2008 Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs National Care and Prevention Grantee Conference The Essence of AFL Demonstration ProgramsDistinguished Faculty
DEEANN ARROYO
Director, Youth and Family Services
Pima Prevention Partnership
2525 E. Broadway, Suite 100
Tucson, AZ 85716
darroyo@thepartnership.us
DeeAnn Arroyo serves as the Director of Youth and Family Services for Pima Prevention Partnership
where she directs the Abstinence, Teen Pregnancy Prevention, Teen Court and Parent
Education programs. DeeAnn has 10 years of experience working in the Teen Pregnancy
Prevention field which includes the development of two nationally recognized abstinence programs
B-Unique and Project Pledge providing services to more than 8,000 youth and families
annually. DeeAnn serves as the Board President for the Arizona Partners for Abstinence Education
(APAE) and is on the advisory board for the National Abstinence Education Association
(NAEA). DeeAnn is the acting board president of Teen Outreach Pregnancy Services (TOPS)
a local nonprofit that works with pregnant and parenting teens. DeeAnn has also presented on
the topics of adolescent brain development at Arizona Partners for Abstinence Education conference
and the connection of abstinence, fatherhood and marriage at the National Fatherhood
& Families Conference.
BETH BARNET, MD
Associate Professor and Director of Research and Community Programs
University of Maryland—Baltimore
29 S. Paca St., Lower Level
Baltimore, MD 21201
BBarnet@som.umaryland.edu
Beth Barnet, M.D. is Associate Professor and Director of Research and Community Programs
in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Maryland
School of Medicine, Baltimore. She attended George Washington University medical
school in Washington D.C., completed family medicine residency training in Philadelphia,
and Adolescent Medicine fellowship training at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Dr. Barnet
has spent the past 18 years providing primary care to children, adolescents, and adults in
urban Baltimore. She is also a researcher, educator, program builder, and evaluator.
Since 1995 she has directed three OAPP- funded multi-component interventions for pregnant
and parenting teenagers and is recipient of an AFL Research Grant.
STEVE BEAN, MA
Director, Center for Youth Success
ETR Associates
4 Carbonero Way
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
steveb@etr.org
Steve Bean has 15 years of experience in the fields of youth development and experiential education.
Steve's interest in positive developmental assets related to adult-youth connectedness led to his collaboration
with colleague Lori Rolleri on the Parent Child Connectedness – Bridging Research and
Intervention Design (PCC BRIDGE) project. To date, the PCC BRIDGE project has published a review
of over 600 articles looking at the adolescent reproductive health (ARH) benefits of a strong,
positive sustained emotional bond between parents and youth, conducted a national focus group
study of PCC among low-income African-American and Latino families, developed a model of PCC
and written a set of six intervention activities that ARH practitioners can use to incorporate PCC work
with families into their programming. In addition to his PCC work Steve has led the development of
several original positive youth development programs at ETR Associates, a national education nonprofit
headquartered in California. Steve has an MA in Teaching from the University of California,
Santa Cruz. Prior to joining ETR Associates, Steve was lead teacher and program coordinator at the
Delta School, a charter alternative school for at-risk high school students.
JONATHON BLITSTEIN, PhD
Research Psychologist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
jblitstein@rti.org
Dr. Jonathan L. Blitstein is a Research Psychologist in RTI’s Public Health Policy Research
program. His research interests focus on improving statistical methods for evaluating largescale
public health and social welfare programs. He has developed and evaluated experimental
and quasi-experimental health promotion and disease prevention programs at the state,
community, school, and worksite level. This work has entailed applying hierarchical statistical
modeling to assess the influence of environmental and macro-social factors on individual-level
health behavior as well as conducting psychometric evaluations of scales and measures and
developing surveys. His substantive research interests center on the etiology and prevention
of deviance and health risk behaviors among high-risk populations; within this domain, his
work has included a wide variety of public health topics including tobacco control, violence
prevention, nutrition and obesity, and infectious disease prevention. Dr. Blitstein currently
manages the grantee evaluation process for the Evaluation Technical Assistance for Adolescent
Family Life Demonstration Project.
CHARLOTTE BRIGHT, MSW, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Maryland School of Social Work
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201
cbright@ssw.umaryland.edu
Charlotte Bright, MSW, PhD, is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland School of
Social Work. She teaches courses on social work practice with individuals, groups, and families.
Her practice experience centered on providing case management, clinical services, and
administration to youth and families through the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
She has a range of research experience within the juvenile justice and child welfare systems
on such issues as gender equity, trauma, and implementation of evidence based practices.
She recently received a grant to examine juvenile court-involved youths’ experiences in multiple
systems and long-term outcomes, using qualitative and quantitative methodology.
BARRI BURRUS, PhD
Senior Research Psychologist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
barri@rti.org
Dr. Barri Burrus is a senior research psychologist in RTI's Psychology of Health Behavior program.
She has extensive experience designing, implementing, and analyzing evaluation research
at the international, national, state, and local levels. In addition to her role of Project
Director to provide evaluation technical assistance for the Evaluation Technical Assistance for
Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Project, she has provided evaluation and technical assistance
to states funded through CDC's Division of Nutrition and Physical Activity to Prevent
Obesity and Other Chronic Diseases and to the American Legacy Foundation Tobacco Use
Cessation and Prevention Initiative. She has directed numerous other evaluations for CDC,
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), and, in Indonesia, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Dr. Burrus has served for 20 years as Adjunct Associate Professor in the Psychology Department
at North Carolina State University.
