Available April 30, 2012
Janice W. Petersen, Ph.D. currently serves in the capacity as Director of the Office of Prevention for the state of North Carolina and Prevention and Early Intervention Team Leader. She makes policy recommendations regarding substance abuse issues, and serves as a liaison between federal, state and local agencies regarding coordination and collaboration of substance abuse prevention across the continuum. In her role as team leader she is charged with leading her team in developing best practice protocols for prevention issues in mental health, developmental disabilities and substance abuse prevention. Her research interests include retention and recruitment of the prevention workforce, cultural responsiveness for prevention programming, and evidence-based/informed program implementation across the life span.
Dr. Petersen is the appointed representative to the National Prevention Network (NPN) for the state of North Carolina and was recently elected as President. She was a member of the steering committee of the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOIM) Substance Abuse Report to the legislature where she was instrumental in setting recommendations for the inclusion of the Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) as a way to do business in North Carolina for substance abuse prevention services. She serves on the DHHS EXCELLS Task Force, the NC-IOM Task Force on the Social and Emotional Wellbeing of Young Children, and the NC-IOM Task Force on Health Care Reform-Prevention Workgroup. She serves on numerous other state-wide strategic planning committees and advisory boards and nationally, she is a member of the Community Advisory Committee (CAC) for CADCA, SAMHSA Behavioral Health Workforce Development Special Expert Panelist and CSAP’s Service Accountability and Monitoring Systems (CSAMS) Stakeholder Group. Dr. Petersen received her Ph.D. degree in Clinical/Community psychology from Pennsylvania State University, an M.S. degree in psychology with specialization in minority mental health from Washington University in St. Louis, and a B.A. degree in Psychology/Social Welfare from Dillard University in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Janet L. Collins, Ph.D., was named Associate Director for Program in the Office of the Director, CDC in January 2010. Dr. Collins joined CDC in 1990 as Chief of the Surveillance and Evaluation Research Branch in the Division of Adolescent and School Health. For the past four years, she served as Director of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (NCCDPHP) where she directed a diverse portfolio of programmatic and scientific initiatives across ten Divisions. Dr. Collins’ contributions as NCCDPHP Director include establishing the Division for Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention and expanding the Center’s policy and community-based work on tobacco, nutrition, and obesity prevention and control. Dr. Collins earned her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from Stanford University.
John O'Brien is the Senior Advisor to the Administrator on Health Care Reform at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Mr. O’Brien was the Director of a Cross System Financing Project, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The project provides an opportunity for states, counties and cities to develop strategies for coordinating funding for human services from federal, state and local dollars. He was also a member of the Advancing Recovery Project staff. The Advancing Recovery project Advancing Recovery is an $11 million initiative to improve the quality of addiction treatment through the use of evidence-based practices, or practices supported by research to improve patient outcomes in treatment settings. He was also the Program Director for Resources for Recovery, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative to implement strategies to expand alcohol and other drug treatment within state’s public AOD systems. Prior to Resources for Recovery, Mr. O’Brien worked with the Technical Assistance Collaborative for fifteen years as an Senior Consultant. He has provided consultation to over 30 states and local human services authorities. He has worked with Medicaid, state mental health and substance abuse authorities. His primary focus is designing services and systems of care for individuals with behavioral health needs and their families. He also assists states with financing these services and systems. He has worked with states to develop federal Medicaid Waivers, Medicaid state plan amendments, and federal grant applications (e.g., children’s system of care). He has experience designing and implementing qualitative and quantitative research of children's behavioral health systems. He was also the Director of Planning and Program Development at the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children where he oversaw the agency’s development and implementation of a lead agency child welfare managed care initiative. Mr. O’Brien has also been a manager at KPMG Peat Marwick and worked for the Eunice Kennedy Shriver Center, the Massachusetts Developmental Disability Council, the Illinois Governor’s Office, and the Illinois Legislative Commission on Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse. He was a program staff at Thresholds, Inc. in Chicago.
Anthony Biglan, Ph.D. is a Senior Scientist at Oregon Research Institute and the Co-Director of the Promise Neighborhood Research Consortium. He has been conducting research on the development and prevention of child and adolescent problem behavior for the past 30 years. His work has included studies of the risk and protective factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use; high-risk sexual behavior; and antisocial behavior. He has conducted numerous experimental evaluations of interventions to prevent tobacco use both through school-based programs and community-wide interventions. And, he has evaluated interventions to prevent high-risk sexual behavior, antisocial behavior, and reading failure. In recent years, his work has shifted to more comprehensive interventions that have the potential to prevent the entire range of child and adolescent problems. He and colleagues at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences published a book summarizing the epidemiology, cost, etiology, prevention, and treatment of youth with multiple problems (Biglan et al., 2004). He is a former president of the Society for Prevention Research. He was a member of the Institute of Medicine Committee on Prevention, which recently released its report documenting numerous evidence-based preventive intervention that can prevent multiple problems. As a member of Oregon’s Alcohol and Drug Policy Commission, he has helped to develop a strategic plan for implementing comprehensive evidence-based interventions throughout Oregon.
Irwin Sandler is a Regents’ Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology and Founding Director of the Prevention Research Center for Families in Stress at Arizona State University. He has been the Director of an NIMH supported Preventive Research Center, and the recipient of multiple grants from the NIMH, NIDA and various foundations to study resilience for children in stress and to develop and evaluate preventive interventions for these children and their families. He was a member of the National Research Council and Institute of Medicine committee that developed the 2009 review of progress in prevention science, and has been a consultant to the NIMH, NIDA, CMHS and various private foundations on prevention research. His research has focused mainly on children who experience parental divorce and the death of a parent and has emphasized linking theory and research about sources of resilience with the design, evaluation and dissemination of preventive interventions. He is currently conducting an evaluation of the effectiveness of a prevention program for children of divorcing parents that is being conducted in six family courts across the state of Arizona.
