Alan Moghul, Ph.D., has served as the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) Director of Prevention Services. Current and past grants and contracts have included business with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Other activities undertaken while in this position have included serving on the Board of Directors of the Responsible Hospitality Institute; serving on the Steering Committee of CSAP's Too Smart to Start underage drinking campaign; and serving as NASADAD's Acting Director of Public Policy (May – September, 2001). He has also served on a SAMHSA Initial Review Group for the State Incentive Enhancement Grants, and has served on a CDC Special Emphasis Panel for HIV prevention programs for community-based organizations. Dr. Moghul has been a field reviewer for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) grant program for HIV/AIDS services for the past three years, and has occasionally served as a workshop/abstract reviewer for the National HIV Prevention Conference.  He has served as a program reviewer for the CADCA Got Outcomes national awards program since the program’s inception four years ago. Recent pubic speaking opportunities have included workshop presentations at the CADCA National Leadership Forum; Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and various meetings relating to the National Outcome Measures (NOMs) initiative.  Dr. Moghul is the staff liaison to the Association's component organization, the National Prevention Network (NPN). In addition, Dr. Moghul is serving as the Association’s Acting Director, Research and Program Applications, and serves as staff liaison to the National Treatment Network (NTN), and the affiliated Women’s Services Network, State HIV Coordinators, and State Methadone Authorities.

Alejandro Vassilaqui, MS, is the Executive Director of the Center of Information and Education for Drug Abuse Prevention (CEDRO) in Lima Peru.  His vast experience includes:   advisor to the Peruvian Council of Minors; secretary of the YMCA of Peru; Director of Promotion and Development of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; Professor of Latinamerican Politics, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru; Professor of Group Work, University of San Marcos; Member of the Planning Committee of Lima’s local government; member of Vatican Interfaith Commission for Christian Unity; President of the World Alliance of Young Men’s Christian Association YMCA; advisor to the Presidency and former member of the Board of Directors of Contradrogas (Peru’s Agency Against Drugs); Lion’s Quest Board Member and Drug Free America Foundation, Board of Directors Member.  In addition, Mr. Vassilaqui has authored numerous books including;  Organización de la Comunidad; Las Drogas en el Peru; Legalización de las Drogas; and El Desafio de la Prevencion de Drogas. 

Alfonso Abarca, MBA,  is the Director of Information Systems, Anti-Drug Foundation of El Salvador (FUNDASALVA).  During the first 10 years of his appointment, he administered the development of ad-hoc computer systems for managing and monitoring drug prevention projects in El Salvador, as well as clinical histories systems, statistical profile of patients, including monitoring drug treatment process for outpatient services and residential care at FUNDASALVA. As a result of his successful achievement, these systems were effectively installed in Non-Governmental Organizations working in the drugs abuse field, as part of a strategic approach by Governmental Organizations in Jamaica, Trinidad & Tobago, Suriname, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru, as well as in six other countries of the Central American region.  In 1999 he became a member of the Technical-Administrative Committee of FUNDASALVA, and contributing to the design and implementation of training, research and prevention projects, dissemination of information on drugs, and other related topics.  In 2005 he was elected General Manager by the Board of FUNDASALVA and since then, with the aim of providing more and better services to the Salvadoran population affected by the drug problem, he worked in the reengineering processes and practices of the institution in pursuit of enhancing its efficiency and effectiveness.  In 2006 together with the team of FUNDASALVA and supported by the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission of the Organization of American States (OAS/CICAD), Alfonso participated in the formulation of a training program on drug abuse prevention, violence prevention, and drug treatment; with the vision of building an education institute in demand reduction and violence prevention for Central America. This program is being successfully executed with the participation of more than 60 institutions in two Central American countries, and over the next three years its expansion is planned for the rest of the Central American countries, including Mexico.

Allison Case serves as the Project Coordinator for the topic intervention.  In addition to her work on prevention and early intervention to reduce the impact of underage and high risk drinking, she currently provides program oversight for statewide Best Practice Prevention Programs and Connecticut’s Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative and serves on the Metro Hartford Prevention Coalition and the Connecticut Inhalant Task Force.  She has been with Connecticut’s Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services since 2006.

Amy Drever, MSW, is the Evaluation Specialist for Afternoons ROCK in Indiana at the Indiana Prevention Resource Center.

Ann Landy, Ph.D., is a senior evaluator with more than 20 years of experience in research and evaluation, focusing on substance abuse prevention, performance measurement, high-risk youth, education programs, and personnel systems. She is an experienced project manager of both Federal and privately funded studies and is a skilled analyst, evaluator, and writer. Before joining Westat, Dr. Landy managed a large-scale project to evaluate the impact of grants to community coalitions for substance abuse prevention programs. She is coordinating the preparation of an evidence report on the effects of high school dropout prevention programs and is a coauthor of an evaluation handbook for U.S. Department of Education Character Education grantees. Currently, Dr. Landy coordinates state-level data collection for the State Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant program (SPF SIG), which is funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

Barbara Seitz de Martinez, Ph.D., MLS, CPP, serves as Deputy Director of the Indiana Prevention Resource Center.  She directs the annual GIS in Prevention publications of the IPRC.  She has served as Chair of SALIS and as a member of the National Steering Committee of CSAP's RADAR Network.  Dr. Seitz de Martinez is a member of the Indiana Addiction Planning Council and the State Epidemiological Work Group and Cultural Competency Work Group of the Indiana SPF SIG.

Beth Welbes is Senior Coordinator of Research with the University of Illinois' Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD).  In her role at CPRD, she works with state and community substance abuse prevention planners to develop assessment and evaluation systems that support accountability and continuous quality improvement.  Trained as a health educator, she approaches evaluation systems with an eye toward both research and practice.

Beverlie Fallik, Ph.D., is the Project Officer of the CSAP Data Analysis Coordination and Consolidation Center (DACCC).  She serves as a Sr. Public Health Analyst, the coordinator for CSAP data activities such as GPRA,PART and NOMs, and provides other review and consultation related to data activities, requirements and coordination.

Bonnie Favero, MA, CPP, is the Prevention Director for Piedmont Community Services in Martinsville, Virginia has more than 17 years of experience in the prevention field. She has made presentations throughout Virginia and most recently at the Southwest Prevention Convention in Dallas, Texas.

