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David Altschuler

Dr. David M. Altschuler serves as a principal research scientist at The Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Institute for Policy Studies. He is also an adjunct associate professor in sociology at JHU, holds a joint appointment in the Department of Mental Health at JHU's Bloomberg School of Public Health, and is on the faculty of JHU's Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence. Dr. Altschuler has a doctorate in social service administration and a master's degree in urban studies from The University of Chicago. His work focuses on juvenile crime and justice system sanctioning, juvenile aftercare and parole, offender reentry, privatization in juvenile corrections, and drug involvement and crime among inner-city youth.

 

Tarek Anandan

Tarek Anandan, Senior Advisor to NDTAC, supports the project's technology and evaluation activities.  He is also a member of the Center's Expert Panel.  Beginning in 2004, he helped NDTAC redevelop its website and establish an online communications plan.  He also helped the Title I, Part D program develop its National evaluation framework including its performance and efficiency indicators; led numerous technical assistance efforts; and contributed to the program's PART review. He previously served as NDTAC's Director (2007-2008)and Deputy Director (2005-2007) and also led the Center's marketing and technology work (2004-2008). He has a background in public policy and Internet communications.

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Robert Bakke

Robert Bakke currently works for the California Department of Education's California Alternative Schools Accountability Model (ASAM).  He has also been the lead program consultant in the development and implementation of the California State-mandated Alternative Accountability System since February of 2001.  Before that, Mr. Bakke managed the Office of Research and Development for the School of Graduate, International, and Sponsored Programs at California State University, Chico.

 

Sarah Bardack

Sarah Bardack, research associate, joined the NDTAC staff in 2008 and has been involved with the data and evaluation activities at the Center. She has assisted with the review of the 2009 data collection and co-authored the most recent annual report on Title I, Part D, programs. Prior to joining NDTAC, Ms. Bardack worked as an English teacher, and interned for a sustainable development organization that provided health and education programs for disadvantaged children in Vietnam. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from Georgetown University.

 

Reginald Dwayne Betts

Reginald Dwayne Betts, author of "A Question of Freedom," teaches poetry at the DC Creative Writing Workshop in Washington, DC. He received the Holden Fellowship from the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and has been published in Ploughshares, Crab Orchard Review, and other national literary magazines and journals. Mr. Betts has presented at numerous events and was on a book tour at the time of this presentation.

Shay Bilchik

Shay Bilchik is the founder and director of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. The Center’s purpose is to focus the Nation’s public agency leaders, across systems of care and levels of government, on the key components of a strong juvenile justice reform agenda. Mr. Bilchik is a former president and CEO of the Child Welfare League of America and the former head of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention in the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also served in Miami, FL, as a trial lawyer, juvenile division chief, and chief assistant State’s attorney. Mr. Bilchik holds a J.D. degree from the University of Florida.

 

Ty Blackwell

Ty Blackwell is a quality review specialist for the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services. He is the former coordinator of correctional special education for the same agency. During his career, Mr. Blackwell has monitored public and private placement of youth requiring special education services. He has also managed multiple school programs for youth with emotional disabilities.

 

Thomas Blomberg

Thomas G. Blomberg is dean and Sheldon L. Messinger Professor of Criminology in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Since 1998, he has served as principal investigator of the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP). He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He has published widely with more than 100 books, articles, and monographs. His most recent books include Punishment and Social Control: Enlarged Second Edition (2003), Data Driven Juvenile Justice Education (2001), and American Penology (2000). He is an expert in juvenile delinquency, corrections, and evaluation research and policy. His current research is focused on identifying and validating best educational practices for delinquent and other at-risk youth.

Jeffrey Breshears

Jeff Breshears has been in the education field for 17 years. Currently, he is in his fifth year at the California Department of Education as an Education Programs Consultant, and is the coordinator of the Title I, Part D, Prevention and Intervention Programs for Children and Youth who are Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk. Mr. Breshears started his educational career teaching students with severe disabilities and served in many other capacities at the school and district levels before coming to the California Department of Education. He holds a bachelor’s degree from California State University, Sacramento, and is credentialed in elementary education, special education, and administrative services. He has been an owner of a small business in Sacramento and served in the U.S. Navy as a hospital corpsman. He is an avid golfer and has been the tournament director for many fund-raising tournaments for nonprofit organizations in Vacaville and Winters, California.

 

David Brown

David E. Brown is the executive director of the National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), a nonpartisan network of more than 250 youth employment, training, and development organizations dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers, and self-sufficient citizens. Since joining NYEC in 1998, Brown has been responsible for spearheading NYEC's policy and advocacy efforts, tracking the implementation and reauthorization of the youth provisions of the Workforce Investment Act, and leading an effort to connect youth employment and juvenile justice. Prior to joining NYEC, Brown was a senior policy analyst with the National Governors' Association (NGA) Center for Best Practices. During his 6-year tenure at NGA, he focused on youth-related State policy issues, including youth development, school-to-work, employment and training, National and community service, and juvenile justice.

 

Sherese Brewington-Carr

Sherese Brewington-Carr is a system's change agent with more than 20 years experience in the field of correctional management, correctional program development, implementation and evaluation, community/volunteer development and professional consultation. Her work has garnered her local and National recognition for contributions to the criminal justice field and community service. To date, she has worked in the States of North Carolina, Connecticut, and Delaware in multiple positions, including, but not limited to State juvenile services director, warden, associate warden, and treatment services superintendent. She has held appointed political positions in Democratic, Republican, and Independent Party administrations.

 

Sandy Brown

Mr. Paul Sanders (Sandy) Brown is a program analyst in the Department of Education's Student Achievement and School Accountability Programs office. As a program analyst, he oversees the allocations of Title I funds and works on program policy issues. Title I is the largest elementary and secondary education program in the Federal Government with a budget of over $12.7 billion (fiscal year 2005). The program serves approximately 15.8 million students in more than 13,200 school districts and 51,000 schools in all 50 States. Prior to coming to Title I, Sandy served as a program and budget analyst in the Department's Budget Service for 14 years working on Title I and vocational and adult education issues. His career in Government started in 1975 when he joined the staff of the first elected City Council for the District of Columbia under DC Home Rule as an executive and legislative assistant for Councilperson Julius W. Hobson and later for Councilperson Hilda Mason.

 

Mike Bullis

Dr. Michael Bullis is the interim dean of the College of Education at the University of Oregon and the Sommerville-Knight Professor of Education. He also is the director of the college's Secondary Special Education and Transition Research Unit and Director of the National Post-School Outcomes Center, a Technical Assistance and Dissemination Center funded through OSEP. Dr. Bullis has conducted both quantitative and qualitative longitudinal studies of the school-to-transition experiences of adolescents with disabilities, directed community-based vocational programs for adolescents with extreme emotional and antisocial behaviors, and developed transition skills assessment instruments. Most recently, he directed statewide studies of the facility-to-community transition experiences of incarcerated youth returning to their home communities. He serves as the research and evaluation consultant for Trillium Family Services, the largest residential treatment center for children and adolescents with mental illness in the Pacific Northwest and for the Oregon Youth Authority, the State's juvenile correctional system. Dr. Bullis teaches doctoral level research design courses in the College of Education and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders and Rehabilitation Counseling Bulletin.

Joyce Burrell

Joyce Burrell is currently the Deputy Commissioner of the Division of Rehabilitative Services for New York's Office of Children and Family Services. From 2002 to 2007, Ms. Burrell served as NDTAC's Project Director and as a Principal Research Analyst with the American Institutes for Research (AIR). During her time at AIR, Joyce made countless contributions to NDTAC's products and activities, including the establishment of its technical assistance systems. Earlier in her career, she served as a leader for 2 large urban systems, Washington, DC, and Philadelphia, PA. Combined, she brings more than 20 years of experience in the field of juvenile justice.

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Marcia Calloway

Marcia Calloway has been the coordinator for Title I, Part D, at the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) since July 2002. In addition, she is the assistant State Title I director and has fiscal and programmatic oversight for Title I School Improvement Projects, including management of the School Improvement Grant (SIG) funding. Ms. Calloway has been in the education field for 31 years. Prior to joining the NDE, she was principal at Hillside Elementary School in Storey County, Nevada, from 1998 through 2002, and an elementary teacher at the same site from 1995 to 1998. Before moving to Nevada, Ms. Calloway taught in Montana and British Columbia. She holds an education specialist degree from the University of Nevada, Reno, and a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction and a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from the University of Montana, Missoula.

 

Michael Canada

Michael W. Canada is the Lead Teacher at Griffin Regional Youth Detention Center. He began teaching at Marietta Regional Youth Detention Center in 1998 after retiring from the United States Army. He was the first participant of the pilot Teacher Certification Program of the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice to earn a Master’s Degree from Armstrong Atlantic State University. In 2008, he received a Specialist in Education degree from the University of West Georgia in Special Education Administration. Michael has been married 30 years, has two grown sons, and two grandsons who keep him young.

Tim Canter

Tim Canter has provided transition and educational services to youth between the ages of 11 and 24 for over nine years. He is currently employed by the Springfield School District to work with at risk and adjudicated youth as a Community Transition Specialist. Before working for Springfield School District, he served in the Marine Corps and a reserve program for the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department. Mr. Canter is also a foster parent for the State of Oregon.

