KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - PREVENTION CONFERENCE
DELBERT ELLIOTT, PHD
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Delbert Elliott, PhD is a Professor
of Sociology and the Director of the Program on Problem Behavior
and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence in the Institute
of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. His research
involves studying the causes of adolescent problem behavior (delinquency,
violence, drug abuse, drunk driving, runaway, school dropout, teenage
pregnancy), family violence and evaluating delinquency, drug and
violence prevention/intervention programs. He directed a series
of major national studies funded by the U.S. Department of Justice
and Health and Human Services. He is the Director of the National
Youth Survey, the longest study of criminal and violent behavior
in a representative national panel of adolescents and young adults
in the United States, following them from age 11 to 35. He is the
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Prevention, a series of monographs describing model violence prevention
programs. In 2000 he received the Paul Tappan Award for Outstanding
Contributions to the Field of Criminology by the Western Society
of Criminology and the Science to Practice Award from the Society
for Prevention Research. He was the Senior Science Editor for Youth
Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2000. |
BROTHER STEVE JOHNSON, SM
| Brother Steve Johnson, SM is Director
of School Programs for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Director
of the Alternative and Correctional Education Program and Interim
Director of Teacher Education in the Division of Counseling Psychology
and Education at Santa Clara University. He teaches courses in character
education, special education, alternative and correctional education
and school administration. He coordinates several community projects,
mainly training professionals who work with delinquent and troubled
youth, and implementing character education programs in the schools.
His research has centered primarily on the skills that act as the
base for acting with character: anger control, emotional management,
social skills and other functional skills. |
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CONSTANCE BURGESS
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Constance T.
Burgess is head of C. Burgess Consulting & Associates and a
family partner, consultant, keynote speaker and national provider
of training and technical assistance. On the national front, her
talents and skills are frequently contracted by the Center for Mental
Health Services (CMHS) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) for Children's System of Care technical
assistance, federal grant peer review committees and federal strategic
planning sessions. She was instrumental in the shaping of United
Advocates for Children of California, a statewide family organization,
steering its development into an entity with a first of its kind
nationwide scope in family organization development. Her areas of
effective experience include wraparound, systems of care development,
learning organizations, family involvement, cultural competence
and interagency collaboration. |
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WORKSHOP SPEAKERS - PREVENTION CONFERENCE
MATTHEW BUHR-VOGL, MPH
| Matt Buhr-Vogl,
MPH has a broad background in public health and healthcare. He currently
serves as the Senior Site Development Specialist for the National
Center for Children, Families and Communities at the University
of Colorado School of Nursing. In this position, he works on the
effort to replicate the Nurse-Family Partnership on a national level.
Prior to joining the staff at the National Center, Matt held numerous
positions in public health and healthcare, giving him broad experience
and perspective in the public health field. His previous employment
includes work at University of Colorado Hospital, the March of Dimes,
domestic violence shelters in Minnesota and with a NIH-funded evaluation
of a program serving urban American Indian youth in Minneapolis.
Matt received his Masters of Public Health from the University of
Minnesota in 1997, graduating with honors, and received the schools
Robert ten Bensel Award, given to one graduate annually for leadership
and service in maternal and child health. He resides in Denver Colorado
with his wife, Sarah.
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CONSTANCE BURGESS
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Constance T.
Burgess is head of C. Burgess Consulting & Associates and a
family partner, consultant, keynote speaker and national provider
of training and technical assistance. On the national front, her
talents and skills are frequently contracted by the Center for Mental
Health Services (CMHS) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA) for Children's System of Care technical
assistance, federal grant peer review committees and federal strategic
planning sessions. She was instrumental in the shaping of United
Advocates for Children of California, a statewide family organization,
steering its development into an entity with a first of its kind
nationwide scope in family organization development. Her areas of
effective experience include wraparound, systems of care development,
learning organizations, family involvement, cultural competence
and interagency collaboration. |
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CELENE DOMITROVICH, PHD
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Celene Domitrovich, PhD
is Assistant Director of the Pennsylvania State University Prevention
Research Center. In this role, she coordinates faculty research
and outreach activities regarding prevention and health promotion;
coordinates and supports interdisciplinary faculty teams for new
research initiatives; coordinates seminars and conferences; and
writes grants to state and federal agencies and private foundations.