Brad S. Krevor, Ph.D., is President of the Responsible Retailing Forum and a Sr. Research As-sociate at the Heller Graduate School, Brandeis University. At the Heller School, he directed a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-supported effort to assist Attorneys General in pro-active ef-forts to prevent teenage access to age-restricted products (1998-2000) and a field effectiveness study of electronic age verification devices. He is the principal author of the Report on Best Practices for Responsible Retailing, developed as a federal Guidance Document for CSAP

Brenda J. Davis Rowe, Ph.D., serves as the Director of Prevention Services and Programs for the Division of Public Health of the Georgia Department of Human Resources and has responsibility for data-driven strategic planning and program development involving assessment of need, and for identifying evidence-based interventions and promising approaches that promote behavioral health and reduce preventable disabilities. Her work focuses on building organizational capacity to address conditions that maximize positive outcomes for children, youth, families, senior citizens and their communities.  Dr. Rowe’s skills and experience include being a practitioner of multi-indicator analysis and knowledge management for decision making, project manager, public policy specialist, strategic planner, organizational design and structural development expert, researcher, and Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration.

Brian Bumbarger is the Director of Policy Research at the Prevention Research Center at Penn State University. He is Principal Investigator of studies involving the large-scale replication of prevention programs, the use of police officers in school-based prevention, and the use of technology to enhance program delivery.  For the past seven years he has been involved in a 28-community randomized trial testing the efficacy of the Extension system as a mechanism for diffusing evidence-based prevention programs.

Callie B. Gass is a program manager for Northrop Grumman IT Public Health Division.  She is responsible for oversight of a variety of programs addressing substance abuse, HIV/AIDS, and health statistics. She is the Project Director for the SAMHSA Center for Excellence on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders, which she has led for almost 5 years.  Prior to coming to Northrop Grumman, Ms. Gass served as a program director and advisor for a variety of health and substance abuse programs for both private and government clients.  For several years she was a program officer and then the director of national programs for the National AIDS Fund, a Washington, D.C. foundation supporting HIV/AIDS prevention projects across the United States.   She has co-authored and contributed to publications on FASD and on grantmaking for HIV/AIDS prevention.

Capt David Neri is the former head of the Southern Arizona Counter Narcotics Agency in Tucson.  He is on the Governor's Meth Taskforce and the steering committee for the Meth Free Alliance. Capt Neri runs training for law enforcement and community mobilizations across the United States.

Carl Fertman, Ph.D., is associate professor and executive director of the Maximizing Adolescent Potentials Program at the University of Pittsburgh. He has more than 20 years of experience in the substance abuse field working at the local, state and national levels.  Dr. Fertman has written extensively on the subject of school and community collaboration to improve the health status and academic outcome for youth. He is a frequent presenter at national and regional professional conferences.

Carol J. Boyd, PhD, MSN, RN is the Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender (IRWG) at the University of Michigan, and a Professor of Nursing and Women’s Studies.  Before assuming her current position at IRWG, she was the Director of the UM Substance Abuse Research Center for 10 years.  Dr. Boyd is a nationally recognized scholar in the studies of adolescents, women, health and substance abuse.  Her earlier research focused on women’s abuse of heroin and crack cocaine, but her more recent work focuses on adolescents and young adults. 

Carol Kuntz, is employed at the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse, in Lancaster, PA. 

Carol McHale, Ph.D. is a senior social science analyst with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).   Dr. McHale oversees CSAP’s Service to Science Initiative with the Centers for the Application of Prevention Technologies (CAPTs).  She also oversees CAPT technical assistance to States and communities on selecting evidence-based interventions in the context of SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Framework.

Caroline Cruz has worked with Tribal Communities for 27 years, providing training and technical assistance in community mobilization, adapting material, substance abuse education, mental health and behavioral health training, conference planning, evaluation, Tribal best practices, working with elderly populations, community and youth.

Caryn Blitz, Ph.D., is the Northeast Regional Services Manager for the SAMHSA/CSAP Strategic Prevention Framework Advancement and Support (SPFAS) project. She is part of the SPFAS team developing more guidance to States on the SPF, the NOMs, and other prevention outcome measures. She has over twenty years of experience in the substance abuse prevention field and has conducted drug policy evaluation and research at State and local levels as Deputy Director, Evaluation and Research, CADCA Institute; Research Scientist, Social Development Research Group, UW; Project Director, Community Resource Assessment, Connecticut Prevention Needs Assessment project; and NIAAA Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Blitz has consulted on the mental health needs of high-risk children and adolescents and worked as a family, child, adolescent, and adult psychotherapist.

Claudia Richards, MSW, LICSW, is the Chief, Community Grants and Program Development Branch, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration responsible for managing the Minority AIDS Initiative program that provides substance abuse and HIV prevention services to at risk racial and ethnic minority populations and minority re-entry populations.  Ms. Richards has 26 years of behavioral health experience, serving in various professional positions in policy, planning, program evaluation, and clinical management areas working in the federal/state governments, and community based organizations. She has formerly worked for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), SAMHSA as the Acting Branch Chief for the Performance Partnership Grant and Senior Public Health Advisor/Team Leader from 1991 -2004.  

Connie Smith, MS, CPP, is the Director for Kentucky’s Strategic Planning Framework State Incentive Grant, “The Commonwealth Alliance for Substance Abuse Prevention.”  The state “Alliance” team is the recipient of the 2007 Commissioner’s Award for Program Management.  Her duties also include technical assistance, monitoring and evaluation of prevention services provided through Kentucky’s system of Regional Prevention Centers.  Ms. Smith is the recipient of the 2005 1st Annual ODCP Award for Outstanding contributions to Substance Abuse Prevention and has worked in the field of Prevention for the past 17 years.    

Craig L. PoVey, MSW, LCSW, is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Prevention Program Administrator for the State of Utah. He is Utah’s representative for the National Prevention Network and co-chair of the National Prevention Evaluation/Research Workgroup. Craig began his career in Youth Corrections, later becoming a therapist for adolescents. Since 1990, he has been working hard at preventing problems in families, schools, and communities. 

Craig Ravesloot, Ph.D., is a Clinical Psychologist and Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Montana where he directs disability and health research for the Rural Institute on Disabilities at the University of Montana.   Dr. Ravesloot has over 15 years experience in research, program development and evaluation of services for people with disabilities funded through NIDRR, CDC and the Public Health Service.  He developed an influential health promotion program titled, “Living Well with a Disability” that has been cited in President Bush’s New Freedom Initiative.  He has published numerous articles covering a range of topics including health, employment and independent living for people with disabilities.