ANNIE CARR, MS
Public Health Nutritionist/Advisor
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4770 Buford Hwy., NE, MS K-03
Atlanta, GA 30341
abc1@cdc.gov
Annie B. Carr, M.S., R.D. is a Public Health Nutritionist at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, in the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, in
the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity (DNPAO), Program Development and
Evaluation Branch (PDEB). Currently, she is serving as Public Health Advisor for four funded
states (MI, IN, NJ, & RI) and Technical Consultant to four unfunded states (LA, MS, AL and
DC) for the Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity Programs. She is also the CDC representative
to the National Cancer Institute for the Body and Soul: A Celebration of Healthy Eating
and Living Programs. Presently, she is DNPAO’s liaison to the African-American Collaborative
Obesity Research Network (AACORN). Ms. Carr received a Bachelor of Science degree in
Foods and Nutrition from Southern University A & M Colleges in Baton Rouge, LA. She completed
a dietetic internship at Indiana University Medical Center to be become a Registered
Dietitian. She graduated from Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis in Indianapolis,
Indiana with a Master of Education degree. She has over 30 years of experiences in
public health nutrition at the local, state, and federal levels.
TERRI CLARK, MPH
Coordinator of Prevention Services
ActionAIDS
1216 Arch St., 6th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
tcterri@hotmail.com
Terri Clark has been doing work in health education, training, and counseling for over 16
years, and is currently the Coordinator of Prevention Services at ActionAIDS in Philadelphia,
PA. Prior to relocating to Philadelphia in November, 2007, she directed the Student Wellness
Center at New York City College of Technology. She has been an adjunct instructor, teaching
public/community health and human services courses at both the undergraduate and graduate
levels for over 12 years. Her expertise is in health education and prevention, including reproductive
health, GLBT issues, college health, and intimate partner violence prevention. As a
consultant trainer with Cicatelli Associates, Inc., since 1998, she delivered trainings for the
AIDS Institute, CAP-C, AETC, and several other initiatives spearheaded by CAI, as well as
serving a NATISHE (North Atlantic Training Institute for Sexual Health Educators) core staff
member. Terri is a graduate of Hunter College with a Masters in Public Health, Community
Health Education, and received her B.A. in Sociology and Communication from the University
of Buffalo. She is currently awaiting Certified Health Education Specialist (CHES) credentialing.
ANDREA COLEMAN, BSW
Case Manager
St. Vincent Mercy Health Partners
2238 Jefferson Ave
Toledo, OH 43615
Andrea_Coleman@mhsnr.org
Andrea Coleman has a Bachelor’s degree in social work. She has worked at Positive Choices
since 2000. In that time her favorite population has been teens with the greatest needs. She
gladly volunteers to teach at schools and institutions with the most problems. She oversaw a
TANF program working in low income housing complexes, teaching sexual abstinence. She
has been the motivating factor for transforming many young lives in Toledo.
VERONICA CRUZ, BA
Media Program Manager
Confederation of Spanish American Families
2151 W 21st St.
Chicago, IL 60608
vcruz@csafchicago.org
Born and raised most of her life in Chicago, Veronica Cruz is a passionate and proud Latina
who has seen, lived, and understands many needs of the Latino Community. She believes in
the strong potential Latinos have to become successful individuals while maintaining their
roots. Adopting the best of the American culture, she keeps her cultural traditions and family
values, which have made her the person she is today. Overcoming the social and cultural barriers
during her upbringing, Ms. Cruz set higher expectations for herself and pursued her
dream of becoming a communicator and a voice for the Latino community in Chicago. She
obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Radio from Columbia College Chicago. Ms Cruz has worked in
the Chicago Spanish radio and television industries for more than 9 years, giving her the opportunity
to serve the Latino community by becoming a voice for them. She began her community
involvement in her teenage years as part of student club Fuerza Latina in James H.
Bowen HS and became a youth leader at St. Michael’s and St. Simon youth groups in which
she was able to help underserved Latino youth discover their potential for overall success in
life. For the past 4 years she has been the Media Program Manager at the Confederation of
Spanish American Families where she serves Latino families, youth and parents, in Chicago
as well as in other great cities nationwide through the Hispanic Outreach Center as part of the
Parents Speak Up National Campaign empowering parents to talk to their kids about waiting
to have sex.
ELIZABETH DANIELS, PhD
Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Oregon
Chandler Lab, 1027 NW Trenton
Bend, Oregon 97701
daniels.psychology@gmail.com
Elizabeth Daniels gained her doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of
California Santa Cruz in 2006. Her dissertation was on the impact of media representations of
women athletes on teen girls. Dr. Daniels also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University
of California Los Angeles at the International Center for Talent Development. She is
currently a visiting assistant professor in Psychology at the University of Oregon. Her research
focuses on positive youth development for girls. For information on her current research project,
go to http://elizdaniels.blogspot.com/.
SHANISE DEMAR, MPH
Associate
The Lewin Group
3130 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 800
Falls Church, VA 22042
shanise.demar@lewin.com
Shanise DeMar is an Associate at The Lewin Group. Ms. DeMar participates in several projects
funded by The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. For the Office of Head
Start (OHS), Ms. DeMar provides training and technical assistance to support grantee performance
monitoring efforts. Ms. DeMar’s project tasks include developing training materials
and preparing monitoring review outcome data reports for OHS regional program managers.
Ms. DeMar’s project responsibilities also include projects supporting the field of abstinence
education. The Center for Research and Evaluation for Abstinence Education (“the Center”),
funded by the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), was established to
improve the quality of abstinence education research and evaluation by building capacity to
conduct scientifically sound program evaluations. For the Center, Ms. DeMar organized project
work group meetings and compiled findings from these meetings and from key informant
interviews to determine the evaluation challenges that should be addressed by the Center.
Ms. DeMar also played an integral role in the development of a technical assistance website
which hosts evaluation guidance and resources that aim to address key evaluation concerns
raised by abstinence education providers and evaluators. Ms. DeMar participated in the identification
of evaluation technical assistance resources and assists with website management.