William Beardslee, MD, Co-Principal Investigator, is Director of the Baer Prevention Initiatives, Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Psychiatry at Children’s Hospital in Boston, and Gardner Monks Professor of Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. He received his B.A. from Haverford College and his M.D. from Case Western Reserve University. He trained in general psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital and in child psychiatry and psychiatric research at Children’s Hospital. Dr. Beardslee has directed the Preventive Intervention Project, a ten year study of response to public health preventive interventions for families facing depression. This study established long-term positive effects for parents and children from these strategies and the approaches received very high ratings from the National Registry of Evidence-Based Practices. He is the principal investigator of the Boston site of a four-site prevention of depression trial using Dr. Greg Clarke’s cognitive behavioral group approach. Now in its fifth year, this study has demonstrated that it is possible to actually prevent episodes of major depression in youngsters at high risk both because they have depressive symptoms and their parents are depressed. He has extensive experience in adapting interventions devised in one setting to other settings and has adapted the original preventive intervention approach for Latino families, for African-American families, and in other contexts. The work has been widely used in Scandinavia in developing systems-wide approaches. Dr. Beardslee has helped in the adaptation to these settings. He has been especially interested in the protective effects of self-understanding in enabling youngsters and adults to cope with adversity and has studied self-understanding in civil-rights workers, survivors of cancer, and children of parents with affective disorders. He has received numerous awards and honors, most recently including an Honorary Doctorate of Science Degree from Emory University for his work in the prevention of depression and advocacy and the Community, Culture and Prevention Science Award of the Society for Prevention Research. He serves on the Carter Center Mental Health Task Force and numerous other nonprofit boards. He has served on the Institute of Medicine Board of Children, Youth and Families and was part of two of its committees that have recently released reports: the Committee on Prevention of Mental Disorders and Substance Abuse Among Children, Youth, and Young Adults and the Committee on Depression, Parenting Practices, and the Healthy Development of Young Children. :He is the author of over 175 articles and chapters and two books: The Way Out Must Lead In: Life Histories in the Civil Rights Movement, a story of what enables civil rights workers to endure; and Out of the Darkened Room: Protecting the Children and Strengthening the Family When a Parent Is Depressed, a book about how parents and caregivers can help families overcome depression.
Wilson M. Compton, M.D., M.P.E. is Director of the Division of Epidemiology, Services and Prevention Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health. In this position, he manages a complex research program of national and international scope with over $250 million in annual funding. Prior to joining NIDA, Dr. Compton was Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the Master in Psychiatric Epidemiology Program at Washington University in Saint Louis as well as Medical Director of Addiction Services at the Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Saint Louis. Dr. Compton received his undergraduate education from Amherst College. He attended medical school and completed his residency training in psychiatry at Washington University. He is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society as well as numerous professional organizations. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator of multiple federally funded grants focusing on the epidemiology of drug abuse, HIV prevention and co-occurring mental and drug use disorders. In these areas of research, Dr. Compton has authored over 100 articles and chapters, and multiple diagnostic interviews.
Sharon Pollack. Ms. Pollack has more than twelve years experience using strategic and creative thinking skills to develop and implement mental health, substance abuse prevention and treatment programs and services. She has a BA from Brandeis University and a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins University. Ms. Pollack has worked with the SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence for eight years with a focus on gender specific substance abuse prevention services for women.
Kana Enomoto. Ms. Enomoto is the Principal Deputy Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In this role, she shares responsibility with the Administrator to provide executive direction and leadership for an agency with more than 500 employees and a fiscal year budget of approximately $3.3 billion.
Ms. Enomoto previously served as the Director of the Office of Policy, Planning and Innovation as well as the Principal Senior Advisor to the Administrator. In these roles, she coordinated Agency activities on behalf of the Administrator across the full spectrum of mental health and substance abuse policy issues, SAMHSA’s grant and contracts portfolio, human capital management, process improvement, and interagency/inter-sector collaborations. Ms. Enomoto also served as the Acting Deputy Administrator for SAMHSA, between 2008 and 2009. Ms. Enomoto began her tenure at SAMHSA in 1998 as a Presidential Management Fellow and Public Health Advisor. Ms. Enomoto’s background is in clinical psychology. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles.
Rear Admiral Peter Delany, the Director of the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality at SAMHSA, provides direction to a diverse office of professionals charged with the collection, analysis, and dissemination of critical public behavioral health data. He received his Baccalaureate Degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland and his Masters and Doctorate in Social Work from Catholic University. RADM Delany has more than 26 years of experience in social work practice, teaching, and public health based research in behavioral health. He is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Clinical Social Work. He currently serves as the United States Surgeon General’s representative to the Defense Health Board’s Subcommittee on Psychological Health. RADM Delany is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Legacy Leadership Award from the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work for his efforts to advance public health research infrastructure and the PHS Social Worker of the Year Award.
David K. Mineta was confirmed unanimously by the United States Senate on June 22, 2010 to be the Deputy Director of Demand Reduction for the Office of National Drug Control Policy. In this position, Mr. Mineta oversees ONDCP Office of Demand Reduction which focuses on promoting drug prevention and drug treatment programs, as well as the agency’s newly created focus on programs for individuals in recovery from addiction.
Mr. Mineta’s focus of drug prevention and treatment services has been longstanding. Since 1996, Mr. Mineta has worked with Asian American Recovery Services (AARS) throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. He started as a manager of a youth prevention program, but rose quickly to associate director and, since 2007, deputy director. As deputy director, he oversaw all agency grant writing and institutional technology departments, and assisted in strategic planning, community consortiums, and other necessary functions. Before joining AARS, Mr. Mineta was a counselor in the San Jose Unified School District and later in Santa Clara’s Alcohol and Drug Department. From November of 2000 through July 2010, Mr. Mineta served as a trustee with the Jefferson Union High School District in Daly City. In May 2009, he was appointed to the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention National Advisory Council. Mr. Mineta is a member of the American Public Health Association and Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America.
Mr. Mineta studied Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and earned his Masters of Social Work from California State University, San Jose in 1990.
Nora D. Volkow, M.D., became Director of the National Institute on Drug
Abuse (NIDA) at the National Institutes of Health in May 2003. NIDA
supports most of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and
addiction.
Dr. Volkow's work has been instrumental in demonstrating that drug addiction
is a disease of the human brain. As a research psychiatrist and scientist, Dr.
Volkow pioneered the use of brain imaging to investigate the toxic effects of
drugs and their addictive properties. Her studies have documented changes in the dopamine system
affecting the actions of frontal brain regions involved with motivation, drive, and pleasure and the decline
of brain dopamine function with age. She has also made important contributions to the neurobiology of
obesity, ADHD, and the behavioral changes that occur with aging.
Dr. Volkow was born in Mexico, attended the Modern American School, and earned her medical degree
from the National University of Mexico in Mexico City, where she received the Premio Robins award for
best medical student of her generation. Her psychiatric residency was at New York University, where she
earned the Laughlin Fellowship Award as one of the 10 Outstanding Psychiatric Residents in the USA.
Dr. Volkow spent most of her professional career at the Department of Energy's Brookhaven National
Laboratory (BNL) in Upton, New York, where she held several leadership positions including Director of
Nuclear Medicine, Chairman of the Medical Department, and Associate Director for Life Sciences. In
addition, Dr. Volkow was a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Associate Dean of the Medical
School at the State University of New York (SUNY)-Stony Brook.
Dr. Volkow has published more than 440 peer-reviewed articles and more than 75 book chapters and nonpeer
reviewed manuscripts, and has also edited three books on the use of neuroimaging in studying
mental and addictive disorders.