Debbie Synhorst currently serves as the President of the National Prevention Network.  She is a Prevention Consultant with the Division of Behavioral Health in the Iowa Department of Public Health and has over twenty years of experience in the substance abuse prevention field.  She completed a BS degree in a mathematics concentration program at the University of Kansas and has over 30 additional hours of study in the field of education.  Ms. Synhorst has previously presented at NPN Research Conferences about Community Readiness. 

Debra Davis Fye, is the Prevention Supervisor with the Mercer County Behavioral Health Commission, Inc.  and has over 20 years experience in the field of drug and alcohol prevention. She has designed and developed numerous prevention programs at the local level, and assisted in the advancement of prevention at the state and federal level.  Ms. Fye is the President of the Commonwealth Prevention Alliance and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Strategic Prevention Framework/State Incentive Grant.

Dennis Embry, Ph.D. is leading prevention scientist in the United States, with multiple experimental studies involving community change. He is a founder and steering committee member of the Meth Free Alliance in Southern Arizona, the organization responsible for the meth strategies in Pima County.  Dr. Embry is the chief scientist advising the Governor's Meth Taskforce, member of the Arizona Epidemiological Workgroup and chair of the emerging issues committee for the Az Governor's Office.

Desiree Goetze, MPH, CHES, CPP, serves as the Coordinator for External Affairs and Research Associate for the Indiana Prevention Resource Center.   She primarily works in marketing and website content for the IPRC.  Prior to her current appointment, she served as the Coordinator for the Tobacco Retailer Inspection Program on an externally funded grant from the Indiana State Excise Police.

Diane Galloway, Ph.D. is the Deputy Director, CADCA Institute, Evaluation and Research. She was the Administrator of the Substance Abuse Division-Wyoming Department of Health.  Dr. Galloway conducted an extensive assessment on multi-faceted impacts of methamphetamine in Casper, Wyoming, a city of 70,000. Her interest in research and data documenting population level effects stems from multiple systems changes  in Wyoming ranging from corrections, drug courts, treatment systems and the SIG prevention grants.

Diane Liga is the Program Development and Marketing Director at the New Jersey Prevention Network. She provides programmatic support for a variety of NJPN’s programs, including the Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) Program. Ms. Liga submitted a Service to Science Emerging and Innovative Programs application for WISE to the Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies and has been managing its evaluation since 2005.

Donna Becker, MS,  has been employed by the Council on Drug & Alcohol Abuse since 2000. She was an EYSP Facilitator for 6 years before becoming the Director of the program. While employed by the Council, Ms. Becker has conducted workshops and trainings on the EYSP curriculum, developed new curriculum, and worked on the evaluative process to advance EYSP to model program status through NREPP. She currently supervises 30 facilitators and works with local school districts to identify the needs of their students and provide programming that will benefit the students and staff.

Douglas Piper, Ph.D., has 25 years of experience conducting evaluations and research focused on community and school-based programs to prevent the substance use among adolescents and other public health issues.  Dr. Piper has experience in study design, developing study protocols, developing instrumentation, analyzing data with qualitative and quantitative methods and writing reports valuable to clients.

Eitan Gorni is the current acting Director of the Israel Anti-Drug Authority (IADA) and the past Brig. General for the Israel National Police (INP).  Among the prominent posts in the INP: Senior assistant to Chief of Staff; Chief of Information control and strategic planning unit at the Ministry of Police; Deputy Head of  Intelligence department; and Deputy Head of National unit for fraud investigation.

Elizabeth Robertson, Ph.D., has been with the National Institute on Drug Abuse since 1995 and has been the Chief of the Prevention Research Branch since 1997.  Dr. Robertson has broadened NIDA’s mission of preventing drug abuse and drug-related HIV infection to include developmental and multi-context foci.  High priority areas for continued portfolio development include the integration of findings from the basic sciences into prevention research and further development of the prevention services research portfolio. 

Evelyn Yang is the Senior Manager for Evaluation and Research at CADCA’s National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute. She is responsible for assisting the Institute’s mission of advancing coalition research to improve coalition effectiveness and evaluation. Ms. Yang is also involved in translation of research findings into materials that the field can effectively utilize in their pursuits.

Garrison Gladfelter Jr., is the Pennsylvania Director of the Division of Prevention, Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Programs.  Mr. Gladfelter also served as a Public Health Program Administrator (Data Manager) and Program Analyst.  He serves on the National Association of State Substance Abuse Directors (NASADAD) Performance Data Workgroup addressing the National Outcome Measures (NOMs), and the National Prevention Network (NPN) representative for Pennsylvania.

Gem Benoza currently serves as the Deputy Director for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.  She worked on the development of the prescription drug campaign for parents that was launched in 2008.  She also manages advertising and outreach for the Above the Influence campaign for teens, news media outreach, multicultural advertising and outreach, and a variety of other community and partnership initiatives.  Ms. Benoza previously served as a Policy and Program Analyst to develop an Agenda for the Nation on Violence Against Women, produced by a presidentially-appointed National Advisory Council co-chaired by the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services and the Attorney General. 

Gilberto Pérez Jr., MSW, is the Bienvenido Program Director. He serves as a member of the Transformation Working Group, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, Indiana. He has been a keynote speaker at two national teleconferences with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Reducing Stigma Campaign and with the National Association of Social Workers Specialty Practice Sections Committee.

Glen Hanson, Ph.D, is the former acting director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), at the National Institutes of Health, and currently is a Senior Advisor to NIDA, a professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University of Utah, as well as the director of the Utah Addiction Center.  He has worked closely with the State of Utah and Salt Lake County Divisions of Substance Abuse to develop substance abuse training for physicians, drug abuse workers and other health professionals. He also is a member of the Utah Governor’s Methamphetamine Task Force. Dr. Hanson has a long history of NIDA-funded research and has written ~ 200 scientific research papers on drugs of abuse, in particular methamphetamine and other psychostimulants, and their effects on brain chemistry and function. Dr. Hanson lectures all over the country and around the world on drug abuse and addiction topics and is the author of a widely used 9th edition college text on drug abuse entitled “Drugs and Society”.  He has testified several times before members of Congress and been interviewed many times by the national and local press as an expert on drug abuse issues.

Glenna Younkin, MA, is the coordinator of the Strategic Prevention Framework-State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) in Wenatchee, Washington based at Orchard Middle School.  In this role, she has facilitated the development/distribution/and data compilation of a community survey among the local evaluator and SPF-SIG Coalition.