Ms. DeMar also works for the Office of Population Affairs (OPA) on the “Abstinence Education
Frameworks” project to develop a theoretical framework to explain why adolescents choose
sexual abstinence and how this information can inform abstinence education interventions. In
addition to facilitating general project management, Ms. DeMar is currently assisting with a
literature and abstinence education curricula review to identify factors associated with adolescent
sexual behaviors and decision-making. Findings from this review will be used as the
foundation for the theoretical framework to be developed.
DOUG EVANS, PhD
Professor of Prevention and Community Health
George Washington University
2175 K Street, NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20037
wdevans@gwu.edu
W. Douglas Evans, Ph.D., is Professor of Prevention and Community Health, and of Global
Health, and Director of the Public Health Communication and Marketing Program in the
School of Public Health and Health Services. Dr. Evans has evaluated numerous large-scale
behavior change communication interventions in tobacco control, obesity prevention, and HIV/
AIDS and reproductive health. Dr. Evans is currently a member of the Secretary of Health and
Human Service’s Federal Advisory Committee on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
(Healthy People 2020), and is an expert panel member for the health marketing and health
communication review of the Guide to Community Preventive Services. Dr. Evans is an expert
on the use of public health branding strategies and evaluating the effectiveness of branded
health messages. He designed and validated the truth brand equity scale, a multi-dimensional
scale used to evaluate anti-tobacco media campaigns and more recently adapted to obesity
and reproductive health. In 2008, he edited Public Health Branding: Applying Marketing for
Social Change from Oxford University Press, which synthesizes the evidence on public health
branding.
JAY FAGAN, DSW, MSW
Professor
Temple University
Ritter Hall Annex, 5th Floor
13th street & Cecil B. Moore Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19122
jfagan@temple.edu
Jay Fagan, D.S.W., M.S.W., is Professor in the School of Social Administration at Temple
University. His research has focused on fathers (Head Start, adolescent fathers), parent education
for fathers, fathers and early childhood programs, fathering in the context of family
processes, and the relationship between childcare and work-family balance among lowincome
women. He published the textbook, Fathers and Early Childhood Programs (Delmar
Publishing, 2004), with Dr. Glen Palm, and Clinical and Educational Interventions with Fathers
(Haworth Press, 2001), with Dr. Alan J. Hawkins. He has published 36 research papers in
peer-reviewed professional journals. Dr. Fagan is currently the principal investigator of the
Adolescent Father Involvement Intervention Project, funded by the U. S. Department of Health
and Human Services, Public Health Service (Adolescent Family Life Research). He was the
former editor of the journal, Fathering.
PAT GARRITY, LCSW, MSW
Staff Development Specialist
Lake County Health Department
3010 Grand Ave.
Waukegan, IL 60085
pgarrity@co.lake.il.us
Pat Garrity has an MSW from the University of Illinois and has been a guest speaker and consultant
in family life education since 1978. Born and raised in Lake County, she has spent the
last 30 years with the Lake County Health Department/Community Health Center in creating
and initiating programming for preteens, teens, and parents. Pat uses a light-hearted approach
in suggesting practical ways for parents to initiate and continue meaningful family conversations
with their kids about important life issues.
PEG GAVIN, MSW
Director of Education
Lifeworks
3700 S. 1st St.
Austin, TX 78704
peg.gavin@lifeworksweb.org
Ms. Gavin is the Director of Education Services at LifeWorks, and was co-author (with Dr.
Carol Lewis and Robin Rosell) of a successful grant application to OAPP for the current CARE
Demonstration project being conducted in Austin, TX. Ms. Gavin has worked with children and
families throughout the Austin area for over 25 years, providing counseling, case management,
education and youth development services. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.
NADINE GOLDBERG, MS
Project Director
First Candle
1314 Bedford Avenue, Suite 210
Baltimore, MD 21208
nadine.goldberg@firstcandle.org
Nadine Goldberg is a Medical and Urban Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the Howard University.
She received her B.A. degree in Sociology from the University of Greenwich in the United
Kingdom, and her M.S. in Criminology from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. She
has been active in the area of researching health disparities in urban areas and program
evaluation. Her current research focuses on the effects of sociopsychological and health risk
behaviors on self-perceived health status. She is currently the Washington, DC Project Director
for First Candle’s 11 million dollar National Crib Campaign, which the non-profit company
received from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
YVONNE HAMBY, MS
Project Director
JSI
1860 Blake St., Ste. 320
Denver, CO 80202
yhamby@jsi.com
Yvonne Hamby, MPH, JSI/Denver Project Director. Ms Hamby began her career in the area of
providing direct women’s health services before shifting her focus to program planning and
development in women's health. Ms. Hamby has worked extensively with DHHS agencies as
well as state and local health departments; she has extensive experience with programs of the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ms. Hamby has particular skills and knowledge
with development of quality assurance assessment plans. Ms. Hamby has participated on an
Evaluation/Quality Improvement Workgroup with the Florida Breast & Cervical Cancer Coalition.
Additionally, she has directed the project to develop one set of criteria designated to
evaluate the quality of care provided at family planning clinics for the Regional Office of PHS
Region VIII (RQIP). Ms. Hamby has directed the Region VIII Infertility Prevention Project. Her
primary role in coordinating this effort was to promote and direct development of quality assurance
plans within each project site, which include a variety of clinic sites. She has also developed
standards for data use at the local level. Most recently, Ms. Hamby has completed a
study to determine the effectiveness of the unique patient identifier system within the Region
VIII Infertility Prevention Project as well as the ability of the unique identifiers to track the utilization
of services in various clinic types. She also serves as the site evaluator for six SPNS
funded sites, Options Replication Project; additionally, she serves as project director for the
HIV Integration and Evaluation of the Steps to a Healthier Weld County Projects.
