PARENTING RESOURCES

 

 

 

"Paid Leave in the States: A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families," March, 2009
National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_864.html?utm_sourc 

 

Millions of families struggle to juggle work and family responsibilities. Low-wage workers can find this balancing act especially difficult since they are more likely to work in jobs with few benefits and limited flexibility. The report finds that paid leave can promote both family economic security and child and family well-being. In the absence of a federal paid leave policy, a handful of states have enacted paid leave. This brief examines existing policies and concludes with recommendations for policymakers considering paid leave.

 

 

"Parental Incarceration: How to Avoid a 'Death Sentence' for Families," 2007
Center for Law and Social Policy
http://www.clasp.org/publications/parental_incarceratio

 

This paper highlights a number of promising services and supports for incarcerated parents and recommends what attorneys representing or working with incarcerated parents and their children can do to minimize harm to children. The report is by Tiffany Conway and Rutledge Q. Hutson, first published by the Clearinghouse Review Journal of Poverty Law and Policy in Summer 2007.

 

 

"Childhood Obesity," Spring 2007
The Future of Children
http://www.futureofchildren.org/pubs-info3133/pubs-info

 

This issue of the twice-yearly journal focuses on U.S. children's high and rising rates of overweight and obesity. It presents evidence on the multiple causes, consequences and methods of dealing with the problem. The journal is published by the Brookings Institution and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

 

 

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
Columbia University
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_864.html?utm_sourc

 

"Paid Leave in the States: A Critical Support for Low-wage Workers and Their Families," March, 2009 Millions of families struggle to juggle work and family responsibilities. Low-wage workers can find this balancing act especially difficult since they are more likely to work in jobs with few benefits and limited flexibility. The report finds that paid leave can promote both family economic security and child and family well-being. In the absence of a federal paid leave policy, a handful of states have enacted paid leave. This brief examines existing policies and concludes with recommendations for policymakers considering paid leave. 

 

 

Faststats
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/default.htm

 

The center provides state and territorial data and demographics on diverse health topics. 

 

 

News and Media Center
Child Welfare League of America
http://www.cwla.org/newsevents/news010913di.htm

 

Resources and links for talking to children about disasters. 

 

 

"The Right Start for America's Newborns"
Annie E. Casey Foundation
http://www.kidscount.org/sld/rightstart.jsp

 

Based on data from the National Center for Health Statistics, this annual KIDS COUNT report ranks the 50 largest cities and all states based on eight measures of the circumstances and condition under which children are born. Contact: Laura Beavers, research associate, 410.223.2975; lbeavers@aecf.org 

 

 

The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life
The Pew Charitable Trusts
http://pewforum.org/

 

The Forum gathers and disseminates objective information through polls and reports. 

 

 

Child Care and Development Fund State Plan Resources
National Child Care Information Center, Administration on Children and Families, HHS
http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/pubs/stateplan/stateplan-intro

 

These reports (2002-2009) include a summary of how states and territories are using CCDF funds to improve services for infants and toddlers and their families. The National Child Care Information Center (NCCIC) is a national clearinghouse and technical assistance center linking parents, providers, policy-makers, researchers, and the public to early care and education information. 

 

 

National Infant and Toddler Child Care Initiative
Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.nccic.org/itcc/

 

The National Infant & Toddler Child Care Initiative at ZERO TO THREE is a project of the Child Care Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services. The Initiative works collaboratively with Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administrators and other partners in their efforts to move forward system initiatives to improve the quality and supply of infant and toddler child care.

 

 

Add Health
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, University of North Carolina
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data

 

Add Health is a nationally representative study that explores the causes of health-related behaviors of adolescents in grades 7 through 12 and their outcomes in young adulthood. Add Health seeks to examine how social contexts (families, friends, peers, schools, neighborhoods, and communities) influence adolescents' health and risk behaviors. 

 

 

National Center for Health Statistics
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_23/sr23_026.pdf

 

"Fertility, Contraception, and Fatherhood: Data on Men and Women From Cycle 6 (2002) of the National Survey of Family Growth" covers a wide range of topics including first sexual intercourse and its timing in relation to marriage; contraceptive use; wantedness of births in the past 5 years; and marital and cohabiting status at first birth. See press release: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/06facts/fatherhood.htm

 

 

Population Division
U.S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/

 

The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch, at the Suitland, Md., headquarters, provides data on childbearing and more. Contact: public information office, 301.763.3030; pio@census.gov 

 

 

Welfare, Children & Families: A Three-City Study
Johns Hopkins University
http://web.jhu.edu/threecitystudy

 

The intensive study assesses the well-being of low-income children and families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio after welfare reform. Begun in 1999, the study includes longitudinal surveys and developmental and ethnographic studies. The study’s principal investigator is Andrew Cherlin, sociologist and professor of public policy at Johns Hopkins University. Contact: 410.516.2361; welfare@jhu.edu 

 

 

U.S. Census Bureau
U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.census.gov/

 

The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch provides data on childbearing and more. 

 

 

National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP)
Columbia University
http://www.nccp.org/publications/pub_860.html?utm_sourc

 

"Making Maternal and Child Health Care a Priority," March 2009 To help inform the national and state-level debate on how to improve the health care system, the report takes a closer look at state policy choices that promote access to high-quality health care for mothers and children.

 

 

Child Welfare League of America
http://ndas.cwla.org/include/pdf/InterntlAdoption_FINAL 

 

The two-page brief notes that, between 1989 and 2005, 234,358 children were adopted in the U.S. from other countries. In 2005 alone, 22,710 foreign-born children were adopted by Americans, while 51,278 were adopted from the public welfare system. Little is known about the number of private adoptions in the United States, because there are no reporting requirements.

 

 

Shelley M. MacDermid Ph.D.
Director
Military Family Research Institute
The Center for Families at Purdue University

Address:
14 N. Second St.
Lafayette, IN 47901

Phone:
765.423.2266

E-mail:
shelley@purdue.edu

Web:
www.mfri.purdue.edu/ ...

The institute, at Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind., conducts research on the quality of life for military members and their families. It’s funded by the Department of Defense’s Office of Military Community and Family Policy. MacDermid is a professor of Child Development and Family Studies.
 

Sarah Marsh
Program Manager
University of Michigan
National Poverty Center

Address:
Joan and Sanford Weill Hall, Suite 5100
735 S. State St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-3091

Phone:
734.615.5312

E-mail:
npcinfo@umich.edu

Web:
www.npc.umich.edu...

The center promotes high-quality research on the causes and consequences of poverty, evaluating and analyzing policies to alleviate poverty, and training the next generation of poverty researchers. Based at the University of Michigan, it has a network of roughly 40 scholars nationwide.
 

Johanna Ramos-Boyer
Communications Consultant
Corporate Voices for Working Families

Address:
2600 Virginia Ave. Suite 205
Washington, DC 20037

Phone:
703.646.5137

E-mail:
johanna@jrbcomm.com

Web:
www.cvworkingfamilies.org...

The nonpartisan, nonprofit organization represents corporate perspectives in work-family issues. Its 55 partner companies – with most listed in the Fortune 500 – employ more than 4 million people among all 50 states, and its members help develop policies for their own workforces.
 

Joan Williams
Director
UC Hastings College of the Law
Center for Work Life Law

Address:
200 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone:
415.565.4805

E-mail:
joanwilliams@worklifelaw.org

Web:
www.worklifelaw.org...

The center – part of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law – is a nonprofit research and advocacy organization. It works with employees, employers, attorneys, legislators, journalists and researchers to identify and prevent family responsibilities discrimination.

 

 

 

Gina Adams
Senior Research Associate and Child Care Team Leader
Urban Institute

Address:
2100 M St., N.W.
Washington, DC 20037

Phone:
202.833.7200

E-mail:
gadams@urban.org

Web:
http://www.urban.org/bio/GinaAdams.html...

The institute is a nonprofit policy research organization that investigates social and economic problems. Adams directs research on the policies and programs that affect the affordability, quality and supply of child care and early education.
 

Francesca Adler-Baeder
Professor
Department of Human Development and Family Studies
Auburn University

Address:
286 Spidle Hall
Auburn, AL 36849

Phone:
334.844.3234

E-mail:
adlerfr@auburn.edu

Web:
http://www.aces.edu/users/adlerfr//...

Adler-Baeder's research interests focus on families under stress and children's experiences in diverse family types, including post-divorce and stepparenting. She has been involved in building services in Marriage Education in Alabama for the past 4 years and coordinates the Alabama Healthy Marriage Initiative in collaboration with the Alabama Children's Trust Fund.
 

Constance Ahrons Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology
University of Southern California

Address:
Department of Sociology
Los Angeles, CA 90089

Phone:
858.274.8943

E-mail:
cahrons@usc.edu

Web:
http://college.usc.edu/faculty/faculty1003032.html...

Ahrons' research focuses on families in society, marriage and family therapy and gender issues. She has published several books on families and divorce, and has conducted a 20-year longitudinal study of divorced families. Other research interests have included: remarriage and stepfamilies; stresses of contemporary American families; mid-life and later life transitions; active retirement; gender issues; work and family issues; politics of "family values"; and, couples and family therapy.
 

Joseph P. Allen Ph.D.
Director
Virginia Adolescence Research Group
University of Virginia

Address:
Gilmer Hall, Room 102
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Phone:
804.982.4727

E-mail:
allen@virginia.edu

Web:
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~jpa8r...

The group conducts longitudinal studies that examine the influence of social relationships on adolescent development. Allen's research focuses on adolescent social development, family relations, peer relations & problematic behaviors (ranging from delinquency and teen pregnancy to depression and anxiety). Specific topics of Allen's research include: development of peer influence and peer pressure in adolescence; prevention of teen pregnancy; and development of autonomy and relatedness in adolescent social interactions.
 

Paula Allen-Meares Ph.D.
Dean and Norma Radin Collegiate Professor of Socia
University of Michigan

Address:
1080 S. University, 4728 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.764.5347

E-mail:
pameares@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-pameares....

Allen-Meares' research interests include the tasks and functions of social workers employed in educational settings; psychopathology in children, adolescents, and families; adolescent sexuality; premature parenthood; and various aspects of social work practice.
 

Paul Amato Ph.D.
Sociology Prof
Penn State

Address:
0604 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802

Phone:
814.865.8868

E-mail:
pxa6@psu.edu

Amato's research has focused on marital quality, divorce, parent-child relationships and the long-term consequences of patental discord and divorce for children.
 

Craig Anderson Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychology
Iowa State University

Address:
W112 Lagomarcino Hall
Ames, IA 50011-3180

Phone:
515.294.3118

E-mail:
caa@iastate.edu

Web:
http://www.psychology.iastate.edu/~caa/...

Anderson’s main research interests are in social and personality psychology, with a strong emphasis on cognitive psychology. His studies include depression, loneliness, shyness and aggression. Most of his current research focuses on aggression and its relationship to media violence, particularly that in movies and video games.
 

Claudia Angelelli Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Spanish and Portugese
San Diego State University

Address:
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
5500 Campanile Drive
San Diego, CA 92182-1234

Phone:
619.594.1678

E-mail:
claudia.angelelli@sdsu.edu

Web:
http://angelelli.sdsu.edu...

Angelelli developed the first empirically driven language proficiency and interpreter readiness test. She serves on the Board of Directors of the American Translators Association and the American Translation Studies Association and as an advisor for the National Council of Interpreters in Healthcare and Hablamos Juntos.
 

Adrienne Asch Ph.D.
Professor
Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction
Yeshiva University

Address:
500 West 185th Street
New York, NY 10033

Phone:
212.960.5400

E-mail:
asch@yu.edu

Web:
http://www.wellesley.edu/ReproIssues/homepage.html...

Asch is the Henry R. Luce Professor in Biology, Ethics and the Politics of Human Reproduction at Wellesley College. She is currently on leave and is working at Yeshiva University in New York. Her work focuses on issues regarding human reproduction and the family. Areas of interest include abortion rights; the rights of women, minorities and the disabled; prenatal testing; the parent-child relationship; and assisted reproduction such as sperm and egg donations and surrogate motherhood.
 

Catherine Ayoub
Associate Professor of Education, Co-director
Risk and Prevention Program
Harvard Graduate School of Education

Address:
613 Larsen Hall, 711 Appian Way
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.496.1183

E-mail:
catherine_ayoub@gse.harvard.edu

Web:
http://hugse9.harvard.edu/gsedata/Resource_pkg.pro...

Catherine Ayoub is a developmental and licensed counseling psychologist with research and practice interests in the impact of childhood trauma across the life span, and the development and implementation of prevention and intervention systems to combat risk and promote resilience with emphasis on young children. Her present research centers on the developmental consequences and emotional adjustment of children who have experienced child maltreatment (including child sexual abuse and Munchausen by Proxy), chronic illness, difficult parental divorce, and witnessed domestic violence. Ayoub also holds an appointment at Harvard Medical School and is senior staff at the Law and Psychiatry Service at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she serves as a forensic mental health expert for children and adults involved with the legal system.
 

Robert Balfanz
Associate Research Scientist
Johns Hopkins University
Center for Social Organization of Schools

Address:
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:
410.516.8800

E-mail:
rbalfanz@csos.jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.csos.jhu.edu...

Balfanz's translates research findings into effective reforms for high-poverty secondary schools. He has published widely on secondary school reform, high school dropouts, and instructional interventions in high-poverty schools. Recent work includes "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with co-author Nettie Legters, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified. In addition, Balfanz is co-director of the Talent Development High School with Career Academies, a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores, and dropout rates.
 

Mary Jo Bane
Professor of Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University

Address:
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.496.9703

E-mail:
mary_jo_bane@harvard.edu

Web:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Mary_Jo_Bane...

Bane was Assistant Secretary for Children and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She also was Commissioner of the New York State Department of Social Services. She is the author of a number of books and articles on poverty, welfare, and families. She is currently doing research on the role of churches in poverty and welfare issues.
 

Rosalind Barnett
Executive Director
Community, Families & Work Program (CFWP)
Brandeis University

Address:
Brandeis University, Mailstop 079, 515 South St.
Waltham, MA 02454

Phone:
781.736.2287

E-mail:
rbarnett@brandeis.edu

Web:
http://www.brandeis.edu/centers/wsrc/scholars/Scho...

Barnett's focus includes: Work-family, gender, job stress—illness relationship, dual earner couples, alternative work schedules, after-school stress. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Women's Studies Research Center.
 

Elizabeth Bartholet
Professor of Law
Law School
Harvard University

Address:
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.3128

E-mail:
ebarthol@law.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/bartholet/bio.p...

Elizabeth Bartholet, an expert on civil rights and family law, is the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where she has taught since 1977. She served from 1968-1972 as staff counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., and then founded the Legal Action Center, a public interest firm in New York City focused on criminal justice and substance abuse issues. At Harvard she has, in recent years, specialized in family law issues with a particular focus on child welfare, adoption and reproductive technology. She also writes, lectures, and consults on these issues. In fall 2004 she launched a new program at Harvard called the Child Advocacy Program (CAP). She serves as CAP's Faculty Director and teaches the CAP law, policy and clinical courses.
 

Theodore Beauchaine Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology
University of WashingtonCenter on Human Development and Disability
University of Washington

Address:
Box 351525
Seattle, WA 98195-1525

Phone:
206.685.2734

E-mail:
tbeaucha@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/mrddrc/res_aff/be...

Beauchaine's research interests lie in examining the motivational and emotional substrates of psychopathology in children. He focuses on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, substance abuse, anxiety, and depression, and on environmental influences on regulation of emotion and on impulsivity. He's studied how children’s developing brains respond to incentive, mild punishment and social threat.
 

Jill Duerr Berrick Ph.D.
Professor
Child Welfare Research Center
University of California Berkeley School of Social Welfare

Address:
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720-4700

Phone:
510.643.7016

E-mail:
dberrick@berkeley.edu

Web:
http://socialwelfare.berkeley.edu/faculty/berrick....

Berrick researches child welfare services, including developmentally-sensitive services for very young children and children's experiences in out-of-home care. She has examined neighborhood-based foster care and ways to restructure child welfare systems. She emphasizes enlisting the voices of children and families to share their experiences.

 

Professor
University of California-Los Angeles
301.825.3914; bianchi@soc.ucla.edu

Bianchi's work chronicles parental investment in childrearing, unpaid work in the home and market work of U.S. men and women. Her fall 2011 article, "Changing Families, Changing Workplaces" documents the challenges contemporary families of all income levels face.  

 

David Bickham Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Center on Media and Child Health
Children’s Hospital Boston/Harvard Medical School

Address:
300 Longwood Avenue
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.355.2000

E-mail:
cmch@childrens.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.cmch.tv/about/memberProfile.asp?id=12...

Bickham’s research focuses on the changing effects of media throughout the course of children’s development. His studies include an examination of the effects of television rating systems on children’s viewing preferences, educational television’s ability to increase children’s literacy skills and violent television’s interference with peer relationships. Bickham's work includes a 2006 study that found an association between violent video games and maladjusted social behaviors.
 