Gwyndolyn Ensley, M.Ed., is a senior public health analyst for SAMHSA’s CSAP, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and is the project officer for  SAMHSA’s Health Communications Initiative for the Prevention of Underage Alcohol Use. With more than 25 years of experience, she is the lead for programmatic development and evaluation of public education initiatives for preventing underage alcohol use. Ms. Ensley maintains a strong network with other Federal agencies, businesses, and academic organizations, ensuring that evidence-based prevention principles are an integral component in building a healthy environment for the Nation.

Holly Wald, Ph.D., President of HPW Associates, LLC has over has over 20 years of experience in the design, coordination, implementation and evaluation of human service programs with particular expertise in behavioral health, and drug and alcohol prevention.  These efforts consist of process, outcome and impact evaluations, as well as the development and utilization of performance measurement systems as a mechanism for continuous quality improvement.  Dr. Wald has presented the results of her research at numerous national conferences and peer reviewed publications.

Inga Manskopf has been the Community Coordinator for the Northeast Seattle Coalition to Prevent Underage Drinking (Eckstein SPF-SIG Project) since the fall of 2006.  She has worked with diverse community members to build the coalition from the ground up, guided the coalition through a community assessment process, and is now coordinating implementation of prevention programs using their Theory of Change as a guide.   Ms. Manskopf has over 15 years of experience coordinating youth and prevention programs as well as community coalitions/networks. 

Jacqueline Schmitz is the Project Director at People United for Families.  She has worked in the substance abuse prevention field since 2001.  Currently Ms. Schmitz coordinates the Strategic Prevention Framework activities for the Otoe County Coalition.  In addition, she serves as the fiscal agent for grant projects that advance the goals of the coalition including:  Drug Free Communities Support Grant, Title II Prevention Grant, State Juvenile service Grant, and grants from other local foundations.

Jane A. Ungemack, Dr.P.H., Assistant Professor of Community Medicine and Health Care at the University of Connecticut Health Center, specializes in health services research in substance abuse prevention and treatment.  She has conducted several needs assessment and evaluation projects in collaboration with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.  She is currently the Evaluator for Connecticut’s SPF-SIG initiative.

Janet Storey served as Evaluation Director for the topic initiative and is a Behavioral Health Program Manager at the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services where she oversees Connecticut’s Prevention Data Infrastructure, including training and support of Minimum Data Set and National Outcome Measures.  She also serves on the State Epidemiological Workgroup and has 27 years of experience in substance abuse prevention and treatment, program evaluation and resilience promotion among at risk populations.

Janine Toth, MSSW, has been in the prevention field since 1983 working at the local and state levels in Pennsylvania, Florida and Illinois. She has been with Center for Prevention Research and Development, Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois since October, 2005, with the primary responsibility of coordinating the Best Practices Institute, Leadership Program for Prevention Policy Makers. Other projects include providing evaluation and technical support to state funded Substance Abuse Prevention Providers.

Janis Kupersmidt is a Senior Research Associate at innovation Research and Training (iRT) and an Investigator at the FPG Child Development Institute at UNC-CH.  She was formerly on the faculty at the University of Virginia and at the UNC-CH in the clinical psychology program.  She is currently the PI on state and federal grants related to the development and evaluation of substance abuse and mental health prevention programs involving media literacy, social and emotional skills development, and mentoring.

Jeanie Alter, Ph.D., is the Program Manager for the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant for the Indiana Prevention Resource Center and the former evaluator for the Afternoons ROCK in Indiana program.

Jeff Jordan is the founder of Social Branding®.  His focus is on the relationship between identity and behavior to change behavior through culture. Mr. Jordan’s practical experience managing over a dozen campaigns nationwide and empirical experience researching cultures and identity allows him to clearly and thoughtfully explain the constructs that motivate risk behaviors. As a researcher, he can explain the psychological and sociological theories that underlie branding, while as an applicator he can share experiences applying these methods in all types of communities.

Jennifer Talarico is the program director for Healthy Alternatives for Little Ones (HALO), a preschool health and prevention program of Heartland Family Service in Omaha, Nebraska.  Jennifer has worked the past seven years in marketing and public relations within health-related non-profit organizations. 

Jeremy Goldbach, MA,  is the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Fellow, for the state of Texas. He has several years as an adolescent substance abuse counselor in residential and outpatient settings.  Mr. Boldbach has conducted research in substance abuse prevention through several projects at the University of Texas Center for Social Work Research. 

Jessica Edwards, Ph.D., is a research scientist with Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE).  Her interests and experience include school- and community-based substance abuse prevention evaluations and HIV-related prevention research. 

John Ernst, MS, has been a government administrator the field of alcohol and substance abuse prevention for 28 years. He currently serves as the Director of the Bureau of Prevention Research and Evidenced-Based Practices at the NYS Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. Mr. Ernst also serves as the NPN for NYS, co-chair of the NPN Research and Evaluation Committee and Chair of the Society for Prevention Research, Partner Organization Committee. Mr. Ernst has a BA from the State University of New York at Geneseo and a MS in Criminal Justice from the University of New Haven.

John Morris, Ph.D., is Director of the Human Services Practice of the Technical Assistance Collaborative, Inc., a national not-for-profit consulting group based in Boston, MA.  He is also Executive Director of the Annapolis Coalition on the Behavioral Health Workforce which has just published a national action plan for workforce development at the request of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. John is a past president of the American College of Mental Health Administration and of the ACMHA Foundation, and in 2006 he was awarded the Saul Feldman Lifetime Achievement Award, ACMHA’s highest honor.  He is currently Chair-Elect of the Board of Directors of Mental Health America (formerly the National Mental Health Association) and is a member of the National Advisory Council to the Georgetown University Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, the Texas Health Institute’s National Advisory Board for Community Collaboratives, and the National Leadership Forum on Mental Health and Criminal Justice.  He is a past-President of the SC Action Council for Cross Cultural Mental Health and Human Services, and is a member of the Mental Health Policy Research Network of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; he is also a consultant and member of the National Resource Bank for the MacArthur Foundation’s multi-site Models for Change juvenile justice reform project.

Joseph Porto serves as a special investigator in the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ Tobacco Prevention and Enforcement Program.  He provides training to youth agents, conducts unannounced tobacco compliance inspections, and presents bilingual merchant education trainings.  He has five years of experience in private investigations through Countermeasures Investigations/Surveillance. 

Julie Stevens, CPS, is the Texas State Liaison for CSAP’s Southwest CAPT with 20 years of experience in the field of substance abuse treatment, prevention and advocacy.  Ms. Stevens currently serves as chair of the Prevention Committee of the International Certification and Reciprocity Consortium. 