RENATE HOUTS, PHD
Senior Research Statistician/Psychologist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
rhouts@rti.org
Dr. Renate Houts is a senior research statistician/psychologist in RTI’s Program Evaluation
& Outcome Measurement program of the Statistics and Epidemiology unit. She has
extensive experience in conducting and analyzing data from longitudinal studies on children
and families and as well as from randomized controlled trials. Her substantive background
is in normative child development and family relationships. Dr. Houts also concentrates
on methodologies needed to capture change in individuals and relationships;
the measurement of individuals, dyads, and larger units; and the application of latent
growth modeling, hierarchical linear modeling, and longitudinal person-oriented analysis
to assess stability and change. She currently serves as the Principal Investigator of the
RTI’s Data Acquisition and Analysis Center for the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and
Youth Development.
MARION HOWARD, PHD
Professor
Emory University, Jane Fonda Center
1275 Briarcliff Road
Atlanta, GA 30306
mhowa02@emory.edu
Dr. Marion Howard holds the Marion Howard Chair in Adolescent Reproductive Health at the
Jane Fonda Center in the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics at Emory University in
Atlanta, Georgia where she is a full professor. At Emory, the focus of Dr. Howard's work has
been on the development, evaluation, and dissemination of innovative interventions and service
delivery models with respect to improvement in adolescent reproductive health. Dr. Howard
also holds an appointment as an adjunct professor at Morehouse School of Medicine. Dr.
Howard has been invited to present internationally and in 43 states. She is the author of numerous
articles and publications and has written several books aimed at teenagers and the
professionals who serve them.
DEBRA HOWE, BA
Program Coordinator
First Candle
1314 Bedford Avenue, Suite 210
Baltimore, MD 21208
Debra.howe@firstcandle.org
Debra Howe is MAS candidate at the Farleigh Dickinson University – School of Administrative
Science with an anticipated date of graduation as May 2009. She currently serves as the Program
Coordinator/Trainer for First Candle (National SIDS & Infant Death Program Support
Center). In this capacity, she trains nursing and health professional students regarding health
and safety guidelines for infants. She also markets SIDS risk reduction workshops and establishes
and cultivates working relationships with national and state community coalitions and
networks.
ALLISON HYRA, PhD
Senior Associate
The Lewin Group
3130 Fairview Park Drive, Suite 800
Falls Church, VA 22042
allison.hyra@lewin.com
Allison Hyra is a Senior Associate at the Lewin Group. Prior to joining Lewin, Dr. Hyra completed
a Society for Research in Child Development post-doctoral fellowship at the Office for
Planning, Research and Evaluation in the Administration for Children and Families. Her research
experience spans such topics as adolescent development, teenage childbearing, fragile
families, marriage and divorce, middle-class dual earner families, TANF, poverty, race and
ethnicity, early childhood development and human sexuality. In addition, her government tenure
has her given experience overseeing and guiding policy research and development on
such topics as the Healthy Marriage Initiative, Head Start and Child Support. Allison is a
graduate of Cornell University and the University of Chicago.
LORRAINE V. KLERMAN, Dr.P.H.
Mail Stop 035, P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454
klerman@brandeis.edu
Lorraine V. Klerman is a Professor at The Heller School for Social Policy and Management,
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts and director of its Institute for Child, Youth, and
Family Policy. She has researched teenage pregnancy and parenting for many years, starting
with Children’s Bureau-funded study of a program in New Haven, Connecticut. She also participated
in the 20-year follow-up study of this sample, funded by the William T. Grant Foundation.
She currently has a grant from the Adolescent Family Life program to assess past Adolescent
Family Life research and to make suggestions for the future. She has authored many
publications including School-Age Mothers: Problems, Programs, and Policy and Another
Chance: Preventing Additional Births to Teenage Mothers, which was published by the National
Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy in collaboration with the National Organization on
Adolescent Pregnancy, Parenting and Prevention. In 1996 she was awarded the American
Public Health Association’s Martha May Eliot Award “honoring exceptional health services to
mothers and children.” She is a graduate of Cornell University and the Harvard School of Public
Health.
FRANK J. KROS, MSW, JD
President, The Upside Down Organization
6802 McClean Blvd.
Baltimore, MD 21234
redman@upsidedownorganization.org
Frank is a career child advocate, who has served as a childcare worker, child abuse investigator,
children’s home administrator, consultant, college professor, attorney, writer and speaker.
Certified by Jenson Learning Center in applied educational neuroscience, Frank currently
serves as president of The Upside Down Organization and executive vice president of The
Children’s Guild, the largest private provider of special education services in Maryland. Frank
presents training workshops nationwide to parents, educators, child-serving professionals and
their leaders on a variety of topics related to brain development, learning and behavior. Frank
has presented his workshops at national education, social work and neuro-research conferences.
Frank has been awarded a Maryland Governor’s Citation for his speaking efforts and
recognized by the Association for Childhood Education International for his presentations. In
addition to lecturing nationwide, he co-authored the books: Creating the Upside Down Organi-
zation: Transforming Staff to Save Troubled Children and Transformational Living: The Upside
Down Organization for Children in Group Care. Frank earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology
from Creighton University, a master’s degree in social work from the University of Nebraska-
Omaha and a law degree from Notre Dame Law School.
KATHRYN LETOURNEAU, MSW, MSPH
RTI International
Risk Behavior and Family Research Program
PO Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-1914
Kathryn LeTourneau is a public health social worker with demonstrated capabilities in reproductive
health programs and evaluation, and linking evaluation research with client-centered
service delivery. Her research areas of interest include reproductive health services and policy,
adolescent risk behavior and prevention, intimate partner violence, program evaluation,
evaluation planning and implementation, intervention planning and implementation, and
health policy. She has experience in service delivery improvement, literature review, data collection
and analysis, and presentations to diverse audiences in the field of women's reproductive
health. She has experience with both primary and secondary data analysis, survey and
questionnaire development, and outcomes measurement. Ms. LeTourneau's strengths are in
working with key partners and stakeholders across and among organizations, assessing organizational
strengths, and building capacity to meet the needs of target populations.