She also is Supervisor of the FAST Track Program at Pennsylvania
State University, and she provides supervision for Educational Coordinators
in individual child work. As part of their required practicum experience,
she is primary supervisor for undergraduate students in development
and implementation of therapeutic recreation and social skills programs
for high-risk children. |
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DELBERT ELLIOTT, PHD
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Delbert Elliott, PhD is a Professor
of Sociology and the Director of the Program on Problem Behavior
and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence in the Institute
of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado. His research
involves studying the causes of adolescent problem behavior (delinquency,
violence, drug abuse, drunk driving, runaway, school dropout, teenage
pregnancy), family violence and evaluating delinquency, drug and
violence prevention/intervention programs. He directed a series
of major national studies funded by the U.S. Department of Justice
and Health and Human Services. He is the Director of the National
Youth Survey, the longest study of criminal and violent behavior
in a representative national panel of adolescents and young adults
in the United States, following them from age 11 to 35.
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| He is the Editor of Blueprints for
Violence Prevention, a series of monographs describing model violence
prevention programs. In 2000 he received the Paul Tappan Award for
Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Criminology by the Western
Society of Criminology and the Science to Practice Award from the
Society for Prevention Research. He was the Senior Science Editor
for Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General, 2000. |
AKEMI FLYNN, MSW
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Akemi Flynn, MSW is a trainer with
Project Cornerstone, a county-wide collaborative aimed at engaging
organizations and individuals from all sectors of the community
to work together to support the healthy development of all children
and youth in Santa Clara Valley. With Cornerstone's partners Akemi
shares the strength-based developmental assets approach in order
to promote policies, programs and personal behavior that recognize
and build on young people's strengths rather than simply reacting
to them as problems. Akemi Flynn has a Master's Degree in Social
Work and over 10 years experience with multicultural, community
collaboratives through her work in youth, family and refugee programs
in California, New England and Southeast Asia. |
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BROTHER STEVE JOHNSON, SM
Brother Steve Johnson, SM is Director
of School Programs for the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Director
of the Alternative and Correctional Education Program and Interim
Director of Teacher Education in the Division of Counseling Psychology
and Education at Santa Clara University. He teaches courses in character
education, special education, alternative and correctional education
and school administration. He coordinates several community projects,
mainly training professionals who work with delinquent and troubled
youth, and implementing character education programs in the schools.
His research has centered primarily on the skills that act as the
base for acting with character: anger control, emotional management,
social skills and other functional skills.
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LEE MAHON, EDD
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Lee Mahon, EdD is
the former Director of Educational Administration and Masters Degree
Program at Santa Clara University. While at Santa Clara University,
she successfully wrote and implemented numerous grants, among them
from IBM, FIPSE, David and Lucile Packard Science Foundation, and
Whitney Foundation. She is presently Professor of Doctoral Studies,
an online, distance education program at The Fielding Graduate Institute
in Santa Barbara, California. She is President of her own consulting
firm providing executive searches, advice to school boards, management
studies and wage classification studies to school districts, law
firms and small businesses. |
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MARY ANN PENTZ, PHD
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For over
a decade, Mary Ann Pentz, PhD has developed and tested school and
community prevention interventions for adolescent drug use, stress,
smoking, and prosocial skill development. She has over 100 publications
in the area of drug abuse prevention and has served as Chair of
the NIDA Epidemiology and Prevention study section and as a member
of several national evaluation review boards for community prevention
studies. Her recent work in the CPPR focuses on the potential of
local community policy changes as a drug abuse prevention strategy
in the combination with prevention programs. A new NIDA study will
develop and test a four year prevention program that focuses on
both protective and risk factors for drug abuse. Dr. Pentz received
her Ph.D. in School and Clinical Psychology from Syracuse University.
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MARLENE SNYDER, PHD
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Marlene Snyder, Ph.D.
provides consultation and facilitation services to a wide spectrum
of organizations nationally and internationally. She conducts customized
workshops for groups, parents, agency and school administrators,
educators from preschool thru graduate school,
child welfare workers, juvenile justice professionals, judges and
physicians about their role in helping individuals with AD/HD to
prevent school failure and crime. These workshops educate people
on violence prevention programs, and the life-long impact of attention
deficit disorders and co-exiting conditions. Well-versed in the
essence of bullying behavior, she will lead the workshop on Bullying
Prevention, a Blueprint Program. |
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CHRISTOPHER WILLIAMS, PHD
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Christopher Williams,
PhD is Vice President and Director of Strategic Partnerships and
Government Relations with National Health Promotion Associates,
and Assistant Professor of Psychology, at the Institute for Prevention
Research, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical
College. His research interests include substance use and violence
etiology and prevention among urban youth in addition to health
promotion and disease prevention. |
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