Part 1: Creating Safe and Drug-Free Schools & Communities
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Bonnie Benard, M.S.W., is a nationally- and internationally-known figure in the field of prevention theory, policy, and practice, particularly for introducing and conceptualizing resiliency theory and application beginning with her monograph, Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community (Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory, 1991). She holds a Master's Degree in Social Work. Currently, she is a Senior Program Associate with the Human Development Program at WestEd's Oakland, California office. |
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Phyllis Ellickson, Ph.D., is a nationally-recognized expert on drug prevention and adolescent problem behavior. She led a multi-site, multi-year drug prevention trial (Project ALERT) that has been widely acclaimed as an exemplary program and research model. She has also been an advisor to several government agencies including the National Institute of Drug Abuse and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and has published extensively on the patterns and antecedents of adolescent drug use, violence and dropping out, as well as the challenges of conducting large-scale field trials and field experiments. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science. Currently, Dr. Ellickson is the Director of the Center for Research on Maternal, Child, and Adolescent Health and a Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND. |
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Delbert S.Elliott, Ph.D., is a Professor of Sociology, the Director of The Program on Problem Behavior, and Director of 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 delinquency, drug use/abuse and violent behavior. He directed a series of major national studies funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the U.S. Department of Justice. Dr. Elliott is the Director of the National Youth Survey, the longest study of criminal behavior and drug use in a representative national panel of adolescents and young adults in the United States. |
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Mike J. Furlong, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara and program leader of the
Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology program. After serving as a
field-based school psychologist for more than 10 years, he has been active
in research and program development related to school safety, school
violence, and anger management in youth. He was one of the lead authors of
the 1989 California Department of Education's publication, "Safe Schools": A
Planning Guide for Action." In addition, he has edited two journal issues
on the topic of school violence and is an editor of a forthcoming issue of
Psychology in the Schools that examines the topic of assessing violence
potential in students. Dr. Furlong is a past-president of the California
Association of School Psychologists and is currently an Associate Editor of
Psychology in the Schools and The California School Psychologist.
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Rodney Skager, Ph.D., is a Professor of Education Psychology in the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies. Since 1985, he has been the Director of the California Attorney General’s annual Survey of Student Substance Use in California Secondary Schools. He has published extensively on prevention policy, comparative studies of national drug policies, and treatment and recovery from alcohol and illicit drug abuse. He has evaluated school and community programs for at-risk youth, gang prevention, alcohol and drug use prevention for youth, and professional training in the addictions. Dr. Skager is a frequent speaker and instructor at workshops, institutes, and community forums on incidence, prevention and intervention in adolescent substance use and abuse, as well as overall drug policy. He holds a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Psychology. |
Part 2: California Action Guide to Tobacco Use Prevention Education
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Carol D'Onofrio, Ph.D., is Professor Emerita at the University of California, Berkeley. She twice chaired the Special Emphasis Panel appointed by the National Cancer Institute to review applications for its initiative Prevention and Cessation of Tobacco Use Among Youth. Her current research includes a three-year intervention to keep infants smoke-free (University of California's Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program); a study of breast cancer in young women (National Cancer Institute); and an evaluation of a program to improve end-of-life care (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation). She consults with numerous agencies nationally and in California, most recently with California Smoke-Free Cities; the Solano County Tobacco Prevention and Education Program; the National Hospice Work Group; and ETR Associates. |
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John Elder, Ph.D., MPH, is Professor and Head of the Division of Health Promotion at San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health and Adjunct Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California-San Diego. He currently serves as Principal Investigator for the Innovative Nutrition Communication for Latinos; Tial of Activity for Adolescent Girls (TAAG), a program designed to study and promote physicial activity of high school and junior high school girls; Families Understanding the Efficacies Regarding Tobacco Effects (F.U.E.R.T.E), a tobacco prevention program for Hispanic families and their middle school children; and Co-Investigator for Sun Safety Intervention for Postal Carriers. He has an extensive background in tobacco research, is fluent in Spanish, and has emphasized health promotion service and research with the Spanish-speaking populations of San Diego and Mexico communities throughout his appointment at San Diego State University. He has over 200 pulbications in the areas of health promotion, disease prevention, and behavior epidemiology. |
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Luanne Rohrbach, Ph.D., M.P.H. is currently an Assistant Professor of Research at the University of Southern California, Institute for Prevention Research. She has 20 years of experience as a researcher and evaluator in the tobacco, alcohol, and other drug abuse prevention field. For the past 5 years, Dr. Rohrbach has been Co-Principal Investigator and Scientific Director of the Independent Evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Program. In this role, she has led the evaluation of the school-based Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) program. Currently, she is the principal investigator on a grant focusing on implemention of evidence-based tobacco prevention approaches in California's schools (funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program). She has published widely in the areas of tobacco and other substance use prevention, school-based health, and etiology of tobacco use among adolescents. |
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Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB, received his doctorate in social-clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. He studies the utility of empirical program development methods in drug abuse research, and has over 170 publications in this arena. His projects include Towards No Tobacco Use, Towards No Drug Use, and EX, most of which are considered model programs at numerous agencies (e.g., CDC, NIDA, Health Canada, U.S. Department of Education).