CAROL M. LEWIS, PhD
Associate Director of the Center for Social Work Research
University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work
1 University Station D3510
Austin, TX 78712-0359
carolmarie@mail.utexas.edu
Dr. Carol M. Lewis received a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Texas of Austin in
1995. She currently serves as the Associate Director of the Center for Social Work Research
(CSWR) at the University of Texas at Austin School of Social Work (SSW). As Associate Director,
she oversees all contracts and grants at CSWR and serves as the chair of the Departmental
Review Committee for IRB proposals through SSW. She is also principal investigator
for the LifeWorks Care Grant Evaluation, a five-year Adolescent Family Demonstration Project.
Since 2002, Dr. Lewis has been evaluating primary and secondary prevention endeavors
for OAPP-funded demonstration projects.
TRACEY LEWIS-ELLIGAN, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
DePaul University
1740 S. Indiana Ave
Chicago, IL 60616
tlewisel@depaul.edu
Tracey Lewis-Elligan is an assistant professor of sociology at DePaul University in Chicago.
She is currently conducting evaluation research with the AFL Demonstration Prevention
grantee Demoiselle 2 Femme. Broadly, her research interests focus on social factors that contribute
to adolescent health, with particular focus on the intersections of race, class and gender.
Her work emphasizes a community based participatory research approach and qualitative
research methods by linking research with community-level interventions. Dr. Lewis-Elligan
received her doctorate in child and family studies from Syracuse University, a M.A. in psychology
from the New School for Social Research and a B.A. in psychology from Hampton University.
JOAN LIVERSIDGE, LCMFT, MS
Staff Therapist and Educator
National Institute of Relationship Enhancement
4400 East West Highway, Suite 28
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
jrlivers@earthlink.net
Joan has worked for over 30 years in the human service field serving children, youth and families.
She is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist with a degree in Family and Community
Development from the University of Maryland, and is currently a staff therapist, educator, and
trainer for the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement® (NIRE). In that capacity, she
works with couples in therapeutic and educational settings as well as trains program leaders
in the Mastering the Mysteries of Love and Love’s Cradle Relationship Enhancement® programs.
Throughout her career she has worked as a clinician, educator and Director of several
large prevention and intervention programs serving children, youth and families in the private
and public sector.
MONICA LONGMORE, PhD
Professor of Sociology
Bowling Green State University
1001 E Wooster St
Bowling Green, OH 43403
mseff@bgsu.edu
Monica A. Longmore is a Professor of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. Her interests
focus on social psychology processes, including the nature and consequences of dimensions
of the self-concept, especially the impact of self-conceptions on adolescent dating and
sexual behavior. Dr. Longmore is a co-investigator on the Toledo Relationships Study project.
She is the principal investigator, with co-investigators Manning and Giordano, of the Social
Relationships, Identity, and Sexual Risk Taking project funded by the Department of Health
and Human Services. The primary aim of this project is to develop a conceptual and descriptive
portrait of specific adolescent identities associated with variations in the heterosexual sexual
experience.
MELISSA MAGUIRE, MS
Director of the Night Ministry
Youth Shelter Network
4711 N. Ravenswood
Chicago, IL 60640
melissa@thenightministry.org
Melissa Maguire has a Masters in Community Mental Health. She has 20 years of experience
in youth and homeless service agencies. Her direct service experience includes: crisis intervention,
youth and family counseling to runaway and at-risk youth, family education and counseling
to youth and families in a residential treatment program. Her program development experience
includes developing a community awareness program that addresses the needs of
at-risk youth, creating a staff and volunteer training program for those who serve homeless
youth and developing a city wide training program for homeless service providers in Chicago.
As Director of the Youth Shelter Network she manages a program that provides shelter and
community based case management services to pregnant and parenting youth and their children.
JENNIFER MANLOVE, PhD
Area Director of Fertility and Family Structure
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
jmanlove@childtrends.org
Jennifer Manlove, Ph.D., is Senior Program Area Director and Senior Research Scientist for
the Fertility and Family Structure content area at Child Trends. Dr. Manlove is a sociologist
with 15 years of post-doctoral research experience researching teenage, unintended and nonmarital
childbearing and its proximate determinants, including sexual activity, contraceptive
use and pregnancy. Dr. Manlove conducts research on the association between adolescent
and young adult sexual partners and relationships and the risk of unintended pregnancy; the
role of families, individuals, relationships and communities in nonmarital childbearing and subsequent
union formation; and factors associated with the timing and circumstances of subsequent
fatherhood. She has conducted research highlighting characteristics of effective pregnancy-
and STI-prevention programs.
KIM MILLER, PhD
Senior Research Sociologist
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention-SE
1600 Clifton Road, NE Mailstop E-45
Atlanta, Georgia 30333
kmiller@cdc.gov
Kim Miller is a senior research Sociologist at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention. She joined CDC in 1989. Her current domestic and international
research and prevention activities focus on pre-risk prevention approaches to sexual
risk reduction, understanding and reducing sexual risk among youth, and the role of the
family in the promotion of sexual risk reduction. She is one of the developers of the Parents
Matter! Program (PMP), an evidence-based, parent focused intervention designed to promote
positive parenting and effective parent-child communication about sexuality and sexual risk
reduction for parents of 9-12 year olds. PMP has been adapted for use in Africa under the
name Families Matter and is currently being scaled up in Kenya, Botswana, Tanzania, Zambia,
South Africa and Cote d’Ivoire. She is the mother of two teenage daughters.