Russell Carlino

Russell Carlino is the deputy director of the Allegheny County (PA) Juvenile Probation Department. He has been with the department for more than 20 years as a probation officer, supervisor, and administrator. During the past few years, Mr. Carlino has worked closely with the National Center for Juvenile Justice in Pittsburgh to develop and implement the risk/needs assessment and comprehensive supervision plan used by the department. He received an M.A. from Duquesne University. Mr. Carlino has been an adjunct faculty member at Duquesne University since 1993.

Terry Cash

Terry Cash, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center, College of Health, Education, and Human Development, at Clemson University in South Carolina. His responsibilities include research, grant writing, and program evaluation for a wide range of intervention strategies designed for youth at-risk of school failure and dropping out. He also serves as an adjunct instructor in the Clemson University School of Education, Educational Leadership Department. Dr. Cash has over two decades of experience as a teacher, principal, and district level administrator in North and South Carolina. He has been a foster parent for “difficult to control” adolescents and has developed and implemented multiple programs in the public school domain that serve students at-risk. His professional background also includes experience with the South Carolina Department of Education as the Director of Volunteerism and Training Coordinator for at-risk youth mentoring programs across South Carolina.

 

Jack Catrett

Mr. Catrett has been employed with the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) as the director of special education for the last 10 years. Prior to this appointment, he served as a special education teacher in a DJJ institution and as a teacher and principal in local school systems in Georgia. Mr. Catrett began his college studies at Jacksonville State University in Anniston, AL, and he currently holds an education specialist degree. He serves on a statewide special education advisory committee.

 

Anne Charles

Anne Charles is currently the project director of the Corrections Learning Network (CLN)and a distance learning instructor with Educational Service District 101's (ESD 101) telecommunications division in Spokane, Washington. During her 14-year tenure with ESD 101, Anne has conducted program development activities including site expansion efforts resulting in an increase of more than 2209 percent in national site participation with CLN over a 5-year period. Concurrently, Anne shares her talents, developing and implementing curricula for the workplace preparedness classes she teaches via satellite. As a 28-year classroom educator, corporate trainer, curriculum developer, public speaker, and satellite teacher, Anne delivers a message of motivation and significance to dislocated workers, youth and adult offenders, and young adults preparing for the workplace.

 

Arlene Chorney

Dr. Chorney has been with the Rhode Island Training School for 16 years, prior to which she was an administrator at Johnson & Wales University. She began as a reading teacher and was promoted to the position of principal in 1985. She is the immediate past president of the State Directors for Correctional Education and was elected to the delegate assembly of the Correctional Education Association to represent juvenile education. Dr. Chorney is currently in her second year of that term.

Bryant Claiborne

Bryant Claiborne has worked in the field of Human Services for over 15 years providing youth and families with counseling, mentoring and advocacy. In addition, he has coordinated and directed several best practice youth prevention programs. Throughout his career he has received several citations and acclamations from families, community organizations, public officials for his professionalism, energy, commitment, and level of integrity rendered to the lives of many youth and their families located in Baltimore City

Mr. Claiborne is currently the Director of the Community and Family Center (CFRC), a community -based initiative dedicated to strengthening families and the community by providing information, education and support to families, especially those children who have been involved in or at risk of entering the Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Melva Clarida

Melva Clarida is the educational facility administrator (principal) of the Illinois Youth Center at Harrisburg, one of the largest boys' prisons in that State. She has been there as first a teacher and then an administrator since 1990. This center (IYC-Harrisburg) houses about 400 adjudicated boys between 13 and 21 years. IYC-Harrisburg does many innovative programs, among them Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS).

 

Greta Colombi

Greta Colombi, research analyst, has more than ten years of experience in program monitoring and reporting, technical assistance, and research in both the education and health and human services fields. Since joining NDTAC in 2007, she has overseen Title I, Part D, direct assistance; supported and facilitated ND Communities; and coordinated and developed Web-based conferences on a variety of ND-related topics. She currently is the State liaison for the Teal Community and has recently developed a number of NDTAC products. In addition to her work with NDTAC, she works on a technical assistance project that supports the National Reporting System for Adult Education (NRS). Ms. Colombi earned her bachelor's degree in psychology and urban studies from the University of Pittsburgh and a master's degree in social sciences with an emphasis in the sociology of education from the University of Chicago.

Zelma Cooper

Zelma Cooper is the administrator for the Title I, Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk Children and Youth Program for the Los Angeles Unified School District. She has worked as a teacher of elementary, secondary, and special education in Los Angeles. Previously she worked as a special education teacher for the Grand Rapids, Michigan public schools. In 1997, Ms. Cooper was selected by the superintendent of public instruction for the State of California to serve as a member of the Title I Committee of Practitioners. In 2001, she was selected to serve as its co-chair. Ms. Cooper serves on several committees in Los Angeles County that link and coordinate services for foster youth, probation, and camp returnees. She brings 23 years of experience in providing academic support to ensure that children and youth in out-of-home placement have the same opportunity to graduate from high school as all other students.

 

Tim Cowan

Tim Cowan has been with the Garland Police Department since May 1980. He worked as a patrolman, until 1994 when he became a school resource officer and was certified in the Gang Resistance Education And Training (GREAT) program. Since that time, he has been teaching GREAT at Jackson Technology Center, a middle school in Garland, Texas. In 1996, Mr. Cowan became a member of the GREAT national training team.

Carol Cramer-Brooks

Carol Cramer-Brooks is the director of Program Development and Support for the Michigan Department of Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice. She is responsible for the education, training, quality assurance, policy and the juvenile assignment units for the State-run confinement facilities and community-based programs. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks has participated in juvenile confinement education and programming since 1982. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Cramer-Brooks was the principal of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile home Schools in Kalamazoo Michigan, where she also was special education teacher for sixteen years. Mrs. Cramer-Brooks is the former director of Training and Confinement Education for the National Juvenile Detention Association's Center for research and professional development.

 

Michael Cummings

Since 1996, Michael Cummings has been the juvenile detention transition coordinator for the prevention/intervention program for at-risk youth in the cities of Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, Connecticut. He extensively reviews the transitional systems currently in place in each of these three cities and also examines those in place in other States. He provides leadership in developing collaborative transition systems between juvenile centers and their community schools in Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven, and works with each city's advisory committee in developing a systematic model of service delivery to effectively transition youth back into local schools.

 

Mary Beth Curtis

Mary Beth Curtis's expertise in developing reading strategies for at-risk and delinquent populations was honed during her tenure as director of the Girls and Boys Town reading center in Nebraska, where she helped develop the Boys Town Reading Program. She is the author of numerous books and articles including Adolescent Reading: Trends in Recent Research and Implications for Instruction, which reviews her study of instruction methods for teaching reading skills.

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Dan DeLucey

Dan DeLucey is a youth engagement specialist for the System of Care Initiative at the Allegheny County Department of Human Services in Pittsburgh. He serves on several committees and initiatives, including the Pennsylvania State Core Team for the MacArthur Foundation’s Models for Change Initiative, and was a founding member of the Youth Mentor Council in Pennsylvania. Mr. DeLucey has presented at numerous events around the country.

Karen Denbroeder

Karen Denbroeder is a Senior Educational Program Director for the Florida Department of Education's Bureau of Exceptional Education and Student Service. Ms. Denbroeder, now responsible for the oversight of the education programs of all the juvenile justice facilities in Florida, was instrumental in making the push for a common assessment instrument for the State of Florida. She was also responsible for developing the assessment reporting format for the juvenile justice programs. Her work has led to a State law mandating a single test, as well as implementation of this law in Florida.

 

Nicole Deschenes

Nicole Deschenes, M.Ed., B.Sc., is the director of the National Technical Assistance Center on Youth Transition, which dedicates itself to improving practice, systems, and outcomes for youth and young adults with emotional and behavioral difficulties. Ms. Deschenes is also a faculty member in the department of child and family studies, at the Louis de La Parte Florida Mental Health Institute in Tampa, Florida. She holds a bachelor's degree in nursing from the Université de Moncton, Canada, and a master's degree in education from the University of New Brunswick, Canada. Ms. Deschenes has more than 30 years of experience as a community mental health nurse, educator, consultant, and researcher. Throughout her career, Ms. Deschenes has assisted local, national, and international organizations in developing improved supports and services for individuals with emotional and/or behavioral issues.

 

MaryAnn Donovan

MaryAnn Donovan is a policy analyst with the Office of Youth Services in the Employment and Training Administration ETA. Her responsibilities include representing the Youth Office on the reauthorization of the Workforce Investment Act. Prior to coming to the Youth Office, Ms. Donovan was a staff member for 6 years with the Departments of Education and Labor's National School-to-Work Office. She has also worked in ETA's Office of Policy Development, Evaluation, and Research and the Department of Labor's Congressional Affairs Office.

 

Liz Doyle

Liz Doyle is currently the Clinical Director of Child and Adolescent Services for the McHenry County Mental Health Board. She provides oversight of the evidence-based and informed clinical practices for the Family CARE System of Care as a result of a 6-year cooperative agreement with SAMHSA (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration). Liz is an Illinois Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor with over 20 years of experience in child and adolescent services. She has worked in a variety of settings including a children’s psychiatric residential treatment program, a psychiatric hospital, therapeutic foster home treatment programs and community-based 24/7 intensive in-home programs in several states, Wraparound Coordinator and Clinical Director for the McHenry County Mental Health Board.

