino, M.D., and commander, USPHS, is director of the Program in Trauma and Terrorism, at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), part of the United States Public Health Service in Washington, D.C. He is the project team leader for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative, a $40M program launched in October 2001. The Initiative provides federal support for a national effort to improve treatment and services for child trauma, to expand availability and accessibility of effective community services and to promote better understanding of clinical and research issues of interventions for children and adolescents exposed to traumatic events. Now consisting of 18 networked centers around the nation, the program is set to double in size in 2002. DeMartino is his agency’s lead in the government’s efforts to develop and implement the country’s first comprehensive national strategy to reduce the burden of self-directed violence, injury and death. He oversees program evaluation and was managing editor for "National Strategy for Suicide Prevention: Goals and Objectives for Action," released in May 2001. DeMartino is also SAMHSA's point of contact for Secretary Tommy Thompson's new Office of Public Health Preparedness Bioterrorism Command Center. He was a member of the federal team that produced the Counter-Terrorism Concept of Operations Plan, created to provide coordinated federal assistance from DHHS for public health and medical care needs resulting from terrorist threats or acts employing weapons of mass destruction. In response to the events of September 11, DeMartino was deployed to New York City to establish a Federal Mental Health Response team in support of the emergency response personnel participating in rescue efforts. He earned his medical degree from Tufts University and completed residency training in both internal medicine and psychiatry in Boston, Mass.
 

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
).
 

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.
 

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
 

R. Karl Hanson Ph.D.
Senior Research Officer
Corrections Research
Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada

Address:
340 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, K1A 0P8

Phone:
1.613.991.2840

E-mail:
karl.hanson@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca

Web:
http://www.psepc-sppcc.gc.ca/az-index/sindex_e.asp...

Hanson is an expert in the risk assessment of violent and sexual offenders.
 

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.
 

Bruce Kamradt
Director, Children's Mental Health Services and Pr
Behavioral Health Division
Milwaukee County Child and Adolescent Services

Address:
9201 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Phone:
414.257.7639

E-mail:
bkamrad@wrapmilw.org

Web:
http://milwaukeecounty.org/Service/organizationDet...

Kamradt, MSW, is director of children’s mental health services at Wraparound Milwaukee. He directs the delivery of mental health, social services and other supports to more than 600 delinquent and nondelinquent youths who would otherwise be in long-term residential treatment, psychiatric hospitalization or correctional placement. The program coordinates plans across child-serving institutions and blends funding from Medicaid, child welfare, juvenile justice and mental health to meet youths’ comprehensive needs.
 

William Modzeleski
Associate Deputy Under Secretary
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools Education
U.S. Department of Education

Address:
400 Maryland Ave., S.W.
Washington, DC 20202

Phone:
202.260.1856

E-mail:
Bill.Modzeleski@ed.gov

Web:
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/index.h...

Modzeleski is associate deputy undersecretary in the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools (OSDFS). The office has responsibility in three main areas: School safety including alcohol, drug and violence prevention; school health, mental health and environmental health; and character, civic and correctional education programs. The office also has responsibility for initiatives dealing with mentoring, physical fitness and emergency preparedness. OSDFS serves as liaison to other agencies, including the Office of Homeland Security, on issues related to terrorism and response to disruptions in schools due to crisis. Modzeleski has been involved in juvenile justice and school safety issues for more than 25 years, serving at the county and federal levels. He has been involved in several major initiatives related to school safety and preparedness, including development and implementation of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative; collaboration with the U.S. Secret Service on the assessing threats of school shootings; and preparing schools to respond to crisis and emergencies.
 

Press Office
National Institute of Mental Health

Address:
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 8184, MSC 9663
Bethesda, MD 20892-9663

Phone:
301.443.4536

E-mail:
nimhpress@mail.nih.gov

Web:
www.nimh.nih.gov...

NIMH researches and supports child and adolescent mental health, and its Web site provides background on mental health, disorders and treatments. It offers information on coping with violence and traumatic events, and it links to current research and reports. NIMH also produces “The Numbers Count,” a fact sheet on the prevalence of mental disorders.
 

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.
 

Linda Wolfe
Education Specialist in Health Services
School Support Services
Delaware Department of Education

Address:
John G. Townsend Building
401 Federal St., Suite 2
Dover, DE 19901

Phone:
302.739.4676

E-mail:
lwolfe@doe.k12.de.us

Web:
http://www.doe.k12.de.us...

Linda C. Wolfe, RN, is the Delaware Department of Education’s educational specialist in health services. In this job, she works with the 300 nurses in public and private schools throughout Delaware. On the agency level, she advises the department on issues related to health and health services, and represents the agency on health issues. From 2001 to 2003, Wolfe was the president of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), a professional organization with more than 12,000 members. She received her nursing degree at the University of Delaware and her master’s degree in education administration from Wilmington College, also in Delaware. She served on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on school health between 1999 and 2001. In 1998, she was a member of the task force that created the current NASN/American Nurses Association standards of professional school nursing. She has written several articles for journals covering health care.
 

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.