During her professional career, Dr. Volkow has been the recipient of multiple awards, including her selection for membership in the Institute of Medicine in the National Academy of Sciences and the
International Prize from the French Institute of Health and Medical Research for her pioneering work in
brain imaging and addiction science. She was recently named one of Time Magazine's "Top 100 People
Who Shape our World" and was included as one of the 20 people to watch by Newsweek magazine in its "Who's Next in 2007" feature. She was also included in Washingtonian Magazine's 2009 list of the "100
Most Powerful Women" and named "Innovator of the Year" by U.S. News & World Report in 2000.
Mark Krawczyk is a Sr. Policy Analyst and Acting Director for ONDCP’s National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign. Mr. Krawczyk is responsible for administering ONDCP’s various anti-drug campaigns including Above the Influence, Parents.TheAntiDrug and the Anti-Meth Campaign. Prior to ONDCP, Mark served as a communications program manager at the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) developing national communication and outreach strategies for various traffic and vehicle safety issues, including Click It or Ticket and the government’s 5-star crash test (safercar.gov) campaigns. Mark holds an undergraduate engineering degree from Duke University and an MBA in marketing and communications from the University of Michigan.
Frances M. Harding serves as Director of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), and is recognized as one of the nation's leading experts in the field of alcohol and drug policy. CSAP provides national leadership in the Federal effort to prevent alcohol, tobacco, and drug problems. As part of an Executive Leadership Exchange within SAMHSA, Director Harding recently served as Director of SAMHSA's Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) from July 2010-January 2011. CMHS leads Federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible.
Director Harding also serves as the lead for SAMHSA's Strategic Initiative on the Prevention of Substance Abuse and Mental Illness, which will create prevention prepared communities where individuals, families, schools, faith-based organizations, workplaces, and communities take action to promote emotional health and reduce the likelihood of mental illness, substance abuse including tobacco, and suicide.
Prior to Federal service, Director Harding served as Associate Commissioner of the Division of Prevention and Recovery at the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, where she was responsible for the development of policy and guidelines for alcohol and drug abuse and gambling prevention, treatment, and recovery programming.
Director Harding has held numerous national positions and received recognition from her peers for her work, including serving as president of the National Prevention Network, an organization representing the alcohol and other drug abuse prevention offices in all 50 States, and as New York State's representative to the Board of Directors for the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors, Inc. In 2004, she became the first non-researcher to receive the prestigious Science to Practice Award from the International Society for Prevention Research.
The Winners Sankofa Project: The Culture-Based ATOD Intervention of Avalon Carver Community Center
Darnell Bell, MA Educ, is the Director of Prevention Services for Avalon Carver Community Center and has been with the organization since 1973. Additionally, he has served as the Director of Prevention Programming & Research and Evaluation for SHIELDS for Families (1992 2011). His involvement in culture-based, ATOD prevention services spans more than 40 years, having previously directed programs, or being affiliated with programs, at the Central City Community Mental Health Center and the Watts Health Foundation. He has presented at a number of local and national conference on his culturally- specific curriculum and intervention, Winners, and on the importance of culture-based, and culturally specific service models.
Actively Building Community-Researcher Partnerships: Promoting Researcher & Community Collaborations
Evelyn Yang, PhD, is the Deputy Director for Evaluation and Research at CADCA’s National Coalition Institute. She is responsible for assisting the Institute s mission of advancing coalition research to improve coalition effectiveness and evaluation. She is also involved in translation of research findings into materials that the field can effectively utilize in their pursuits and evaluating CADCA trainings, initiatives and projects.
Jane Callahan, Med, is the director of CADCA’s National Coalition Institute, which supports community coalitions throughout the country. Her duties include developing and carrying out an effective strategy to show a measurable increase in the knowledge, capacity and accountability of community anti-drug coalitions throughout the nation. She was the former Director of the City of Vallejo, California Fighting Back Partnership (FBP), from 1990 to 2002.
Recent National Trends in Substance Abuse Measures and Implications for Prevention Policy
Beverlie Fallik, Ph.D., received her MS in Special Education with special emphasis on the Emotionally Disturbed and her PhDin Human Development. She is currently 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 s data activities such as GPRA and NOMs reporting, and provides other review and consultation related to data activities, requirements, and coordination.
Nilufer Isvan, PhD, is a Senior Research Fellow at the Human Services Research Institute and the Data Analysis Team Lead for CSAP s DACCC. Prior to this, she was a Research Scientist at the Channing Bete Company where she participated in developing the Communities that Care Youth Survey Normative Database. Before transitioning to applied prevention research, Dr. Isvan served as a sociology faculty member at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Ten Years of Successful Latino Youth Prevention Programming in Georgia
Pierluigi Mancini, PhD, NCAC II, Of Colombian and Italian descent, has been helping the Latino community in Georgia understand and seek help for substance abuse and mental illness through prevention and education programs and direct counseling services since 1999. As community advocate Dr. Mancini has bee honored with several awards including the 2010 Georgia Kidsnet Academy III SOC Individual Partner Award and the 2009 Hispanic Health Coalition Salud Hispana Award. Dr. Mancini is the founder and CEO of CETPA, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing affordable, linguistic and culturally appropriate behavioral health treatment and prevention services to the Latino community in Georgia. CETPA is the only Latino behavioral health agency in Georgia to earn state licensing and national accreditation for providing integrated services in English and in Spanish.
Student Assistance in the 21st Century
Rodger Dinwiddie, MEd, is the Executive Director of STARS Nashville since its inception in 1986. With over 30 years of experience in education and social services, he is the coauthor of the training program Anger, Violence and You and the STARS Nashville SAP Training manual currently under review by NREPP. He has provided hundreds of school and community-based substance abuse, violence prevention/intervention and student assistance trainings throughout the United States.
Mohamed Kanu, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor and Interim Director of Master s in Public Health program in the Department of Health Administration and Health Sciences at Tennessee State University. He received his Master s (MPH) and PhD in Public Health from Saint Louis University School of Public Health in St. Louis, Missouri. He also holds a Master s degree in Anthropology from the University of Memphis, Memphis, Tennessee.
Cultural Competence in Practice: New Strategies for Assessment and Capacity Building
Miranda March, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Center for Applied Research Solutions (CARS). She is currently overseeing the construction of a research clearing house for resources on culturally and linguistically appropriate service delivery. She contributes to evaluation projects, and is current on research in the substance abuse field. She translates research into relevant reports, publications, and training materials for ATOD practitioners. She received a PhD in sociology from New York University in 2010.