Karen A. Randolph, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the College of Social Work, Florida State University.  The focus of her research is on risk and resilience during adolescence.  Substantive areas of interest include adolescent substance use prevention and family engagement in prevention.  Recent publications appear in Journal of Family Issues and Journal of Youth and Adolescence.

Karen Hall, Director of Substance Abuse Prevention Regional Prevention Center of Comprehend, Inc.
located in Maysville, KY.

Kathryn Robins, CWIC,  is the Executive Director of SMILE, the Independent Living Center in the frontier-rural-border region of SW Arizona.  She developed,  Living Well with a Disability, an evidence-based curriculum.  Having survived childhood Hodgkin’s disease, her interest in health promotion grew along with successive jobs as Executive Director for the Niagara Region and York-Toronto Lung Associations, Osteoporosis Society of Canada, and Ontario Society of Medical Technologists.

Katie Connelly has served as the Community Organizer for the prevention unit of Piedmont Community Services for 5 years, leading the community mobilization effort with an adult and youth task force that have been actively engaged.  Previously, Ms. Connelly was the Director of Community Relations for Blue Ridge Rehab Center in Martinsville, VA. Katie presented at the Southwest Prevention Convention in Dallas, Texas.

Keith A. King, Ph.D., CHES, is an Associate Professor of Health Promotion and Director of Research and Evaluation for the Center for Prevention Studies at the University of Cincinnati.  His research emphases lie in adolescent health promotion, alcohol and other drug prevention, survey development, and program evaluation.  Dr. King is committed to positive youth development and believes that helping children to become positively connected to positive people and positive situations are the keys to lifelong engagement in healthy behaviors.

Keith R. Hotle serves as the Suicide Prevention Team Leader and SPF-SIG Project Coordinator within the Wyoming Department of Health, Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Division.  In that capacity, he is responsible for administering the State of Wyoming Suicide Prevention Program, as well as the federally funded Wyoming Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant (SPF-SIG) and the Wyoming Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative.  Prior to his current position, he was the State Program Manager for Project Out, the Wyoming Nursing Home Transitions Program, and regional coordinator for the Senior Companion and Family Caregiver programs.  Mr. Hotle is chairperson of the State Suicide Prevention Task Force, the Wyoming Youth Suicide Prevention Advisory Council and the Wind River INSPIRE (Indian Suicide Prevention, Intervention, Referral and Education) Initiative and serves on a number of other advisory boards and committees in Wyoming. 

Kerrilyn Scott-Nakai is a Senior Project Director at the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS) and  has over 12 years of experience evaluating and providing technical assistance to ATOD prevention programs for federal, state, and local agencies.  In this capacity, she has overseen three state-wide technical assistance projects for California (the Community Prevention Initiative, the Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities, and State Incentive Grant TA Projects).  She has participated in the design and implementation of three longitudinal CSAP national cross-site studies.  Ms. Scott-Nakai  is committed to assisting prevention providers translate research into application.

Kim Fornero is the Chief of the Bureau of Community-Based and Primary Prevention in the Division of Community Health and Prevention.  She has been with the State of Illinois for 13 years and worked in the field for eight years on the front line in suburban and urban areas and managed private and public grants.  Ms. Fornero currently manages an array of primary prevention programs addressing volunteerism, delinquency, teen pregnancy, abstinence and substance abuse.

Lance Segars, Ph.D., is a senior scientist at the Center for Alcohol and Other Drug Studies and Services and lecturer for the School of Social Work at San Diego State University and has over three decades of experience in research and evaluation of alcohol and drug treatment and prevention programs.    He has published many journal articles and evaluation reports. He is currently conducting the statewide evaluation of the California State Incentive Grant.  Other recent projects include evaluation of adolescent treatment aftercare programs in San Diego and the California Office of Traffic Safety project on State college and university campuses.

Laura-Ashley Overdyke has worked on the White House’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign for the past 5 years.  She spearheaded the campaign’s first comprehensive advertising and outreach initiative on teen prescription drug abuse.  Ms. Overdyke’s other focus is the Above the Influence teen campaign, with advertising and websites for 12-17 year olds.   The Media Campaign is the nation’s most visible prevention program.  This is a fully integrated social marketing effort using television, radio, print, and interactive advertising along with public relations, websites, and brochures to prevent and reduce teen drug use.

Leonor Vanik, M.A., is a third year CSAP Prevention Fellow for the Illinois Department of Human Services, Division of Community Health and Prevention, SPF SIG program.  She has extensive experience in program design and implementation and has worked as a consultant for government and non-profit agencies.

Luis Solís Rojas, M.D., MPH is the National Director for Prevention, Centers for Youth Integrations (CIJ) of Mexico.  His specialty is in Psychiatry and is certified by the Mexico Council of Psychiatry.  Dr. Rojas has 25 years of work in the area of addictions and is a former Fellow, Program in Drug Abuse, Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health.  In addition, he is a professor of Specialty Treatment on Addictions –SEP CIJ and for the School of Psychology of the State of Morelos, Mexico and a Founding Partner of Mexico’s Society for the Studies of Addiction. He also serves as an Advisor, at various capacities, for the United Nations, Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) (e.g., Public F/17 and H/90) for the development of public policies and structures for demand reduction in Central America.  Previously Dr. Rojas was the Chief for the Center for Alcoholism Assistance and Family Support, National Institute of Psychiatry of Mexico; served as Program Coordinator for Post Graduate Studies on Addiction and Psychiatry at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM); Executive Adjunct Director and Editor of the National Program against Alcohol and Alcohol Abuse, National Council against Addictions  (CONADIC), 2000-2006.  He has authored several books: “Drugs, One Hundred Most Frequent Questions Asked” and the “Prevention of Drug Consumption,” Centers for Youth Integrations (CIJ). Co-author of the Prevention Features of Drug Consumption in the Mexican School, CONADI C.  He has Publisher Twenty-five articles in National and International Specialized Journals, and seven specialized book chapters. 

Marc Bolan is an independent evaluation consultant and president of Marc Bolan Consulting.  He has worked with numerous non-profit agencies, government organizations and funders/foundations in their efforts to develop evaluation systems that are useful in help organizations better evaluate and understand their impacts on the populations they serve.  Mr. Bolan has particular expertise in working with local and community based organizations and coalitions in the development of evaluation tools and data collection instruments, and in understanding how to use data for program development, planning and reporting efforts.

Mark Wolfson, Ph.D., is Associate Professor and Head of the Section on Society and Health in the Department of Social Sciences and Health Policy, Wake Forest University School of Medicine.  He is a sociologist whose research focuses on public policy on adolescent and young adult alcohol and tobacco use and the implementation and impact of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug policy and prevention programs.

