DEBBIE BLACK is Office Manager at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. Ms. Black has been at the Resource Center for 15 years and works on a wide range of projects, in addition to managing office staff and serving as fiscal manager for the Center. She also edits and produces The Prevention Report, maintains the website, and formats and publishes Center reports, documents and curricula. Her duties include the submission of financial and human resource data, and management of training materials.

E-mail: debbie-black@uiowa.edu

JEONG WOONG CHEON, Ph.D., is a Research Fellow at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Research Fellow of the Korean Institute of Youth Development. He is also Lecturer at ChungAng University in Seoul. At the Korean Institute of Youth Development, Dr. Cheon has served as Director of the Division of Planning and Coordination. He has also served as Secretary General of the Korean Youth Research Association. Dr. Cheon has written numerous publications on Youth Development, including Youth and Community (1995), and Introduction to Youth Services (1999). His research deals with the characteristics of newly-emerging youth problems and the formation process of youth service in view of socio-political environment changes, legal establishments and practical sides of youth services by comparing youth service developmental process in America.

E-mail: jwcheon@ku.edu

Megan Dotson is Research Associate with the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Research Assistant in the College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. Ms. Dotson served as a research assistant with the recently completed Strengthening Communities Youth project conducted in coopertion with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administatration. She is a certified GAIN (Global Appraisal of Individual Needs) administrator and currently works on a variety of substance abuse and public health related research and evaluation projects.

E-mail: megan-dotson@uiowa.edu

LISA D'AUNNO, J.D ., is Director of Training for the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. Lisa develops and coordinates educational programs for social service and non-profit organizations throughout the United States. Lisa has 23 years of child welfare experience as an attorney, clinical professor of law, trainer, and program administrator in Michigan and Illinois. As Director of Best Practice for the Office of the Inspector General, Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in Chicago, she managed the implementation of a number of interdisciplinary field tests to improve practice with families. Lisa has taught law and social work at the University of Chicago School of Social Services Administration as well as child advocacy at the University of Michigan Law School. As an attorney, she represented parents and children and prosecuted a number of complex termination of parental rights cases. Over the years, Lisa has trained over 8,000 social workers, lawyers, and judges in subjects including ethics, management skills, legal aspects of child maltreatment, courtroom skills, liability in human services, and interdisciplinary decision-making.

E-mail: lisa-daunno@uiowa.edu

NANCY GRAF, B.A., is a Research Assistant with the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice at the University of Iowa School of Social Work.  Ms. Graf has contributed to many research and evaluation studies through data coordination, statistical analysis and report writing.  Her work has involved projects focused on outcomes measures, parent-child visits, abstinence education, adolescent pregnancy prevention, inter-agency and community collaboration, wraparound service models for Latino and African American youth, community decision making for permanency, substance abuse and mental health treatment programs for children and youth, mentor training for certified nursing staff, strengths-based models, and family development.  Her experience in research methods includes social network analysis, quantitative and qualitative methods, and work with surveys.  Her background also includes activities and leadership in youth-serving, parent/teacher, and faith-based organizations as well as early childhood and elderly care-giving.

E-mail: nancy-graf@uiowa.edu

Kellee Thorburn McCrory, MPH, is Senior Research Assistant for the Iowa Center for Evaluation Research, the NRC's public health reasearch and evaluation center. Ms. McCrory received her MPH from the University of Iowa College of Public Health. The Iowa Center for Evaluation Research was formerly located in the College of Public Health's Department of Community and Behavioral Health and moved to the NRC in 2006. Ms. McCrory earned her undergraduate degree

in counseling and human services at California State University, Fullerton. Kellee has worked for the University of Iowa for six years and conducts research and evaluation in a wide variety of areas including rural and environmental health, comprehensive cancer control, nutrition, early childhood and child welfare, mental health care and access, development and delay and substance abuse. She also provides technical assistance in evaluation methods, planning and constructing logic models to improve organizational effectiveness and implementation of qualitative and focus group methods.

E-mail: kellee-mccrory@uiowa.edu

MIRIAM LANDSMAN, Ph.D., M.S.W., is Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Associate Professor of Social Work at the University of Iowa. Dr. Landsman has worked for the Center as a researcher, program evaluator, and technical assistance consultant for more than fifteen years. Her areas of expertise include child welfare services from family preservation through permanency planning, developing outcomes for family centered programs, and organizational commitment and staff turnover. Dr. Landsman has directed multistate research projects in child welfare services, statewide evaluations of family preservation and support, early intervention and pregnancy prevention, and communitybased programs and interagency collaboratives across a variety of service systems including child welfare, education, substance abuse, community action, and maternal and child health. Recent publications include "Attributing responsibility for child maltreatment when domestic violence is present" which was co-authored with Carolyn Copps Hartley and published in Child Abuse & Neglect , 31 , 445-461 (2007) and “Pathways to Organizational Commitment,” which was selected as the outstanding article in Administration in Social Work in 2008.

E-mail: miriam-landsman@uiowa.edu

BRAD RICHARDSON, Ph.D., is Research Director at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Iowa School of Social Work. Dr. Richardson is also Iowa DMC Coordinator for the DMC Resource Center and Minority Youth and Families Initiative where he directs statewide efforts to reduce disparities in the child welfare, juvenile justice, education and health systems. Dr. Richardson was elected national DMC representative for the Executive Board of the Center for Juvenile Justice in 2008.   Dr. Richardson earned his doctorate in applied sociology with specialization in social psychology, methodology and law, deviance and control from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Prior to coming to Iowa he served as Director of Contract Research at Yale University and Director of Research at the Institute for Social and Economic Development. He has served as project director on numerous applied research and evaluation projects using both quantitative and qualitative methods. In addition to research and evaluation of programs he provides technical assistance on strengths-based and family centered practice, training and technical assistance on data management, outcome measures research and evaluation and he has trained staff of provider and government agencies on how to monitor and improve outcomes in their work with families throughout the U.S. Some of his most recent publications focus on utilizing the results of evaluations to promote and demonstrate program effectiveness, incorporating results into program improvement strategies, effective DMC technical assistance, and the use of social network analysis in improving community collaboration. Additionally, Dr. Richardson serves as director of the Iowa Center for Evaluation Research which conducts research and evaluation on community and behavioral health programs.

E-mail: brad-richardson@uiowa.edu

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AMY CROLL, MSW, is Research Assistant at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. She is based at the Des Moines School of Social Work office of the NRC where she works on a variety of projects for the NRC research division, DMC Resource Center and Minority Youth and Families Initiative and the Iowa Center for Evaluation Research. She conducts quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation and has provided training and technical assistance. Prior to working at the NRC she worked for the Iowa Department of Human Rights, Division of Criminal and Juvenile Justice Planning and coordinated the Iowa Collaboration for Youth Development.

E-mail: amy-croll@uiowa.edu

DORIS WELLS is Project Assistant at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. She is based in the Nat'l Resource Center's Des Moines office of The University of Iowa School of Social Work where she works on a variety of projects for the NRC research division, DMC Resource Center and Minority Youth and Families Initiative and the Iowa Center for Evaluation Research. She performs a variety of quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation duties including interpretation and translation. Prior to working at the NRC she worked for the Des Moines Public Schools, Wells Fargo, Principal Financial Group and Visiting Nurse Services. She currently holds a joint appointment with the 5th District Juvenile Court Services.

E-mail: doris-wells@uiowa.edu

Des Moines Office: 515-235-4661