Rebecca Bigler
Director, Professor
University of Texas at Austin
Gender and Racial Attitudes Lab

Address:
1 University Station A8000
Austin , TX 78712-0187

Phone:
512.471.6261

E-mail:
bigler@psy.utexas.edu

Web:
http://homepage.psy.utexas.edu/homepage/Group/Bigl...

The Gender and Racial Atittudies Lab conducts research on children’s intergroup attitudes, including social stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination. Its areas of study include the consequences of gender and racial attitudes for children’s development, how children’s intergroup attitudes affect conceptions of the self, factors that contribute to the formation of intergroup attitudes (e.g., stereotyping, prejudice, and discrimination), and mechanisms of gender and racial attitude change.
 

Sandra J. Bishop-Josef Ph.D.
Assistant Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale Univeristy

Address:
310 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511

Phone:
203.432.9935

E-mail:
sandra.bishop@yale.edu

Web:
www.yale.edu/bushcenter...

The center brings research-based knowledge of child development to the federal and state policy arenas in an effort to improve social policy affecting the lives of children and families in the United States.
 

Bruce Black M.D.
Director

Address:
372 Washington Street
Wellesley, MA 02481

Phone:
781.239.3550

Web:
http://www.wellpsych.com/...

Dr. Black's expertise is in psychopharmacology, mood and anxiety Disorders, and Attention Deficit Disorder. In the early 90's, Dr. Black did one of the first studies of Prozac for selective mutism, when he was a researcher at the National Institutes of Mental Health.
 

Warren Blumenfeld
Assistant Professor
Department of Curriculum and Instruction
Iowa State University

Address:
N128 Lagomarcino
Ames, IA 50011-3191

Phone:
515.294.5931

E-mail:
wblumen@iastate.edu

Web:
http://www2.hs.iastate.edu/database/faculty/direct...

Blumenfeld works on reducing bullying in schools, particularly for gay and lesbian students. He is also a member of the advisory board for Iowa State's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Student Services. His book, "Butler Matters: Judith Butler's Impact on Feminist and Queer Studies," asserts that sexual identity and racial roles assigned by society are basic to an understanding of gender and race. Blumenfeld has published four other books, all dealing with gay, lesbian, homophobia, diversity and social justice issues. He is currently working on two other books, one on cyber-bullying and the second investigating religious oppression and Christian privilege in the United States.
 

Kelly Botteron M.D.
Associate Professor
Psychiatry (child psychiatry)
Washington University in St. Louis

Address:
Campus Box 8134
One Brookings Drive
St. Louis, MO 63130

Phone:
314.747.6790

E-mail:
Botteronk@wustl.edu

Web:
http://www.psychiatry.wustl.edu/c/Faculty/FacultyD...

Dr. Botteron's research investigates structural brain differences in children with affective disorders and attention deficit disorder. The populations of interest in her research include major depression and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children and adolescents. Other areas of Clinical Interest: child and adolescent psychiatry, refractory mood disorders, early onset depression, mania, schizophrenia, obsessive compulsive disorder, Tourette's disorder and neuropsychiatry.
 

Carol Boyd
Director
University of Michigan
Institute for Research on Women and Gender

Address:
204 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.764.9537

E-mail:
caroboyd@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.umich.edu/~irwg/...

Boyd's focus is in the study of women and substance abuse. She has several NIH-funded projects, all of which examine the relationship of gender to drug seeking and drug abuse prevention. She examined the circumstances under which women begin to use heroin and crack, but has expanded her focus to include cigarettes, alcohol and prescription drugs. Currently, Boyd is studying gender differences in prescription drug abuse among secondary and college students.
 

Margaret Bridges
Research Director
Child Development
UC Berkeley

Address:
2140 Shattuck #705
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.9163

E-mail:
mbridges@berkeley.edu

Bridges is the director of Child Development Projects at PACE. She is the author of a study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers who found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The findings are found in: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide"
 

Cynthia Bulik Ph.D.
William R. and Jeanne H. Jordan Distinguished Professor of Eating Disorders
Eating Disorders Program
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill

Address:
10505 Neurosciences Hospital
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Phone:
919.843.1689

E-mail:
cbulik@med.unc.edu

Web:
http://www.psychiatry.unc.edu/directories/bulik.ht...

Bulik is the director of the UNC Eating Disorders Program, a comprehensive treatment program for individuals with anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related eating disorders. Her current research focuses on genetic and environmental factors that influence risk to eating disorders.
 

Brad Bushman Ph.D.
Professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
426 Thompson Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.615.6631

E-mail:
bbushman@umich.edu

Bushman’s research focuses on the causes and consequences of human aggression, particularly its relationship to violent media, self-esteem and narcissism. Bushman is researching video game violence under a grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).
 

Eric Caine M.D.
Professor and Director
Psychiatry, Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide
University of Rochester

Address:
300 Crittendon Blvd. 14642
RM 1-9021H
Rochester, NY 14642

Phone:
585.275.3574

E-mail:
eric_caine@urmc.rochester.edu

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/smd/psych/fac_staff/...

Dr. Caine's ongoing research includes: risk factors for suicide, attempted suicide and violence, plus research in suicide prevention.
 

Rosemary Chalk
Director
Board on Children, Youth and Families
The National Academies

Address:
500 Fifth St. N.W., 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.334.1935

E-mail:
rchalk@nas.edu

Web:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bocyf/...

Created by the National Academies in 1993, the nonpartisan board addresses policy-relevant issues involving the health and development of children, youth and families and convenes experts to analyze and evaluate research.
 

Claude M. Chemtob Ph.D.
Visiting Clinical Professor, Psychology and Pediatrics
Psychiatry and Pediatrics
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Address:
One Gustave L. Levy Place
Box 1230
New York, NY 10029

Phone:
808.780.4443

E-mail:
claude.chemtob@mssm.edu

Web:
http://www.directory.mssm.edu/faculty...

Chemtob is a clinical psychologist and researcher specializing in trauma in adults and children. He pioneered the use of community-based interventions following disasters and terrorist attacks as well as information processing approaches to understanding trauma and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Chemtob recently served as a consultant to the National Advisory Committee on Children and Terrorism; he was also a consultant to the Presidential Commission of the French Republic that established France’s post-terrorism recovery system. His current research and publications focus on public health approaches to the identification and treatment of children in the wake of terrorism, natural disasters and domestic violence. Chemtob is the principal investigator of a National Institute of Mental Health-funded collaborative between Mount Sinai and JBFCS aimed at translating evidence-based approaches to child trauma assessment and intervention to community service settings. He also directs several child recovery projects in New York City, including a program providing long-term services to the bereaved children of 9/11 and the Ground Zero Infant and Toddlers screening and treatment initiative. The treatment methods developed in the latter initiative have been disseminated to Jerusalem, Netanya and Sderot, Israel; for the past four years he has also served as the UJA Federation’s adviser on its trauma initiatives and has helped guide the development of the Israel Trauma Coalition. He received his doctorate at the University of Michigan in 1980.
 

Andrew Cherlin Ph.D.
Griswold Professor of Public Policy
Department of Sociology
Johns Hopkins University

Address:
Mergenthaler Hall/3400 Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:
410.516.2370

E-mail:
cherlin@jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.soc.jhu.edu/people/cherlin/...

Cherlin's research focus is the sociology of the family and public policy, particularly in the area of divorce and remarriage. He is the principal investigator of an ongoing study of the consequences of a 1996 welfare reform law for parents and children. The intensive study assesses the well-being of low-income children and families in Boston, Chicago and San Antonio after welfare reform.
 

Rebecca Clark
Program Official
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Building 31, Room 2A32, MSC 2425
31 Center Drive
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.5133

E-mail:
rclark@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/about/about.cfm...

NICHD is part of the National Institutes of Health. It sponsors research on development before and after birth; maternal, child and family health; reproductive biology and population issues; and medical rehabilitation.
 

Marylene Cloitre Ph.D.
Director
Institute of Trauma and Stress
NYU Child Study Center

Address:
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016

Phone:
212.263.6622

E-mail:
marylene.cloitre@med.nyu.edu

Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/cloitre.html...

Cloitre is the Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She has published widely in the area of traumatic stress and has been awarded several grants from the National Institute of Health and other agencies to assess and intervene in the psychological and social effects of trauma in children and adults.
 

Patrick Cody
NCTSN Primary Media Contact
National Center for Child Traumatic Stress

Address:
National Resource Center for Child Traumatic Stress - Duke University
905 W. Main St., Suite 23-D
Durham, NC 27701

Phone:
202.965.0580

E-mail:
codycom@earthlink.net

Web:
http://www.NCTSNet.org...

Treatment centers across the U.S. are part of a coalition called the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). The Network is funded by the Center for Mental Health Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As a joint program of UCLA and Duke University, the network focuses on developmental understanding of child traumatic stress and public mental health strategies to reach the large population of children, families, and communities affected by traumatic events.
 

Rebecca Collins Ph.D.
Behavioral Scientist
RAND Corporation

Address:
1700 Main St.
Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138

Phone:
310.393.0411, Ext. 7247

E-mail:
collins@rand.org

Web:
http://www.rand.org/news/experts/bios/expert_colli...

Collins studies health risk behavior. She examines associations between exposure to sexual content on television and adolescent sexual attitudes and behavior, the effects of alcohol advertising on underage drinking and substance use and sexual risk behavior of young adults of people with HIV.
 

Scott Coltrane Ph.D.
Professor/Associate Director
Center for Family Studies
University of California, Riverside

Address:
1206 Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521

Phone:
951.827.5444

E-mail:
coltrane@ucr.edu

Web:
http://www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/pub/pu...

Coltrane is a co-principal investigator of a five-year National Institute of Health grant to study Latino families. His research focuses on family responses to economic stress, family strengths, fatherhood, gender relations and media images of masculinity.
 

Stephanie Coontz
Professor of History and Family Studies
The Evergreen State College

Address:
808 N. Rogers St.
Olympia, WA 98505

Phone:
360.352.8117 or 360 867.6

E-mail:
coontzs@evergreen.edu

Web:
http://academic.evergreen.edu/c/coontzs/home.htm...

Coontz teaches history and family studies and is the director of research and public education for the Council on Contemporary Families, which she chaired from 2001-04. Her books include "The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap" (Basic Books, new edition 2000) and "The Way We Really Are: Coming to Terms with America's Changing Families" (Basic Books, 1997).
 

David Corwin M.D.
Professor and Division Chief
Child Protection and Family Health Division
Primary Children's Center for Safe and Healthy Families

Address:
University of Utah
100 North Medical Drive
Salt Lake City, UT 84113

Phone:
801.588.3650

E-mail:
david.corwin@ihc.com

Web:
http://www.ihc.com/xp/ihc/primary/docsclinics/clin...

Dr. Corwin is board certified in psychiatry, child psychiatry and forensic psychiatry. He directed a treatment program for sexually abused children and their families. He founded and chaired the Los Angeles Task Force on Interviewing Sexually Abused Children. He evaluates and reviews cases involving concerns about child sexual abuse, child custody and visitation, psychological trauma, and professional practice in these areas.
 

Philip A. Cowan
Professor of Psychology and Director
Institute of Human Development
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
1123 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.643.6095

E-mail:
pcowan@berkeley.edu

Web:
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/pcowan.htm...

Cowan's research and clinical interests center on family systems and children's development. He studies how variations in children's cognitive, social and personality development and in their adaptation to school can be understood in the context of the family. With Carolyn Pape Cowan, he examined how five domains of family life combine to predict, and sometimes affect, the ability of young children to deal with the academic and social challenges of elementary and high school: (1) parents' experiences in their families of origin; (2) parents' and children's personality characteristics; (3) the parents' marital relationship quality; (4) the way in which parents and children interact; and (5) parents' outside the family-work lives and children's outside the family relationship.
 

Carolyn Pape Cowan
Researcher
Institute of Human Development
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
2211 Tolman
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.643.5608

E-mail:
ccowan@uclink4.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://ihd.berkeley.edu/ccowan.htm...

Cowan's work focuses on conducting studies and systematically evaluating interventions designed to better understand how parents’ and children’s well-being and distress can be understood and addressed in a family systems framework. Cowan is co-director of two ongoing intervention studies of families making major family transitions - the Becoming a Family Project, with couples making the transition to first-time parenthood, and the Schoolchildren and Their Families Project, with couples whose first child is making the transition to elementary school.
 

Michael Cunningham
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
Tulane University

Address:
3050 Percival Stern Hall
New Orleans, LA 70118

Phone:
504.862.3308

E-mail:
mcunnin1@tulane.edu

Web:
http://pandora.tcs.tulane.edu/psych/facultyPages/c...

Professor Cunningham's primary research interests include examining adolescent development in diverse contexts. Specifically, he examines resilience and vulnerability in African American children and adolescents.
 

William Damon Ph.D.
Professor & Director
Center on Adolescence
Stanford University

Address:
Cypress Hall, Bldg. C
Stanford, CA 94305-4145

Phone:
650.725.8205

E-mail:
wdamon@stanford.edu

Web:
http://www.stanford.edu/group/adolescent.ctr/newin...

William Damon has written several books on moral development throughout the lifespan, and he has pioneered methods of character education for adolescents and young adults. He presently is conducting research on how today's young acquire a sense of purpose.
 

Alan DeCherney M.D.
Professor and Physician
Obstetrics and Gynecology, General Gynocology Practice
UCLA

Address:
10833 Le Conte Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone:
310.794.1884

E-mail:
adecherney@mednet.ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.healthcare.ucla.edu/institution/physici...

Dr. DeCherney's clinical interests include: endometriosis, infertility and reproductive endocrinology
 

Diane DePanfilis Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Social Work/Co-Director
Baltimore Center for Families
Ruth Young Center for Families & Children

Address:
525 W. Redwood St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.706.3609 work or 410

E-mail:
ddepanfilis@ssw.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.family.umaryland.edu...

Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., is an associate professor at the University of Maryland School of Social Work and co-director of the Center for Families, an interdisciplinary center that promotes safety, health and well-being for children, families and communities. She has 30 years of experience in the child maltreatment field as a caseworker, supervisor, program manager, national trainer, consultant and researcher. She has presented at numerous conferences and workshops. DePanfilis is currently leading a university research team that is evaluating the effect of early intervention to prevent child neglect and substance abuse. She is also collaborating with two Maryland Department of Social Services agencies in their evaluation of child welfare service outcomes. She is co-editor of the “Handbook for Child Protection Practice” and is a past president of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC). She has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Villa Maria College in Erie, Pa., a master’s in social work from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Maryland, Baltimore.
 

Angela Diaz M.D.
Jean C. and James W. Crystal Professor of Pediatrics
Director, Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Address:
320 East 94th St., Second Floor
New York, NY 10128

Phone:
212.423.2900

E-mail:
angela.diaz@msnyhealth.org

Web:
http://www.mountsinai.org/msh/msh_program.jsp?url=...

Diaz is the director of Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. She is also director of Health Services for the Children’s Aid Society in New York City and is active in adolescent health advocacy and policy in the United States. Dr. Diaz's practice and policy work is focused on providing comprehensive mental and primary health services to trauma-affected adolescents. She has published numerous articles on topics such as child and adolescent sexual abuse, adolescents' access to health care and health services for immigrants.
 

Thomas Dishion Ph.D.
Director of Research
Child and Family Center
University of Oregon

Address:
195 West 12th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97401

Phone:
541.346.3620

E-mail:
tomd@darkwing.uoregon.edu

Web:
http://cfc.uoregon.edu...

Dishion's interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in children and adolescents, as well as designing effective interventions and prevention programs. He is also a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Oregon. He has published a book for parents on family management, and two books for professionals working with troubled children and their families.
 

Kenneth A. Dodge Ph.D.
Director
Center for Child and Family Policy
Duke University

Address:
Box 90545
302 Towerview Drive
Durham, NC 27708-0545

Phone:
919.613.9334

E-mail:
dodge@duke.edu

Web:
http://www.pubpol.duke.edu/centers/child...

Dodge, the William McDougall Professor of Public Policy Studies, directs the center, which aims to solve problems facing children by bringing together policy makers, practitioners and scholars from many disciplines. It's addressing issues of early childhood adversity, education policy reform and youth violence and problem behaviors. Dodge was a principal investigator on the Fast Track project, a federally funded longitudinal study of youth from age 8 to young adulthood to identify early risk factors for adolescent disorders, particularly involvement in violence and antisocial behavior. His other interests include education policy, child maltreatment and the science of child and adolescent development.
 

Elisabeth H. Donahue
Associate Editor of The Future of Children Journal
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University

Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013

Phone:
609.258.0340

E-mail:
edonahue@Princeton.edu

Web:
http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qna...

Donahue worked for the National Women’s Law Center, focusing on child support, welfare reform and child care issues. She has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses on child support, welfare reform, childcare, children’s health, family policy and social policy financing.
 

