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Debbie Black at 2006 Siouxland DMC Conference

DEBBIE BLACK has been the Office Manager at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice for over ten years. Debbie works on a wide range of projects, some of which are editing The Prevention Report, formatting published documents and curricula, submission of financial and human resource data, and management of training handouts.

E-mail: debbie-black@uiowa.edu

jeong woong cheon

JEONG WOONG CHEON, Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar 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. He 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

 

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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

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

miriam landsman

MIRIAM LANDSMAN, Ph.D., M.S.W., is Executive Director of the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Assistant 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.

E-mail: miriam-landsman@uiowa.edu

Dr. Richardson at 2006 Siouxland DMC Conference

 

 

 

 

 

BRAD RICHARDSON, Ph.D., is Research Scientist at the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice and Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa School of Social Work. Dr. Richardson has served as project director on numerous quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation projects. He has provided training and technical assistance on data management, outcome measures, research and evaluation, performance monitoring of work with families and how to utilize the results of evaluations to promote and demonstrate effectiveness along with incorporating those results into program improvement strategies. He currently serves as Iowa DMC Coordinator and as project director of the DMC Resource Center.

E-mail: brad-richardson@uiowa.edu

 

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Project Director Kellee Thorburn McCrory graduated from the University of Iowa with a Masters Degree in Public Health. Kellee is the Center Coordinator for the NRC's Iowa Center for Evaluation Research as the Center Coordinator. Her undergraduate work was in counseling and human services at California State University, Fullerton. Kellee has worked for the University of Iowa for five years and has conducts research and evaluation in the areas of public health, development and delay and substance abuse.


E-mail: kellee-mccrory@uiowa.edu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice
University of Iowa School of Social Work
100 Oakdale Campus, W206 OH

Iowa City, IA 52242-5000

Phone: 319.335.4965   Fax: 319.335.4964

http://www.uiowa.edu/~nrcfcp

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