Marla Bull Bear, MA, CMT, ADS, RT, is the founder and Executive Director of the Native American Advocacy Program, which provides alcohol and drug prevention, supportive mental health counseling and independent living services to Native Americans from the nine tribal nations in South Dakota. Ms. Bear is chairwoman of the Board of Regents at Sinte Gleska University and is trained in massage therapy, Reiki, equine assisted therapy and Acudetox.

Mary Ann Coupland Ph.D., LP has 32 years experience providing behavioral health services and developed rural outpatient and case management substance abuse and mental health programs. Her research includes the study of the neuropsychological concerns from substance abuse with Native American population.  She is a professor at Sinte Gleska University and consultants for Native American Advocacy Program.

Mary Kate Mason serves as a Prevention Services Coordinator for the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services.  Ms. Mason has seventeen years of experience in the social work field.  Ms. Mason currently serves as Project Manager for the CSAP-funded Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant focusing on prevention of underage drinking, provides technical assistance on planning for Connecticut’s Regional Action Councils, and serves on committees and boards including the Connecticut Coalition to Stop Underage Drinking. Ms. Mason has presented nationally and through out the state and is an instructor for the Connecticut Prevention Training Collaborative.

Melinda Norman, is the Regional Prevention Coordinator, Prevention Services, Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addition Services (ODADAS). She is responsible for providing consultation to the Alcohol and Drug Addiction Boards and local prevention providers.  Ms. Norman provides technical assistance to Boards and Providers to advance evidence based prevention programs, strategies and practices, monitors SAPT and GFA funded prevention activities at the Board and provider level. She has served as a lead trainer/presenter of the WBPS, for the Prevention Division, across the state from development to implementation.

Melissa Radey, Ph.D., is an assistant professor at the Florida State University College of Social Work. Her research interests include racial/ethnic disparities in poverty and the role of informal supports among low-income families to promote health and well-being. Recent publications appear in Early Childhood Research Quarterly and Families in Society.

Michael A. Buscemi, M.Ed., is the President of the Service-Learning Life Skills Network and serves as Senior Consultant and Advisor to the Lions Clubs International Foundation and its internationally recognized youth development programs.  Mr. Buscemi was one of the principle architects of the most widely used and effective Life Skills and Prevention programs in the world, Lions Quest.  He has been a White House guest on numerous occasions, including the Presidents Leadership Conference on Youth, Drug Use and Violence and has keynoted and presented at major national and international conferences, including the Global Conference on HIV/AIDs & Drugs in India, as well as guest lecturer in Japan, Thailand, Africa, South America, and throughout Europe.  Mr. Buscemi has served as a task force member for the U.S. State Department’s Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL) and to the Inter-American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), serving on their Expert Panel on Demand Reduction for Latin and Central America and was appointed to two terms on the National PTA Board of Directors.  He has also been a project advisor to the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and is a member of the National Service-Learning Advocacy Committee and led a national dialogue among the country’s premier education associations and community service organizations, in cooperation with the John Glenn Institute and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

Michael W. Arthur, Ph.D., is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group.  He has been researching the prevention of adolescent drug use and delinquency for the past twenty-five years.  He has been a consultant to community groups and state and federal agencies on issues related to prevention needs assessment, strategic prevention planning, and evaluation of community preventive interventions.  Dr. Arthur is Research Director for the Community Youth Development Study.

Michelle M. Nienhius, MPH, serves the state of South Carolina as Prevention Consultant for the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services (DAODAS).  This position includes planning and implementing statewide changes in the field of prevention as well as overseeing quality assurance of prevention deliverables from the 33 county agencies throughout the state.  Ms. Nienhius assists with training for prevention professionals throughout the state on the concepts and strategies generated by the work of the Governor’s Council.  She serves as the state representative to the National Prevention Network (NPN), the coordinator for the state’s Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws (EUDL) grant and the Project Director of the State Epidemiology Outcomes.  Previously at DAODAS, Ms. Nienhius served as Assistant Program Coordinator for the Governor’s Cooperative Agreement for Prevention (G-CAP) and South Carolina’s State Incentive Grant (SIG). Prior to DAODAS, she worked with the youth and wellness programs at Lexington County Recreation and at the Aging Commission.

Mike Lowther, MA, is the Director of Division of State Programs at SAMHSA/CSAP and is responsible for the management of the prevention portion of the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant, the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants, and the implementation of the Synar Tobacco Regulations.  He previously served as the Director of Prevention Support Systems in the Center for Policy Analysis and Training at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation where he managed contracts and provided technical assistance to States and communities.  Mr. Lowther has spent 13 years directing the Southwest Prevention Center (SWPC) at the University of Oklahoma where he led regional training and technical assistance centers including CSAP’s Southwest Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies and the Department of Education’s Southwest Regional Center for Safe and Drug Free Schools.   He has more than 25 years experience in supervising, developing, and implementing prevention programs at the state and community level.  He has extensive experience in creating effective working relationships between local, state, and federal agencies and organizations, as well as expertise in social change theory, prevention planning, and facilitation.   In June of 2001, Mike received the National Prevention Network Lifetime Achievement Award for outstanding contributions to the field of prevention throughout his career.

Milo C. Berry is a retired public school teacher and coach of 36 years in Tooele, Utah. He has been the CTC Community Coordinator in Tooele for five years, facilitating the development of a fully-functioning CTC operating system in Tooele.  Mr. Berry is committed to the use of model strategies in reducing risks for youth and bringing a community together on behalf of kids.

Nilufer Isvan, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Fellow at the human Services Research Institute and is the Data Analysis Team Lead for the CSAP DACCC.  Prior to this, Dr. Isvan was a Research Scientist at the Channing Bete Company and was responsible for analyzing data from the communities that Care Survey, developing community needs assessment reports and constructing the CTC normative database.

Nora L. Drexler, M. Ed, a retired classroom teacher, is the Supervisory Instructor for Alutiiq LLC. Nora is a national expert trainer, consultant and curriculum writer for drug prevention programs, coalition building, environmental/policy change, strategic planning, media, law enforcement, youth empowerment, sustainability and evaluation. Her clients include National Guard, SAMHSA, CSAP, the CAPTs, CADCA, and numerous state agencies and civic organizations.  Ms. Drexler is the recipient of four national awards, several state awards and Congressional citations.