Howard Dubowitz M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Center for Child Protection
University of Maryland School of Medicine

Address:
22 South Greene St.
Baltimore, MD 21201

Phone:
410.328.8919 (media) or 4

E-mail:
hdubowitz@peds.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.umm.edu/doctors/howard__dubowitz.html...

Special Interests: Failure to Thrive; General Pediatrics; Child Abuse and Neglect. Co-wrote "Handbook for Child Protection Practice" (Sage Publications, 2004) and "Neglected Children: Research, Practice, and Policy" (Sage Publications, 1999.)
 

Kathryn Edin Ph.D.
Professor of Public Policy and Management
Kennedy School
Harvard University

Address:
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 19104

Phone:
617.495.2067

E-mail:
kathy_edin@ksg.harvard.edu

Web:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/kathryn_edin...

Edin's research focuses on urban poverty and family life, social welfare, public housing, child support and nonmarital childbearing. Her most recent publication (with Paula England), Unmarried Couples with Children, is an analysis of a four-year study of 50 unmarried couples who shared a birth in 2000. Previous publications include the results of a six-year ethnographic study in eight Philadelphia neighborhoods, Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage (with Maria J. Kefalas), and Making Ends Meet: How Low Income Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low Wage Work (with Laura Lein). Her next book is tentatively titled Marginal Men: Fatherhood in the Lives of Low Income Unmarried Men (with Timothy Nelson and Laura Lein). Current projects include a study nested within the interim evaluation of the Moving to Opportunity Experiment, an evaluation of the Gautreaux Two housing mobility program in Chicago, and Investing in Enduring Resources with the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a study of EITC allocation among low-income households in Boston and Central Illinois.
 

Jeffrey L. Edleson Ph.D.
Director
Minnesota Center Against Violence & Abuse
University of Minnesota

Address:
105 Peters Hall, 1404 Gortner Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108

Phone:
612.624.8795

E-mail:
jedleson@umn.edu

Web:
http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jedleson/; http://www.minca...

Edleson is a professor in the University Of Minnesota School Of Social Work, where he directs the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse. He has published extensively on domestic violence, group work and program evaluation. Edleson has conducted intervention research at the Domestic Abuse Project in Minneapolis for more than 16 years. He has provided technical assistance to domestic violence programs and research projects across North America as well as in Germany, Australia, Israel, Cyprus, Korea and Singapore. He was a member of the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Violence Against Women and is a consultant to the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 

David Elkind
Professor and Chair
Child Development
Tufts University

Address:
Eliot Pearson Center
105 College Ave.
Medford, MA 02155

Phone:
617.627.3455

E-mail:
david.elkind@tufts.edu

Web:
http://ase.tufts.edu/faculty-guide/faculty.asp?id=...

Elkind's expertise includes: cognitive and social development in children and adolescents; causes and effects of stress and anxiety on children, youth and families. He is a consultant to state education departments, clinics, mental health centers, government agencies and private foundations. Elkind co-hosted the Lifetime television series, "Kids These Days." He is currently working on a new book, tentatively titled "No Time for Play: The Over-Programmed Child."
 

Robert E. Emery Ph.D.
Professor
Center for Children, Family and the Law
University of Virginia

Address:
102 Gilmer Hall, Box 400400
Charlottesville, VA 22904

Phone:
434.924.0671

E-mail:
ree@virginia.edu

Web:
http://www.virginia.edu/~ccfl...

The center researches trends in marriage and family life. Emery's research focuses on family conflict, divorce, family violence, legal and policy issues, divorce mediation, and the consequences of parental conflict on children Publications include "Marriage, Divorce, and Children's Readjustment" (1998), "Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody, and Mediation" (1994) and "The Truth About Children and Divorce" (2004).
 

Martha Farrell Erickson Ph.D.
Senior Fellow
University of Minnesota
Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC)

Address:
University Gateway, Suite 270A
200 Oak Street
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone:
612.625.7849

E-mail:
mferick@umn.edu

Web:
http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/...

Erickson is a senior fellow with the Consortium, co-chairing the Presidential Initiative on Children, Youth & Families and spearheading the development of the Center of Excellence in Children's Mental Health. She was formerly the director of the Consortium. She also is adjunct professor in both the Institute of Child Development and the Department of Family Social Science. A developmental psychologist, she specializes in parent-child attachment, child abuse prevention, and community-based approaches to strengthen families.
 

Gabriel Escobar M.D.
Research Scientist, Director/Staff Pediatrician
Division of Research, Perinatal Unit
Kaiser Permanente

Address:
3505 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94611

Phone:
510.891.3502

E-mail:
gabriel.escobar@kp.org

Web:
http://www.dor.kaiser.org/staff/investigators/esco...

Dr. Escobar's research interests include: the outcome of neonatal intensive care, the epidemiology of neonatal and perinatal care in general, severity of illness scoring, medical informatics, quantification of care processes in obstetrics, and electronic decision support for human error reduction.
 

Armando Favazza M.D.
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
University of Missouri - Columbia

Address:
One Hospital Drive
Columbia, MO 65212

Phone:
573.882.8913

E-mail:
FavazzaA@health.missouri.edu

Web:
http://www.umcpsychiatry.com/Faculty/favazza.htm...

Favazza has done extensive research on self-mutilation and skin-cutting. He is a Fellow of both the American Psychiatric Association and the American College of Psychiatrists, and is a co-founder of the Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture.
 

Ronald Ferguson
Lecturer in Public Policy
Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government

Address:
Taubman-474
79 John F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.1104

E-mail:
ronald_ferguson@harvard.edu

Web:
http://ksgfaculty.harvard.edu/Ronald_Ferguson...

Ronald F. Ferguson, is an economist and senior research associate at Harvard's Weiner Center for Social Policy. Much of his research since the mid-1990s has focused on racial achievement gaps, and as appeared in many publications, books and scholarly journals. He also works with school districts on closing achievement gaps. He is the creator and director of the Tripod Project for School Improvement and is also the faculty chair and director of the Achievement Gap Initiative at Harvard University. Ferguson earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. from MIT, both in economics.
 

David Finkelhor Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology and Director
Crimes Against Children Research Center
University of New Hampshire

Address:
20 College Rd., 126 Horton Social Sciences Center
Durham, NH 03824

Phone:
603.862.2761

E-mail:
david.finkelhor@unh.edu

Web:
http://www.unh.edu/frl/finkelhor/...

Finkelhor researches child victimization, child maltreatment and family violence. He was one of the first people to develop estimates about the prevalence and characteristics of child sexual abuse. His recent work has focused on understanding how the nature and impact of crime and violence change as children mature.
 

Norman Fost M.D.
Director
Program in Medical Ethics
University of Wisconsin

Address:
600 Highland Avenue
H4/452 Clinical Science Center
Madison, WI 53792-4108

Phone:
608.263.8562

E-mail:
ncfost@facstaff.wisc.edu

Web:
http://www.medsch.wisc.edu/adminmed/faculty/nfost....

Fost is a professor of pediatrics and the former chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics National Committee on Bioethics. His current research interests include regulation of human subjects research and the use of so-called "enhancing" medical technologies such as growth hormone and anabolic steroids. He also has spoken on the issue of a federal law that allows doctors to use approved drugs and devices for unapproved procedures and patients, including kids.
 

Tom Fricke Ph.D.
Associate Prof. of Anthropology; Senior Associate
Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life
University of Michigan

Address:
426 Thompson St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48106

Phone:
734.763.1500

E-mail:
tomf@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.ethno.isr.umich.edu/index.html...

Fricke is an associate professor of anthropology and a senior associate research scientist at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. He is also director of the Center for the Ethnography of Everyday Life, an Alfred P. Sloan Center for the study of working families. Fricke’s research has focused on social transformations in family and work in a variety of settings, including Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan and the United States. He is the author of numerous papers on topics ranging from fieldwork methods through demography to the cultural contexts of family change. Recent publications include “Himalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes” (Columbia University, 1994) and "Home Work" in the October 1998 Anthropology Newsletter. His most recent ethnographic research on rural families in the Great Plains has been featured in articles appearing in the Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education and Discover Magazine. His 1984 Ph.D. in anthropology is from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
 

Bruce Fuller
Associate Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of California

Address:
Tolman Hall 3659
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.0709

E-mail:
B_FULLER@UCLINK4.Berkeley.EDU

Web:
http://gse.berkeley.edu/faculty/BFuller/BFuller.ht...

Fuller co-authored a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers that found that middle-class children -- not just kids from the poorest families -- receive a boost in language and math skills from preschool. The study is called: "How much is too much? The Influence of Preschool Centers on Children's Development Nationwide"
 

Frank Furstenberg Ph.D.
Chair, Zellerbach Family Professor of Sociology
Network on Transitions to Adulthood
University of Pennsylvania

Address:
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.898.6718

E-mail:
fff@pop.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.pop.upenn.edu/transad/about/index.htm...

The network examines the changing nature of early adulthood and the policies, programs and institutions that support young people as they move into adulthood. Funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the network documents cultural and social shifts and explores how families, government and social institutions shape the course of young adults’ development. Furstenberg's current research focuses on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross national research on children's well-being and urban education. His most recent book is "Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods." His previous books and articles center on children, youth, families and the public.
 

Vivian Gadsden
Director
National Center on Fathers and Family (NCOFF)
University of Pennsylvania

Address:
3700 Walnut St., Box 58
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.573.5500

E-mail:
vgadsden@gse.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu/...

An interdisciplinary policy research center, NCOFF is dedicated to research and practice that expands the knowledge base on father involvement and family development, and that informs policy designed to improve the well-being of children.
 

Richard Gallagher
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
NYU Child Study Center

Address:
215 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY 10016

Phone:
212.263.6622

E-mail:
richard.gallagher@med.nyu.edu

Web:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/aboutus/gallagher.html...

Gallagher designs and evaluates parent education programs. Gallagher is the leader of the Special Interest Group in Child and School-Related Issues of the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy. He also served as Co-Investigator on a treatment development grant from the National Institute of Mental Health for an organizational skills intervention for ADD/ADHD children and continues to investigate the neuropsychological profile of childhood ADHD.
 

James Garbarino Ph.D.
Maude C. Clark Chair in Humanistic Psychology; Professor
Psychology
Loyola University Chicago

Address:
6525 N. Sheridan Road
628 Damen Hall
Chicago, IL 60626

Phone:
773.508.3017

E-mail:
jgarbar@luc.edu

Web:
http://www.luc.edu/psychology/psyfaculty/Garbarino...

Garbarino researches depression in children, child abuse, psychological maltreatment, community dimensions of child maltreatment and violence prevention.
 

Richard J. Gelles Ph.D.
Dean, Director
Center for Children's Policy, Practice and Research
University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work

Address:
3701 Locust Walk, Caster Building
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.898.5541

E-mail:
gelles@sp2.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.sp2.upenn.edu/people/faculty/gelles/...

Dean Gelles is an expert on family violence, child abuse and neglect, and family preservation. He advised legislators in drafting the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, aimed at moving children out of foster care more quickly and, if necessary, terminating parents' custodial rights. Gelles directs the research center, which brings together scholars and professionals in law, medicine and social work to generate policies and practices for enhancing children’s welfare and protecting their rights. He also co-directs the Field Center for Children's Policy Practice and Research.
 

Arline T. Geronimus
Research Professor
Population Studies Center
University of Michigan

Phone:
734.936.0929

E-mail:
arline@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/profile.html?I...

Dr. Geronimus’ research interests include: cultural influences on population variation in family structure and age-at-first birth; the effects of poverty, institutionalized discrimination, and residential areas on health; the strategies used by marginalized communities to mitigate the harmful health effects of poverty and structural racism; and the perturbations public policies sometimes cause in these autonomous protections.
 

William Gibbons M.D.
President, Professor
Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)

Address:
9000 Airline Highway Suite 670
Baton Rouge, LA 70815-4114

Phone:
225.926.6886

Web:
http://www.sart.org/index.html...

Dr. Gibbons is president of SART, which aims to promote and advance the standards for the practice of assisted reproductive technology. Dr. Gibbons also practices at A Woman's Center For Reproductive Medicine, which specializes in the treatment of infertility. His research interests include pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and other methods to screen embryos for genetic disease. He has been widely quoted on reproductive issues such as infertility, egg donation, sex selection, in vitro fertilization and stem cell research.
 

Walter Gilliam
Assistant Professor
Child Study Center
Yale University

Address:
Yale University
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.785.3384

E-mail:
walter.gilliam@yale.edu

Web:
http://myprofile.cos.com/WGilliam...

Gilliam’s major areas of interest are: early childhood development and assessment; preschool mental health consultation; preschool and early intervention effectiveness research; and child social policy. The mission of the Child Study Center is to understand children's mental health problems and prevent or alleviate the symptoms of patients who suffer from them.
 

Mark Goldstein M.D.
Chief
Adolescent Medicine, Pediatrics
Massachusetts General Hospital

Address:
Adolescent Div, Yawkey 6C
55 Fruit St
Boston, MA 02114

Phone:
617.726.2730

E-mail:
mgoldstein@partners.org

Web:
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/MGHfc/MGHfC_medspec_ado...

Dr. Goldstein is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Goldstein’s areas of interest include eating disorders, sexually transmitted disease, substance abuse, health insurance, gynecology and male health.
 

Madelyn Gould Ph.D.
Professor in Clinical Public Health
Epidemiology
Columbia University

Address:
1051 Riverside Dr, Annex 216
New York, NY

Phone:
212.543.5329

E-mail:
msg5@columbia.edu

Web:
http://chaos.cpmc.columbia.edu/sphdir/pers.asp?ID=...

Gould is also a research scientist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. Gould has worked on projects that examine risk factors for teenage suicide, various aspects of cluster suicides, the impact of the media on suicide, the effect of suicide on fellow students, and the utility of telephone crisis services for teenagers. A study she worked on found that simply asking troubled students about any suicidal impulses appears to ease their distress and might make some of them less likely to try killing themselves.
 

Betsy McAlister Groves LICSW
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, and Director
Child Witness to Violence Project
Division of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

Address:
91 East Concord St., Fifth Floor
Boston, MA 02118

Phone:
617.414.4244

E-mail:
betsy.groves@bmc.org

Web:
http://www.bmc.org/pediatrics/special/CWTV/overvie...

Betsy McAlister Groves is the author of “Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project” (Beacon Press, 2003), based on her experience as the founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center. She also is an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and a past fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at Harvard University. She trains police, social workers, health providers, teachers, judges and court personnel on a range of topics associated with children and violence. Groves serves on the Massachusetts Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. In addition, she’s been a consultant to the Massachusetts Department of Social Services, the Massachusetts Judicial Institute, the producers of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” and the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges. A graduate of the College of William and Mary, Groves received her master’s degree in social work from Boston University.
 

Diane Halpern Ph.D.
Director
Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children
Claremont McKenna College

Address:
890 Columbia Berger Institute
Claremont, CA 91711

Phone:
909.607.9647

E-mail:
diane.halpern@claremontmckenna.edu

Web:
http://berger.claremontmckenna.edu/...

The Berger Institute offers information about a wide range of work and family issues, including the effects of changing demographics and diversity on work-family balance, the business case for family-friendly workplaces, poverty issues for working families, and the relationships among stress, health and child development. also see: http://academic.claremontmckenna.edu/faculty/profile.asp?Fac=302
 

Neal Halsey
Professor and Director
International Health/Disease Prevention and Control, Institute for Vaccine Safety
Johns Hopkins University

Address:
Wolfe St W5041
Baltimore, MD 21205

Phone:
410.955.6964

E-mail:
nhalsey@jhsph.edu

Web:
http://faculty.jhsph.edu/?F=Neal&L=Halsey...

Halsey's primary research is toward the prevention of infectious diseases with the safest vaccines possible. He has conducted or participated in epidemiological studies of such vaccine-preventable diseases as hepatitis B and hepatitis A. The control of measles has been a particular focus of interest.
 

Darnell F. Hawkins Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
African-American Studies
University of Illinois at Chicago

Address:
601 S. Morgan St., Room 1223
Chicago, IL 60607

Phone:
312.996.2996

E-mail:
dfhawk@uic.edu

Web:
www.uic.edu/depts/soci...

Hawkins is professor emeritus of African-American studies, sociology and criminal justice. He conducts research on racial and ethnic differences in rates of criminal involvement and criminal justice system processing. Hawkins served on a National Academy of Sciences panel on juvenile crime and justice; he also edited “Our Children, Their Children: Confronting Race and Ethnic Differences in American Criminal Justice” (University of Chicago Press, 2004).
 

Jane Healy Ph.D.

Address:
4266 Columbine Dr
Vail, CO 81657

Phone:
home: 970.476.9351

E-mail:
janetomh@vail.net

Healy is an educational psychologist and author of "Failure to Connect: How Computers Affect Our Children's Minds - for Better and Worse," (Simon & Schuster, 1998); "Your Child's Growing Mind: A Guide to Learning and Brain Development from Birth to Adolescence," (Doubleday, 1994); and "Endangered Minds: Why Our Children Don't Think," (Touchstone, 1990).
 