Christina Borbely, PhD, specializes in translating prevention science into developmentally-relevant and culturally-appropriate practices that promote youth wellbeing. She conducts research, evaluation and training to state, county, and community agencies. As a senior partner at RET Partners, she is a lead consultant to California s SDFSC, SPF, and other ATOD prevention and youth development initiatives. She facilitated the California Governor s Prevention Advisory Council Evidence-based Prevention Workgroup and contributed to the State Senate policy hearings on alcopops.
Madalynn Rucker, MA, is the founder and executive director of ONTRACK Program Resources (ONTRACK), a nonprofit consulting firm established in 1997, specializing in services to grassroots organizations working in underserved communities of color. Most recently, ONTRACK was awarded the Technical Assistance and Training Project for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) under contract with the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs. Ms. Rucker has a MA degree in Political Science/Public Administration from Stanford University.
Evaluating Community-Level Prevention Efforts: Methods and Findings from the DFC National Evaluation
Allan Porowski, a Fellow at ICF International, currently serves as co-Principal Investigator of the Drug Free Communities National Evaluation. In this capacity, he is responsible for leading a complex evaluation effort to determine the effectiveness of more than 700 community coalitions that have been established to prevent substance use and related consequences. He has also served as Technical Director for the national evaluation of Communities In Schools (CIS), the nation s largest dropout prevention program.
J. Fred Springer, PhD, is Co-PI of the ONDCP Drug Free Communities National Evaluation, Director of Research at EMT Associates, Inc., and Professor Emeritus of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Since the early 1990’s, Dr. Springer s work has focused on large national studies, particularly multi-site evaluations (MSEs) focusing on the prevention of substance abuse and related problem behaviors, including the role of community coalitions.
Shannon Weatherly is a Policy Analyst with the Drug Free Communities (DFC) Support Program. She assists with the oversight of the program and directly oversees the DFC National Evaluation. Prior to joining the Federal government, Ms. Weatherly served as Technical Assistance Manager for the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, worked at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation’s Underage Drinking Enforcement Training Center, and led South Carolina’s first Alcohol Enforcement Team addressing underage drinking.
Leadership and Sustainability
Jere Thomas, LCSW, is contracted as a Regional Prevention Consultant (RPC) with the OMNI Institute in Denver Colorado. Jere provides technical assistance, consulting, facilitation and coaching to prevention agencies. Her areas of expertise include leadership development, strategic planning, community-based processes and rural efforts. Jere holds a BA in Psychology from Brown University; an MSW from CSU Sacramento, a Leadership Coaching certificate from Georgetown University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
Cross-Site Evaluation Findings from the Young Adults Initiative
Deborah Galvin, PhD, has over 20 years experience in substance abuse prevention and health wellness programs and works for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Division of Workplace Programs. Dr. Galvin is responsible for the Young Adults in the Workplace cooperative agreement program, the Workplace website, and the SAMHSA health wellness interactive workplace web site. Dr. Galvin also serves as an Adjunct Professor at George Washington University, teaching public health courses in health and wellness.
Georgia Karuntzos, PhD, currently serves as Associate Vice President of the Behavioral Health Research Division and acting director of the Risk Behavior and Family Research Program at RTI International. Her research and practitioner experience encompasses a range of interdisciplinary substance abuse prevention/early intervention work, as well as human resources and health promotion service delivery. Dr. Karuntzos has a record of publications related to workplace and vocational research.
Preventing Alcohol-Exposed Pregnancies Among Young Women: Integration of CHOICES in Substance Abuse
Dora Ramirez, LCDC, CPS, MA, has a BA in psychology from California Coast University and is a licensed chemical dependency counselor and a certified prevention specialist. She has 17 years of experience providing substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment services for children, adolescents, and adults. Ms. Ramirez oversees the San Diego Project CHOICES program at Serving Children and Adolescents in Need, Inc.(SCAN), in Laredo, Texas.
Janet Caiazzo, MPA, is the program manager for the San Diego Youth Services Teen Options site. She oversees the San Diego Project CHOICES program and supervises a team of alcohol and drug counselors, therapists, and case managers; establishes and maintains relationships with regional partners; manages budgets; and writes grants.
Working with Reentry and Recovery to Accomplish Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Prevention
Christopher Kokoski, CPS, is the Fatherhood Coordinator and facilitator/trainer at COPES, Inc. Mr. Kokoski has presented on a wide range of topics both locally and across the country, including cultural competence, communication, HIV prevention, substance abuse prevention, and prison recidivism reduction.
Ted N. Strader, MS, CPS, is the Executive Director of COPES, Inc. Mr. Strader has served as a consultant to innumerable public and private organizations. A 4-time Exemplary Program Award winner, Mr. Strader has published several books, an NREPP – listed curriculum, articles and has presented workshops at numerous local, state and national conferences.
Strategic Prevention Framework: Impacts and Lessons Learned from Three State-wide Initiatives
Christina Borbely, PhD, specializes in translating prevention science into developmentally-relevant and culturally-appropriate practices that promote youth wellbeing. She conducts research, evaluation and training to state, county, and community agencies. As a senior partner at RET Partners, she is a lead consultant to California s SDFSC, SPF, and other ATOD prevention and youth development initiatives. She facilitated the California Governor s Prevention Advisory Council Evidence-based Prevention Workgroup and contributed to the State Senate policy hearings on alcopops.
Rodney Wambeam, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center and an adjunct professor in the Department of Political Science at University of Wyoming. He was principal investigator of Wyoming's 21st Century State Incentive Grant and is principal investigator of Wyoming's Federal Prevention Block Grant and Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant evaluations. He is active in Wyoming’s Epidemiological Workgroup for Substance Abuse Prevention and Advisory Council for Substance Abuse Prevention.
Roy Gabriel, PhD, conducts research and evaluation of substance use and violence prevention in schools and communities. Dr. Gabriel is a senior member of the national SS/HS evaluation and directs the study of Washington s Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant. He contributes to the national evaluation of SPF-SIG and is Principal Investigator for the national evaluation of the Addiction Technology Transfer Center Network . Dr. Gabriel consults to NREPP and chairs Oregon s Statewide Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup.
Fresh Approaches to Reaching Teens with Drug and Alcohol Prevention Messages: How You Can Utilize A
Gem Benoza currently serves as the Acting Director for the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign, at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy and has been with the Campaign for ten years. She directs 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.
Indiana University's Cross-Disciplinary Approach to Addressing Collegiate Alcohol and Drug Issues
Mallori DeSalle, MA, NCC, CPP, is a research associate at Indiana University working in the field of adolescent alcohol, tobacco and other drug prevention since 2008. Ms. DeSalle holds a Masters degree in counseling from Truman State University and is a Nationally Certified Counselor as well as a Certified Prevention Professional. She has worked in the field of mental health/addictions treatment and prevention in Nebraska, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Indiana. And has been a therapist at OASIS since 2010.
