The Evidence for Violence Prevention Across the Lifespan and Around the World Workshop Summary (2014) / Chapter Skim
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Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Appendix B: Speaker Biographical Sketches
Pages 127-146
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; and grant technician at the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. She represented BJS at a UN Meeting of Crime Experts, and has published numerous government reports using data from the National Crime Victimization Survey on topics such as juvenile victims and offenders, college students, and school crime as well as groundbreaking studies on identity theft and stalking.
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from Northeastern University's College of Criminal Justice, and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy and Practice.
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He also leads the Dissemination and Implementation (Translational Research) Unit at Penn State's Prevention Research Center; is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the Key Centre for Law, Justice, Ethics, and Governance at Griffith University (Queensland, Australia)
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. In that role she oversaw the management, finances, staffing, and deliverables for all of NCJJ's work, which included the National Juvenile Court Data Archive, the State Technical Assistance and Training Center, the MacArthur Foundation's Models for Change national juvenile justice reform project, and other national and subnational juvenile justice initiatives.
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the ACT Raising Safe Kids Program launched in 2000, an early violence prevention parenting program in nearly 100 U.S. sites and 5 countries, and (2)
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She worked on a variety of district, local, and state committees to address barriers to learning, and was president of the Maryland School Psychologists' Association and acting coordinator of Psychological Services. Since 2000, she has been primarily involved with violence prevention in the district, state, and national levels within the full continuum of student behavioral supports and interventions, in partnership with the Maryland State Department of Education, JHU, and Sheppard Health Systems through Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS)
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of the National Implementation Research Network; co-director (with Karen Blase, Rob Horner, and George Sugai) of the State Implementation and Scaling up of Evidence-based Practices Center; co-chair (with Jennifer Schroeder, Bianca Albers, and Deborah Ghate)
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Dr. Serra Hoffman began her work as a youth and community development specialist and special scientist with the Boston Violence Prevention Project; her program development efforts were described in the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, the Nation's Health, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Report, Dispute Resolution Journal, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
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As head of the Office of Justice Programs (OJP) , she oversees an annual budget of more than $2 billion dedicated to supporting state, local, and tribal criminal justice agencies; an array of juvenile justice programs; a wide range of research, evaluation, and statistical efforts; and comprehensive services for crime victims.
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His research activities include meta-analysis of longitudinal studies that identify predictive risk factors for adverse outcomes among children and youth; meta-analysis of prevention and intervention studies for those adverse outcomes; evaluation of social and educational programs for at-risk children; application of research findings to improve program practice; and methodological quality in program evaluation research. Professor Lipsey is a member of the Tennessee Criminal Justice Coordinating Council and the Science Advisory Board for the federal OJP, chairing the OJJDP Subcommittee.
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From 1993 until 2004, she was the founding director of the Child Advocacy and Assessment Program at McMaster Children's Hospital, a multidisciplinary program committed to reducing the burden of suffering associated with family violence. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of violence against children and women; she has led randomized controlled trials evaluating the effectiveness of approaches to preventing child maltreatment and intimate partner violence.
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His sponsored research projects include several that tested for the benefits and costs of sanctions and therapeutic treatments for spouse abusers, the impact of police and court services on victims of domestic violence, and other projects that described the epidemiology of violence against women by intimates and the extent and correlates of sexual assault by and against adolescents. His current research focuses on assessing the extent to which intimate partner violence offenders are prosecuted and testing whether more prosecution and sanctions lead to less violence.
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He has over a quarter-century of experience collaborating on research and evaluation projects, mostly in criminal justice, and has specialized in systematic reviews and meta-analyses of crime prevention programs. Current projects include a quasi-experimental evaluation of an intervention program for homeless ex-prisoners in Minneapolis and a
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, is currently director of the Suicide Research and Prevention Center of the Shanghai Mental Health Center; executive director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Research and Training in Suicide Prevention at Beijing Hui Long Guan Hospital; professor of psychiatry and global health at Emory University; professor of clinical psychiatry and clinical epidemiology at Columbia University; vice chair of the Chinese Society for Injury Prevention and Control; and treasurer of the International Association for Suicide Prevention. He is currently the Principal Investigator on a number of multicenter collaborative projects on suicide, depression, and schizophrenia.
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Dr. Rosenberg's organization, the Task Force for Global Health, participated in the IOM-sponsored workshop Violence Prevention in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Finding a Place on the Global Agenda, and the Task Force remains interested in helping to continue the momentum of the workshop through the Forum on Global Violence Prevention.
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, where he is director of Youth-Nex: The UVA Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. Youth-Nex is a cross-university, multidisciplinary center to advance prevention of problems affecting youth and to promote healthy development.
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Her research interests are in violence prevention from the perspective of children's development, and particularly in public health approaches to this -- in developing evidence-based approaches to violence prevention that have a wide reach and are effective in improving children's development and reducing their likelihood of becoming aggressive. Much of her current work is focused on preventing child maltreatment, and on understanding the epidemiology of risk factors faced by South African children.
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Flisher Centre for Public Mental Health at the University of Cape Town, and the Capoeira Educational Youth Association (a youth development association in Cape Town) ; and on the Editorial Boards of the journals South African Crime Quarterly and Psychosocial Interventions.
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She holds a doctorate in Urban and Public Policy from The New School University in New York. Phelan Wyrick, Ph.D., is a senior policy advisor to the Assistant Attorney General for OJP in the U.S.
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