Thomas Hertz Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Economics
Department of Economics
American University

Address:
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016

Phone:
202.885.2756

E-mail:
hertz@american.edu

Web:
http://www.american.edu/academic.depts/cas/econ/...

Hertz's areas of interests include poverty, minimum wage, race and gender-based wage differentials and wealth gaps, and the process of intergenerational transmission of economic status. His 2006 report, “Understanding Mobility in America,” studied inequalities in the economic mobility of black and white families. The report found that education, race, health and state of residence are four key channels by which economic status is transmitted from parent to child.
 

David Herzog M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychiatry
Harvard Eating Disorders Center
Harvard Medical School

Address:
55 Fruit Street
YAW 6900
Boston, MA 02114

Phone:
617.726.8470

E-mail:
info@hedc.org

Web:
http://www.hedc.org/...

The center is an interdisciplinary community of scholars dedicated to cutting-edge research, education, and public discourse in the field of eating disorders. Dr. Herzog established the center to expand knowledge about eating disorders, their detection, treatment and prevention.
 

Ruth-Arlene Howe MSW
Professor
Boston College Law School

Address:
Law School
EW322
Boston, MA

Phone:
617.552.4377

E-mail:
howeru@bc.edu

Web:
http://www.bc.edu/schools/law/fac-staff/deans-facu...

Howe has written extensively regarding family law, foster care, adoption and child abuse and neglect. She was a member of the Board of Advisors for the 2002 PBS television film Outside Looking In: Transracial Adoption in America, and she has been a member of the Study Group on Intercountry Adoption since 1990.
 

Kathy Hudson
Director
Genetics and Public Policy Center
Johns Hopkins University

Address:
1717 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 530
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.663.5971

E-mail:
khudson5@jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.dnapolicy.org/about/staff.jhtml.html...

Hudson is the founder of the Genetics and Public Policy Center and is an Associate Professor in the Berman Bioethics Institute, Institute of Genetic Medicine, and the Department of Pediatrics at The Johns Hopkins University. Hudson founded the Center to focus exclusively on public policy issues raised by advances in human genetics. Her special interests include the scientific, legal, ethical and social issues related to human reproductive genetic technologies, genetic testing, gene transfer and human cloning.
 

David Huffaker
Doctoral Student
Media, Technology and Society
Northwestern University

Address:
1444 W. Berwyn Ave.
Chicago, IL 60640

Phone:
202.550.4559

E-mail:
d-huffaker@northwestern.edu

Web:
http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/gradstudents/huffa...

David Huffaker is a doctoral candidate in the media, technology and society program at Northwestern University. Huffaker researches youth and technology, focusing on the development of online youth communities, including blogs, and the design of educational technology. He has a master’s degree in communication, culture and technology from Georgetown University.
 

Aletha Huston Ph.D.
Priscilla Pond Flawn Regents Professor in Child Development
Human Ecology
University of Texas at Austin

Address:
1 University Station A2700
SEA 2.444
Austin, TX 78712

Phone:
512.471.0753

E-mail:
achuston@mail.utexas.edu

Web:
http://www.utexas.edu...

 

 

Henry Jenkins Ph.D.
Professor and Director
Comparative Media Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Address:
77 Massachusetts Ave., Room 14N-437
Cambridge, MA 02139

Phone:
617.253.3068

E-mail:
henry3@MIT.EDU

Web:
http://web.mit.edu/lit/www/faculty/jenkins.html ...

Henry Jenkins, Ph.D., is Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. He has written or edited nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture, including “Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture” (Routledge, 1992), “Hop on Pop: The Politics and Pleasures of Popular Culture” (Duke, 2003) and “From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Gender and Computer Games” (MIT, 1998). Jenkins writes monthly columns on media and cultural change for Technology Review online and Computer Games magazine. He is one of the principal investigators for the Education Arcade, a consortium of educators and business leaders working to promote the educational use of computer and video games. He was also a principal investigator in a collaboration with Initiative Media designed to monitor audience response to the Fox television show "American Idol,” with an eye towards developing new approaches to audience measurement. He is currently completing a book, “Convergence Culture,” which deals with the shifting relations of media producers and consumers in an age of media change. He has a master of art degree in communication studies from the University of Iowa and a doctorate in communication arts from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Detailed information about Jenkins and his specific research interests is available at http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/.
 

Craig Johnson Ph.D.
Founder and Director
Eating Disorders Program
Laureate Eating Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital

Address:
6655 South Yale Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74136

Phone:
918.491.5600

Web:
http://eatingdisorders.laureate.com...

Johnson is the founder and director of the eating disorders program at Laureate Psychiatric Clinic and Hospital. He is a professor of clinical psychology at the University of Tulsa, associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Oklahoma Medical School and is part president of the National Eating Disorders Association.
 

Russell Jones Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
Virginia Tech University

Address:
4088-A Derring Hall
Blacksburg, VA 24060

Phone:
540.231.5934

E-mail:
rtjones@vt.edu

Web:
http://www.psyc.vt.edu/?p=faculty&f=rtjones...

Jones and his team have studied the influence of major technological and natural disasters on children's functioning for the past 20 years. He recently completed grants assessing the impact of residential fire on children and their parents, and on injured and non-injured children following fire-related trauma. He is currently spearheading a project in conjunction with the Yale Child Study Center designed to treat children following residential fire.
 

Brenda Jones Harden Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Institute for Child Study
University of Maryland

Address:
3304 Benjamin Bldg
College Park, MD 20740

Phone:
301.405.2580

E-mail:
bj34@umail.umd.edu

Web:
http://www.education.umd.edu/EDHD/...

Brenda Jones Harden is an associate professor in the University of Maryland’s Institute for Child Study/Department of Human Development. She also directs Advocates for Children, one of the College Park Scholars’ 12 special living-learning programs for academically talented first- and second-year students. Trained as a social worker and psychologist, Jones Harden has devoted her career to practice and research relevant to children at environmental risk. Much of her work has centered on those in the child welfare system, children exposed to violence and children prenatally exposed to drugs. She has developed and evaluated interventions, including a Head Start violence prevention initiative and an Early Head Start infant mental health initiative. Jones Harden is particularly interested in the evaluation of home visiting and early intervention programs, and in using research to inform policy and practice. Her four federal research grants include the current Early Head Start initiative and another on preschool children in foster care. She has contributed to numerous scholarly journals and is the author of “Infants in the Child Welfare System” (Zero to Three, forthcoming) and co-author of “Beyond Common Sense: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being and the Evidence for Policy Reform” (Transaction, 2005). In 2000-2001, Jones Harden had a Society for Research in Child Development fellowship with the federal Administration for Children, Youth and Families. She earned a master’s degree in social work at New York University and a Ph.D. in developmental-clinical psychology at Yale University. While at Yale, she studied child development and social policy as a Bush Fellow.
 

Jerome Kagan Ph.D.
Professor
Psychology
Harvard University

Address:
33 Kirkland St, Room 1514
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.3870

E-mail:
jk@wjh.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.harvard.edu...

Kagan's research, on the cognitive and emotional development of a child during the first decade of life, focuses on the origins of temperament. Kagan’s research indicates that shyness and other temperamental differences in adults and children have both environmental and genetic influences.
 

Ariel Kalil Ph.D.
Associate professor, developmental psychologist
Harris School of Public Policy Studies
University of Chicago

Address:
1155 E. 60th St.
Suite 110
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone:
773.834.2090

E-mail:
a-kalil@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://harrisschool.uchicago.edu/faculty/web-pages...

Kalil, a developmental psychologist, studies how economic conditions affect child and family functioning. Her projects have examined how transitions from welfare to work affect mothers and children, barriers to employment for welfare recipients, and family process and child development in female-headed, teenage-parent and cohabiting-couple households. She has had a William T. Grant Faculty Scholars Award and is in the Foundation for Child Development's Changing Faces of America's Children Young Scholars Program.
 

Alan Kazdin Ph.D.
John M. Musser Professor of Psychology and Director
Yale Child Conduct Clinic
Yale University

Address:
P.O. Box 208205
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.432.9993

E-mail:
Alan.Kazdin@yale.edu

Web:
http://www.yale.edu/psychology/FacInfo/Kazdin.html...

Kazdin researches the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of childhood disorders, including aggression, theft, truancy, firesetting and related behaviors as well as depression, hopelessness and suicidal ideation. His team works to identify effective treatments requires research designed to understand the nature and scope of child dysfunction, parent and family factors (e.g., stress, clinical dysfunction) that contribute to adjustment, and contextual factors (e.g., socioeconomic disadvantage, domestic violence) in which child dysfunction may be embedded.
 

Maria Kefalas Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Sociology
St. Joseph's University

Address:
College of Arts and Sciences
5600 City Ave., 139 Post Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19131

Phone:
610.660.2618

E-mail:
mkefalas@sju.edu

Web:
http://www.sju.edu/IVRP/personnel/kefalas.htm...

Kefalas researches urban and community life, motherhood, marriage and the sociology of culture. Her book with Kathryn Edin, "Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage" (University of California Press, 2005), is an ethnographic study of mother-headed families in poor communities. She also wrote "Working-Class Heroes: Protecting Home, Community, and Nation in a Chicago Neighborhood" (University of California Press, 2003) examines life in a working- and lower-middle -class white Chicago neighborhood. Kefalas also serves as Principal Investigator with ethnographer and criminologist Patrick Carr on the Heartland Study, focused on 120 young people who attended the local high school in rural, northeast Iowa in the 1990s.
 

Louis Keith M.D.
Professor
Children and Families
The Center for the Study of Multiple Birth

Address:
333 East Superior Street, Suite 464
Chicago, IL 60611

Phone:
312.695.1677

E-mail:
lgk395@northwestern.edu

Web:
http://www.multiplebirth.com...

Dr. Keith is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Northwestern University Medical School.He founded CSMB in 1977 along with his identical twin, Donald. CSMB's long-range objectives include distributing information on reducing the medical risks and social costs of multiple birth, sponsoring scientific conferences on the care of twin children and higher-order multiples, and encouraging funding for medical and social research relating to multiple birth.
 

Susan Kellam
Senior communications adviser
Brookings Institution

Address:
1775 Massachusetts Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.797.6310

E-mail:
skellam@brookings.edu

Web:
www.brookings.edu...

Kellam promotes Brookings, a think tank supporting a wide scope of research. Its Center on Children and Families examines policies affecting the well-being of U.S. children and their parents, especially children in less advantaged families. Directed by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill, it co-publishes the twice-yearly journal Future of Children.
 

Madhulika Khandelwal
Associate Professor
Urban Studies
Queens College, City University of New York

Address:
65-30 Kissena Blvd.
Flushing, NY 11367

Phone:
718.997.3056

E-mail:
Madhulika.Khandelwal@qc.cuny.edu

Web:
http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/Asian_American_Center/...

Madhulika S. Khandelwal is the director of the Asian/American Center and associate professor in the Urban Studies department at Queens College, City University of New York. She has taught Asian American studies at a number of universities and has conducted research on contemporary Asian American communities. Khandelwal’s main interests include immigrants, women, the South Asian diaspora, Asian American communities and multicultural issues in the United States. Her ethnographic research on South Asian immigrant communities in the New York area has been published in her book, “Becoming American, Being Indian: An Immigrant Community in New York City” (Cornell University Press, 2002). Born in India, Khandelwal was educated in both India and the United States and has a doctorate in history from Carnegie-Mellon University. Her academic career focuses on engaging diverse cultural and community issues.
 

Cheryl Kodjo M.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Pediatrics -- Adolescent Medicine
University of Rochester Medical Center

Address:
Adolescent Medicine
601 Elmwood Avenue, Box 690
Rochester, NY 14642

Phone:
585.275.2189

E-mail:
cheryl_kodjo@urmc.rochester.edu

Web:
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/gchas/...

Dr. Kodjo’s research focuses on adolescents: parent-adolescent communication, mental health, youth violence and access to mental health services. Kodjo is interested in the associations between mental health and youth violence. She has done extensive research on the risk factors associated with weapon carrying among adolescents.
 

Jill Korbin Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University

Address:
210 Mather Memorial Bldg, 11220 Bellflower Rd
Cleveland, OH 44106

Phone:
216.368.2278

E-mail:
jill.korbin@case.edu

Web:
http://www.case.edu/artsci/anth/faculty/korbin.htm...

Korbin is a cultural and medical anthropologist. She served on the National Research Council's Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect, and the Institute of Medicine's Panel on Pathophysiology and Prevention of Adolescent and Adult Suicide. She is co-director of the Schubert Center for Child Development and of the Childhood Studies Program. She has published numerous articles on culture and child maltreatment and has published and conducted research on women incarcerated for fatal child maltreatment; cross-cultural childrearing and child maltreatment; health, mental health and child rearing among Ohio's Amish population; and on the impact of neighborhood factors on child maltreatment and child well-being.
 

Teresa D. LaFromboise
Associate Professor
School of Education
Stanford University

Phone:
650.723.1202

E-mail:
lafrom@stanford.edu

Web:
www.stanford.edu/~lafrom ...

LaFromboise focuses on stress-related problems of ethnic minority youth. She is currently investigating parental drinking, parenting, and alcohol use among American Indian adolescents. She teaches seminars on Counseling Theories and Interventions from a Multicultural Perspective, American Indian Mental Health and Education, and Racial and Ethnic Identity Development.
 

Nancy Landale Ph.D.
Director
Population Research Institute
Pennsylvania State University

Address:
713 Oswald Tower
University Park, PA 16802-6207

Phone:
814.863.7276

E-mail:
landale@pop.psu.edu

Web:
http://www.sociology.psu.edu/faculty/NLandale.htm...

Besides directing the institute, Landale is a professor of sociology and demography. Her research focuses on family patterns and health outcomes of U.S. racial and ethnic minorities, especially Hispanic populations. She's a nationally recognized scholar in family demography, father involvement, immigration, race and ethnicity, and morbidity and mortality. She has written extensively about issues such as family structure and marriage, racial self-identification, infant health and poverty.
 

Annette Lareau Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Center for the Advanced Study of the Behavioral Sciences, University of Maryland, College Park

Address:
2112 Art-Sociology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742

Phone:
301.405.9369

E-mail:
alareau@socy.umd.edu

Web:
http://www.bsos.umd.edu/socy/faculty/alareau.html...

Lareau is an expert on inequality, particularly in terms of race and wealth, in American society. She is the author of “Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life” (University of California Press, 2003) and “Home Advantage: Social Class and Parental Intervention in Elementary Education” (Falmer Press, 1989). Lareau teaches sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park.
 

Edward Laumann
George Herbert Mead Distinguished Service Professor
Sociology
University of Chicago

Address:
1126 E 59th St
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone:
773.702.8691

E-mail:
e-laumann@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://sociology.uchicago.edu/faculty/laumann/...

Laumann's research interests include organizational and economic sociology, human sexuality, political sociology and social stratification. He directed the National Health and Social Life Survey, one of the largest surveys of sexual attitudes and behaviors in the U.S. since the publication of the Kinsey Reports in the 1950's.
 

David Lazer Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Public Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Address:
T362
79 J.F. Kennedy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.496.0102

E-mail:
david_lazer@harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/netgov/html/people_laze...

Lazer studies the legal implications of genetic databases, and is completing books on presidential control over the regulatory process and the use of DNA in the criminal justice system. He has also coauthored a series of papers on the diffusion of information among interest groups, and between interest groups and the government.
 

Nettie Legters
Co-Director, Associate Research Assistant
Johns Hopkins University
Talent Development High School with Career Academies (TDHS)

Address:
3003 N. Charles Street Suite 200
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone:
410.516.8800

E-mail:
nlegters@csos.jhu.edu

Web:
http://www.csos.jhu.edu/tdhs/...

The Talent Development High School with Career Academies is a comprehensive reform model for large high schools facing serious problems with student attendance, discipline, achievement scores and dropout rates. Legter's co-wrote "Locating the Dropout Crisis," with Robert Balfanz, in which the number and location of high schools with high dropout rates are identified.
 

Phillip Levine
Economics
Wellesley College

Address:
Wellesley College
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481

Phone:
781.283.2162

E-mail:
plevine@wellesley.edu

Levine’s research has largely been devoted to empirical examinations of the impact of government programs and social legislation on individual and business behavior. Topics include the impact of imperfect experience rating in the unemployment insurance system on firms’ layoff behavior, whether welfare recipients move between states because of differences in welfare generosity, and the impact of abortion policy changes on pregnancy, abortion and birth. This last topic is addressed in Levine’s book, Sex and Consequences: Abortion, Public Policy, and the Economics of Fertility (Princeton University Press, 2004), which asks whether individuals change their behavior when abortion access increases.
 

Judith Levine Ph.D.
Faculty Affiliate
Population Research Center
University of Chicago

Phone:
773.702.1149

E-mail:
jlevine@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/faculty/j-levine.shtml...

Judith Adrienne Levine's fields of special interest include poverty and social policy, social stratification, low-wage work, gender inequality, sociology of the family, health, and economic sociology. She has had a long-standing interest in understanding poor women's welfare program participation and employment patterns. Levine is engaged in a two-wave longitudinal qualitative study comparing women’s experience in the low-wage labor market pre- and post-welfare reform. In addition, she has collaboratively examined the effects of welfare reform on health insurance coverage for disadvantaged women.
 