MARIE MITCHELL, RN
Director of Programs for the Jane Fonda Center
Emory University School of Medicine
1256 Briarcliff Road
Atlanta, GA 30306
mmitc2@Emory.edu
Ms. Mitchell has worked in the field of adolescent pregnancy prevention for over thirty years
as a Family Planning Nurse and Counselor, Certified Sex Educator, Trainer, Program Administrator
and Program Developer. Until recently, Ms. Mitchell was Director of the Teen Services
Program at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta Georgia. Ms. Mitchell given workshops or
presentations in 29 different states. In 1984, Ms. Mitchell was made an Honorary Life member
of the Georgia Parent Teacher Association (PTA) in recognition of her outstanding services to
the children and youth of the State of Georgia. In 1999, Ms. Mitchell along with Dr. Marion
Howard was presented the 1999 Safety Net, Jim Wright Vulnerable Population Award, by the
National Association of Public Hospitals. In 2002, Women Looking Ahead, Inc honored Ms.
Mitchell as an official member of the “2002 100’s List of Georgia’s Most Powerful and Influential
Women.”
KRISTIN ANDERSON MOORE, PhD
Senior Scholar
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 350, NW,
Washington DC 20008
kmoore@childtrends.org
Kristin Anderson Moore, Ph.D., University of Michigan, is Senior Scholar and Senior Program
Area Director for Youth Development. She has been with Child Trends since 1982, serving as
President for 14 years, before choosing to return to full-time research in 2006. She led Child
Trends’ research area on teen pregnancy, childbearing, and parenting for many years and
remains a national expert in this area. In recent years, Moore has established the Youth Development
program at Child Trends which focuses on the conceptualization, design, implementation,
improvement, evaluation and dissemination of information about effective programs
to policy makers, funders, practitioners, and other researchers.
SCOTT NOVAK, PhD
Developmental Epidemiologist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
snovak@rti.org
Scott Novak, PhD, is a developmental epidemiologist in RTI's behavioral health epidemiology program.
His research interests lie primarily in the causes, correlates, and consequences of psychiatric
disorders, including the behavioral and psychiatric sequelae. Dr. Novak is trained in novel analytic
and methodological approaches to the analysis of epidemiological and clinical data, including latent
class models and propensity models of causal risk factors. He is developing and applying statistical
approaches to the study of drug-related outcomes using hierarchical linear models (HLMs) and structural
equation models with latent variables. Dr. Novak is currently the principal investigator on several
NIH grants to examine substance use and psychiatric trajectories over the lifecourse. Prior to coming
to RTI in 2004, he was on the faculty of Brown University in the Department of Community Health,
and was a Robert Wood Johnson Faculty Fellow in the Department of Health Care Policy/Maternal
and Child Health at Harvard University.
LORI PALEN, PhD
Research Associate
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
lpalen@rti.org
Lori Palen is a research associate in RTI's Risk Behavior and Family Research program.
Broadly, her work focuses on the prevention of adolescent risk behavior and the promotion of
positive youth development. Dr. Palen has interests and expertise in substantive areas that
include substance use, sexual behavior, free-time activities, and co-occurrence of risk behaviors.
Her methodological interests include longitudinal analysis, person-centered analysis, and
missing data procedures.
AMY PIERCE, MPH
Program Director of Teen Parent Services and REAL Talk Program
Lifeworks
8913 Collinfield Drive
Austin, TX 78758
amy.pierce@lifeworksweb.org
Amy Pierce received a Master in Public Health from Boston University, and Bachelors degrees
in Social Work and Spanish from the University of Texas at Austin. Ms. Pierce has
worked at LifeWorks since 2004 and has experience managing federally and state funded
prevention programs by SAMHSA, Texas Department of State Health Services, and the Office
of Adolescent Pregnancy Programs. Ms. Pierce has several previous years of experience
working with teens and families within the fields of social services and public health fields in
the United States and Latin America, and has recently taken the position of Program Director
for the Teen Parent Services at LifeWorks in January 2008, in addition to a locally-funded
school-based program, REAL Talk.
KATHY POSEGATE, MSW
Family Life Education Program Coordinator
Lake County Health Department
3010 Grand Ave.
Waukegan, IL 60085
kposegate@co.lake.il.us
Kathy Posegate obtained an MSW degree from Portland State University. She has over 30 years
experience in various social service fields related to children, youth, and families. Early in her career
she lived, worked and traveled in Bush Alaska providing counseling and child protective services to
families in remote Native Alaskan villages as well as Nome, Kotzebue, and Anchorage. As her family
has moved many times, Kathy has experience in three different states as an adoption consultant,
child welfare administrator, parent educator, and low-income housing administrator. She is currently
the Family Life Education Program Coordinator for Lake County Health Department/Community
Health Center in Waukegan, Illinois. Kathy and her husband Steve have three children.
KAREN RAY, MA/ABS
President, Karen Ray Associates
4541 Victor Path, Suite 8
Hugo, MN 55038
karenray@visi.com
Karen Ray is President of Karen Ray Associates, a consulting firm that specializes in training
and organization development for government and non-profit agencies. Karen has consulted
with many organizations since the inception of her practice in 1983; her work focuses on collaboration,
teambuilding and leadership. Her most recent book “The Nimble Collaboration” is
distributed internationally by the Fieldstone Alliance.
During 1977-1983 she was executive director of a literacy-focused agency mandated to collaborate
by state and federal funders. During these years she worked with the Minnesota
State Department of Education to create and direct a statewide change effort which has resulted
in improved services to illiterate adults and modified legislation regarding adult education.
Since 1983 she has combined this collaborative experience with her training expertise to
problem-solve with agency involved in joint ventures. Her first book, "Collaboration: Creating,
Sustaining and Enjoying the Journey", co-authored with Michael Winer, won several national
awards, including “Best Book” by the Journal of NonProfits, and the “Best Technical Assistance”
by the Minnesota Libraries.
Karen has consulted with a wide variety of governmental groups, including municipalities, departments
of education and welfare in four states, school districts and systems in seven
states, and the US Army. With 25 years of experience, Karen has worked with a wide variety
of organizations in many sectors, in many locations. Her time is split between on-going, indepth
consultation with organizations, and one / two day workshops. She’s known for active,
highly participative sessions that focus on real-time problems and potential solutions. During
the last 25 years she’s developed a strong reputation for group process facilitation. Karen
brings a unique presence to any group.