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Update 1: Positive Youth Development: Research, Commentary and Action
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Peter Benson, Ph.D., is president of Search Institute, a national non-profit research organization dedicated to promoting the well-being of children and adolescents. He is widely recognized as one of the leading contributors to the fields of child and adolescent development, with a special focus on the power of communities in raising successful, healthy and caring children and adolescents. He sits on many local and national boards, including America's Promise, the national initiative chaired by General Colin Powell. In 1991, he received the prestigious William James Award for career contributions to psychology from the American Psychological Association. He is the author of nine books on children, adolescents, and the community forces that shape their lives. |
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Michael Resnick, Ph.D., is a sociologist and Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of General Pediatrics and Adolescent Health at the University of Minnesota. He directs the National Teen Pregnancy Prevention Research Center, focused on interdisciplinary research and education on pregnancy prevention and healthy youth development. For two decades Resnick has conducted state and national surveys of adolescent health, risk behaviors and protective factors. He works with legislators, educators, service providers and the media to promote an understanding of how families, schools and communities can promote protective factors in the lives of young people. |
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J. Fred Springer, Ph.D., is director of research at EMT Associates, Inc. He is also a professor at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Spring also acts as project director for the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) National Cross-site Evaluation Study of High Risk Youth Programs, a five-year project that tracks approximately ten thousand youth at fifty program sites nationwide. |
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Norm Constantine, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Research on Adolescent Health and Development and a Senior Research Scientist at the Public Health Insitute in Berkeley. His research involves studying the interactions between developmental supports, resilience traits, and adolescent health. Current work includes a study of smoking cessation and relapse in pregnant and postpartum adolescents, and a policy advocacy project to educate and inform California legislators about effective approaches to promoting healthy adolescent sexual behavior, as well as several evaluations of school and community based health promotion programs. Norm has held past appointments as Lecturer in Pediatrics at Stanford University, Co-Investigator for the Infant Health and Development Program, Co-Director of the California Healthy Kids Survey, Director of the California Interagency Data Collaboration, and a counselor working with early adolescents in residential treatment settings.
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Update 2: Assessing the Effectiveness of Classroom-Based Prevention Programs
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Denise Hallfors, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scientist at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (PIRE), Chapel Hill. She is a nurse and health services researcher, who has studied substance abuse prevention and adolescent health promotion for over 12 years. She leads several National Institute on Drug Abuse grants studying prevention of adolescent substance abuse and HIV infection. Dr. Hallfors has also evaluated the impact of federal changes to the Safe and Drug Free Schools program on schools, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She participated in the evaluatiuon of Fighting Back, the RWJ demonstration of community coalition substance abuse prevention. Before accepting her present position at PIRE, she was a professor in the School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research. |
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Steve Sussman, Ph.D., FAAHB, received his doctorate in social-clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1984. He is a professor of preventive medicine and psychology at the University of Southern California. He studies the utility of empirical program development methods in drug abuse research, and has over 170 publications in this arena. His projects include Towards No Tobacco Use, Towards No Drug Use, and EX, most of which are considered model programs at numerous agencies (e.g., CDC, NIDA, Health Canada, U.S. Department of Education).