Susan Lewis
Communications Director
National Sexual Violence Resource Center

Address:
123 North Enola Drive
Enola, PA 17025

Phone:
717.728.9740

E-mail:
slewis@nsvrc.org

Web:
http://www.nsvrc.org...

The NSVRC is a comprehensive collection and distribution center for information, research and emerging policy on sexual violence intervention and prevention. The NSVRC provides an extensive online library and customized technical assistance, as well as coordinates National Sexual Assault Awareness Month initiatives.
 

Howard A. Liddle
Director
Center for Treatment Research on Adolescent Drug Abuse

Address:
University of Miami School of Medicine
1400 NW 10th Avenue, Suite 1108
Miami, FL 33136

Phone:
305.243.6434

E-mail:
hliddle@med.miami.edu

Web:
www.med.miami.edu/ctrada...

Dr. Liddle is a family psychologist who specializes in adolescent substance abuse. He serves on expert panels in the area of adolescent substance abuse for a number of federal agencies.
 

Alicia Lieberman Ph.D.
Director
Child Trauma Research Project
University of California San Francisco

Address:
401 Parnassus Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94143-0984

Phone:
415.206.5377

E-mail:
alicia.lieberman@ucsf.edu

Web:
http://psych.ucsf.edu/faculty.aspx?id=322...

Lieberman is vice chair for academic affairs at the UCSF Department of Psychiatry and director of San Francisco General Hospital's child trauma research project. She holds an endowed chair in infant mental health and studies toddler development, attachment disorders, interventions with high-risk families and the effects of early trauma. Lieberman directs the Early Trauma Treatment Network, a collaborative of the UCSF/SFGH Child Trauma Research Project, Boston Medical Center, Louisiana State University Medical Center and Tulane University. Lieberman also is president of the board of directors of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families.
 

Susan Linn
Instructor in Psychiatry
Judge Baker Childrens Center
Harvard University

Address:
3 Blackfan Circle
Boston, MA 02115

Phone:
617.232.8390

E-mail:
susan_linn@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.consumingkids.com/...

Linn is an associate director of the Media Center at Judge Baker Children's Center. She is also co-founder of the coalition Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. In Consuming Kids, she takes a look at the demographic of consumers that the advertisers call "the kid market." Also see: http://www.hmag.harvard.edu/on-line/010526.html
 

Kristin Luker Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Jurisprudence and Social Policy
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
2240 Piedmont Ave.
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.4038

E-mail:
luker@socrates.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://sociology.berkeley.edu/faculty/LUKER/...

In 1994, the White House solicited her testimony on teenage pregnancy. Her book "Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood" was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Luker has received several awards, including Ford and Guggenheim fellowships, a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship and the Outstanding Faculty Award from the Alumni Association of UCSD.
 

Jennifer Manlove Ph.D.
Senior Research Associate and Director
DataBank, Fertility and Family Structure Content Area
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20006

Phone:
202.362.5580

E-mail:
jmanlove@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/about2.cfm#JenM...

Manlove has worked on research projects examining teenage sexuality, pregnancy and childbearing. Her current research assesses demographic trends in sexual activity, contraceptive use and childbearing among American teens and young adults. Dr. Manlove has also been involved in several projects that assess the potential effects of community context, including welfare policies, on teenage and nonmarital childbearing in the U.S.
 

Anthony Mannarino Ph.D.
Chair, Department of Psychiatry
Center for Traumatic Stress in Children and Adolescents
Allegheny General Hospital

Address:
4 Allegheny Center, 8th Floor
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Phone:
412.330.4312

E-mail:
amannari@wpahs.org

Web:
http://www.wpahs.org/patients/physician/bio.cfm?ph...

Mannarino is the principal investigator of the "Child and Adolescent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Screening Project," a two-year study that aims to identify children and adolescents ages 8-16 years with significant post-traumatic stress symptoms secondary to a history of exposure to traumatic life events, and provide brief psychoeducation interventions for those with significant symptoms. He is current president (2004-2006) of the American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children. http://apsac.fmhi.usf.edu/
 

Steven Marans Ph.D.
Director of Trauma Programs
National Center for Children Exposed to Violence (NCCEV)
Child Study Center, Yale University

Address:
230 South Frontage Road
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.785.7047

E-mail:
steven.marans@yale.edu

Web:
http://www.nccev.org...

The National Center for Children Exposed to Violence works to reduce the incidence and impact of violence on children and families; and to train and support the professionals who provide intervention and treatment to children and families affected by violence.
 

Kent Markus
Associate professor, director
National Center for Adoption Law & Policy
Capital University

Address:
Capital University Law School
303 E. Broad St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Phone:
614.236.6500

E-mail:
kmarkus@law.capital.edu

Web:
http://www.law.capital.edu/Faculty/Bios/kmarkus.as...

Markus is on leave from the law school, serving as chief legal counsel to Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland. Markus is founding director of the center, which is dedicated to child welfare and adoption systemic reform. He teaches in an extensive array of law fields, including adoption, criminal and administrative. Before coming to Capital in 1998, Markus was the U.S. Justice Department's deputy chief of staff and Attorney General Janet Reno's highest-ranking adviser. During his five years at Justice, Markus oversaw national implementation of the Brady Law and the 1994 Crime Act. He served as founding director of the Office of Community-Oriented Policing Services (COPS) and as the department's point person on crime policy, particularly juvenile crime and gun violence. Earlier, Markus was the Democratic National Committee's chief of staff.
 

Cyra Master
Communications Coordinator
Center for Law and Social Policy

Address:
1015 15th St. NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.906.8027

E-mail:
cmaster@clasp.org

Web:
www.clasp.org...

The national nonprofit conducts research and policy analysis to improve low-income people’s economic security, educational and workforce prospects. Specifically, it aims to: increase adults’ access to quality education, training and transitional jobs; create universal opportunities for early childhood education; improve access to supports such as child care, food stamps, Medicaid and cash assistance; help young people avoid risky behavior; and help more kids grow up with two involved parents.
 

Anna Mastroianni
Assistant Professor of Law and Public Health Genetics
School of Law
University of Washington

Phone:
206.616.3482

E-mail:
amastroi@u.washington.edu

Web:
http://www.law.washington.edu/Faculty/Mastroianni/...

Mastroianni teaches health law and bioethics in the School of Law, the Institute for Public Health Genetics. She is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health and Community Medicine and in the Department of Medical History and Ethics, School of Medicine. She is a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and does research on policy gaps and conflicts in the use of stem cells, human embryos and reproductive technologies.
 

Rebecca Maynard Ph.D.
Professor
Graduate School of Education
University of Pennsylvania

Address:
3700 Walnut Street Room 409
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Phone:
215.898.3558

E-mail:
rmaynard@gse.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/faculty/maynard.html...

Maynard has directed many large-scale social experiments and policy analyses on issues related to welfare policy, employment and training policy, services for teenage parents, teenage pregnancy prevention, and child care policy. She is director of an ongoing federally funded evaulation of abstinence programs. The first report is at: http://www.mathematica-mpr.com/publications/PDFs/e
valabstinence.pdf
 

Lolita McDavid M.D.
Director of Child Protection, Medical Director of Child Advocacy
Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital
University Hospitals Health System

Address:
11100 Euclid Ave., Mailstop RBC 6003
Cleveland, OH 44106

Phone:
216.844.3886

E-mail:
lolita.mcdavid@UHhospitals.org

Web:
http://www.rainbowbabies.org...

Dr. McDavid, a pediatrician, is the medical director of child advocacy and protection at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, part of University Hospitals of Cleveland/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. She oversees community outreach and programming and coordinates medical services for at-risk children and families in northeast Ohio.
 

Monica McGrath Ph.D.
Adjunct Associate Professor of Management Faculty
Wharton School of Business
University of Pennsylvania

E-mail:
mcgrath@wharton.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.whartonsp.com/articles/article.asp?p=41...

McGrath spearheaded a study called, "Back in the Game. Returning to Business after a Hiatus: Experiences and Recommendations for Women, Employers, and Universities." McGrath's study focuses on the fact that women executives who leave the corporate world when they hit a glass ceiling, want to raise a family full-time or decide to focus on other interests, encounter roadblocks in their attempts to re-enter the workforce.
 

Sara McLanahan Ph.D.
Director and Professor
Center for Research on Child Well-being (CRCW)
Princeton University

Address:
265 Wallace Hall
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544

Phone:
609.258.5894

E-mail:
mclanaha@princeton.edu

Web:
http://crcw.princeton.edu/...

CRCW researchers have studied the relationship between earnings, socioeconomic status and child health status, and the effects of child health on parents’ relationship status and ability to work. McLanahan is an expert on single parent families. Her research interests include family demography, poverty and inequality, and social policy.
 

Ruth McRoy
Associate Dean for Research, Ruby Lee Piester Cent
Center for Social Work Research
University of Texas at Austin

Address:
1 University Station D3500
Austin, TX 78712

Phone:
512.471.0551

E-mail:
r.mcroy@mail.utexas.edu

Web:
http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/faculty/mcroy/...

McRoy's areas of focus include: Open adoptions, outcomes for birthmothers, adoptive parents and adopted children, trans-racial adoptions, family preservation, special needs adoptions, post adoption services, female sexual abuse perpetrators, racial identity issues, adolescent pregnancy, effectiveness of residential treatment services.
 

William Meezan
Dean
College of Social Work
Ohio State University

Address:
305 A Stillman Hall
1947 College Road
Columbus, OH 43210

Phone:
614.292.5300

E-mail:
meezan.1@osu.edu

Web:
http://csw.osu.edu/faculty/faculty_member.php?id=4...

His research interests include: child welfare policies and services; child abuse and neglect; foster care and adoption; family support and family preservation; and evaluation research. Meezan co-wrote "Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Parenting and America's Children," an article for a 2005 issue of the journal Future of Children.
 

Ronald Mincy Ph.D.
Maurice V. Russell Professor of Social Policy and Social Work Practice
School of Social Work
Columbia University

Address:
Columbia University School of Social Work
1255 Amsterdam Ave.
New York, NY 10027

Phone:
212.851.2406

E-mail:
rm905@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ssw/faculty/profiles/mi...

Mincy teaches and directs the School of Social Work's Center for Research on Fathers, Children and Family Well-being. He studies the effects of welfare, child support, family support, housing, and employment and training policies and practices on family formation and father involvement. Before joining Columbia's faculty in 2001, Mincy was a Ford Foundation senior program officer, working on such issues as improving U.S. social welfare policies for low-income fathers, especially child support, and workforce development policies. He also served on the Clinton Administration's Welfare Reform Task Force. Mincy is a co-principal investigator of the Fragile Families and Child Well-being Survey, and he has been involved in numerous other research grants. He is a member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy and serves on advisory boards for many organizations, including the African American Healthy Marriage Initiative and the University of Michigan's National Poverty Center.
 

Meredith Minkler
Professor, Community Health Education and Health and Social Behavior
School of Public Health, Health and Social Behavior
University of California, Berkeley

Address:
316 Warren Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.4397

E-mail:
mink@berkeley.edu

Web:
http://sph.berkeley.edu:7133/faculty/minkler.htm...

Minkler is an expert on grandparents raising grandchildren. She has studied their physical and mental health and the impact of welfare reform on their families.
 

Kristin Moore
President and Senior Scholar
Child Trends, Inc.

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. NW, Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6000, ext. 6002

E-mail:
kmoore@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...

Moore is a social psychologist who studies trends in child and family well-being, the effects of family structure and social change on children, the determinants and consequences of adolescent parenthood, and the effects of welfare and welfare reform on children. She is a member of the Family and Child Well-being Research Network established by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

Constance Nathanson Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Sociomedical Science
Sociomedical Science
Columbia University

Address:
722 W. 168th St., 9th Floor
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.305.1593

E-mail:
can2003@columbia.edu

Web:
http://www.mailman.hs.columbia.edu/sms/faculty/nat...

Nathanson has published on gender and mortality, the social history of adolescent sexuality in the United States, teenage pregnancy, and policies in response to gun violence, smoking, and HIV/AIDS in injection drug users.
 

Barbara Needell Ph.D.
Principal Investigator
Child Welfare Research Center
University of California at Berkeley

Address:
120 Haviland Hall
Berkeley, CA 94720

Phone:
510.642.1893

E-mail:
bneedell@uclink.berkeley.edu

Web:
http://cssr.berkeley.edu/staff/staffbio.asp?name=n...

Needell's interests include administrative data and child welfare services; foster care reform (Family to Family Initiative); the overrepresentation of black children in the child welfare system; and infants in foster care.
 

Steven Nock
Director and Professor of Sociology
Marriage Matters project
University of Virginia

Address:
University of Virginia, Sociology Department
P.O. Box 400766, Cabell 543
Charlottesville, VA 22904

Phone:
434.924.6519

E-mail:
nock@virginia.edu

Web:
http://www.virginia.edu/sociology/peopleofsociolog...

Nock has investigated issues of privacy, unmarried fatherhood, cohabitation, commitment, divorce and marriage. Nock's current research is the Marriage Matters project. This ongoing project seeks to determine the role of law in marriage. Marriage Matters is a cooperative project located at the University of Virginia and at Tulane University.
 

Michelle Oberman
Visiting Professor
School of Law
Santa Clara University

Address:
Bergin 112
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053

Phone:
408.551.7104

E-mail:
moberman@scu.edu

Web:
http://www.scu.edu/law/faculty/all/fcty_1314.html...

Oberman is the author of "Mothers Who Kill Their Children: Understanding the Acts of Moms from Susan Smith to the 'Prom Mom'" (New York University Press, 2001) and numerous articles on issues such as infanticide, consensual sex with minors and statuatory rape laws.
 

David Olds Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics and Director
Prevention Research Center for Family and Child Health
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center

Address:
1825 Marion St.
Denver, CO 80218

Phone:
303.864.5205

E-mail:
olds.david@tchden.org

Web:
http://www.uchsc.edu/peds/subs/prc/index.htm...

Olds researches the long-term impact of early preventive intervention on the health and development of children and their families, including the results of prenatal and infancy home visitation programs for low-income, first-time mothers. The center has been established to design, test and disseminate interventions that improve the health and development of low-income children and their families, particularly in the prevention of child abuse and neglect, unintentional injuries to children, welfare dependence and crime.
 

Gary Orfield
Director, Professor
Harvard University
Civil Rights Project

Address:
125 Mount Auburn St., 3rd Floor
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.496.4824

E-mail:
gary_orfield@harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus/...

Orfield is interested in the study of civil rights, education policy (in particular, No Child Left Behind), urban policy, and minority opportunity. He is cofounder and director of the Civil Rights Project at Harvard. Recent works include studies of changing patterns of school desegregation and the impact of diversity on the educational experiences of law students. He is co-Founder and director of the Civil Rights Project (CRP), an initiative that is developing and publishing a new generation of research on multiracial civil rights issues. CRP has produced major reports on desegregation, student diversity, school discipline, special education and dropouts.
 

Peter J. Pecora Ph.D.
Professor, University of Washington
Senior Director of Research Services
Casey Family Programs

Address:
1300 Dexter Ave. North, Floor 3
Seattle, WA 98109

Phone:
206.270.4936

E-mail:
ppecora@casey.org

Web:
http://depts.washington.edu/sswweb/faculty/facpage...

Pecora is a leading international researcher and educator on foster care, evaluation of family-based service programs and child protection risk assessment, and the emancipation of children from out-of-home placement.
 

Bruce Perry M.D.
Senior fellow
ChildTrauma Academy

Address:
5161 San Felipe
Suite 320
Houston, TX 77056

Phone:
713.446.1491

E-mail:
childtrauma1@aol.com

Web:
http://www.childtrauma.org/aboutCTA/bio_bruce.asp...

Perry, a physician, was the founding director of the ChildTrauma Academy, a training and research institute working to improve the lives of high-risk children. He remains the medical director for provincial programs in children's mental health for the Alberta (Canada) Mental Health Board. Perry's research examines the long-term cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social and physiological effects of childhood trauma in children, adolescents and adults.
 

William Pollack Ph.D.
Co-Director, Clinical Psychologist
Centers for Men and Young Men
Harvard University

Address:
115 Mill St.
Belmont, MA 02178

Phone:
617.855.2750

E-mail:
info@williampollack.com

Web:
http://www.williampollack.com/bio.html...

An authority on boys and men, Pollack's expertise includes boy's development and education; male violence, suicide and depression; school safety (including bullying prevention); workplace violence; and gender studies and parenting.
 

David Popenoe Ph.D.
Co-Director
Rutgers University
The National Marriage Project

Address:
54 Joyce Kilmer Ave., Lucy Stone Hall B217

Piscataway, NJ 08854

Phone:
732.445.7922

E-mail:
marriage@rci.rutgers.edu

Web:
http://marriage.rutgers.edu...