 

Kevin Dwyer

Kevin Dwyer is an education and mental health consultant who has served children and families and teachers for over 45 years. He is one of the few leaders in school psychology honored with his profession's life-time achievement award. He also received the Tipper Gore friend of children award from the National Mental Health Association. In 2007 he and his wife received a mental health child advocacy award from the state of Maryland's coalition of Families for children's Mental Health. Kevin is on many boards and presently chairs the board of ROOT Inc in Washington, DC to reduce youth and gun violence.

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Steven Ellis

Steven Ellis, M.P.A. is Senior Manager for Research and Evaluation at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute. He works extensively with education, health care, and economic development initiatives and governmental entities in the areas of customer satisfaction, impact measurement, and organizational and market research. Mr. Ellis has experience with a range of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, including survey research, case study, interviewing, focus groups, and literature review. He has practical experience working with non-profit and quasi-public organizations, public agencies, and private businesses. Mr. Ellis received a master's degree in public administration from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He received his B.A. from North Adams State College.

Finn Esbensen

Finn Esbensen is the E. Desmond Lee Professor of Youth Crime and Violence in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. His research has covered a broad spectrum of methodologies and topics from participant observation in a county jail to conducting longitudinal national surveys of adolescents. Throughout his career, he has been interested in the nexus between research and policy, working on both evaluation and basic research projects. He is currently the Principal Investigator on two multi-site evaluations of school-based prevention programs. Finn received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Tufts University. He earned his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1982.

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Akin Fadeyi

M. Akin Fadeyi is currently employed by the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators (CJCA) as the implementation director of the U.S. Department of Justice, OJJDP-funded Performance-Based Standards (PbS) project for youth correction and detention facilities. Mr. Fadeyi provides guidance and assistance to participating sites to implement the PbS goals, standards, expected practices, and processes, and to complete the project's data collection, reports, and improvement cycle. He also oversees and monitors the consultants who work with participating sites in the project.

Randall Farmer

Randall Farmer has 19 years of experience teaching at-risk youth. Randall earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska in Anthropology, with minors in Philosophy and Geology and spent 6 years working for the National Park Service Midwest Archeological Center. He then earned Educational Certification in Broad Field Social Sciences, and Administration. He also has a M.Ed. from Temple University, Philadelphia, in Educational Psychology. He has taught in a variety of settings; a psychiatric hospital, alternative middle school, a residential school for inner city youth from primarily Philadelphia and New York, a juvenile detention center, and is currently the Educational Director of the Lancaster County Youth Services Center in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Patricia Frost

Pat Frost has been the Title I, Part D, coordinator in Nebraska for the Department of Education (NDE) since December 2001. She is also a Title IA consultant, Federal program reviewer for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) consolidated applications, and reviewer of the School Improvement Grants (SIGs). Ms. Frost’s education career has extended 40 years. Prior to coming to NDE, Ms. Frost was a student services coordinator, student assistance team coordinator, and faculty member at the Lahore American School in Lahore, Pakistan. She taught special education and was the SAT coordinator at Hoover Elementary School in Council Bluffs, Iowa. She also taught at Uta Halee Residential School in Omaha, in the Omaha Public Schools, and in the Millard Public Schools in Nebraska. Ms. Frost has a master’s degree in special education from the University of Nebraska, Omaha, and a bachelor’s degree in secondary education from Wayne State College.

Thomas Fuller

Thomas Fuller, M.ED., L.P.C., RPED, currently serves as the manager of the educational liaison department of the Texas Youth Commission in Austin, Texas. Mr. Fuller received his master's degree from Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. His career spans 41 years of education-related service. He has been a classroom teacher, a college instructor, a rehabilitation counselor, a special education supervisor, and an assessment specialist. In addition, Mr. Fuller served as the director of special education for 13 years before retiring and taking a position with the Texas Education Agency as a contract monitor. He joined the Texas Youth Commission in 2001 and was promoted to manager in September 2003.

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Diane Gadow

Diane Gadow is currently deputy director of the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections. Prior to her current position, Ms. Gadow was superintendent of Ferris School, the maximum secure care facility for court adjudicated juveniles in Delaware. She was recruited to lead the staff through a new facility design and total program transformation. At the time, Ferris School was under an ACLU lawsuit and noted for lack of adequate programming. The new Ferris School facility and program opened in May 1997. Within 2 years, it was cited nationally as a model program by the Coalition for Juvenile Justice in their Conditions of Confinement Report, 1999. In 2002, Education Disability & Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) recognized Ferris School as a model educational program for youth corrections institutions. Ms. Gadow has assisted other States in developing new facilities and enhancing program design, organizational structure, and implementing a process whereby staff and youth promote and support positive social skill development, treatment, and education.

 

Joseph Gagnon

Dr. Joseph Gagnon is an assistant professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Florida. His research focuses on curriculum, assessment, and accountability policies and practices in juvenile corrections and psychiatric schools. Dr. Gagnon has conducted and published national studies on these topics and on mathematics instruction for secondary school students with disabilities. He also serves as an expert consultant and monitor for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Civil Rights concerning the provision of educational services in juvenile corrections settings. Dr. Gagnon has provided trainings to preservice and inservice teachers in the United States and in such countries as Azerbaijan, China, Colombia, Egypt, Germany, Thailand, and Turkey.

 

Nancy Gannon Hornberger

Nancy Gannon Hornberger is the executive director of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice. She devotes her professional life to improving circumstances for vulnerable children and families, bringing more than 25 years of experience with delinquency and violence prevention, public policy, and constituent education and communications. In the 1970s, Ms. Gannon Hornberger began special education and clinical counseling of high-risk/court-involved youth. She has been honored for her public policy and system-change work, receiving a commendation from President Clinton in 1996. Ms. Gannon Hornberger is proud of her many accomplishments with the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, including establishing partnerships with the National Juvenile Justice Network, the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Initiative, Models for Change, and Act-4-JJ campaign to reauthorize the Federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act.

 

Lili Garfinkel

Lili Garfinkel, an outspoken and passionate advocate for children and families, has worked for more than 35 years to serve underrepresented populations in the United States and Canada. Since joining PACER 25 years ago, she has coordinated the Lets Prevent Abuse project and currently coordinates the Juvenile Justice Project, the first project of its kind in the U.S. to consider the relationship between the juvenile justice system and the presence of disabilities. From 1999-2006 she was the Assistant Director of the National Center on Education Disability and Juvenile Justice or EDJJ, a unique partnership that provided research, training and technical assistance as well as parent advocacy in this emerging field. Mrs. Garfinkel has been published widely and has presented across the country on a variety of topics pertaining to mental health, juvenile justice, special education and working with families. She has developed a handbook on juvenile justice and mental health titled "Unique Challenges, Hopeful Responses," which is currently being revised and expanded and she co-authored 1995's No One Saw My Pain: Why Teens Kill Themselves with Dr. Andrew Slaby, which shares the stories of eight families who lost a child to suicide. Ms. Garfinkel is a loving wife, mother of three adult daughters, and grandmother to two granddaughters.

Simon Gonsoulin

Simon Gonsoulin, NDTAC's director, brings to the Center 30 years of experience in education, special education, and juvenile justice. In addition to his work with NDTAC, Simon serves as the juvenile justice resource specialist for the Technical Assistance Partnership supporting System of Care communities focusing on the needs of youth involved in the juvenile justice system. Mr. Gonsoulin is an expert in issues related to juvenile justice education and administration as well as special education administration. Most recently, as the deputy secretary of the Office of Youth Development within the Governor's Cabinet in Louisiana, he served as the lead administrator for the State's juvenile justice system, including its secure care facilities, statewide probation and parole functions, contracted community-based programming, and a newly-created stand-alone State agency of juvenile justice. Prior to that, he served as the State director of Education for the same office. Mr. Gonsoulin also has worked directly in schools and classrooms as both an instructor and principal.

 

Heather Griller Clark

Dr. Heather Griller Clark has been working with and on behalf of juvenile justice and neglected and delinquent populations since 1993. She has served as special education teacher and a transition coordinator for the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections; a special education teacher for Peoria Accelerated High School; a research associate for the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice; and is currently the project director for the Arizona Detention Transition Project, 4-year OSEP-funded Model Demonstration Project, and Learner Outcomes for Merging Two Worlds, an Arizona State Department of Education training grant.

 

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Michael Haley

In 2000, Michael Haley was one of 12 people awarded the North Carolina Governor's Public Management Fellowship Award. That same year, Michael joined the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as a Researcher/Grant Writer. In October 2001, Michael was made the Grants Administrator for the Department. Since November 2005, he has been the Youth and Family Services Administrator for the Department. In order to better reflect the needs of the youth, families, and communities the Department serves, the Youth and Family Services Administrator acts as a facilitator and resource for community and family services for the Department. As such, Michael is responsible for developing, implementing, enhancing, and monitoring community, institutional and special program services for youth and families. Michael works to coordinate processes, protocols, and procedures between the Department's divisions for connecting youth and families to the most appropriate services.

 

Maceo Hallmon

Maceo Hallmon is the Executive Director of East Baltimore Youth & Family Services. He is an active participant in juvenile detention in Baltimore, bringing the voice of the community on a variety of issues, particularly racial disparities in the juvenile justice system. He also served as the Acting Director of the Community and Family Resource Center, a new program at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center.