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Update 3: Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drug, and Violence Prevention: Research Update
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Patrick Aaby, Ph.D.,
is the Director of Government Affairs for the Channing Bete Company. In this capacity he works with Federal and State policy makers advancing research findings related to prevention science. He has over 26 years in public education as a teacher and administrator in Washington State. Over the past 10 years Dr. Aaby has been an adviser on prevention related issues to the Governor and Lt. Governor of Washington State. In addition, Pat chaired, for 6 years, the Washington State Community Mobilization Advisory Board, an organization funded by the governor’s portion of the Safe and Drug Free Schools program. In this capacity he worked with local community coalitions, statewide, to assess student, family and community needs. Following this process, he then worked with these coalitions as a negotiator and/or facilitator to integrate and align school and community resources to more effectively reduce risk factors and enhance protective factors associated with substance abuse, youth violence, juvenile delinquency, teen pregnancy and dropping out of school. |
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William B. Hansen, Ph.D., has been President of Tanglewood Research, an organization dedicated to developing, testing, training, and marketing highly effective educational materials for preventing drug use, violence, delinquency, and premature sexual activity among teens, since 1993. He is a widely recognized expert in alcohol and drug prevention, and has written numerous curricula for school and community-based prevention, including Project SMART, Project STAR, and All Stars. The goal of his research has been to identify and evaluate evidence-based approaches to prevention that can achieve reductions in the onset of use and that can be applied in everyday settings. He was the principal investigator of the Adolescent Alcohol Prevention Trial project that tested norm setting and refusal skills strategies for preventing the onset of alcohol. He also was principal investigator of the Effective School-based Substance Abuse Prevention project (funded by NIDA) that examined common alcohol and drug abuse education efforts and identified characteristics of educational efforts that hold promise for prevention. He has consulted with numerous agencies, such as the US Department of Education, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, and the United Nations.
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Cheryl Perry, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Perry began her career as a junior high and high school teacher, and junior high school vice-principal, in Sacramento and Davis, California. She received her Ph.D. from Stanford University and joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota in 1980. She has published over 200 articles in the peer-reviewed literature on health promotion and prevention programs with children and adolescents. She was the senior scientific editor of the 1994 Surgeon General's Report on Preventing Tobacco Use among Young People and currently serves as principal investigator of several community-wide health behavior research projects concerning eating patterns, tobacco and alcohol use, and violence among children and adolescents. In 2001 she was given the Distinguised Women Scholar Award at the University of Minnesota.
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Update 4: Violence Prevention and Safe Schools
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Albert D. Farrell, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where he directs the VCU Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development. The Clark Hill Institute was recently designated one of eight National Centers of Excellence in Youth Violence Prevention by CDC. Dr. Farrell received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University. His research has focused on the application of an action-research model to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of prevention programs directed at high risk youth. His earlier work focused on the evaluation of school-based drug use prevention programs. Since 1992, he has been involved in a collaborative effort with community agencies to develop effective violence prevention programs for early adolescents. This effort has been funded by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Department of Education, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Dr. Farrell has published extensively in the areas of youth violence and drug use, assessment, and research methodology, and has served on national task forces on youth violence initiated by the CDC and by the American Psychological Association. He is one of the four principal investigators for the CDC-funded Multi-site Violence Prevention Project which involved the assignment of 37 schools across four sites to school-level intervention conditions. Dr. Farrell is a licensed clinical psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. |
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Mike J. Furlong, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Graduate School of Education at the University of California Santa Barbara and program leader of the
Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology program. After serving as a
field-based school psychologist for more than 10 years, he has been active
in research and program development related to school safety, school
violence, and anger management in youth. He was one of the lead authors of
the 1989 California Department of Education's publication, "Safe Schools": A
Planning Guide for Action." In addition, he has edited two journal issues
on the topic of school violence and is an editor of a forthcoming issue of
Psychology in the Schools that examines the topic of assessing violence
potential in students. Dr. Furlong is a past-president of the California
Association of School Psychologists and is currently an Associate Editor of
Psychology in the Schools and The California School Psychologist.