Walt Keller, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, has been licensed since 1985 after completing his PhDat the University of Rochester and undergraduate at Indiana University. He has practiced prevention for over 35 years, through organizational, community and program development. He specialized in addictive systems, and has been instrumental in development of five programs. Currently he is directing the Oasis program at Indiana University to prevent or diminish the destructive effects of excessive drinking on college campuses.
Disseminating Evidence-Based Practice in Communities: Lessons Learned from Three States
Pamela Imm, PhD, is affiliated with the University of South Carolina and the Lexington Richland Alcohol and Drug Abuse Agency in Columbia, SC. Dr. Imm is trained a community psychologist and has extensive experience in the areas of program development, program evaluation, and applied research. Dr. Imm has worked as an evaluator with various local, state, and national agencies including the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.
Barry Donovan, PhD, has led prevention research and planning efforts for the past two decades at the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. In partnership with CSAP and New York stakeholders, Dr. Donovan led the development of the state s first prevention activity and performance reporting system used by over 1,400 prevention professionals. He is currently working with NY prevention researchers to develop a state registry of effective programs and interventions for dissemination.
Valerie Morgan, CPSS, is the Administrator for Prevention Services in New Hampshire s Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services. She is a Certified Prevention Specialist Supervisor and represents New Hampshire in the National Prevention Network (NPN). Ms. Morgan has a variety of key roles in the state, regional, and national levels including Project Manager for the SPF-SIG, Project Director for the state s SBIRT pilot, and project director for a Drug Free Community grant.
STRATEGIC PREVENTION FRAMEWORK: SELECTION OF STRATEGY TYPES FOR PRODUCING COMMUNITY OUTCOMES
Frank Winn, PhD, was awarded his Ph.D in 1977 from Texas Tech University and completed post doctoral training in Psychiatric Emergencies at the Bellevue (NY) Hospital Center, and in Behavioral Therapy at the Paine Whitney Psychiatric Clinic\ Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Winn s professional experience includes work at the Army s first CONUS Substance Abuse Treatment facility, with the Special Projects Group at NIDA, with OAS and SAMHSA. Dr. Winn currently has an appointment as a Consulting Associate with MCG.
Kelly Vander Ley, PhD, is a Senior Research Associate at RMC Research Corporation, has over 15 years of professional training and experience in the behavioral and social sciences with an emphasis in the prevention and treatment of substance use. Dr. Vander Ley s experience involves national, state, and community evaluations including the design and implementation of a variety of research and evaluation studies funded by the federal Centers for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and Treatment (CSAT).
Club XTreme: How an Afterschool Program can Excel! Exemplify! Exceed! and be Fun at the Same Time
Gregg Raduka, PhD, LPC, CPP, is the Director of Prevention/Intervention at the Council on Alcohol and Drugs. He received his PhDin Human Development from the University of Maryland's Institute for Child Study. His BA and MA are in Psychology. He is a Certified Prevention Professional and a Licensed Professional Counselor with an extensive background in the prevention, early intervention and treatment of child and adolescent substance use and addiction. He serves as the MAPP/PPLY Program Director.
Ester Lopez, BA, is an After-School Programs Director with The Council on Alcohol and Drugs. Ms. Lopez has a BA in Applied Behavioral Sciences and worked as a Program Supervisor overseeing social service delivery for families referred by the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services. She served as the Executive Director of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Coosa Valley. Ms. Lopez compiled and facilitated the creation of In Harmonia with My Heritage for PPLY.
Kay Manning, LCSW, MAC, is a graduate of the University of Georgia. Ms. Manning is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Master Addiction Counselor. She The Council on Alcohol and Drugs' After-School Programs Director and brings with her five years of experience providing therapeutic interventions with children, adolescents and their families. During the past six years Ms. Manning has been directing prevention programs for middle school aged youth and their parents.
Working Effectively with Tribal Governments
AJ Ernst, PhD, brings more than 30 years of experience in the field of substance abuse and mental health prevention and treatment as a clinician, academician, and project director. Dr. Ernst has led strategic planning, product development, policy development, training initiatives, and overall systems change strategies across mental health and substance abuse service delivery systems to promote cross systems collaboration and build service capacities. Dr. Ernst serves as Project Director for CSAP’s Native American Center for Excellence.
Andrea Harris, MS, LCADC, CPP has worked in the field of substance abuse and mental health treatment and prevention for 29 years. Ms. Harris has a Master of Science in Counseling Psychology, is a Licensed Clinical Alcohol and Other Drug Counselor and a Certified Prevention Professional. She is adjunct faculty with the Office of Education and Training for Addictions Services (OETAS) with the State of Maryland. She is currently responsible for the 20% Prevention Set Aside for the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block grant, Synar, Strategic Prevention Framework and Partnerships for Success grant programs. She is also the CSAP liaison to Project LAUNCH.
Josefine Haynes-Battle, CDR, BSN, MSN, RN, is the Project Officer for the Native American Center for Excellence (NACE) and the Task Order Officer for the Native Initiative, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence in the Division of Systems Development within the Center of Substance Abuse Prevention at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She is part of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) Nurse-Professional Advisory Committee (N-PAC) leadership and the Co-Chair for the N-PAC Recruitment Subcommittee. She has served for over 13 years in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps and in the Commissioned Corps.
Using Data Analysis to develop Parent Campaigns
Jo Morrissey 21Reasons Project Manager, has served as Coalition Coordinator for 21 Reasons in Portland since 2007. Prior to joining MCD, Ms. Morrissy worked as the Business and Communications Coordinator with the Cumberland County District Attorney's office, small business owner, and freelance writer and researcher for various educational publishers including Prentice Hall, Houghton Mifflin, and DC Heath. She holds a Bachelor s Degree in English and Communications from Emmanuel College, Boston.
Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PMP) and Prevention
Beverlie Fallik, PhD, received her MS in Special Education with special emphasis on individuals with emotionally disturbances and her PhD in Human Development. She is currently 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 s data activities such as GPRA and NOMs reporting, and provides other review and consultation related to data activities, requirements, and coordination.
John Carnevale, PhD, directed the formulation of the President s National Drug Control Strategy and the federal drug control budget. Dr. Carnevale is recognized as the key architect of the Performance Measures of Effectiveness (PME) System which ONDCP used to determine progress towards national goals and objectives. He is also credited with directing policy research that shifted the primary focus of the Nation s Drug Control Strategy from supply to demand reduction.