 

Kia Harris

Kia Harris currently serves as the director of training at the National Juvenile Detention Association's Center for Research and Professional Development (CRPD). Prior to this position, she worked as an intensive probation officer at Ingham County Family Court Juvenile Division. There she co-facilitated girls' social skills groups and initiated the Intensive Probation Community Service for Girls program. She also served on the Child Benefit Fund executive board where she assisted in the distribution of funds and coordination of fundraising programs for neglected, abused, and delinquent children in need. In addition, Ms. Harris has experience as a youth development worker at the Eaton County Juvenile Detention Facility.

 

Kenya Haynes

A former elementary school teacher, Kenya Haynes has been employed by the Wyoming Department of Education (WDE) for eight years. During that time she has held many positions including (but not limited to) the Wyoming director of gifted and talented education, the Wyoming homeschool coordinator and school improvement specialist. Currently Ms. Haynes works in the Federal Programs Unit of WDE as the Title I, Part D, Program Manager (Neglected or Delinquent Student Programs) and works on various state at-risk student initiatives as well as serving as a district support team consultant. Ms. Haynes is a Quality Assurance Review Chair for AdvancED and has chaired school improvement evaluation teams for the United States Department of Defense Education Activity in Europe.

Jessica Heppen

Jessica Heppen holds a Ph.D. in social psychology from Rutgers University. She has over five years of experience in education research and policy and over ten years of experience in conducting research in the areas of education, health care, stereotypes of special populations, and student identity and self-esteem. Her research studies have been published in academic journals and presented at national conferences. Dr. Heppen is currently the Deputy Director for the National High School Center.

 

Melvin Herring

Melvin Herring serves as the program director for Title I, Part D, at the Florida Department of Education. His duties include monitoring and providing technical assistance to Florida’s educational agencies that have Neglected, Delinquent and At-risk programs. He has also served as an ESE teacher and education program coordinator for the Florida Department of Corrections.

Joseph Hiznay

Joseph Hiznay is a program consultant for educational and social service systems in Pennsylvania.  He is also the chairman of the board of directors of Circle C Youth & Family Services.  Additionally, he serves on various committees promoting the educational rights of children and is a member of Correctional Educators of America.  Mr. Hiznay is involved in program development, monitoring, and project oversight relating to Title I in neglected and delinquent institutions in Pennsylvania.  Additionally, he has served for the past 8 years on the N and D Advisory Committee for the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

 

John L. Hosp

Dr. John L. Hosp is an associate professor of special education at the University of Iowa. His current research interests focus on aligning assessment and intervention and disproportionate representation of students of color in special education programs. Dr. Hosp is the author of more than 30 books, journal articles, and book chapters and has presented extensively on issues of reading, assessment, and disproportionate representation of students of color in special education programs. He received a Ph.D. in education and human development from Vanderbilt University and a master’s degree in school psychology from the Rochester Institute of Technology.

 

David Houchins

Dr. David Houchins is the principal investigator on Project LIBERATE (Literacy Instruction Based on Evidence through Research for Adjudicated Teens to Excel) and PRIDE (Preparing Researchers in Delinquency and Exceptionalities). He started his teaching career in Florida, where he taught students with mild disabilities at the secondary school level. After graduating from the University of Florida, Dr. Houchins took his first university position at Louisiana State University and then moved to the Department of Educational Psychology & Special Education at Georgia State University. His areas of interest include juvenile justice reform, reading and writing strategies in juvenile justice and secondary school settings, and transition services and policies in juvenile justice and secondary school settings.

 

Barbara Huff

Barbara Huff is the parent of a daughter who grew up with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse challenges. Her struggle to get appropriate services, supports and treatment for her daughter led her to advocating on a larger scale. It eventually drove her away from her career in interior design to developing a statewide family-run advocacy organization in Kansas. As founder of Keys for Networking, she became involved in a national movement to involve families in their children's care, in systems change, and in the evaluation of services and supports. She became one of the founders and the first president of the national Federation of  Families for Children's Mental Health. She served thirteen years as the Federation's Executive Director. Barbara's appointment to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Advisory Council raises the family voice to a new level of influence on policy and systems change. Barbara takes great pride and delight in the development of over 130 family-run advocacy and support organizations across the country and making families a part of important decisions, as well as the family movement moving forward in the future. Barbara is currently a part time project coordinator for the Federation of  Families for Children's Mental Health and a part time consultant.

 

Sharon Hunt

Sharon Hunt, Deputy Director and substance abuse content specialist for the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership), is a social service professional with over 25 years of experience working in the social service field in a variety of capacities, including: administrator, researcher, policy analyst, clinician, and volunteer. She has managed programs for homeless individuals and residential programs for adolescents and adults with serious mental health issues (many with co-occurring disorders), and has worked as a foster care social worker. From 1994–1997, she was a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism predoctoral trainee in health services research on alcohol-related problems.

In 1997, as a part of a larger Center for Substance Abuse Treatment study, Dr. Hunt co-led a multi-site qualitative study of the impact of the termination of SSI benefits to individuals who had drug addiction and alcoholism as a disabling condition. As a part of the project, she also provided TA to other health services researchers on understanding substance abuse, disability benefits, and local safety nets. Prior to her work on the TA Partnership, Dr. Hunt worked at Northrop Grumman as the Deputy Project Director on the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) Technical Assistance for Youth Treatment contract. She conducted site visits, helped to oversee the evaluation activities of a multi-site study, and provided TA on clinical and research issues to adolescent treatment grantees, including Strengthening Communities—Youth (SCY) grantees. Dr. Hunt is a licensed foster parent, a high school mentor, and an adoptive parent of two older girls, one with special needs.

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Rufus Johnson

Dr. Rufus Johnson is the Regional Principal for Northwest Georgia for the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice. He earned a Bachelor’s and Masters’ in English and Secondary Education from Mercer University, a degree as an Education Specialist at Georgia State University and a doctorate in Education from Nova Southeastern University. Rufus’ extensive background in education includes fourteen years as a high school English teacher, seven years as a high school assistant and supervising principal and three years as the principal of Macon Youth Development Campus.

 

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Kathleen Karol

Kathleen Karol, Ph.D., is the superintendent of education for Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections.  Prior to this position, Dr. Karol administered secure care programs in Coconino County in juvenile detention and jail settings. She has 14 years experience as a public school administrator in the principalship and superintendency roles. She is respected throughout the State for her work with at-risk populations and her ability to lead educational change.

 

Lonnie Kaufman

Lonnie Kaufman, M.S. is a Research Manager at the University of Massachusetts Donahue Institute specializing in local, state, and federal educational initiatives and programs. Mr. Kaufman has over twenty years of experience working within and on behalf of public schools at the secondary and higher education levels throughout the U.S. His work has focused on conducting research and evaluation, managing projects, and providing professional development. He employs both qualitative and quantitative methodologies and has extensive experience writing reports reflecting key findings of data analysis. Mr. Kaufman received his M.S. in school counseling from San Diego State University. He earned his B.A. in anthropology and secondary teaching from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

 

James Keeley

Dr. James Keeley is currently the State field director for correctional education for the Maryland Department of Education, having recently retired from being the director of juvenile correctional education for the Pennsylvania Department of Education. He started his 32-plus-year career as a teacher in a juvenile and adult co-correctional institution. From there, he became an institutional education administrator and has been in his current position for the past 16 years. During this time he has been a member of many professional organizations, most notably as the president of the Correctional Education Association for 2 years. Mr. Keeley is currently serving as a commissioner on the Standards Commission for the Correctional Education Association and just received his Ph.D. in education leadership from Widener University.

 

Sheppard Kellam

Sheppard G. Kellam, M.D. is a public health psychiatrist who has played a major role in establishing concepts and methods for prevention science, and has contributed to knowledge about early risk factors and their malleability. From 1982-1993 He was Chair of the Department of Mental Health in the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and is now Professor Emeritus. In March of 2000 Dr. Kellam accepted an invitation of the American Institutes for Research to come full time to AIR and develop a new Center for Integrating Education and Prevention Research in Schools (Ed/Prev Center). His theoretical, methodological, and substantive contributions began with the early intervention studies in Woodlawn, an African American community on the South Side of Chicago, from 1963 through 1982. He and colleagues coined the name developmental epidemiology, i.e., mapping the variation in developmental paths leading to health or disorders within defined populations. In 2004 Dr. Kellam was elected to be a Fellow in the Academy of Experimental Criminology. As the first president of the Society for Prevention Research elected by the full membership(1998-2001), he worked to build and strengthen SPR as a broad, inclusive international scientific forum and organization for the advancement of prevention science worldwide.

Patrick Kelly

Patrick Kelly, a former Research Assistant at AIR, served as a State technical assistance liaison, worked on the data team, and contributed research support for the Center Web site and related products. Patrick has an interest and experience in mental health in juvenile justice, as well as No Child Left Behind (NCLB) implementation and empirical research. In addition to his work on the NDTAC Center, he also helped coordinate policy forums related to promoting and disseminating education research. Patrick received his B.A. in History and Spanish from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Christine Kenney

For the past 6 years Christine Kenney has been the Director of Educational Services at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. In this position Ms. Kenney oversees the delivery of educational services in all residential programs as well as transition and vocational services. Prior to holding this position Ms. Kenney worked as the Executive Assistant to the Commissioner, victim advocate, caseworker and teacher at the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. Ms. Kenney holds a Master's in Public Administration from Suffolk University and a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education from Salem State College.