The project provides research and analysis in two areas: the state of marriage in America and the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child well-being. The National Marriage Project works to strengthen the institution of marriage through research and analysis. Popenoe is a professor of sociology and specializes in the study of family and community life in modern societies.
 

Kyle Pruett M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
Child Study Center
Yale University

Address:
230 South Frontage Rd.
New Haven, CT 06520

Phone:
203.737.2490

E-mail:
kyle.pruett@yale.edu

Web:
http://info.med.yale.edu/chldstdy...

Kyle D. Pruett, M.D., is a clinical professor of child psychiatry and nursing at Yale University’s School of Medicine; he also is the director of medical studies at the university’s Child Study Center. Earlier, he was president of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers and Families in Washington, D.C. Pruett has experience in helping the media cover child psychiatric issues. He is a contributing editor of Good Housekeeping, Parents and Child magazines. He has been a consultant to Oprah Winfrey as well as the news staff of CBS and ABC. He earned his bachelor’s degree in history and music at Yale and his medical degree from Tufts University. Pruett maintains a private practice in child and family psychiatry in New Haven.
 

Judith Rapoport
Researcher
Child Psychiatry Branch (CPB)
National Institutes of Health

Address:
National Institutes of Health
10 Center Drive, NIMH, Building 10 / Room 3N202
Bethesda, MD 20892

Phone:
301.496.6080

E-mail:
rapoport@helix.nih.gov

Web:
http://gpp.nih.gov/Researchers/Members/NIMH/Judith...

Rapoport's areas of expertise include: Obsessive Compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD, ADD), Bipolar Disorder, Manic Depressive Illness, Borderline Personality Disorder, Depression, Eating Disorders, and Schizophrenia.
 

Britt Rios-Ellis Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Director
Latino Health Professionals Project (LHPP)
California State University, Long Beach

Address:
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-4902

Phone:
562.985.4127

E-mail:
bellis@csulb.edu

Web:
http://www.csulb.edu/depts/urad/papubs/experts/peo...

The LHPP is a scholarship and training project for Latinos designed to ameliorate the lack of Latinos in management positions in the health care professions. Rios-Ellis teaches courses in Latino health care access, human sexuality, community health and maternal/child health promotion. She is also the project director of the National Council for La Raza’s Latino Family HIV/AIDS Prevention Project. Rios-Ellis’ doctoral research at the University of Oregon studied the HIV/AIDS-related experience of migrant Latina adolescents.
 

Alvin Rosenfeld M.D.
Psychiatrist and Author

Address:
4 E 89th Street
New York, NY 10128

Phone:
212.348.5900

Web:
http://www.hyper-parenting.com/abouttheauthors.htm...

Author of the book "The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap" (2001, with Nicole Wise), Dr. Rosenfeld has also studied "typical" families and how they teach sexual values and attitudes to their 2 - 10 year old children. He has been a contributor over the years to our thinking about sexual rearing styles and "normal" sexual development. Dr. Rosenfeld is also founder of a grass roots movement, National Family Night (www.nationalfamilynight.org) which is devoted to rebalancing family priorities.
 

Helaine Ross M.D.
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics
University of Chicago

Phone:
773.702.1234

E-mail:
lross@uchicago.edu

Web:
http://medicine.uchicago.edu/faculty_profile/facul...

Dr. Ross serves on both the American Academy of Pediatrics Section of Bioethics and the American Philosophical Association Section on Medicine and Philosophy. Her research interests are research ethics, genetics and ethics, transplant ethics, and pediatric ethics. She is currently working on an NIH funded grant on newborn screening.

 

Associate Professor
University of Maryland, School of Public Health
301.405.6348; kroy@umd.edu
Roy writes extensively about fatherhood. His research interests includes men in low-income families, transition to adulthood for disconnected young men and social policy. 

 Lorry Rubin M.D.
Professor, Chief
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Schneider Children's Hospital

Address:
269-01 76th Avenue
New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Phone:
718.470.3480

E-mail:
Lrubin@lij.edu

Web:
http://www.schneiderchildrenshospital.org/...

Dr. Rubin is a professor of pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, as well as Chief of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Schneider Children's Hospital. He has been quoted in numerous news stories about infectious diseases, immunizations and childhood vaccines.
 

Narayan Sastry Ph.D.
Research associate professor
Institute for Social Research
University of Michigan

Address:
426 Thompson St., Box 1248
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248

Phone:
734.936.0462

E-mail:
narayan_sastry@rand.org

Web:
www.psc.isr.umich.edu...

At the center, Sastry focuses on child health, international child poverty, ethnic disparities, health insurance coverage of immigrants, and the effects of neighborhood and family on children’s well-being. He's also a senior social scientist for the RAND Corp., where he co-directs the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, a longitudinal study. Sastry is the principal investigator for several other National Institutes of Health grants to analyze children’s health and development. He's examining the effects of Hurricane Katrina on family resettlement patterns and the future population of New Orleans.
 

Ritch Savin-Williams
Professor
Clinical and Developmental Psychology
Cornell University

Address:
G77C Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401

Phone:
607.255.0849

E-mail:
rcs15@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/bio.cfm?netid=rcs...

Savin-Williams' current research interests focus on the psychological well-being of same-sex attracted youth and adults. Emphasis is placed on developmental processes among sexual minorities, especially differential developmental trajectories, identity development, relations with family, and gender nonconformity.
 

Merritt Schreiber Ph.D.
Program Manager
National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Address:
Laguna Niguel, CA 92677

Phone:
949.727.0509

E-mail:
Mschreiber@mednet.ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.nctsnet.org/nccts/nav.do?pid=hom_main...

Schreiber specializes in the development of emergency psychological services to children, youth and families in mass casualty events including natural disasters and those caused by weapons of mass destruction.
 

Nancy Segal Ph.D.
Producer/Director
Psychology
California State University, Fullerton

Address:
800 N. State College Blvd
Fullerton, CA 92834

Phone:
714.278.2142

E-mail:
segal@fullerton.edu

Web:
http://psych.fullerton.edu/nsegal/...

Segal is the director of the Twin Studies Center at California State University, Fullerton. In addition she is an associate editor for the journal Twin Research and Human Genetics. Her studies include the biology of twinning, twin research methodology, findings on intelligence, personality, mental disorders and athletic prowess, twin relationships, and genetic and environmental influences on human behavior.
 

Elisa Shipon-Blum M.D.
Director
Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (Smart)

Address:
505 N. Old York Road
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Phone:
215.887.5748

E-mail:
smartcenter@selectivemutism.org

Web:
www.selectivemutismcenter.org...

Dr. Shipon-Blum is a clinical assistant professor of psychology & family medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She also is a board certified family physician who specializes in Selective Mutism. Dr. Shipon-Blum has developed Social Communication Anxiety Treatment (SCAT) from her years studying & researching individuals with Selective Mutism.
 

Elisa Shipon-Blum
Executive Medical Director
Selective Mutism Group Childhood Anxiety Network (SMG~CAN)
Childhood Anxiety Network (CAN)

Address:
505 Old York Road
Jenkintown Square- Lower level
Jenkintown, PA 19046

Phone:
888.452.8747

Web:
http://selectivemutismcenter.org/...

SMART provides a comprehensive center for families and children that addresses the needs of the Selectively Mute child/teen. Shipon-Blum is also the president & director of the Selective Mutism Anxiety Research and Treatment Center (SMART-Center) located in NE Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In addition, Dr Shipon-Blum is Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychology and Family Medicine at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is a board certified family physician who specializes in the childhood anxiety disorder, Selective Mutism. Dr Shipon-Blum practices in Philadelphia, PA and has dedicated years studying, researching and treating individuals with Selective Mutism. She consults worldwide with families, treating professionals and educators and has helped countless children from around the world overcome Selective Mutism.
 

Kristine Siefert
Associate Director and Professor of Social Work
Center for Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
University of Michigan

Address:
1080 S. University, 2846 SSWB
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Phone:
734.763.6201

E-mail:
ksiefert@umich.edu

Web:
http://www.ssw.umich.edu/faculty/profile-ksiefert....

Siefert's research investigates social and environmental risk factors for poor health and mental health among low-income women and children in diverse racial and ethnic populations. Recent studies include the impact of household food insufficiency on the physical and mental health of low income women and social and environmental determinants of major depression in low-income women.
 

Brian Skotko
Harvard Medical School
Harvard University

Phone:
617.432.0442 (press)

E-mail:
brian_skotko@hms.harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.ndsccenter.org/speech_survey.asp...

Skotko authored the study, "Prenatally diagnosed Down syndrome: Mothers who continued their pregnancies evaluate their health care providers" released March 1, 2005 in the "American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology". For the study, Brian surveyed 2,945 mothers of children with Down syndrome from five parent support groups in five different states (CA, CO, MA, NC, RI).
 

 

Susan Solomon Ph.D.
Author

Address:
47 Hardy Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540

Phone:
609.937.6939

E-mail:
info@curatorialresources.com

Web:
http://www.recentamericanplaygrounds.com/...

Solomon is an expert in public playgrounds. She is the author of "American Playgrounds: Revitalizing Community Space" (University Press of New England, 1995), which examines problems with contemporary playgrounds, suggests improvements and addresses undervalued public space. She also explores American attitudes on safety and how that impacts play and places for public assembly. Trained as an art historian with a concentration on 20th-century architecture, she heads her own research firm, Curatorial Resources and Research, in Princeton, N.J.
 

Debora Spar Ph.D.
Professor of Business Administration, Director of Research
Harvard University
Harvard Business School

Address:
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163

Phone:
617.495.6000

E-mail:
research-site-mail@hbs.edu

Web:
http://dor.hbs.edu/fi_redirect.jhtml?facInfo=bio&f...

Spar's research focuses on issues of foreign trade and investment. Other areas of study include the Internet, economic policymaking, sweatshop labor, human rights and the pharmaceutical industry. She is widely quoted in reference to her latest book, The Baby Business (Harvard Business School Press 2006), which examines the politics of reproductive science, such as egg donation, stem cell research, human cloning, surrogacy, and gender selection.
 

Judith Stacey
Professor of Contemporary Gender and Sexuality Studies and Sociology
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
New York University

Address:
285 Mercer St., Room 306
New York, NY 10003

Phone:
212.992.9547

E-mail:
judith.stacey@nyu.edu

Web:
http://sociology.fas.nyu.edu/object/judithstacey.h...

Stacey is an expert on gender, sexuality and same-sex parenting. Stacey was previously the Streisand Professor of Contemporary Gender Studies and professor of sociology at the University of Southern California. Her primary research and teaching interests focus on the relationship between social change and the politics of gender, family and sexuality.
 

Matthew Stagner
Executive Director
Chapin Hall Center for Children
University of Chicago

Address:
1313 E. 60th St.
Chicago, IL 60637

Phone:
773.753.5900

E-mail:
mstagner@chapinhall.org

Web:
http://www.about.chapinhall.org/research/researchd...

Stagner is a nationally recognized authority on policies affecting children and families. His research includes work on youth risk behaviors, children aging out of foster care, and programs that support social services. Before joining Chapin Hall in 2006, Stagner directed the Center on Labor, Human Services and Population at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. Earlier, Stagner directed the Division of Children and Youth Policy in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He has directed research for the National Research Council and the Center for the Study of Social Policy.
 

Peter Stearns
Provost
History
George Mason University

Address:
4400 University Drive
Mason Hall D109
Fairfax, VA 22030

Phone:
703.993.8776

E-mail:
pstearns@gmu.edu

Web:
http://culturalstudies.gmu.edu/faculty/faculty_bio...

Stearns is a social historian whose research has focused on U.S. and European social and cultural history. Recent research has focused on parenting.
 

Michael Thompson
Psychologist

Phone:
781.646.5230

Web:
http://www.michaelthompson-phd.com/...

Thompson is a psychologist specializing in children and families. He is the clinical consultant to The Belmont Hill School and has worked in more than two hundred fifty schools across the United States. He co-wrote, "Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys" (Ballantine Books, 1999).
 

Christopher Thurber Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist
Counseling
Phillips Exeter Academy

Address:
20 Main Street
Exeter, NH 03833

Phone:
603.722.4311

E-mail:
chris@campspirit.com

Web:
http://campspirit.com/contactchris.html...

Thurber conducts staff training and consultation with camps in the U.S. and Canada and is the co-author of the “Summer Camp Handbook,” a resource for new campers and families (Perspective Publishing, March 2000).
 

Patrick Tolan Ph.D.
Director, Institute for Juvenile Research
Department of Psychiatry
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical School

Address:
CSB-840 S. Wood St., Room 345G
Chicago, IL 60612

Phone:
312.413.1893

E-mail:
Tolan@uic.edu

Web:
http://www.psych.uic.edu/faculty/tolan.htm...

Patrick Tolan, Ph.D., is director of the Institute for Juvenile Research and professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Tolan’s major interests include the development of urban children and families from a developmental-ecological perspective; prediction and prevention of antisocial and violent behavior; family systems theory; and adolescence. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and a certified supervisor for family therapy training. Tolan holds positions on several national and international boards and committees, including the MacArthur Foundation’s Cook County Juvenile Court Clinical Evaluation Services Initiative; the Illinois Council for the Prevention of Violence; and the Center for the Study and Prevention of Youth Violence’s program on Blueprints for Violence Prevention/Reduction. He also works on community action initiatives such as the Attorney General’s Safe to Learn Initiative and the Chicago Project for Violence Prevention. He is author or co-author of more than 80 books, monographs, articles and technical reports. He is a fellow of three divisions of the American Psychological Association and of the International Society for Research on Aggression. He is a regular consultant to the National Institute of Mental Health, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, and the W.T. Grant Foundation, among others. He is the principal investigator on three federal grants and co-investigator on four others. Tolan earned a bachelor’s degree at Temple University, and a master’s degree and doctorate from the University of Tennessee. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Chicago in clinical research on adolescence.
 

Stacey Tovino Ph.D.
Professor, Lawyer
School of Law
Hamline University

Address:
1536 Hewitt Avenue
St. Paul, MN 55104-1237

Phone:
651.523.2941

E-mail:
stovino01@gw.hamline.edu

Web:
http://www.hamline.edu/law/health/faculty/stacey_a...

Tovino's Her research interests lie in the areas of confidentiality and privacy, midwifery and the law, mental health care and health care ethics. She has written extensibly on legal and ethical issues regarding brain-injured subjects.
 

Roberto Trevino
Assistant Professor
Educational Administration
University of North Texas at Denton

Address:
P.O. Box 311337
Denton, TX 76203

Phone:
940.565.2940

E-mail:
rtrevino@coefs.coe.unt.edu

Web:
http://web2.unt.edu/news/experts/expert.cfm?eid=35...

Expertise: Parent involvement: Mexican-origin Immigrant Students. He does ongoing research with immigrant/migrant families and is author of "Against All Odds: Lesson from Parents of Migrant High Achievers," "Field of Hope: Educating Migrant Children for the Future."
 

James Trussell
Director, Office of Population Research

Address:
Woodrow Wilson School
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1013

Phone:
609.258.4946

E-mail:
trussell@princeton.edu

Web:
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/trussell/...

Trussell also is the John Foster Dulles Professor in International Affairs; director of the Program in Population Studies; and professor of Economics and Public Affairs. His recent research has been focused in three areas: emergency contraception, contraceptive failure and the cost-effectiveness of contraception. He has actively promoted making emergency contraception more widely available as an important step in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy and the need for abortion; in addition to his research on this topic, he maintains an emergency contraception website (not-2-late.com) and designed and launched a toll-free emergency contraception hotline (1-888-NOT-2-LATE).
 

Jean Twenge
Professor
Psychology
San Diego State University

Address:
5500 Campanile Dr.
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 92182-4611

Phone:
619.594.4437

E-mail:
jtwenge@sunstroke.sdsu.ed

Web:
http://www.psychology.sdsu.edu/faculty/twenge.html...

Twenge’s studies include gender roles, social rejection and generational differences. Her most recent book, "Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled -- and More Miserable Than Ever Before," uses data from 1.3 million young people regarding issues such as self-esteem, individualism, anxiety, and sexuality. The book proposes that young people today are less concerned with social approval and society's standards than were past generations.
 

Jeffery Walker Ph.D.
Professor of Criminal Justice
Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Address:
2801 S. University Ave.
Little Rock, AK 72204

Phone:
501.569.3083

E-mail:
jtwalker@ualr.edu

Web:
http://ualr.edu/criminaljustice/index.php/home/fac...

Walker has taught at the university since 1990. His research focuses on the social/environmental factors of crime. He has obtained over $9 million in grants from the Department of Justice, National Institute of Drug Abuse and others. In 2001, Walker co-wrote an Arkansas study that found sexual offenders of children often lived near schools, child care centers and parks. Walker was president of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences in 2006-07. He's been editor of ACJS Today, editor of the Journal of Criminal Justice, and and editor in chief of the Journal of Critical Criminology.
 