Preventing Substance Abuse and HIV among At-Risk African American and Latina or Hispanic Women
Nelly Oliver, PhD, is a senior research associate on the Data Analysis, Coordination, and Consolidation Center project for SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and spends most of her time on the HIV Cross-Site Evaluation. She has a doctoral degree in sociology from the Northeastern University, an MA in applied sociology from the University of Massachusetts, Boston and a BA in Social Psychology also from the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
Pamela Roddy, PhD, is a Senior Public Health Analyst, Division of Systems Development, CSAP, serves as Alternative Project Officer for the Data Analysis, Coordination and Consolidation Contract, focusing on the HIV programs. Over her career, she has worked in five different Federal agencies, academia and private industry starting out in the field of biochemistry and moving into health services research. She has published her work in many peer-reviewed journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Medical Care, Health Services Research, the American Journal of Epidemiology as well as many presentations.
Adaptation on My Mind: Expansion of Evidence-Based Prevention Practices to an Underserved Population
Patti Bokony, PhD, is an Assistant Professor, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, conducts research designed to improve young children s social-emotional development in residential substance abuse treatment programs for women and childcare settings. Her work includes authorship of the 45-hour Arkansas Pre-K Social-Emotional Learning Training for Child Care Providers and the development of Teaching Important Parenting Skills: TIPS for Great Kids! Dr. Bokony is an IC&RC certified prevention specialist with experience implementing evidence-based prevention programs statewide.
Committed Program Model blending youth development and youth led environmental prevention.
Danelle Campbell has over 20 years experience in the prevention field. She wears multiple hats, one of which is the Manager of the Prevention Unit for Butte County Behavioral Health. In addition, she provides consultation, facilitation and training at the local, state and national level in areas such as strategic planning, youth development, youth evaluation, environmental prevention, community organizing, coalition development and youth grant making. She has developed four nationally recognized award winning prevention programs.
Amanda Montgomery has worked in the prevention field for over 10 years at the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health. She has spearheaded a youth evaluation team, youth philanthropy board on provided oversight to three prevention programs that received the Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award. She has provided training across the nation on evidence based prevention strategies and provided capacity building across the state of California on Environmental Prevention and Youth Development.
Jeremy Wilson has been working in the prevention field for over 8 years (providing both direct services and coordinating programs at the county level). Mr. Wilson was the Butte Youth Now Coordinator from 2005-2010, a countywide substance abuse prevention coalition. In 2007, Butte Youth Now was nationally recognized by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America with their Got Outcomes Coalition of the Year Award.
Building Implementation & Sustainability Capacity of EBPs: The Role of a State-Level Support System
Brittany Rhoades, PhD, Brittany Rhoades earned her PhD in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University in 2009. She currently serves as a Research Associate at the Prevention Research Center and the Evaluation Research Specialist at the Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter) at Penn State where she is responsible for overseeing the management and analysis of implementation data collected annually from evidence-based programs across the state.
Brian Bumbarger, Med, is Director of the EPIS Center and a Research Associate and Programs Leader of the Dissemination and Implementation Unit at the Prevention Research Center at Penn State. He is currently Principal Investigator of a study of the replication of evidence-based programs in nearly 200 Pennsylvania communities and directs a training and technical assistance project supporting nearly 100 Communities That Care and Weed and Seed prevention coalitions.
Julia Moore, MS, is a graduate student in the Human Development and Family Studies PhDprogram at Penn State University where she also completed her MS in 2009. She is currently a research assistant at the Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter) and the Prevention Research Center, both at Penn State. Her research interests are on translating research to practice, with a particular emphasis on implementation quality.
Succeeding in Community Prevention: New Findings from the Randomized Trial of Communities That Care
Sabrina Oesterle, PhD, is a Research Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work, University of Washington. Her research focuses on studying preventive interventions aimed at reducing youth health-risking behaviors and understanding the consequences of life course pathways to adulthood. As an investigator on the Community Youth Development Study, Dr. Oesterle investigates the effects of CTC on delaying the onset of substance use and delinquency and the universality of CTC s effects on youth outcomes.
Blair Brooke-Weiss, MSPH, is the Communities That Care Specialist for the Social Development Research Group, University of Washington, and a certified CTC trainer. She has been facilitating coalitions and coaching community groups to implement effective prevention approaches for over 15 years. Ms. Brooke-Weiss has extensive experience collaborating with state agencies and community teams to provide technical expertise and training to determine appropriate evidence based strategies and implement them with fidelity at the community and school level.
Margaret Kuklinski, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington. Dr. Kuklinski s research focuses on economic analyses of preventive interventions. As an investigator on the Community Youth Development Study, Dr. Kuklinski conducts cost-benefit analyses of CTC intervention effects on youth outcomes. She is also investigating the relationship between the recent economic downturn, sustainability of the CTC prevention system, and youth outcomes.
Family Prevention Resource Centers: Trends, Strategies and Implementation
Sheila Joyner-Pritchard, MSW, CP, is the Executive Director/CEO/Co-Founder of Village Keepers, Inc. and Certified Preventionist, Ms. Joyner-Pritchard s duties include parenting skills, grantwriting, trainer/facilitator of evidence-based prevention curriculum, and problem ID/ referral. She is technical advisor to youth and family serving, community/faith-based agencies and collaboratives. Her expertise includes cultural/gender specific and faith-based strategies. She is active in a number of professional organizations, coalitions, and community/faith-based groups and is Board Member of PCCG (Prevention Credentialing Consortium of Georgia.)
Anna L. Jackson, BA, LPN (CP Pending), is a Licensed Practical Nurse and Fulton Families Matter, Inc. founder, she was instrumental in starting the Roswell North Fulton Community Coalition. Her other interests are Women In Combat, Inc., a ministry devoted to the betterment of women and children; The Connector Making the Connection, Inc., Early Head Start Program; and Children s Church Ministry. Ms. Jackson is a candidate for the Certified Preventionist of PCCG (Prevention Credentialing Consortium of Georgia.)
Stella Clarke-DuBose, BS, MA (CP Pending) has served in many different capacities with SMART, Inc., ranging from administrative to management, including the past 4 years as Executive Director for its Family Prevention Resource and Learning Center which has 2 locations Fulton County, Georgia. She is a trainer of trainer and/or facilitator of many research-based programs. Ms. Clarke-DuBose is a candidate for the Certified Preventionist of PCCG (Prevention Credentialing Consortium of Georgia.)
Put the “ T “ back in ATOD: Using Adolescent Brain Research to Provide a Sustainable Prevention Model
Susan Tarasevich, EdD, is employed by the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is a Clinical Trainer in Prevention within the Addiction Medicine Service line. She is also a member of the Regional Expert Team, the Northeast Center for Applied Prevention Technologies (NE-CAPT). Currently, Ms. Tarasevich works with personnel in schools and agencies, at local, state and federal levels to design, implement, and evaluate student-centered prevention programs and affiliated infrastructures.