Tal Kerem

Tal Kerem joined NDTAC in December 2006 as a data specialist and has recently assumed the role of task leader for the Center's data collection and evaluation activities. His work for the Center has included, among other projects, presentation of CSPR data for the ND State Fast Facts, development of a CSPR data collection tool, and several ND Briefs. Tal holds a bachelor's degree in psychology from Yeshiva University and a master's degree in Risk and Prevention from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

 

Marcia Kingman

Marcia Kingman oversees the Striving Readers grants from the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education at the U.S. Department of Education.  Before moving to the Department of Education, Ms. Kingman taught English at Colorado State University and in the Montgomery County, Maryland Public School system where she also helped design and deliver language arts professional development.

 

Barry Krisberg

Dr. Barry A. Krisberg has been the president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency (NCCD) since 1983. He is known nationally for his research and expertise on juvenile justice issues and is called upon as a resource for professionals and the media. Dr. Krisberg received his master's degree in criminology and a doctorate in sociology, both from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held several educational posts. He was a faculty member in the School of Criminology at the University of California at Berkeley, and was also an adjunct professor with the Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Krisberg is currently clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Hawaii and a lecturer in the legal studies department of the University of California at Berkeley.

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Stephanie Lampron

Stephanie Lampron, deputy director of NDTAC, has worked for the Center since 2004. During that time, she has worked closely with the U.S. Department of Education on the implementation of the National evaluation framework for Title I, Part D, programs. Ms. Lampron has led the Center’s technical assistance efforts around data quality improvement and program evaluation and has given a number of presentations and developed tools around these topics. Ms. Lampron has more than 10 years of experience in research and evaluation and holds an M.A. in social psychology from the Ohio State University. She has worked on a number of research projects spanning both the education and mental health fields, and her most recent work has focused on youth involvement in systems of care, social and emotional learning, and school reform.

 

Peter Leone

Peter Leone is a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Maryland and the director of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice. During his career, he has taught adolescents with behavioral disorders in public schools, trained teachers, and conducted research on education programs and practices in institutional settings. Mr. Leone’s scholarship and related activities focus mainly on academic competence and entitlement of individuals with disabilities in juvenile and adult corrections settings. He has evaluated education and support services in jails, detention centers, and prisons in more than 20 States.

 

Joy Lewis

Joy Lewis is a research associate with WestEd's Assessment and Standards Development Services (ASDS) group. She has been with WestEd for 4 years, working previously with the policy center at WestEd and the math and science Program. Joy has been the ASAM Project Coordinator since 2002. Her other work at WestEd includes the development of large-scale assessments for various States around the country. Joy earned her M.A. in international education and policy analysis at Stanford University and her B.A. in sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

 

John Linton

John Linton was appointed to an education specialist position in the Office of Vocational and Adult Education, United States Department of Education, on January 16, 2001. There he headed the Office of Correctional Education. Since September 2002, Mr. Linton has served in the Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools, which subsumed the duties of the former Office of Correctional Education. Prior to his Federal appointment, Mr. Linton was director of correctional education for the Maryland State Department of Education. His responsibilities included direct management of the education and library programs in the 23,000-bed adult correctional system. Mr. Linton provided direct support to the legislatively mandated Educational Coordinating Council for Correctional Institutions, which included membership by both the State superintendent of schools and the State secretary of public safety and correctional services.

 

Edward Loughran

Edward (Ned) Loughran is the executive director of the Council of Juvenile Correctional Administrators, an organization representing the CEOs of State juvenile correctional agencies. He was the director of juvenile justice programs for the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial from 1993 to 1996 where he administered a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to give technical assistance to several juvenile correctional agencies throughout the country.

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Polly Maccini

Dr. Polly Maccini is an associate professor in the Special Education Department at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research interests involve mathematics interventions for secondary school students with high incidence disabilities. Dr. Maccini investigates special and general education teachers' perceptions for teaching math to students with learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral disorders, in light of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standards and empirically validated practices. She is currently examining teachers' use of empirically based instructional practices and assessment accommodations for secondary school students with high incidence disabilities in mathematics in alternative settings.

 

Dennis Maloney

Dennis Maloney was the president of Community Justice Associates. He was a senior program manager with the Balance and Restorative Justice Project at Florida Atlantic University. Dennis had more than 30 years of experience in corrections and community corrections. For 16 years he served as the Director of the Deschutes County Department of Community Justice of Oregon. There he initiated a variety of juvenile and adult corrections programs that gained national attention. Dennis wrote two books and more than 30 published articles. His book on probation is the most widely distributed journal in the history of the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. In the past decade, Dennis provided technical assistance to all 50 States. Nearly 30 States revamped their entire juvenile justice system based on Dennis' writings on the balanced approach to juvenile justice. The U.S. Department of State distributed his writings to more than 250 countries, and his work is utilized worldwide as a foundation for justice system reform.

 

Karen Mann

Karen Mann is the director of the Center for Criminology and Public Policy Research at Florida State University. She oversees research projects funded through local, State, and Federal grants and private sources. Ms. Mann’s research interests focus on the impact of educational success on juvenile delinquency, juvenile reentry and transition, community-level initiatives to reduce violence, and effective dissemination strategies to make empirical research accessible for policymakers. She was a legislative analyst and staff director in the Florida Legislature, working on criminal and juvenile justice issues. Ms. Mann also served as a senior research associate in a research and development institute at the University of South Florida.

 

Sarup Mathur

Dr. Sarup R. Mathur currently serves as clinical associate professor in the special education program at Arizona State University. She is also an associate director of the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ) where she is responsible for developing and evaluating the EDJJ professional development activities. She has accumulated extensive experience in program development and quantitative and qualitative evaluation of program processes and outcomes. She is an active member of Arizona Professional Development Leadership Academy, a leadership group involved in implementing and evaluating professional development activities in the State of Arizona. Currently, she is a co-principal investigator of the Arizona Detention Transition Model Demonstration Project funded by the Office of Special Education Projects (OSEP). She has published a number of research articles on behavioral disorders and juvenile delinquency and has presented at State and national conferences.

 

John McLaughlin

Dr. John McLaughlin has been the Federal program manager for the Title I, Part D, Neglected, Delinquent, or At-Risk Program at the U.S. Department of Education since March 2008. He also manages the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. Dr. McLaughlin is a former State coordinator for homeless, neglected, and delinquent education programs with the Minnesota Department of Education and was a lecturer in teaching English as a second language, migrant education, and teacher education at the University of Michigan. Dr. McLaughlin started out as a counselor at a group home for youth in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1988, where he earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Yale University. He received his doctorate in education from Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

 

Robert Michels

As school program manager, Robert (Bob) Michels works with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics character education initiatives, including working with teachers, administrators, and other school personnel in county offices of education and school districts throughout the State to develop and implement the Character-Based Education Program (CBL), ethics camp, and programs for parents. Michels is an adjunct lecturer in the counseling, psychology, and education division at Santa Clara University. Bob has been a teacher and administrator in both elementary and high schools. He has served on various statewide committees on alternative education and been a pioneer and leader in the development of court and community schools. Bob received his bachelor's degree in elementary and secondary education from San Francisco State University and his master's in public school administration from San Jose State University.

 

DeAngela Milligan

DeAngela Milligan, research associate, has been on the NDTAC team for more than three years. Her work at the Center has focused on assisting with the provision of technical assistance to State Title I, Part D, coordinators, assisting with the development of a transition toolkit and annual count tools, and co-coordinating the 2009 National Title I, Part D, Conference. Previously, Ms. Milligan worked as a counseling services specialist for a Federal TRIO program, where she provided transition and student support services to at-risk college students. She earned her bachelor's degree in psychology from Bowie State University.

Dennis Mondoro

Dennis Mondoro is the Strategic Community Development Officer for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice. He interprets agency statutes, regulations, and policies and serves as a primary resource concerning Federal funding and other assistance. He is also responsible for developing and implementing the Office’s Socioeconomic Mapping and Resource Topography System and is the Department’s Youth Gang Program Coordinator. Before coming to the Department of Justice, Mr. Mondoro worked in the Fairfax County, Virginia Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court for nine years; beginning his service as a counselor at the juvenile detention center and ending his tenure in local court service as a juvenile parole officer. He earned his B.A. from Mary Washington College and completed his M.A. in Sociology at George Mason University.

Andie Moss

Andie Moss is the president of The Moss Group, Inc. She has been a leader in addressing sexual abuse in facility and community settings. In 2004, The Moss Group received a multi year award from The National Institute of Corrections (NIC) to assist correctional leaders in developing strategies to address sexual abuse. Ms. Moss has served as director of correctional education programs and as assistant deputy commissioner in the Georgia Department of Corrections, and as a program manager for NIC. She is a contributor in professional publications and is a former president of the Association of Women Executives in Corrections.

 

JoAnn Murphy

JoAnn Murphy is a Principal at Foothill High School, a high school for incarcerated youth in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  She has been at the school for just over a year and prior to this position she had experience in the field of education as a classroom teacher, school psychologist, assistant principal and special education coordinator. 

 

Thomas Murphy

Thomas Murphy is a 5-year veteran at the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Mr. Murphy worked the first 2 1/2 years at OJJDP in the special emphasis division where he managed and monitored more than 40 discretionary grants targeting youth who are at risk, gang involved, and delinquent. Mr. Murphy monitored a variety of federally initiated grant programs that included juvenile mentoring programs, the youth environmental services program, and an array of delinquency prevention and intervention programs throughout the country.