Margy Waller
Project Director
Center for Community Change

Address:
1536 U Street NW
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.339.9300

E-mail:
info@communitychange.org

Web:
http://www.communitychange.com.org...

After leaving her position as a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Waller became Director of the Center for Community Change's project "The Mobility Agenda: New Ideas for Low-wage Work." Waller served as Senior Advisor for Welfare and Working Families at the White House Domestic Policy Council in the Clinton Administration. Prior to that, Waller she was Senior Fellow for Social Policy and Director of the Working Families Project at the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) where she focused on welfare policy, working families and urban issues.
 

Judith Wallerstein
Director
Center for the Family in Transition

Address:
PO Box 157
Corte Madera, CA 94976

Phone:
415.435.3417

Web:
http://www.divorceinfo.com/judithwallerstein.htm...

Wallerstein has studied the effects of divorce on children and their parents for 30 years. Her books include "What About the Kids?: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce" (Hyperion, 2003), with co-author Sandra Blakeslee; and "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A 25-Year Landmark Study" (Hyperion, 2001), with Blakeslee and Julia Lewis.
 

B. Timothy Walsh M.D.
Professor of Pediatric Psychopharmacology
Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
Columbia University

Address:
Physicians & Surgeons
630 West 168th St.
New York, NY 10032

Phone:
212.305.6001

E-mail:
btw1@Columbia.edu

Web:
http://asp.cumc.columbia.edu/facdb/profile_list.as...

Dr. Walsh served as the president of the Academy for Eating Disorders and on advisory and review committees of the National Institutes of Health and of the American Psychiatric Association. He is the director of the Eating Disorders Research Unit at New York State Psychiatric Institute. He has writeen numerous books on eating disorders, the most recent being "If Your Adolescent Has an Eating Disorder" (Oxford University Press 2005).
 

James Weidman
Director
Editorial Services, Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation

Address:
214 Massachusetts Ave. NE
Washington, DC 20002

Phone:
202.546.4400

E-mail:
james.weidman@heritage.org

Web:
http://www.heritage.org...

The think tank formulates and promotes conservative public policies based on the principles of free enterprise, limited government, individual freedom and traditional American values. Its domestic research covers economics, education, family and marriage, health care and more.
 

Heather B. Weiss
Director
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard University

Address:
Harvard Family Research Project
Harvard Graduate School of Education, 3 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

Phone:
617.495.9108

E-mail:
heather_weiss@harvard.edu

Web:
http://www.gse.harvard.edu/~hfrp/...

Weiss is the founder of the Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) and a senior research associate and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. HFRP's mission is to help create more effective practices, interventions, and policies to support children's successful development from birth to adulthood. Weiss conducts, synthesizes, and disseminates research, and develops tools that encourage professional and organizational learning, support evaluation, continuous improvement and accountability, and that spark innovation.
 

Elaine Wethington
Associate Professor, Human Development and Sociology
Institute for the Social Sciences
Cornell University

Address:
G52 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853

Phone:
607.255.2918

E-mail:
ew20@cornell.edu

Web:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/faculty/facultybio.cf...

Wethington, co-director of the Cornell Institute for Translational Research on Aging, is a medical sociologist, specializing in the sociology of mental health and illness. Her research interests are in the areas of stress and the protective mechanisms of social support. Three current interests frame her work: 1) longitudinal studies of the impacts of life events, chronic difficulties, and their accumulation on changes in mental and physical health: 2) adaptation to work and family demands during midlife; 3) social isolation, social integration and health among older people.
 

Lynn White Ph.D.
Professor of Sociology
Univ of Nebraska-Lincoln

Address:
Dept. of Sociology
Lincoln, NE 68588

Phone:
402.472.6005 work or 402.

E-mail:
lwhite3@unl.edu

White is an expert on divorce, stepfamilies, parent coresidence, empty nest syndrome and adult-sibling relationships. She is currently leading a NIH-funded study of the social impact of infertility. The team hopes to learn why half of couples who experience infertility do not seek medical help or seek minimal help and will examine the social and psychological consequences of infertility and infertility treatment on people's lives.
 

Barbara Dafoe Whitehead
Co-Director
National Marriage Project

Address:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
25 Bishop Place
New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Phone:
732.445.7922

E-mail:
marriage@rci.rutgers.edu

Web:
http://marriage.rutgers.edu/codirectors.html...

Dafoe Whitehead speaks and writes about family and child wellbeing, particularly related to marriage, divorce, teen pregnancy and sex education. Her books include "The Divorce Culture: Rethinking Our Commitment to Marriage and Family" (Alfred A. Knopf, 1997). The National Marriage Project provides research and analysis on the state of marriage in America and seeks to educate the public on the social, economic and cultural conditions affecting marital success and child wellbeing.
 

Kevin Wright Ph.D.
Professor and Director
School of Education and Human Devt.
Binghamton University, SUNY

Address:
AB G18
Binghamton, NY 13902

Phone:
607.777.2245

E-mail:
wright@binghamton.edu

Web:
http://sehd.binghamton.edu/facstaff/wright.htm...

Issues of interest include crime control policy; correctional program/policy development and analysis; family life and delinquency; delinquency and substance abuse prevention; and prison administration.
 

Min Zhou Ph.D.
Professor
Departments of Sociology and Asian American Studies
UCLA

Address:
264 Haines Hall, Box 951551
Los Angeles, CA 90095

Phone:
310.825.3532

E-mail:
mzhou@soc.ucla.edu

Web:
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/zhou/...

Zhou’s main areas of research are international migration; ethnic and racial relations; education and the new second generation; immigrant youth; Asia and Asian Americans; and urban sociology. She is the author of “Chinatown: The Socioeconomic Potential of an Urban Enclave” (Temple, 1992); co-author of “Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States” (Russell Sage Foundation, 1998); co-editor of “Contemporary Asian America: a Multidisciplinary Reader” (New York University Press, 2000); and co-editor of “Asian American Youth: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity” (Routledge, 2004). She is writing a book entitled “Chinatown, Koreatown and Beyond: Social Capital Conducive to Education in Los Angeles’ Immigrant Communities.”
 

Edward Zigler Ph.D.
Director
Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy
Yale University

Address:
Yale University, Department of Psychology
310 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511

Phone:
203.432.9935

E-mail:
edward.zigler@yale.edu

Web:
http://www.yale.edu/bushcenter...

Zigler is a Sterling Professor of Psychology. His areas of interest include: Social policy, child development, preschool education and daycare. As former director of the Office of Child Development, Zigler was responsible for administering the Head Start Program and was instrumental in establishing innovative programs such as Health Start, Home Start, Education for Parenthood and the Child and Family Resource Program. The goal of the center is to bring research-based knowledge of child development to federal and state policy arenas. The Head Start Research Unit conducts research and policy analysis related to Head Start and other early childhood programs.
 

Nicholas Zill
Director
Child & Family Study Area
Westat, Inc.

Address:
1650 Research Blvd., Room TA-2126
Rockville, MD 20850

Phone:
301.294.4448

E-mail:
ZILLN1@WESTAT.COM

Web:
http://www.westat.com/...

Zill, a psychologist, has written on changing family behavior in the U.S. and its effects on children. He is currently heading a five-year effort to develop program performance measures for the national Head Start program, and is a senior advisor for the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which Westat is conducting for the U.S. Department of Education. Westat is a research corporation serving agencies of the U.S. Government, as well as businesses, foundations, and state and local governments.
 

Julie Magno Zito Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Research
University of Maryland School of Pharmacy

Address:
Lombard Building Room 252
Baltimore, MD

Phone:
410.706.0524

E-mail:
jzito@rx.umaryland.edu

Web:
http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/apps/specializat...

Zito is the lead author of several published studies on the use of psychotropic drugs on children. In a 2003 report, she and colleagues reported that the number of children receiving psychotropic drug treatment had tripled from 1987 to 1996, to 6 percent of U.S. children. In a 2000 report, they estimated that 150,000 preschoolers (10 percent of them 2-year-olds) were on psychotropic drugs in 1995, up from 100,000 in 1991. She has also looked at the use of such drugs in child welfare systems and Medicaid

 

 
 

 

Parry Aftab
Executive Director
WiredSafety

Address:
1 Bridge St., Suite 56
Irvington-on-Hudson, NY 10533

E-mail:
askparry@wiredsafety.org

Web:
http://www.wiredsafety.org...

WiredSafety is an online safety and help group headed by Aftab, a security, privacy and cyberspace lawyer, as well as an author and child advocate. WiredSafety focuses on providing assistance and support to law enforcement, training law enforcement and regulatory agencies, creating awareness and cybercrime prevention programs. Its patrol groups are made up entirely of volunteers.
 

Enola Aird
Director
The Motherhood Project
Institute for American Values

Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023

Phone:
203.250.0637

E-mail:
EGAird@juno.com

Web:
http://www.motherhoodproject.org/...

The project seeks to promote national conversations, and social, cultural, and policy changes informed by the diverse voices and views of all mothers - mothers employed in the workforce and mothers who are not; mothers of all races, backgrounds, and points of view; mothers who want to focus on mothers’ needs and rights; and mothers who also want to address the needs and rights of children. Aird spent several years in corporate law before working at the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, D.C., directing its violence prevention program and serving as acting director of its Black Community Crusade for Children.
 

Bill Albert
Deputy Director
National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Address:
1776 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.478.8510

E-mail:
balbert@teenpregnancy.org

Web:
http://www.teenpregnancy.org/press/...

The campaign’s goal is to reduce the teen pregnancy rate by one-third between 2006 and 2015. From the campaign's 2007 report: -Teen pregnancy and birth rates in the United States have declined by about one-third since the early 1990's. -Even so, three in ten girls in the United States get pregnant by age 20. -Teens say parents most influence their decisions about sex. -The U.S. leads the fully industrialized world in teen pregnancy and birth rates by a wide margin. -Between 1995 and 2010, the number of girls aged 15-19 is projected to increase by 2.2 million. -About two-thirds of sexually active teens wish they had waited longer to lose their virginity.
 

Jeanne Allen
President and Founder
Center for Education Reform (CER)

Address:
1001 Connecticut Ave NW
Suite 204
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.822.9000

E-mail:
cer@edreform.com

Web:
http://www.edreform.com/index.cfm?fuseAction=secti...

CER creates opportunities for and challenges obstacles to better education for America's communities. CER seeks to combine education policy with grassroots advocacy to work within the nation's communities to foster positive and bold education reforms. CER advocates reforms that produce high standards, accountability and freedom, such as strong charter school laws, school choice programs for children most in need, common sense teacher initiatives, and proven instructional programs.
 

Sue Badeau
Executive Director
Philadelphia Children's Center

Address:
1835 Market St., Suite 420
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Phone:
215.568.0620, Ext. 18

E-mail:
sbadeau@philadelphiachildren.org

Web:
http://www.philadelphiachildren.org/...

Badeau leads the commission, which aims to improve the health, safety, well-being and development of Philadelphia children and to make supportive policy a city priority. Badeau is a long-time child welfare professional, working in positions from direct casework to administration at the local, state and national levels. Before joining the commission in 2006, she was deputy director of the national, nonpartisan Pew Commission on Children in Foster Care. Badeau worked on the federal Chafee Foster Care Independence Act as a U.S. Senate Public Policy Fellow in 1999. She and her husband have been foster parents to more than 50 children and have adopted 20 children from foster care, raising them with their two biological children.
 

Ellen Bassuk M.D.
President
National Center On Family Homelessness

Address:
181 Wells Ave.
Newton Centre, MA 02459

Phone:
617.964.3834, Ext. 10

E-mail:
ellen.bassuk@familyhomelessness.org

Web:
http://www.familyhomelessness.org...

Dr. Bassuk researches the impact of homelessness and the roles of violence, trauma and mental illness. She has worked on applied research projects like the Worcester Family Research Study, a comprehensive longitudinal study of sheltered homeless and low-income housed families and their children. Dr. Bassuk is currently project director for the National Child Traumatic Stress Initiative's National Collaborative for Trauma-Surviving Homeless Children, directs the National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness, and is technical project director for the federal Chronic Homelessness Initiative. 
 

Gary Bauer
President
American Values

Address:
2800 Shirlington Road
Suite 950
Arlington, VA 22206

Phone:
703.671.9700

E-mail:
gary.bauer@mail.amvalues.org

Web:
http://www.ouramericanvalues.org/...

Bauer is chairman of the political action committee, the Campaign for Working Families, and president of American Values, an organization focused on issues such as marriage, culture and education. Previously he was president of the Family Research Council for ten years. Prior to joining FRC, Bauer served in President Ronald Reagan's administration for eight years, during the last two years as the president's chief domestic policy advisor.
 

Michael L. Benjamin
Executive Director
National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)

Address:
3989 Central Ave., N.E., Suite 550
Minneapolis, MN 55421

Phone:
763.781.9331 Ext. 21

E-mail:
mbenjamin@ncfr.org

Web:
http://www.ncfr.com...

NCFR is a nonpartisan, nondenominational membership organization for family researchers, educators, policymakers and practicing professionals. It publishes the Journal of Marriage and Family. NCFR produced a series of fact sheets related to current family policy and relevant family issues available on its Web site.
 

Deb Bialescki Ph.D.
Senior Researcher
Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation
American Camp Association

Address:
5000 State Road 67 North
Martinsville, IN 46151-7902

Phone:
765.342.8456

E-mail:
dbialescki@ACAcamps.org

Web:
www.ACAcamps.org...

The ACA accredits more 2,400 camps collaborates with other youth-serving organizations and associations. ACA-accredited camps meet strict standards for health, safety, and program quality. Bialeschki develops surveys, trains people to utilize research results and plans and conducts studies that provide practical insights for camps and for the broader field of youth development.
 

Dolores Subia BigFoot Ph.D.

Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, Native American Programs
Indian Country Child Trauma Center

Phone:
405.271.8858

E-mail:
dee-bigfoot@ouhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.icctc.org/...

The center develops trauma-related treatment protocols, outreach materials and service delivery guidelines specifically adapted and designed for Native American children and their families.
 

Cornelius Bird
Senior Consultant
Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group

Address:
3212 Northbrook Drive
Atlanta, GA 30341

Phone:
678.427.5600

E-mail:
myrenebird@aol.com

Bird is a senior consultant with the Child Welfare Policy and Practice Group and has worked in the human services field for 25 years. In his work with state child welfare systems, he designs processes to ensure that families are involved in all aspects of their children’s case management and that agency services are culturally competent. Bird previously worked on system-wide reform efforts in several states and has served as project director for Western Washington University’s Children and Family Services Training Academy. He helped develop the Foster Parent Staff Development Institutes in Georgia and was a group facilitator at the Domestic Violence Resource Center’s Men Anger Control Program in Hillsboro, Ore. He was a subject matter expert for the publication Guidelines for Facilitating Child and Family Team Meetings with Family with a History of Domestic Violence, by the Family Violence Prevention Fund in San Francisco.
 

Helen Blank
Director of Leadership and Public Policy
National Women's Law Center

Address:
11 Dupont Circle, N.W., # 800
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.588.5180

E-mail:
hblank@nwlc.org

Web:
http://nwlc.org/index.cfm...

The National Women's Law Center works on getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases in state and federal courts all the way to the Supreme Court; and educating the public about ways to make the law and public policies work for women and their families. The center's focus is on education, employment, family economic security, and health -- with special attention given to the needs of low-income women and their families.
 

David Blankenhorn
President
Institute for American Values

Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023

Phone:
212.246.3942

E-mail:
info@americanvalues.org

Web:
http://www.americanvalues.org/html/about_david_bla...

The institute is a private, nonpartisan organization devoted to contributing intellectually to the renewal of marriage and family life, and to the sources of competence, character and citizenship in the United States.
 

David Bloomfield
Associate Professor of Educational Administration and Policy
Brooklyn College
Educational Leadership Program

Address:
2900 Bedford Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11210

Phone:
718.951.5608

E-mail:
davidb@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Web:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/schooled/bloomfi...

Bloomfield specializes in education law, school district management and technology, school reform, and legislative matters. He is the author of ground-breaking charter school, parent rights, and school governance legislation.
 

Mahdi Bray
Executive Director
Muslim American Society

Address:
1050 17th St., NW, Suite 600
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.496.1288

E-mail:
mas4freedom@aol.com

Web:
http://www.masnet.org...

The Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation is the public affairs arm of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a national grassroots religious, social and educational organization. MAS is America’s largest grassroots Muslim organization with over 50 chapters nationwide. Bray is the former president of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations.
 

Brett Brown Ph.D.
Director of Social Indicators Research
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 100
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.362.5580, ext. 6052

E-mail:
bbrown@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org...

Brown manages numerous projects related to the development and use of social indicators of child and family well-being at the international, national and state levels. Other areas of research interest include single-father families and the determinants of successful transitions from youth to adulthood.
 

Jane Rinzler Buckingham
President
Youth Intelligence

Address:
9 West 10th Street
New York, NY 10011

Phone:
212.982.5428

E-mail:
info@youthintelligence.com

Web:
http://www.youthintelligence.com/...