Pamela Rush, CPS, is currently the Director of Prevention Services at Axis I Center of Barnwell, SC where she develops, coordinates and supervises the alcohol, tobacco, and other drug and teen pregnancy prevention programs within Barnwell County.  She is a Certified Senior Prevention Professional and a Certified International Prevention Specialist by the IC&RC. 

Pamela S. Imm, Ph.D., has extensive experience in the areas of program development, program evaluation and applied research.  Dr. Imm most enjoys working with local community-based coalitions to help them integrate evaluation and research-based concepts into their work.  She has published in the areas of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, evaluation research, and models of effective programming.    

Pat Davenport is the director of the Families and Schools Together Inc, a non-profit organization. She has over 20 years experience in the field of human services management and has a strong background in services to families, children and communities. Ms. Davenport brings to this position her passion and belief that increasing parent empowerment and support networks for families enriches the lives of every child and everyone in the community reaps the benefits.

Patricia B. Getty, Ph.D., is the Acting Director in the Division of Systems Development, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration (SAMHSA).  She is responsible for oversight for the Materials Development, Data Analysis, Technical Assistance and Training for the Center. She is the Project Officer for the Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder Center for Excellence and the Communities That Care Implementation project.   She has served as Branch Chief for the Division of State and Community Systems Development at CSAP, providing oversight to the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant and the Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants.  She directed the efforts to develop a set of prevention performance measures which eventually led to the National Outcome Measures.  Dr. Getty served as the CSAP Coordinator for the International Visitors Program, and was a Government Contract Officer for the development of a web-based curriculum associated with the core competencies for the Prevention Professional Certification.

Paula Brown is the Community Coordinator for Muhlenberg County Alliance for Methamphetamine Prevention (MCAMP) in Kentucky.  Ms. Brown is currently working on her CPP certification.

Peter F. Mulhall, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Prevention Research and Development, Institute of Government and Public Affairs at the University of Illinois.  Dr. Mulhall has over 20 years experience in community health education and prevention with a special emphasis on adolescent problem behaviors and organizations that serve them.  He has worked with several state and federal agencies developing performance measures for assessing capacity, process and outcomes for prevention and early intervention programs for youth.

Rafael Rivera is a Vice President of H.A.S.’ substance abuse prevention and treatment programs for the last six years and oversees the design and implementation of new programs and ensures that all programs meet regulatory and funding requirements. Previously he directed H.A.S. alcohol prevention and treatment programs and worked in a substance abuse inpatient facility for five years.

Ray Daugherty is the President of PRI, has worked in the alcohol and drug field since 1972. He is co-author (with Terry O’Bryan ) of the PRIME For Life curricula and co-author (with Carl Leukefeld) of Reducing the Risk for Substance Abuse: A Life Span Approach, Plenum Press, 1998. He helped establish the U.S. Army’s alcohol and drug program in Japan in 1971, established a social setting detoxification program in Lexington, Kentucky in 1973, and served as Executive Director of the Kentucky Alcoholism Council from 1974-1989. Mr. Daugherty has served on the National Public Policy Committee of the National Council on Alcoholism and is a frequent lecturer at state and national conferences in the United States and, more recently, in Scandinavia and the Mediterranean.

Rebecca A. Vidourek, M.ed., CHES is a Graduate Research Assistant in the Health Promotion and Education Program at the University of Cincinnati.  Her research emphases lie in adolescent health promotion, alcohol and other drug prevention, and positive youth development.  Ms. Vidourek has devoted the past several years to working with inner-city youth and helping them to develop effective interpersonal skills for success.

Richard Cervantes, Ph.D., is a leader in his field. He has nearly 25 years of experience in the field of mental health and HIV/AIDS research and program evaluation. He pioneered the application of statistical analysis and epidemiological techniques to Latino and other multi-ethnic populations in a community health environment. Dr. Cervantes has a contributed significantly to the development and sophistication of a body of knowledge to address complex health and human services issues using scientific-based solutions.  His past teaching and academic positions include the University of Southern California, Department of Psychiatry, the California Professional School of Psychology, the University of Oklahoma, Department of Human Relations and the California State University at Northridge. His professional and clinical experience consists of forensic consultation and staff positions at Didi Hirsch Community Mental Health Center, the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and the Children’s Medical Center. He began his career as a research psychologist at the University of California, Los Angeles Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences.

Richard Kite, Ph.D., is a research analyst with the County of Orange (CA) Health Care Agency, where he directs a program of applied research to support alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention planning and programming.  Dr. Kite has more than 30 years experience in alcohol/drug research and evaluation spanning both treatment and prevention services.  He was recipient of the 2004 California State Research/Evaluation Award—Prevention and in 2007 received MADD’s Individual Diamond Service Award.

Robert Flewelling,Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation.  His research focuses primarily on the epidemiology of substance use and other health risk behaviors, and on systems-level planning and evaluation of substance abuse preventive interventions.  He directed the prevention needs assessment project and the SIG evaluation for Vermont, is currently directing the Vermont SPF-SIG evaluation, and is an Investigator on the national cross-site evaluation of the SPF-SIG.

Robin V. Cox manages the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services’ Tobacco Prevention and Enforcement Program.  She oversees all Synar program enforcement and reporting activities including merchant and community education and serves on several councils, committees and advocacy groups that address tobacco use statewide.

Rudy Rodriguez, MBA, CIS, is the Chief of Management Information Services, Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addition Services (ODADAS).  And is responsible for the overall computer and network services for the Department.   Mr. Rodriquez has experience in software development, networking, database management and web site development.  He has been charged with improving the overall connectivity of the network and application development.

Ruth El-Roy, MA, is the Head of International Relations Department at IADA. She has held that position since 2002, after heading the Prevention and Education Department. Ruth was a lecturer at Ariel College, teaching “Introduction to prevention: methods for preventing use of psychoactive substances”; “The psychology of adolescence, with an emphasis upon drug and alcohol problems”; “Enforcement institutions, prevention and treatment”.

Sherry Wong has over twenty-five years experience in education, translated research, training, and program development.  As Director of Translated Research at Talaris Research Institute, Ms. Wong led the research and development of tools to promote social and emotional development, secure parent-child bonding, and healthy brain development for children birth to five.  In her ten years with Developmental Research and Programs (DRP) and the Channing Bete Company, Ms. Wong authored the Communities that Care Planning Kit; Communities that Care Prevention Strategies: A Research Guide to What Works, and the prevention component of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offenders. She also managed the development and dissemination of the Communities that Care training system, a research-based, data-driven, outcome-focused strategic planning process for preventing adolescent substance abuse, delinquency, violence, teen pregnancy and school dropout.  Wong also led the development, dissemination, and training for DRP’s award-winning, evidence-based parenting and teacher training programs--Guiding Good Choices, Supporting School Success, Soaring Stars, Staying Connected with Your Teen, and SOAR (Skills, Opportunities And Recognition).