Currently, collaboration is the theme of her work with clients such as the Packard Foundation,
Northwest Area Foundation, Oregon State Commission on Children and Families, Colorado
Mountain College, Veteran's Hospitals (in twelve states), the National Greenbook Alliance, the
Washington State Department of Education and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
in Atlanta.
She has taught teambuilding and leadership courses in the College of St. Catherine Master's
program in Organization Leadership and Ethics, and undergraduate courses for Metropolitan
State University. She holds a Masters degree in Applied Behavioral Sciences from Whitworth
College, Spokane, Washington with a specialty in organization and human development.
DARCY RICHARDSON, BA
Evaluation Associate, Pima Prevention Partnership
LeCroy and Milligan Associates
4911 E. Broadway, Suite 100
Tucson, AZ 85711
darcy@lecroymilligan.com
Darcy Richardson (BA) graduated with high honors in English and Education from Colgate
University. In addition to her academic coursework, Ms. Richardson gained experience in public
policy, evaluation, grant-writing, strategic planning, and community development through
her work with the Colgate University Upstate Institute and the Center for Outreach, Volunteerism,
and Education. These organizations bridge the resources and needs of local communities
with those of Upstate New York universities. Her work with LeCroy & Milligan Associates
has included education, home visitation, and family strengthening related projects and publications.
She is currently team lead on the evaluation of two federally-funded youth programs:
a multi-site youth afterschool exercise program and a school-based, abstinence education
program. Her writing abilities have also been utilized as an editor for numerous evaluation
reports and as the primary author for the LeCroy & Milligan Associates quarterly newsletter,
titled Building Bridges: Linking Practice and Research on Home Visitation.
SCHRENDRIA ROBINSON, MPH
President, Clear Vision Seminars and Consulting
5111 Main Street
Columbia, SC 29203
srobinson@clearvisionsc.com
Schrendria Robinson grew up in a rural poverty stricken Georgia town. Despite the odds she
graduated Valedictorian of Warren County High School escaping the consequences of the
risky behaviors that she had seen plagued many of her peers. Robinson has always had a
determination within to overcome any situation that was before her. Robinson went on to
graduate cum-laude from Clark Atlanta University, which sits at the heart of the illustrious Atlanta
University Center. Robinson held several leadership positions in both high school and
college. She received her Master of Public Health Degree, with a concentration in Health Promotion
and Education in May of 2000 from the University of South Carolina, Arnold School of
Public Health in Columbia.
Robinson’s career began by working in the field of alcohol and drug abuse prevention. She
has also worked in diabetes prevention, obesity prevention, teen pregnancy prevention, sexually
transmitted disease and infection prevention and school drop out prevention. Most recently
Robinson served the Director of Consumer Credit Counseling Service Columbia (a divi-
sion of Family Service Center of SC) overseeing offices in Columbia, Sumter, Florence,
Orangeburg, Camden and Rock Hill, SC. Robinson believes that there are three major pillars
to financial freedom: 1) Debt Elimination; 2) Financial Literacy and 3) Home Ownership. These
are the pillars on which Robinson ran her program.
Robinson believes in giving back and serving the community especially youth who come from
similar backgrounds. This is evident by her receiving the Service To Mankind Award in January
2005 given by the Columbia Sertoma Club. This award qualified her for the regional nomination
which she also won. Robinson is also an ordained associate minister at Bethel AME
Church in Columbia, SC. Her most rewarding endeavor in the ministry is working with the
youth department and serving as a mentor for numerous youth at the church.
As President of Clear Vision Seminars & Consulting, Robinson along with her staff specializes
in grant writing; team building; motivational speaking and staff development. Robinson is
grateful for her opportunity to touch the lives of thousands of individuals each year through
words of inspiration and motivation. She is happily married to Marcus Robinson of Greenville,
SC. Robinson’s personal mission is to empower, educate and elevate individuals and communities
to see their potential and maximize every opportunity to succeed.
ROBIN ROSELL, LCSW, LMFT
Program Director, Tandem Teen Prenatal and Parenting Program
People's Community Clinic
2909 N. IH 35
Austin, TX 78722
robinr@austinpcc.org
Robin Rosell, LCSW, LMFT is the Director of Social Services at People’s Community Clinic in
Austin, Texas. She also serves as the Program Director for the Tandem Teen Prenatal & Parenting
Program. Robin has over 26 years post-graduate experience working with children,
adolescents, and families in a variety of settings, including outpatient, inpatient, and residential
mental health facilities and, for the past 12 years, in a primary care health clinic that offers
specialized adolescent services. She also currently oversees the Clinic’s Integrated Behavioral
Health program.
JEFF ROSENBERG, MSW
President, Rosenberg Communications
451 Hungerford Drive, Suite 510
Rockville, MD 20850
jeffr@prrci.com
Jeffrey Rosenberg is the president of Rosenberg Communications, founded in 1994 and
based in Rockville, MD, Rosenberg Communications is an award-winning public relations firm
– in 2007, the firm was awarded a Silver Telly for a video about Uganda’s AIDS prevention
efforts and a Gold MarCom for a new-media campaign for The Hitachi Foundation. In 2008,
Rosenberg Communications was named an Inc. 500 company.
An experienced public relations professional, Mr. Rosenberg has helped businesses, government
agencies, and nonprofit organizations develop and implement strategic communications
plans; respond to potential crises; and effectively tell their stories in the public arena, utilizing
both traditional and new media. A former Communications Director at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (US DHHS), Mr. Rosenberg has extensive experience working
with government agencies, including US DHHS, the Department of Labor, and USAID.
Mr. Rosenberg is also an accomplished writer; he is the author or co-author of two books, in
addition to numerous articles, and video and broadcast scripts.
He is married and the father of three children, and resides in the Washington, DC area.