Margie Modro, MS, CPS, is employed as a Certified Prevention Specialist by Addiction Medicine Services at the Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Margie regularly consults with local and state educational institutions, parent groups, insurers & agencies on all levels of ATOD prevention. Currently, Ms. Modro is focusing on current brain research on the adolescent brain and translating these findings into useful education that can change student and staff attitudes and behaviors.
Innovative Approaches to Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse
Augie Diana is a Health Scientist Administrator in the Prevention Research Branch at NIDA, overseeing the SBIR/STTR Program at both the Branch and Division levels. Augie has worked at CSAP overseeing cross-site evaluations and other data/technology initiatives, and in Boston and Colorado designing and managing evaluation and research projects at the community and state level, with a primary focus on substance abuse prevention but also in areas of mental health, crime, delinquency, violence, and leisure activities.
David Collins, PhD, is a Research Scientist at PIRE’s Louisville Center. He has worked in research and evaluation related to substance abuse prevention for 15 years. He has been an investigator on a NIDA-funded study to prevent youth use of harmful legal products (including inhalants and prescription drugs) in Alaska. He is currently leading an R21 study of environmental strategies to prevent non-medical use of prescription drugs by teens in an Appalachian Tennessee community.
Lisa Marsch, Phd, is the Director of the Center for Technology and Health at National Development and Research Institutes in New York. Dr. Marsch has led a line of research focused on the development and evaluation of state of the art, technology-based interventions targeting substance abuse treatment and prevention among youth and adults, including the prevention of prescription opioid abuse. Dr. Marsch also led the first systematic, clinical research evaluating interventions for opioid-dependent adolescents.
Building Community Capacity Through TTA
Marcus Bouligny has worked for CSAP’s Southeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technology. In this position, Marcus served as primary contact for the assigned states of Alabama and Georgia. His work focused on building state training and Technical Assistance infrastructure in order to reach community outcomes. To achieve this, he provided expert assistance in a number of areas, including training communities on SPF-SIG implementation, offering intensive support around work plans and logic models, and building capacity of state and local systems. Areas of Expertise: Capacity Building for Communities and States, Environmental Strategies, Tobacco Prevention, Distance Learning, Building of state TTA support system.
Tiffiany M. Aholou, MSW, Doctoral Candidate, works at Georgia State University (GSU) where she provides Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) for Georgia SPF-SIG sub-recipients contracted through the Office of Prevention Services and Programs (OPSP). In addition to her work with GSU, Ms. Ahalou is also a doctoral candidate at the The University of Georgia in Child & Family Development, provides evaluation assistance on several local evaluations in the Atlanta area, and is committed to the eradication of HIV.
Using Research to Create, Launch, and Monitor a National Underage Drinking Prevention Campaign
Emily Novick , MPP, is a Public Health Advisor at the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA/CSAP), where she is Project Officer for the Underage Drinking Prevention Public Service Campaign and the Underage Drinking Prevention Education Initiatives contract and the Task Leader for the NPN/Prevention Works! communications training initiative. Ms. Novick has 20 years of experience working on issues related to at-risk adolescents at HHS, nonprofit organizations, and consulting firms. She is also a certified television and video producer, director and camera operator.
Camille Lloyd, MSc, is a Senior Research Consultant with the Government division at Gallup in Washington, DC. She serves as one of the lead researchers for the SAMHSA National Underage Drinking Public Service Campaign. Mrs. Lloyd has 10 years research experience and previously served as a Research Professor prior to her work with Gallup
Meredith Williams, MPH, is a Partner managing the Strategic Communications group with the Government division at Gallup in Washington, DC. She serves as the Project Director for the SAMSHA National Underage Drinking Public Service Campaign. Mrs. Williams has 20 years of health communication and national public awareness campaign planning for Federal government agencies.
Preventing Fatal and Non-Fatal Opioid Overdoses: Implementation of the Massachusetts SPF-SIG
Fernando Perfas, BS, BA, is the SPF-SIG (MassCALL2) Program Coordinator at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Bureau of Substance Abuse Services. He has worked closely with each of the MassCALL2 communities providing guidance and technical assistance since the beginning of the MassCALL2 initiative.
Gisela Rots, BA, MSc, is the Director of the Cambridge Prevention Coalition in Cambridge, MA, one of the MassCALL2-funded communities. She attended the University of Maryland, and received a Master s in Gender and Social Policy from the London School of Economics. She has over 6 years of community-based substance abuse prevention experience, and over 12 years of experience working in public health.
Scott Formica, BA, MA, is a research associate at Social Science Research & Evaluation, Inc., a research firm located in Burlington, Massachusetts. He attended the University of New Hampshire as an undergraduate and is currently enrolled in the doctoral program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. He has 12 years of experience in designing, administering, and managing multiple research projects.
The CMCA Model Approach to Community Prevention: Three Diverse Case Examples
Maureen Sedonaen has over 20 years of experience in nonprofit leadership and management. A nationally and internationally recognized authority and advocate in the fields of Leadership, Youth Engagement, Prevention and Youth Development, Ms. Sedonaen founded the Youth Leadership Institute in 1991, and serves as the organization s President and CEO. She received the California Governor s Award of Recognition and a Congressional Award of Innovation. Maureen holds an MBA in Strategic Leadership from Dominican University of California.
Faith Mills is the Prevention System Coordinator for Region 1 Behavioral Health Authority and serves the eleven rural and frontier counties of the Nebraska Panhandle. She started her work in prevention at the State of Nebraska in 2002 and moved to the local level in 2008. Currently working with the Panhandle Prevention Coalition, they focus on environmental change including policy change, compliance checks and responsible beverage server training. Ms. Mills is also a suicide prevention trainer.
Wiwik Bunjamin-Mau, is a trained Community Planner with years of experience as Community Facilitator/Organizer in the community engagement field. Ms. Bunjamin-Mau has worked with many community groups in urban and rural areas in Hawaii and helped them create meaningful ways for communities to actively participate in making positive changes. Last year she was offered an opportunity to organize an environmental prevention campaign for underage drinking launched by the City & County of Honolulu.
The Impact of Maternal Substance Abuse on Child Development
Karen Howell, PhD, is an Assistant Professor with Emory University School of Medicine’s Maternal Substance Abuse and Child Development Project. Assesses infants, children, adolescents and adults prenatally exposed to alcohol, nicotine and illegal drugs such as cocaine and methamphetamine. Conducts psychological assessments of substance abusing women participating in the MSACD Project. Coordinates prevention efforts regarding the multiple, negative consequences of maternal substance abuse.