Skip Forsyth bio coming soon.

Sondra Borth is the Communities That Care Coordinator in Hutchinson, KS through the Regional Prevention Center of South Central Kansas and Mirror, Inc.  Ms. Borth was formerly a Children’s Case Manager with a local mental health institution working with youth and families.  Prior to that, she was the Child Care Director at the local YMCA.  

Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB, FAPA, is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. He studies the addictions, broadly defined. He has over 300 publications. His projects include Towards No Tobacco Use, Towards No Drug Abuse, and Project EX, which are considered model programs at numerous agencies (i.e., CDC, NIDA, NCI, OJJDP, SAMSHA, CSAP, Colorado and Maryland Blueprints, Health Canada, U.S. Department of Education and various State Departments of Education). Dr. Sussman received the honor of Research Laureate for the American Academy of Health Behavior in 2005, and is President there (2007-2008). Also, he has just received the honor of Fellow of the American Psychological Association (Division 50).

Steven Burritt, MPH, is in PIRE’s Columbia, SC office and serves the state of South Carolina as an evaluator for prevention services.  He also manages the annual Synar study and Enforcing Underage Drinking Laws grant for the state.  Mr. Burritt’s other projects include co-managing South Carolina’s State Epidemiological Work Group, evaluating Circle Park’s Drug-Free Communities grant, and serving as external evaluator for the Civic Engagement and Character Education Technical Assistance Center (CETAC).

Steven G. Liga, MSW, LSW, LCADC, CPS  is the CEO of the Middlesex County, New Jersey chapter of the National Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence.  He has sixteen years experience in the field of addiction treatment and prevention.  Mr. Liga is an experienced instructor and currently teaches two courses at Rutgers University.  He has also presented at the annual conferences of the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Counselors, New Jersey Prevention Network, and New Jersey Associated Treatment Providers.

Steven Schmidt is VP of the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA), over-seeing research and development of policy, best practices, and communication strategies to assist states manage control and regulatory systems and prevent alcohol related harm. Previ-ously he was Director of Alcohol Education for the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, for which he developed statewide initiatives to reduce underage drinking and high risk college drinking and innovative education / prevention programs for local communities.

Sue Evans has served as the Executive Director of Northweast Kansas Council on Substance Abuse for over twenty years.   She has lead the community in multiple initiatives and been on the leading edge of community prevention. Her experience as a coalition leader and the multiple data reporting systems is a unique perspective on the on-line documentation system.

Susan Armoni, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of paxUnited – The National Mediation Center®, began the conflict mediation movement in the schools of Texas and is the developer of the Peers Making Peace program.  She founded and directed the Texas Mediation Initiative through the Office of the Attorney General, as well as PeaceMakers Unlimited, Inc. (now paxUnited), a private, nonprofit organization.  Dr. Armoni is recognized as an international speaker and trainer and is the author of numerous books and articles.

Tony Foleno is senior vice president for research at the Ad Council, leading an array of qualitative and quantitative research studies. Mr. Foleno takes an active role in guiding the strategic development of Ad Council public service communications campaigns. He also oversees evaluation research designed to assess the effectiveness and impact of Ad Council initiatives. In addition, he leads internal analyses and special projects to help improve best practices across Ad Council programs.

Tony Rey, Ph.D., is co-evaluator for the Texas State CSAP SPF SIG (TX SPF SIG) effort.  His current professional focus is providing evaluation and training services for alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention efforts. He has delivered cultural competence training to service providers from throughout the state of Texas.  Dr. Rey is also currently the evaluator of Excel Educational Enterprises, (EEE Inc.) drug prevention programs in Albuquerque, NM.  He served as the lead evaluator for several Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) funded projects including the West Dallas Community Centers, Inc., La Familia Fuerte Hispanic drug prevention program in Dallas, Texas, the Centro de la Familia de Utah Nuevo Dia Latina drug prevention program in Salt Lake City, Utah as well as the City of Dallas People for Promoting Community Project, CODAC Behavioral Health’s Family Health Promotion Project and Integrated Family Services Project in Dallas, Texas.  He was also part of the CSAP funded US/Mexico border cultural competence in prevention research project.

Tracy Barrett, Ph.D.,  is a Research Associate at innovation Research and Training (iRT).  Her areas of research expertise include the use of media literacy education as a means of preventing or delaying underage drinking and smoking as well as the study of cognitive, motor, and perceptual developments across infancy and childhood.

Trina Ragain is a Manager of Research Programs at the Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works as part of a team to provide evaluation services to the Illinois Department of Human Services, Bureau of Community Based and Primary Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention Program (SAPP). Additionally, Ms. Ragain is concluding a longitudinal study on the effectiveness of social norms marketing at reducing alcohol consumption among high school students.

Virginia Mulkern, Ph.D., has worked in the field of behavioral health services evaluation for over twenty years and has managed over 40 grants and contracts. Dr. Mulkern currently serves as Project Director for the Data Analysis Coordination and Consolidation Center for SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention; Project Director for the CMHS evaluation of the Minority Fellowship Program; and Project Director of the CMHS evaluation of the PAIMI program.

Wayne Harding, Ed.M., Ph.D., Director of Projects for Social Science Research & Evaluation, Inc. in Burlington, Massachusetts, has over 30 years of research experience.  Dr. Harding is the lead evaluator for CSAP’s Northeast CAPT and two national TA centers:  the Suicide Prevention and Resource Center and the National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention.

Zili Sloboda, Ph.D., is currently an adjunct research professor in the Department of Sociology of the University of Akron and senior research associate at the Institute for Health and Social Policy of the University of Akron. She was awarded a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in November 1999 to conduct a national evaluation study of a middle and high school substance abuse prevention program. This study will end in July 2009. Prior to coming to the University of Akron, Dr. Sloboda held the position of Director of the Division of Epidemiology and Prevention Research with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). She was trained as a medical sociologist at New York University and as an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health. Her research has included a broad range of epidemiological studies and program evaluations in the areas of drug abuse, geriatrics and cancer. She was a founder of the Society for Prevention Research, of which she is the current President, and also helped establish the International Epidemiologic Work Group and the Global HIV/AIDS Prevention Research Network. She has published in the areas of drug abuse, cancer prevention, and AIDS prevention.