 

Eve Munson

Eve N. Munson is the director of detention reform at the Coalition for Juvenile Justice (CJJ).  She is responsible for the organization's first foundation-supported project with the charge of reforming the juvenile detention system through intensive training and technical assistance to CJJ's Governor-appointed member State advisory groups.  Ms. Munson has also worked as a counselor in the field with both court-appointed girls and incarcerated adults and in the field of prevention research and evaluation.  She received her degree from the University of California at Santa Cruz.

 

Howard Muscott

Dr. Howard S. Muscott is professor of education and director of undergraduate special education programs and graduate programs in emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) in the department of education at Rivier College. Dr. Muscott currently co-directs the New Hampshire Center for Effective Behavioral Interventions and Supports, a statewide technical assistance and training network aimed at enhancing the mental health of all children in schools including those with EBD. Muscott received his doctorate in educating students with EBD from Teachers College, Columbia University and joined the Rivier faculty in 1992. He has more than 25 years of experience in education ranging from preschool through high school and higher education.

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Diego James Navarro

Diego Navarro is the Founder and PI for a National Science Foundation ATE funded project, the Digital Bridge Academy (DBA), which serves under-prepared Latino students and is in the process of being replicated in community colleges in the San Francisco Bay Area serving urban African-American, Latino and Asian students. Mr. Navarro has over twenty years experience in research and management positions in the computer industry with Hewlett Packard Labs, Apple Computer, NCR Corporation, and CEO of two start-up high-tech companies. Diego started his career in 1976 as a computer support specialist at Bank of America (while attending Pasadena City College). Diego received his master's degree from Harvard University's Graduate School of Business, and holds an undergraduate degree in Information Systems from Antioch University.

Renelle Nelson

Renelle Nelson has worked for more than 30 years with and on behalf of children and youth with mental health and special education needs. Currently she is the Coordinator for the Emotional or Behavioral Disorders Project at PACER Center, which coordinates local, state and federal agency efforts to provide systems advocacy, promote family-driven service systems, and develop parent leadership to meet the needs of these individuals and their families. Ms. Nelson also currently facilitates the Youth Advisory Board on Mental Health at PACER Center. This board is made up of 8 young people with mental health disorders and works to dispel the stigma associated with a mental illness, develop self-advocacy and leadership skills, and provide information to other youth, their families and providers on how to help a youth with mental illness be successful at home, in school and in the community. During her time with PACER, Ms. Nelson also managed and directed Minnesota's Statewide Family Network, a federal grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Association designed to work with family members, policy makers and service providers to improve service access and quality of services for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. Ms. Nelson has her Masters in Psychotherapy and Counseling and is the mother of 4 children, one of whom has received special education services through county support programs.

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Edna O'Connor

Dr. Edna R. O'Connor is the executive director of Oak Hill Academy in Laurel, Maryland, a District of Columbia public school for middle and high school-detained and committed adjudicated youth. She is also an adjunct faculty member at Goucher College. Dr. O'Connor has worked in the field of education for more than 25 years. She is dedicated to bringing about excellence and equity in education for all children. Her fields of special interest and expertise are multicultural education, curriculum development, behavior management, and restructuring schools at risk.

 

Mindee O'Cummings

Mindee O’Cummings, senior research analyst, has worked in the field of education for more than ten years. Her experiences include teaching in special and general education settings; working as a school-based technology coordinator; serving as an elementary and middle school vice-principal; conducting research and program evaluations; providing technical assistance to educators, researchers, and developers; and working with families whose children have disabilities. Besides working on NDTAC, Dr. O’Cummings serves as the special education coordinator and technical assistance liaison for the National High School Center. Dr. O'Cummings holds a B.S. and M.S. in special education from the University of New Mexico and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction from Arizona State University. She also has served as adjunct faculty at both Arizona State University and George Mason University, where she has taught courses in education and research methodologies.

 

Tom O'Rourke

Dr. Tom O’Rourke most recently served as the associate superintendent for education services at the Georgia Department of Juvenile Justice (GDJJ), where he worked for 10 years until his retirement in 2008. During this time, which Dr. O’Rourke counts as his most rewarding years in education, the GDJJ school system was released from Federal oversight by the U.S. Department of Justice and became accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Dr. O’Rourke is a former associate director for school services for the Southern Region of the College Board. He has also served as a classroom teacher, an assistant principal, a high school principal, and an associate superintendent for instruction.

 

David Osher

Dr. David Osher, Principal Investigator for NDTAC, has more than 25 years of experience as a teacher, administrator, and researcher. He has a wide-ranging background in juvenile justice, children’s mental health, and the education of children at risk of poor community outcomes. In addition to his contributions to the Center, Dr. Osher leads centers and projects that focus on educational equity, the conditions for learning, prevention, collaboration, youth development, and school- and communitywide interventions for children and youth with mental health problems and disorders and their families. Dr. Osher currently also serves as principal investigator for The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention and the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health. He has previously served as principal investigator of the What Works Clearing House Review of Character Education, the Global Evaluation of UNICEF’s Child Friendly Schools, and the national survey of youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice and adult correctional systems, as well as of evaluations of city, citywide, and statewide youth development initiatives in New York City, San Diego, Alaska, and Iowa. He has authored or co-authored more than 270 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports and serves on a number of national advisory boards. His recent publications include Schools as Part of Systems of Care: Promising Practices in Children's Mental Health; Schools as Part of Systems of Care: Promising Practices; Early Warning, Timely Responses—A Guide to Safe Schools; and Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide.

 

Trina Osher

Trina W. Osher is the president of Huff Osher Consulting, Inc. She speaks with a family voice to mental health, education, child welfare, and juvenile justice communities to build collaborative alliances between families, policymakers, and providers. Ms. Osher has served as a consultant to a number of government agencies and policy organizations, has been published in several journals, and served as a family member on the Maryland State Advisory Council. She spent 12 years with the Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health and worked as a special educator for 30 years.

Tony Ostos

Tony Ostos is the program manager for the GRIP (Gang Resistance Is Paramount) program in Paramount, CA. Since coming to Paramount in 1981, the GRIP program has been a remarkable success, reaching over 68,000 kids and steering the vast majority of them away from the dangers of gang membership. Mr. Ostos has often conducted the training for other agencies interested in implementing the GRIP program in various parts of the U.S. Prior to his work in Paramount, he was a probation officer in Los Angeles County and conducted crisis intervention and substance abuse counseling with community and non-profit groups.

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Natalia Pane

Natalia Pane, is a principal research analyst at the American Institutes for Research and offers expertise in strategic planning, particularly as it relates to the Federal Government and the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA); data analyses and data quality issues; and qualitative and quantitative data collection methodologies (e.g., survey design). Ms. Pane has authored more than 40 articles, papers, presentations, and book chapters on the implementation of GPRA and data quality issues.  Ms. Pane did her doctoral work in social psychology with an emphasis in statistics and methods at the University of Delaware and received her M.B.A. at the University of Maryland.

 

George Pesta

George B. Pesta is research coordinator for the Juvenile Justice Educational Enhancement Program (JJEEP). He has worked in the field of juvenile justice education for the past 8 years. His publications have focused on the effectiveness and outcomes of juvenile justice education programs. His prior experience includes teaching at Mount Marty College in South Dakota and the Tolton Alternative Education Program in Chicago, Illinois. He received his B.A. from Florida State University and his M.A. from DePaul University and is currently completing his Ph.D. at Florida State University. His current research deals with the role of educational opportunity as a turning point in the delinquent life course.

 

Frank Plaistowe

Frank Plaistowe is a program administrator in education programs, a division that offers one of the largest alternative education programs in the United States. As the developer of Studata C, Frank has also directed the implementation, staff development, and day-to-day operations of the system that provides extensive student information to the more than 100 sites that comprise Alternative Education and Juvenile Court and Community Schools.

 

Barbara Presler

Dr. Barbara Presler has been a teacher from kindergarten to college and an alternative education administrator in the public schools. She currently works for the Arizona Department of Education as the Coordinator of Title I, Part D. Dr. Presler received her doctorate in Educational Leadership in December 2006 from the University of Nevada. Her dissertation framework was based on the 12 Standards for professional development by the National Staff Development Council (2001).

 

Ted Price

Dr. Ted Price recently accepted a professorship in the College of Human Resources and Education at West Virginia University. He is a former assistant superintendent of Alternative, Charter, and Correctional Education Schools and Services for the Orange County (CA) Department of Education. Dr. Price has been in the field of alternative and correctional education for more than 30 years, during which time he served in roles such as chair of the Student Programs and Services Steering Committee of the California County Superintendents Educational Services Association; president of LeARN; and superintendent of schools for the Department of Correctional Education in Richmond, Virginia. He is a published author, teacher, and leader in his field.

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Mary Quinn

Mary Magee Quinn, Ph.D., is a principal research scientist at the American Institutes for Research. She is experienced in designing and conducting research and has extensive experience in developing, delivering, and providing training and evidence-based technical assistance. Dr. Quinn has designed and taught numerous in-service training modules for teachers, paraprofessionals, and school-related personnel on topics such as providing appropriate services to children with emotional or behavioral problems and their families, conducting functional behavioral assessments, and creating safe and drug-free learning environments. Prior to coming to AIR, Dr. Quinn taught for more than 13 years. She has experience teaching in general education and special education classes from elementary through secondary schools for public schools throughout the country as well as for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools in the Republic of the Philippines and the Federal Republic of Germany. She has 3 years experience teaching at the university level as well as supervising student teachers. Dr. Quinn holds a B.S. in mental retardation, an M.Ed. in learning disabilities, and a Ph.D. in curriculum and instruction with a concentration in antisocial behavior.