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SUZANNE RYAN, PhD
Senior Research Scientist
Child Trends
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008
sryan@childtrends.org
Suzanne Ryan, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist in the Fertility and Family Structure program
area at Child Trends. Dr. Ryan is a sociologist and family demographer whose research
focuses on adolescent and young adult sexual relationships, non-marital childbearing, union
formation, fathers, and family structure change and child well-being. She has co-authored numerous
journal articles and research briefs on adolescent sexual relationships, including recently
published articles examining: 1) older sexual partners and young adult reproductive
health; 2) teens’ knowledge, perceptions, and motivations for contraceptive use; 3) factors
associated with whether teens discuss contraception before sex; and 4) the influence of sexual
partner characteristics on contraceptive use. She has also conducted research on the role
of relationships and family structure history in union formation.
HOLLY SCHIFFRIN, PhD
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of Mary Washington
1301 College Ave.
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
hschiffr@umw.edu
Holly Schiffrin has a Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology that she earned from the University
of Miami in 1998 with a specialty in early intervention with children at risk for developmental
disabilities. Currently, she is an assistant professor in the psychology department at
the University of Mary Washington where she teaches courses in child development, positive
psychology, statistics, and research methods. She became a PCI Certified Parent Coach® in
October of 2005 and maintains a private parent coaching practice.
OLIVIA SILBER ASHLEY, PhD
Senior Public Health Scientist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
osilber@rti.org
Olivia Silber Ashley is a senior public health scientist with 20 years of professional experience
in program evaluation and etiology research, program management, and direct services related
to adolescent risk behaviors (including sex, dating violence, and substance abuse) and
parent influences. She is conducting randomized experimental evaluations of national programs
to prevent and reduce adolescent dating violence. Dr. Ashley leads a project for the
Office of Population Affairs to conduct a cross-site evaluation of the Adolescent Family Life
(AFL) program; she also led an evaluability assessment of AFL grantees in order to develop
the cross-site evaluation plan and an assessment of parent involvement strategies in AFL and
family planning programs serving adolescents. She also works on the Evaluation of the Parents
Speak Up National Campaign to promote parent-child communication about waiting to
have sex. Dr. Ashley has authored several articles for publications including the American
Journal of Public Health, Journal of Adolescent Health, Addictive Behaviors, and American
Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, and she has written more than 20 technical reports and
monographs on adolescent and adult risk behaviors. She also serves as a reviewer for the
American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Adolescent Health, and the National Campaign
to Prevent Teen Pregnancy's Putting What Works to Work Project.
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BARB STRONG, MA
Principal, Simpson Academy for Young Women
1321 South Paulina
Chicago, IL 60808
bstrong@cps.k12.il.us
Barbara W. Strong M.A. is currently the principal of Simpson Academy for Young Women, an
Alternate High School for Pregnant and Parenting Teens in Chicago Illinois. An educator for
over 30 years in the Chicago Public Schools, she has also served in the capacity of Principal/
Campus Manager and Assistant Principal of the Bowen Small School Campus, Dean of Students
and Classroom Teacher for over 22 years. The student body membership averages
between 250-275 students. The school also services 1(one) Jr. High Class with 6th through 8th
grades. Simpson Academy is one of the last three remaining high schools of this kind in the
Unites States.
Barbara is a proud graduate of the Chicago Public Schools and is passionate about improving
the lives of her students through rigorous academic programs, college and career explorations
and special training for the potential parents with special emphasis on Post-Secondary planning
There are a number of successful collaborations at Simpson Academy with outside agencies,
due to the nature of the school, however, the relationship with the Night Ministry has
been one of the most successful she has experienced for the last three years as Principal of
Simpson Academy.
ANDREW TONACHEL, BA
Youth Development Director
Alternatives, Inc.
4730 N Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60640
atonachel@alternativesyouth.org
Successful collaboration requires clear and open communication, persistence, resourcefulness,
and a commitment to finding common ground. As a married father of two teenage sons,
Andrew Tonachel gets to practice these characteristics of collaboration on a daily basis. As
Youth Development Director at Alternatives, Inc.--a private, community-based youth and family
agency in Chicago--for the last eight years, Andrew has been involved in shaping and sustaining
several collaborations with schools, businesses, congregations, funders, and community
groups. Andrew is proud to have been involved in The Night Ministry's Response-Ability
Pregnant and Parenting Program collaboration since its start in 2001.
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INA WALLACE, PhD
Senior Research Psychologist
RTI International
3040 Cornwallis Road
Post Office Box 12194
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709
wallace@rti.org
Dr. Ina Wallace is a senior research psychologist in RTI’s Women, Children, and Families program.
Her areas of expertise include assessment of children and families from diverse ethnic
and linguistic backgrounds, evaluation of preventive interventions targeting children and families,
training staff in assessment design and data collection procedures and studies of risk and
resilience. Dr. Wallace recently directed the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research, a
national randomized-control study of preschool curricula designed to prepare at-risk children
for school and is currently directing a summative evaluation of a parent-focused literacy program.
Dr. Wallace trains and provides TA to researchers, including program evaluators. She
also has 12 years of experience as an institutional review board member. Dr. Wallace currently
manages the provision of group training for the Evaluation Technical Assistance for AFL
Demonstration Projects. Prior to coming to RTI in 1995, she was on the pediatrics faculty at
the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
SHAKELA WATKINS, MA
Abstinence Educator, Positive Choices
St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center
2238 Jefferson Ave
Toledo, OH 43615
shakela_watkins@mhsnr.org
Shakela Watkins has served as an Abstinence Educator with St. Vincent’s Positive Choices
program for over two years. She is enthusiastic about working with youth to help them make
positive decisions regarding sexual activity, which could affect their lives now and in the future.
With a Master’s degree in Scientific and Technical Communications she understands
both the usefulness and limitations of audience analysis.
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