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Paul M. Kingery, Ph.D., is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Education at the University of Hawaii-Manoa and assists the Vice-Chancellor for Research. His background is in Public Health Education, with focus on school violence prevention. He is extensively published, and a senior grants administrator. He holds a PhD in Community Health from the University of Oregon and three masters degrees in public health and education fields from various institutions. He was tapped by President Clinton to present in the White House in his area of expertise, and was frequently on national news programs. He worked with members of Congress in drafting educational legislation, and has assisted the judiciary in legal cases. He was formerly the Director of the Hamilton Fish National Institute on School and Community Violence in Washington DC at the George Washington University. He has also held professorships at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas A&M University. He is currently writing a textbook on school violence prevention and administering $20 million in grants and contracts for the College of Education. He also directs the Office of International Research.
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Pamela Orpinas, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion and Behavior, at the University of Georgia. She has conducted extensive research on the prevention of violence and bullying, particularly in schools. She is the author of Bullying prevention: Creating a positive school climate and developing social competence (2006), published by the American Psychological Association. The book highlights the School Social Development and Bullying Prevention Model, which shows how school professionals can prevent and reduce bullying by creating a positive environment and by ensuring all children have the social skills to communicate well and solve problems without aggression. She has been a consultant in the area of violence prevention in several countries, and has worked with national and international agencies to prevent violence. She has published and presented at conferences extensively on this topic.
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Update 5: Student Health, Supportive Schools, and Academic Success
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Thomas Hanson, Ph.D., Ph.D., Senior Research Associate, directs the Risk/Resilience and Student Academic Performance project within WestEd’s Health and Human Development Program (HHDP). The project examines how student health risk and resilience are related to the academic progress of schools in raising test scores. He also serves as an evaluator for several intervention demonstration research projects in HHDP and as head statistician for the Evaluation of California’s SB19 Pupil Nutrition Act (NIH) – a group randomized, experimental trial that examines the impact on student health of banning the sale of high-sugar foods/drinks in schools. Much of Hanson’s prior work focused on family and child well-being, health socialization, child support reform, poverty, and research methods. He received a BA in sociology from Old Dominion University and an MS and PhD in sociology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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Howard M. Knoff, Ph.D., is the Director of Project ACHIEVE; author of the Stop & Think Social Skills Program, and Director of the Arkansas Department of Education’s State Improvement Grant. The two programs are designated evidence-based model (US Department of Health & Human Service's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) or promising (US Department of Justice) prevention programs. Dr. Knoff was Professor of School Psychology at the University of South Florida for 18 years and Director of the School Psychology Program there for 12 years. His Ph.D. degree is from Syracuse University (1980), and has worked since 1978 as a practitioner, consultant, licensed private psychologist, and university professor. Dr. Knoff has published more than 75 articles or book chapters and delivered over 500 papers or workshops nationally. A recipient of the Lightner Witmer Award from the American Psychological Association's School Psychology Division in 1989 for early career contributions and almost $4 million in external grants over the past five years, he was the 21st President of the National Association of School Psychologists which now represents over 20,000 school psychologists.
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Chandra Muller, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Muller’s current research is on the influence of family, community, education policy and health behaviors on adolescent academic achievement and post secondary education. She is the Principal Investigator of the Adolescent Health and Academic Achievement (AHAA) study. The AHAA study is collecting high school transcripts for Add Health Wave III respondents and, thus, will provide rich data on students' academic experiences, opportunities, and stratification.
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Eric Schaps, Ph.D., is founder and president of the Developmental Studies Center in Oakland, CA. Established in 1980, DSC specializes in designing educational programs and evaluating their effects on children's academic, ethical, social, and emotional development. The Center has a staff of 55; its work has been supported by 40 philanthropic foundations and governmental agencies. Dr. Schaps is the author of three books and 60 book chapters and articles on program evaluation, school change, character education, and preventing problem behaviors. He serves on several boards including the education advisory board of Boys & Girls Clubs of America.
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