Peer Programs that Work
Susan Armoni, PhD, is paxUnited’s Executive Director, where she began the conflict mediation movement in Texas schools two decades ago. Ms. Armoni, a twenty-year veteran in education, has worked in the field of prevention for over 20 years and has over 250 hours of training in mediation. She founded and directed the Texas Mediation Initiative through the Office of the Attorney General, as well as paxUnited, a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to creating safe environments for children.
Robert Gonzales, MRE, MDiv, is paxUnited’s Deputy Director, where he previously served as the Texas State Coordinator for the Southwest Regional Center for Safe and Drug Free Schools and served as a program manager for the San Antonio Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse. Mr. Gonzales also directed the drug prevention and education program at St. Mary's University in San Antonio, Texas, where he developed the Student and Employee Assistance program and coordinated the Campus Mediation Center.
The Faith Community, Substance Abuse, and Readiness for Change: A National Study
Drew Brooks, BA, CCDP, works for Faith Partners as the Project Manager developing substance abuse prevention and addiction recovery support team ministries. He recently was the Minnesota Area Coordinator overseeing 30 congregational teams and congregational team facilitator at his home church. He has been active in the church all his life involved in youth, music, caring, and small group ministries. He has worked in treatment (Hazelden, Johnson Institute, and Miller Dwan) and/or prevention for over twenty five years providing training with faith communities, schools, and community organizations in over 35 states across the country. He also worked as a prevention specialist for public health developing partnerships and facilitating coalitions with key community groups addressing underage drinking and marijuana use. He has written three curricula for the faith and secular settings entitled; Healthy Choices: Stress Management Strategies, Roots and Wings: Raising Resilient Children, and The Seed Planter: Group Facilitator Skills .
Dr. Dnika J. Travis, MSW, PhD, specializes in employee responses to complex and stressful work experiences and environments. Responses include choosing to leave or remain in the organization, increased or decreased productivity, speaking up (i.e., employee voice), and actively seeking to initiate positive organizational change. Her research examines leadership, communication, and organizational change in these contexts. Dr. Travis has served as a researcher and project manager on studies focused on organizational change and effectiveness, employee engagement and productivity, worker retention in child welfare, workforce diversity and inclusion in a global context. She also has served as a consultant on workforce development and inclusion initiatives in nonprofit, public, and corporate sectors. Dr. Travis is an assistant professor at the School of Social Work at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Travis teaches masters courses in the Community and Administrative Leadership (CAL) concentration. Most recently she has taught Social Work Leadership in Human Services, Dynamics of Organizations and Communities, and Integrative Capstone in Social Work Knowledge and Practice. Dr. Travis earned her PhD in social work from the University of Southern California, MSW in community organization and program evaluation from the University of Michigan, and BA in sociology from Hampton University. She is a member of The Phi Kappa Phi All-University Honor Society.
IMPACT Mentoring - A peer mentor model demonstrating outcomes
Danelle Campbell has over 20 years experience in the prevention field. She wears multiple hats, one of which is the Manager of the Prevention Unit for Butte County Behavioral Health. In addition, she provides consultation, facilitation and training at the local, state and national level in areas such as strategic planning, youth development, youth evaluation, environmental prevention, community organizing, coalition development and youth grant making. She has developed four nationally recognized award winning prevention programs.
Amanda Montgomery has worked in the prevention field for over 10 years at the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health. She has spearheaded a youth evaluation team, youth philanthropy board on provided oversight to three prevention programs that received the Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award. She has provided training across the nation on evidence based prevention strategies and provided capacity building across the state of California on Environmental Prevention and Youth Development.
Jeremy Wilson has been working in the prevention field for over 8 years (providing both direct services and coordinating programs at the county level). Mr. Wilson was the Butte Youth Now Coordinator from 2005-2010 a countywide substance abuse prevention coalition. In 2007, Butte Youth Now was nationally recognized by the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America with their Got Outcomes Coalition of the Year Award.
State-by-State Estimates of the Cost Savings from Prevention
Beverlie Fallik, PhD, received her MS in Special Education with special emphasis on the Emotionally Disturbed and her PhDin Human Development. She is currently 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’s data activities such as GPRA and NOMs reporting, and provides other review and consultation related to data activities, requirements, and coordination.
Ted Miller, PhD, an internationally recognized health economist, has more than 200 publications, most on the costs of societal ills and the savings from prevention. The Washington Post called him a national oracle on the financial damage caused by substance abuse and injuries. He received the Excellence in Science Award from the Injury Control Section of the American Public Health Association. Mr. Miller is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research & Evaluation.
Case Study: The Winchester Concept Map Project to Reduce and Prevent Bullying
Alayne MacArthur, MS, focus for the last 12 years has been the translation of prevention research into practice. Alayne achieves this by engaging the prevention community in conversations and projects that build capacity for adoption, implementation and sustainability of evidenced based prevention approaches. Organizations for which Ms. MacArthur has designed and delivered evidence based curriculum and professional development training include Washington DC Public Schools, National Health Promotion Associates, Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth and Vanderbilt Medical School.
Addressing Opioid Overdose: How One Massachusetts Community Applied the SPF to Overdose Prevention
Catherine Sugarman, MA, is the Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug Program Manager for the Revere CARES Coalition at Massachusetts General Hospital. She received her Master s in counseling psychology at Boston College and gained valuable knowledge in substance abuse prevention and treatment while providing community-based clinical services to adolescents, adults, and families. She has worked within various substance abuse prevention coalitions in the greater Boston area for five years and facilitates the Revere CARES Opiates Task Force.
Erica Clarke, MA, is currently a Project Manager at the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Community Health Improvement Evaluation & Research Team. She received her Master's in psychology at Brandeis University and has experience coordinating research in the area of alcohol and nicotine addiction and treatment and has expertise in coalition and program evaluation, community-based participatory research, research methods, community assessment and planning.
Kim Hanton, LADC, is the Director of Diversionary Addiction Services at North Suffolk Mental Health in East Boston, MA and serves on the Board of Directors for the Revere Health Department. She is the clinical liaison for several state Drug Courts and served on the New England Association of Drug Court Professionals Board of Directors 2003-2005. In 2005, Ms. Hanton received the 2005 Providers Recognition Award from the Mental Health and Substance Abuse Corporations of Massachusetts.
Sustainable, Cost-Efficient Population Level Prevention in Fiscal Crises and Health Care Reform
Dennis D. Embry, PhD, is senior scientist at Tucson's PAXIS Institute and a co-investigator at Johns Hopkins Center for Prevention—overseeing 30 projects in the US and Canada. He is a member of the SAMHSA/CSAP experts group, and a nominee for the President’s Advisory Council on Prevention for Health Care Reform. Dr. Embry is in multiple population level studies. Current publications emphasize achieving sustainable, cost-efficient population-wide prevention effects across ATOD, mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders.