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Steffie Rapp

Steffie Rapp is a Juvenile Justice Specialist for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) in the U.S. Department of Justice. She works on initiatives and issues related to youth gangs and mental health. These initiatives include gang prevention, intervention, and suppression programs in localities across the nation as well as training and technical assistance projects. Prior to her work with OJJDP, Ms. Rapp was the Executive Director of her own school-based, nonprofit gang and violence prevention/intervention program in West Baltimore. She received her MSW at Simmons College in Boston, Massachusetts and is licensed to practice clinical social work.

Nicholas Read

Nicholas Read, research analyst, has been a member of the NDTAC team for nearly 5 years. He has served as a direct technical assistance provider to States administering Title I, Part D funds. Specifically, Mr. Read’s work has focused on the areas of transition, mentoring, family involvement, and positive behavioral interventions and supports (PBIS). Currently, Mr. Read coordinates the Center’s peer-to-peer technical assistance network. In addition to his work on NDTAC, Mr. Read serves as the juvenile justice technical assistance coordinator for the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health and provides assistance to system of care communities in meeting the mental health needs of youth involved or at risk of involvement with the juvenile justice system. Mr. Read received his master’s degree in social policy from the George Washington University.

 

Joan Reeves

Joan Reeves has more than 30 years experience in the planning, policy development, managing, and executive leadership of complex human services systems. These systems include child welfare, juvenile justice, and child care. Her experiences also include the fiscal management of Federal, State, and local finances; media relations; intergovernmental relations; and community relations.

 

Patricia Rich

Patricia Rich has worked in a wide variety of fields relating to youth services for more than 28 years. These include functioning as a mental health therapist, teacher, counselor, assistant principal, and coordinator in the area of education and with high risk youth. Currently, Ms. Rich serves as the Title I neglected and delinquent coordinator for Los Angeles County Office of Education (LACOE). LACOE operates the largest juvenile court and community schools program in California. Ms. Rich is responsible for the coordination and monitoring of this program. Previous to her work in the field, Ms. Rich graduated from California State University, San Bernardino with a B.A. in political science and a M.A. in education.

 

Maggie Rivers

Since August 2003, Maggie Rivers has served as the Federal programs director for the Alabama Department of Education (ALDE).  Before that, Ms. Rivers was both the education specialist for ALDE and the Federal programs coordinator for the largest school district in Alabama County Public Schools.  Ms. Rivers also served as a Federal programs resource teacher for 6 years in the Mobile County public school system.  Ms. Rivers received a M.A. in administration and 1-8 elementary education from the University of Mobile.

 

Orlenda Roberts

Orlenda Roberts has worked as an educator for over 35 years, first as a teacher and later as an administrator. Her specialization is working with special needs and/or at-risk student populations. She currently serves as an Assistant Superintendent for Pinal County Schools in Pinal County, Arizona. She received her bachelors and masters degrees from the University of Arizona. Currently, Ms. Roberts is in the process of pursuing her doctorate in educational leadership.

 

Carlos Rodriguez

Dr. Carlos Rodriguez is a principal research scientist at the American Institutes for Research, where he leads national evaluation projects on the participation of underrepresented minorities in science and mathematics for the National Science Foundation. He also works on issues related to the assessment of special needs and limited English proficient students. Dr. Rodriquez is a former project director for the development of cultural competency curriculum modules for the Office of Minority Health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has authored a number of publications, including a national report that became the basis for the enactment of the Hispanic Education Action Plan.

Craig Rosen

Craig Rosen serves as the education administrator at the Iowa Juvenile Home (IJH) in Toledo, IA. Over the past 4 years, Craig has been involved in implementing School-Wide Positive Behavior Supports (PBS) across the entire campus at IJH and has been working at the State and national level to show that what is best practice in the public school system can be successfully implemented in juvenile justice and residential treatment settings. Craig has a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and a M.S. in administration from Drake University. In addition, Craig has additional graduate work in special education.

 

Dennis Rozumalski

Dennis Rozumalski has been the Title I, Part D, coordinator in Delaware for the Department of Education (DDOE) since April 2007. He is also the State coordinator for the Education of Homeless Students and the education associate for Student Services and Special Populations, where he serves as the program manager for school counselors, family crisis therapists, truancy, and student success plans. Prior to being hired at DDOE, he consulted with the department to train schools and districts on positive behavior supports and interventions (PBIS). Before his involvement with DDOE, Mr. Rozumalski was an elementary school counselor for 13 years, the director of two homeless shelters for 2 years, and was in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years. Mr. Rozumalski holds a master’s degree in school counseling and a bachelor’s degree in music education.

Robert Rutherford

Dr. Robert Rutherford was professor of special education and director of graduate programs and research in the Division of Curriculum and Instruction at Arizona State University. He was an associate director of the National Center on Education Disability and Juvenile Justice (EDJJ), which was responsible for providing transition and aftercare services to youth with disabilities in the juvenile justice system, and also served as principal investigator of the Arizona Detention Transition Project, an OSEP model demonstration project in the two largest detention centers in Arizona.

 

Gary Rutkin

Dr. Gary Rutkin is the instructional change group leader for the Student Achievement and School Accountability program of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education. He is the former Federal program manager for the Title I, Part D, Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk Program and the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth program. Dr. Rutkin has worked in the areas of education and health and human services for 33 years. Previously, Dr. Rutkin worked with the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education in the Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology program and managed projects for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Kathleen Sande

Kathleen Sande is the statewide program supervisor for juvenile offender education programs and Title I, Part D, programs for the Washington Superintendent of Public Instruction Office. She has been an advocate for students for the past 17 years in Washington State. Ms. Sande spent 7 years as a program coordinator of Workforce Training Programs, advocating for dislocated timber workers searching for new careers, and 5 years at the Washington Department of Corrections, serving as statewide program manager for adult and youthful offender basic skills programs. She is a member of Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute’s Fellowship in the area of juvenile justice multisystems integration.

 

Dory Seidel

Dory Seidel, research assistant, has been with the NDTAC team since 2008. She has worked across a number of activities, including providing direct technical assistance, conducting data analyses and data quality reviews, and organizing the NDTAC Webinar series. Ms. Seidel received her B.A. in psychology from the University of Chicago.

Anju Sidana

Anju Sidana, research associate, joined the Center in 2006 and has worked across a number of areas, including providing content management and editorial services for the Center’s Web site, providing technical assistance to States, and conducting Tuesday Talks with Center Director Simon Gonsoulin. Additionally, she has worked on research and technical assistance projects in the areas of systemwide school reform and small schools, community-based organizations, technology and education, teacher preparation, and the Regional Educational Lab Collaborative Strategic Reading study. She received her B.A. from the University of Maryland with dual majors in anthropology and psychology.

Anthony Sims

Anthony E. Sims, Ph.D., recently served as manager of specialized support services and state director of special education for the Illinois State Board of Education. Prior to that appointment, Dr. Sims served as a public health advisor with the Child, Adolescent, and Family Branch of the Center for Mental Health Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Prior to his appointment with the Federal Government, Dr. Sims served as a senior research analyst with the American Institutes for Research, Washington, DC. His responsibilities included coordinating national technical assistance to local school districts on special education issues, and facilitating and expanding sustainable Federal, national, and local interagency collaborations to improve outcomes for children and youth with, or placed at risk for poor academic and social outcomes.

 

Adrienne Smith

Adrienne R. Smith is president of education and workforce consultants.  She provides assistance to national and community clients in the areas of youth development, youth employment, workforce development, evaluation, sustainability and resource development.  She works with rural youth-serving organizations on community youth development in Crossett, AR; Monroe, LA; northern NM; and with urban youth-serving areas connected to the American Youth Policy Forum and the National Youth Employment Coalition.

 

Larry Springer

Larry Springer is currently the director of the Division of Juvenile Court and Community Schools, Los Angeles County Office of Education. As an exemplary teacher, he starred in the nationally televised documentary, Blackboard Jumble. As an assistant principal, he assisted the division in bringing quality educational programs to State licensed children's institutions housing hard-to-place juveniles. While serving as a school site administrator, he provided the instructional leadership in developing a model program in California combining academic excellence, state-of-the-art vocational/technical training, athletic competition, and nationally acclaimed visual and performing arts programming for older juveniles working toward emancipation.

 

Jean Steinberg

Dr. Jean Steinberg earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology in 1979 from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, and her masters (in 1983) and doctoral degrees (in 1986) in clinical psychology from SUNY at Stony Brook, New York. She completed both her predoctoral and postdoctoral clinical training at Brown University's Program in Medicine. In 2001, Dr. Steinberg joined North Carolina's Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention as Clinical Director at one of the state's five Youth Development Centers for adjudicated youth. She introduced innovative programming shifting staff focus away from sanction-based, behavior management approaches and toward more therapeutic efforts promoting behavior-change. In September 2005, she was selected by George Sweat, Secretary of the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, to chair a multidisciplinary program development team that designed evidence-based programming to be introduced in smaller, community-based facilities that are to serve as replacements for the state's aging Youth Development Centers. Since March of 2005, she has served as Director of the Jackson Project, a program testing out the environmental, staffing, and programming changes slated to be introduced in the replacement facilities on a state-wide basis in 2007.

 

Bobbi Stettner-Eaton

Dr. Bobbi Stettner-Eaton is a management and program analyst for the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development, Performance and Information Management Service, EDFacts Team. Her areas of responsibility include transformation of legacy data collections into EDFacts for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the Consolidated State Performance Report (CSPR), and the Consolidated Annual Report (CAR) under the Perkins Act. Her goal is to complete the transition of State-reported data into EDFacts. She has extensive knowledge in the areas of data collection, strategic accountability, performance measurement, IDEA, and transitional services for young children with disabilities and their families.

 

Stephen J. Steurer

Dr. Stephen Steurer is the statewide coordinator of academic programs for all adult prison education programs and the male juvenile Hickey School for the Maryland State Department of Education. He is also executive director of the Correctional Education Association, the largest association of educators in adult and juvenile corrections. Dr. Steurer previously taught Title I classes in the Chicago public school system and currently administers academic programs in basic literacy, adult basic education, and GED in the Maryland Correctional Education Program in the State prisons. He earned a Ph.D. in secondary education, reading disabilities from the University of Maryland.

 

John Stewart

Dr. John Stewart is the superintendent of education for the Alabama Department of Youth Services School District. Dr. Stewart has been extremely active in working to gain accreditation for schools within juvenile facilities and centers, in addition to creating a separate school district for these schools. His efforts are recognized nationally and are considered revolutionary in the field of juvenile delinquent education.

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John A. Tuell

John A. Tuell is the director for the Child Welfare League of America’s (CWLA) Child Welfare-Juvenile Justice Systems Integration Initiative and project director for CWLA’s participation in the MacArthur Foundation Models for Change (MfC) initiative. He also serves on the MacArthur Foundation’s Executive Committee for MfC and on the faculty of the Center for Juvenile Justice Reform at Georgetown University’s Public Policy Institute. Previously, Mr. Tuell served in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention for the U.S. Department of Justice. He has also worked for the Fairfax County (VA) Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court in a variety of capacities, including probation officer and supervisor and administrator for a 22-bed residential treatment facility.

 

Joseph Tulman

Joseph B. Tulman, professor of law at the University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law, directs the law school's Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic. From 1979 to 1981, Tulman was the deputy director of the Equal Justice Foundation, a National non-profit organization that addressed access-to-justice issues. He was in private practice representing children in delinquency and neglect matters until 1984, when he started his teaching career at the Antioch School of Law. Since 1988, Professor Tulman has been counsel for plaintiffs in Evans v. Williams, a conditions and deinstitutionalization class action on behalf of persons with mental retardation. Tulman has pioneered the use of special education advocacy for children in the neglect and delinquency systems. His publications include articles regarding the unnecessary detention of children, and he co-authored and co-edited a comprehensive manual regarding the use of special education advocacy for children in the delinquency system. Professor Tulman has taught at the National Judicial College in Nevada and has addressed audiences of attorneys, judges, and public and private agency personnel across the country. The Criminal Law Section of the American Bar Association awarded Professor Tulman its 1996 Livingston Hall Juvenile Justice Award. Professor Tulman is a Resource Fellow for the National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Justice. From September 2001 to March 2003, Professor Tulman served under Mayoral appointment as Chair of the DC Juvenile Justice Advisory Group.

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Lee Underwood

Dr. Lee Underwood, Psy.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and certified sex offender treatment provider. Dr. Underwood serves as the clinical director of behavioral healthcare with the Arizona Department of Juvenile Corrections, senior consultant with the National Center for Mental Health and Juvenile Justice as well the National Center for Evidence-Based Practices, and executive director of USA Consulting Group. Dr. Underwood has held a number of policy-oriented positions over his career with Federal, State and private agencies and has written extensively on mental health, substance use, sex offending, forensics, and cultural needs of persons involved in the juvenile justice, criminal justice, and mental health systems. Dr. Underwood is affiliated with Regent University’s School of Psychology and Counseling and Argosy University’s Forensic Psychology program.

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Walter Varner

Walter Varner is a staff education program specialist with the Maryland State Department of Education. He has been the state coordinator for the homeless education program since 1995, the program manager for the neglected and delinquent programs since 1996, and a specialist for Title I services to private school children since March 2004. Mr. Varner has spent the last 23 years at the Maryland State Department of Education in the division of instruction and division of student and school services providing leadership, technical assistance and support to local education agencies, employment and training service delivery areas, community-based organization in developing, implementing, monitoring and evaluating dropout prevention, employability development education programs, and State Title I programs.

 

Cassandra Villanueva

Cassandra Villanueva is the director of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), Latino Juvenile Justice Network. NCLR is the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States. As coordinator of NCLR’s Latino Juvenile Justice Network, she works to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system. Ms. Villanueva’s areas of expertise include Federal and State juvenile justice and organizing and advocating with community-based organizations. She has worked for the Western Prison Project, Partnership for Safety and Justice; and the Office of the Senate President, Oregon State Legislature.

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Hugh Walkup

Dr. Hugh Walkup directs strategic planning, performance reporting, and strategic plan implementation for the U.S. Department of Education. He also leads efforts to align and automate reporting systems, including the Performance-Based Data Management Initiative. Dr. Walkup first joined the U.S. Department of Education as state reform advisor after having directed Washington State's school reform planning process. Previously, he served as administrator, counselor, researcher and instructor in schools, universities, and State and local agencies. Dr. Walkup is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and earned a Ph.D. in measurement and evaluation from the University of Washington.

 

Darryl Washington

Darryl Washington is the Title I, Part D, coordinator for the Alabama Department of Education. He has been with the Alabama Department of Education since November 2004 and has served as the education specialist for Title I, Part D; Indian Education; and 12 school districts. Mr. Washington formerly worked for 6 years as an English teacher in Montgomery County and Lowndes County school districts and 2 years as a Title I administrator for the Montgomery County school district. Mr. Washington has a master’s degree in English education from Alabama State University and a master’s in educational leadership from Auburn University-Montgomery.

 

Marie Washington

Dr. Marie J. Washington has worked throughout the Baltimore Metropolitan Community promoting the integration of Educational and Economic development with human capital enhancement. She holds a BS Degree in History, a Master's Degree in Social Work and Planning, A Master's and Doctorial Degree in Public Health Administration. Dr. Washington serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of the East Baltimore Community Corporation, (EBCC), a multi-faceted human service company serving the residents of Baltimore Neighborhoods. Through her leadership, the Corporation has evolved in providing services in the areas of Youth and Families, Substance Services, Housing Development, Employment Development, Economic Development, Health and Educational Services. Dr Washington also directs the development projects under E.B. Enterprise Incorporated.

 

Andrew Wayne

Dr. Andrew Wayne is a Senior Research Analyst at AIR. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Mathematics Professional Development Impact Study—a randomized field trial involving middle school mathematics teachers. Much of his work has focused on teacher development, including the evaluation of the Transitions to Teaching Program and the National Longitudinal Study of No Child Left Behind. He has also researched teacher participation in the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. He earned his Ph.D. in public policy at the University of Maryland, where his dissertation addressed federal policies to improve teacher quality. He also holds degrees in physics and education and has been a teacher of science and computers.

 

Kelly Weaver

Kelly Weaver has been with the Orange County Department of Education's Title I programs since August 1988, first as an instructor, then promoted to management. She has a bachelor's degree in psychology from University of California Irvine and a master's degree in public administration from California State University at Fullerton.

 

Andrea Weisman

Andrea Weisman is the Director of the Division of Behavioral Health Services for the Department of Juvenile Services in Baltimore, MD. In this position, she is responsible for the development, implementation and oversight of all behavioral health services for youth under the jurisdiction of the Department of Juvenile Services in Maryland.

Ms. Weisman is the former director of Alternative Pathways (AP), a locally- and federally-funded initiative to divert youth with mental health and/or substance abuse disorders from the juvenile justice system. AP spearheaded interagency collaboration among all the District agencies that touch youth involved in the juvenile justice system, including the Family Court, the Metropolitan Police Department, Court Social Services, Public Defender Services, Department of Mental Health, Youth Services Administration, the Deputy Mayor for Children, Youth and Elders, and various community stakeholders.

 

Dorothy (Dottie) Wodraska

Dorothy (Dottie) Wodraska is currently the Director of Juvenile Transition for the Maricopa County Superintendent of Schools, Education Services Division in Phoenix, AZ. She is charged with building a collaborative system that supports seamless transition back to the community for youth that have been detained, incarcerated or otherwise involved with the juvenile justice system to reduce the likelihood of their return to the justice system. Ms. Wodraska is an educator and youth advocate who has taught at every level in the educational system, served as a school administrator, private non-profit CEO and Executive Director as well as serving as Correctional Education Specialist/Director of Federal Education Grants Programs for the Arizona Supreme Court, Administrative Office of the Courts, Juvenile Justice Services Division for over eight years. Her current responsibilities include developing and maintaining coalitions, conducting research and program development and ensuring implementation of best practices in support of transition.

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Aaron Young

Aaron Young is a budget analyst in the Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development at the U.S. Department of Education and is currently serving as a Presidential Management Fellow. In relation to Title I, Part D, Mr. Young has been involved with developing budget requests and evaluating program efforts over the past several years.

 

Jane Young

Jane Young, Ph.D., has been the Superintendent of Schools for the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention since 2000. Dr. Young began her career in education as a special education teacher, and has also served as a high school administrator and a senior administrator of the State residential school for blind and visually impaired students. Prior to her appointment in the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, she was the Director of Education for the Division of Prisons in the North Carolina Department of Correction.

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