Youth Intelligence is a research and trend analysis service for the youth market. It works with clients on projects such as marketing, brand positioning and new product development.
 

William Butz
President
Population Reference Bureau

Address:
1875 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Suite 520
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.483.1100

E-mail:
wbutz@prb.org

Web:
http://www.prb.org/...

The PRB offers information about reproductive health and fertility; children and families; population and the environment; and population futures—aging, inequality and poverty, migration and urbanization, and gender. Butz's research has focused on the adequacy of the scientific and technical work force in the United States; the technology transfer process that links basic science to industrial production; implications of the worldwide adoption patterns of genetically modified crops; and fertility and migration policy options for the European Union.
 

Eliza Byard Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Director
Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.727.0135

E-mail:
ebyard@glsen.org

Web:
http://www.glsen.org...

GLSEN is a national education organization dedicated to ending bias and harassment directed at lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students in K-12 schools. GLSEN publishes an annual report: the National School Climate Survey, the only national survey to document the experiences of students who identify as LGBT in America's schools.
 

David Carrier
Outreach Director
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6138

E-mail:
dcarrier@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan research center studies children at every stage of development. It is a key source of information on a wide range of topics, including early childhood development, foster care and adoption, education, teen sex and pregnancy, and marriage and family. The Child Trends DataBank is a one-stop source for the latest national trends and research on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. Its recent reports include “Child Care Use by Low-Income Families: Variations Across States.” The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization provides research guidance to improve policies, programs and practices affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood and youth development; child welfare; education; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (e.g., by race/ethnicity, family income, immigrant status). Its online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 indicators of well-being.
 

Lynette Ciervo
Communications Strategist
Zero To Three

Address:
2000 M St. N.W., Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.638.1144

E-mail:
l.ciervo@zerotothree.org

Web:
http://www.zerotothree.org...

ZERO TO THREE is a national nonprofit charitable organization whose aim is to strengthen and support families, practitioners and communities to promote the healthy development of babies and toddlers ages 0-3.
 

Loralei Coyle
Director of Communications
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G St. NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

Web:
http://www.frc.org...

FRC advocates for the protection of a traditional view of marriage and family. It opposes abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage and produces policy papers through its Center for Marriage and Family Studies.
 

Susan Crockin
Attorney, Author
Adoption, Reproductive Law
Law Office of Susan L. Crockin

Address:
29 Crafts Street, Suite 500
Newton, MA 02460

Phone:
617.332.7070

E-mail:
susan.crockin@crockinlaw.com

Web:
http://www.seronosymposia.org/reproductive/cme_fac...

Crockin heads a private legal and consulting practice specializing in adoption and reproductive law. She has dealt with legal issues related to parenthood after cancer, stem-cell research, in-vetro fertilization, prepregnancy testing, embyro and egg donation and abortion. In addition to her law practice, Crockin has taught bioethics at Northeastern University School of Law and is an active lecturer and author.
 

Laura Derrick
President
Education
National Home Education Network

Address:
PMB 157
5114 Balcones Woods Dr. #307
Austin, TX 78759

Phone:
512.345.4895

E-mail:
laderrick@sbcglobal.net

Web:
http://www.nhen.org/...

NHEN encourages and facilitates the vital grassroots work of state and local homeschooling groups and individuals by providing information, fostering networking and promoting public relations on a national level.
 

Kevin Dwyer
Principal Research Scientist
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
National Association of School Psychologists

Address:
4340 East West Highway
#402
Bethesda, MD 20814

Phone:
301.229.8251

E-mail:
kdwyer@naspweb.org

Web:
http://www.air.org/cecp/school_violence.htm...

Dwyer is a leading national expert on children’s mental health. Dwyer was President of the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), a professional organization representing more than 21,000 school psychologists. Dwyer acted as principal investigator for the federally funded school violence prevention project, which distributed in September 1998 Early Warning, Timely Response: A Guide to Safe Schools to the nation’s 115,000 schools." "Safeguarding Our Children: An Action Guide" is a follow-up document he co-authored last year with David Osher of AIR for the U. S. Departments of Education and Justice.
 

Carol Emig
President
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave., N.W., Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6003

E-mail:
cemig@childtrends.org

Web:
http://www.childtrends.org/...

Emig has run Child Trends since late 2006. The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization provides guidance to improve policies, programs and decisions affecting children and their families. Its major research areas include: early childhood development; child welfare; education; youth development and the transition to adulthood; health; teen sex and pregnancy; fatherhood and parenting; and marriage and family. It studies children and youth at every stage of development and in every important subgroup (by race/ethnicity, family income, parents’ marital status, immigrant status, etc.). Child Trends’ online DataBank provides the latest statistics on more than 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
 

Margorie Engel Ph.D.
President
Stepfamily Association of America

Address:
25 Walnut St.
Boston, MA 02108

Phone:
800.735.0329

E-mail:
engel@neu.edu

Web:
http://www.saafamilies.org/aboutsaa/board_bios.htm...

Marjorie Engle is an author, speaker and media consultant specializing in families complicated by divorce and remarriage. Her credentials include a 38-year business career, MA in Education Program Development, MBA in Management, and PhD in Law, Policy and Society. Her stepfamily life began with husband Stephen Boyle and five teenage daughters (she's mother to two and stepmother to three). This grandmother of eight is President and CEO of the Stepfamily Association of America - the only national non-profit membership organization providing information, education, support, and advocacy for stepfamilies and those who work with them. Author of The Divorce Decisions Workbook, The Canadian Divorce Decisions Workbook, Divorce Help Sourcebook, and Weddings A Family Affair: The New Etiquette for Second Marriages and Couples With Divorced Parents, Margorie has also written numerous stepfamily financial management booklets, law journal articles, and chapters in family law and pediatric books in the U.S. and overseas.
 

Janette Fennell
President
Kids and Cars

Address:
2913 West 113th Street
Leawood, KS 66211

Phone:
913.327.0013

E-mail:
email@kidsandcars.org

Kids and Cars' mission is to assure no child dies or is injured in a non-traffic, non-crash motor vehicle related event. It maintains a national database tracking deaths and injuries to children left unattended in or around motor vehicles. The organization says that no federal or state agency is collecting information related to deaths and injuries that occur as non-traffic incidents on private property.
 

Jane Floethe-Ford
Director, Educational Services
Parents Helping Parents

Address:
3041 Olcott St
Santa Clara, CA 95054

Phone:
408.727.5775, ext. 115

E-mail:
jane@php.com

Web:
http://www.php.com/...

PHP is a family resource center that benefits children with special needs. This includes children of all ages who need special services because of but not limited to illness, accidents, birth defects, neurological conditions, premature birth, learning or physical disabilities, mental health issues and ADHD.
 

Linda Foley
Co-Executive Director
Identity Theft Resource Center

Address:
PO Box 26833
San Diego, CA 92196

Phone:
858.693.7935

E-mail:
itrc@idtheftcenter.org

Web:
http://www.idtheftcenter.org/...

Foley is the co-founder/director of the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC), a nation-wide nonprofit based in San Diego that helps victims, including children, of identity theft.
 

Vivian Gadsden
Director
National Center on Fathers and Families

Address:
3440 Market St., Suite 450
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3325

Phone:
215.573.5500

E-mail:
viviang@gse.upenn.edu

Web:
http://www.ncoff.gse.upenn.edu/...

NCOFF is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to research and policy analysis on father involvement and family development. Its focus includes father engagement, child support enforcement, support for young fathers, the effects of joblessness and systemic barriers to fathers’ involvement. Its research database includes more than 9,000 entries.
 

Ellen Galinsky
President
Families & Work Institute

Address:
330 Seventh Ave. 14th Fl
New York, NY 10001

Phone:
212.465.2044

E-mail:
emgalinsky@aol.com

Web:
http://www.familiesandwork.org/...

Families and Work Institute (FWI) is a nonprofit center for research that provides data to inform decision-making on the changing workforce, changing family and changing community. Founded in 1989, it offers comprehensive research on the U.S. workforce, including "The National Study of the Changing Workforce (NSCW )." Other recent research includes "Overwork in America: When the Way We Work Becomes Too Much" and Generation & Gender in the Workplace."
 

Robert Gebbia
Executive Director
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

Address:
120 Wall Street, 22nd Floor
New York, NY 10005

Phone:
212.363.3500

E-mail:
inquiry@afsp.org

Web:
http://www.afsp.org/index-1.htm...

The foundation is exclusively dedicated to funding research, developing prevention initiatives and offering educational programs and conferences for survivors, mental health professionals, physicians and the public. The "Facts" section of the Web site has information and statistics on child and adolescent suicide.
 

Dee Dee Gordon
Founding Partner
Look-Look

Address:
6685 Hollywood Boulevard
Hollywood, CA 90028

Phone:
323.856.5555

E-mail:
brandy@look-look.com

Web:
http://www.look-look.com/dynamic/looklook/html/ind...

Look-Look is a research company that specializes in youth culture. Gordon has done interviews on the subject of marketing to teens, and the best way to gauge teens' preferences.
 

Libby Gray
Director
Project Reality

Address:
1701 E. Lake Avenue
Suite# 371
Glenview, IL 60025

Phone:
847.729.3298

Web:
www.projectreality.org...

Project Reality specializes in the development, teaching and evaluation of abstinence programs. Gray is regularly involved in media communications on the subject of abstinence.
 

Cornelia Grumman
Vice President
First Five Years Fund
Ounce of Prevention Fund

Address:
33 W. Monroe St., Suite 2400
Chicago, IL 60603

Phone:
312.922.3863

E-mail:
CGrumman@ffyf.org

Web:
http://www.ounceofprevention.org/...

The fund strives to give children who are born into poverty a chance for success in school and in life by providing direct services for at-risk children from birth to age five; training childhood professionals in Illinois; conducting research and advocating for sound public policies and sustained funding streams on early childhood development. Grumman, a former reporter and editorial board writer for the Chicago Tribune, is the recipient of three Casey Medals for Meritorious Journalism, a 2003 Pulitzer Prize and a 2001 Studs Terkel award.
 

Selena Guber
President
Children's Market Research, Inc.

Address:
1385 York Avenue
New York, NY 10021

Phone:
212.794.0983

E-mail:
TRENDS2000@AOL.COM

Web:
http://www.kidtrends.com/about.html...

The company provides qualitative and quantitative research, trend analysis and strategic insights into the youth market. Clients include advertising agencies, the media, toy marketers, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. Guber is currently the chairperson of the American Marketing Association/N.Y, Children's Marketing Leadership Council. Guber also is the executive editor of KIDTRENDS & TARGETING TEENS, two monthly newsletters about the youth market.
 

Rebecca Hagelin
Vice President
Communications and Marketing
Heritage Foundation

Address:
214 Massachusetts Ave NE
Washington, DC 20002-4999

Phone:
202.675.1761 (media)

E-mail:
staff@heritage.org

Web:
http://www.heritage.org/...

Hagelin has championed the pro-family message in both Washington and around the nation for some twenty years. She is the author of "Home Invasion: Protecting Your Family in a Culture That's Gone Stark Raving Mad" (Nelson Current, 2005) and a weekly syndicated column on social/cultural issues as seen through the eyes of a mother. She is vice president of communications and marketing at The Heritage Foundation, whose vision is to "Create an America where freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society flourish."
 

James Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies
Cato Institute

Address:
1000 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.789.5200

Web:
http://www.cato.org/people/harper.html...

Harper focuses on issues at the intersection of business, technology and public policy. His work focuses on the problems of adapting law and policy to the unique problems of the information age. He is editor of Privacilla.org, a Web-based think-tank devoted exclusively to privacy. He is a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee.
 

Roderick Harrison Ph.D.
Director
DataBank
Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Address:
1090 Vermont Ave. NW, Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.789.6374

E-mail:
rharrison@jointcenter.org

Web:
http://www.jointcenter.org/DB/index.htm...

Harrison's expertise is demographic trends among African Americans. He is the founding director of DataBank, an online clearinghouse of data on African Americans and other ethnic populations. Previously he served as chief of the U.S. Census Bureau's Racial Statistics Branch where he helped to expand the content and number of the Bureau's publications and releases on racial and ethnic populations. In 1998, the American Statistical Society awarded him the Roger Herriot Award for Innovations in Federal Statistics for his work in revising the racial and ethnic classifications used by all federal agencies and efforts in developing new classifications on race and ethnicity for the 2000 Census.
 

Charles Haynes
Director
Education
First Amendment Center

Address:
1101 Wilson Blvd.
Arlington, VA 22209

Phone:
703.528.0800

E-mail:
chaynes@freedomforum.org

Web:
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/biography.aspx...

The First Amendment Center works to preserve and protect First Amendment freedoms through information and education. The center serves as a forum for the study and exploration of free-expression issues, including freedom of speech, freedom of the press and of religion, and the rights to assemble and to petition the government. Haynes is best known for his work on religious liberty issues in schools and communities throughout the nation.
 

Martha Henry
Director
Center for Adoption Research
University of Massachusetts Medical School

Address:
196 Maple Ave.
Shrewsbury, MA 01545

Phone:
508.856.8510

E-mail:
martha.henry@umassmed.edu

The center works to improve foster care and adoption policy and practice by conducting research and policy analysis -- and by developing education and training programs. It translates findings to reach policy makers and practitioners whose work affects children and families involved in foster care and adoption. Many of the center's staff members have personal connections to foster care and adoption. The center develops practical responses to the challenges of adoption and foster care, and addresses a broad range of regional, national and international adoption issues.
 

Paul Hetrick
Vice President, Media Relations
Focus on the Family

Address:
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs , CO 80920

Phone:
719.531.3336

E-mail:
hetricpl@fotf.org

Web:
http://www.family.org...

Focus on the Family, is devoted to spreading Christian doctrine and preserving traditional family values, particularly the traditional institution of marriage.
 

Sarah Heynen
Communications Coordinator
National Partnership for Women and Families

Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave., NW, Suite 650
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.986.2600

E-mail:
info@nationalpartnership.org

Web:
www.nationalpartnership.org...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan organization, founded in 1971 as the Women’s Legal Defense Fund, promotes fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. Its president is Debra L. Ness.
 

Wayne Ho
Executive Director
Coalition for Asian American Children & Families (CACF)

Address:
50 Broad St., Suite 1701
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.809.4675, ext. 101

E-mail:
who@cacf.org

Web:
www.cacf.org...

The Coalition for Asian American Children and Families (CACF) is an advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and well-being of Asian Pacific American children in New York City. CACF is the nation's only pan-Asian children's advocacy organization.
 

Dennis Hunt Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Multicultural Human Services

Address:
701 W. Broad St., Suite 305
Falls Church, VA 22046

Phone:
703.533.3302, ext. 111

E-mail:
dhunt@cmhs.org

Web:
http://www.cmhs.org/...

CMHS provides a broad range of multilingual mental health, educational, consulting, training and social services to immigrants and refugees. Hunt is a clinical psychologist who previously directed a foster care program for refugee children. He has consulted for the media, school systems and human service programs throughout the United States and Canada on refugee mental health issues.
 

Judith Jackson MSW
National Office Consultant
National Association of Black Social Workers (NABSW)

Address:
2305 Martin Luther King Ave. S.E.
Washington, DC 20020

Phone:
202.678.4570

E-mail:
nabsw.harambee@verizon.net

Web:
http://www.nabsw.org...

NABSW was founded to address the social welfare needs of black people across the country. Jackson focuses the organization’s efforts in four areas: family preservation/child Welfare, youth development, health and wellness and civil liberties. Jackson is also interested in issues regarding blacks and education, family and community.
 

Susan Jekielek Ph.D.
Research Associate
Social Indicators
Child Trends

Address:
4301 Connecticut Ave, NW, Suite 350
Washington, DC 20008

Phone:
202.572.6054

E-mail:
sjekielek@childtrends.org

Web:
www.childtrends.org...

Susan Jekielek, Ph.D., is a research associate for Child Trends, a nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information. Her concentration is in family research, and her work has examined the impacts of family status and family processes for children’s emotional well-being. She also studies parental work characteristics and their implications for both family stability and family relationships. Jekielek has a doctorate in sociology from The Ohio State University.
 

Kevin Jennings
Executive Director
Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN)

Address:
90 Broad Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10004

Phone:
212.727.0135

E-mail:
kjennings@glsen.org

Web:
http://www.glsen.org...

The Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network wants to assure that everyone in the school community is valued and respected regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
 

Denise Johnston M.D.
Director
The Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents

Address:
65 S. Grand Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91105

Phone:
626.449.2470

E-mail:
ccip@earthlink.net

Web:
http://www.e-ccip.org/index.html...

Denise Johnston, M.D., is the founding director of the Center for Children of Incarcerated Parents. Her expertise is in children of criminal offenders. The center has conducted more than 40 educational, family reunification and therapeutic projects serving children of criminal offenders, their parents and families. In 2002, Johnston will oversee the MIRACLE Project at Los Angeles County Jails, the second jail nursery to be established in the United States. She is currently adviser to the National Institute of Corrections’ Resource Center on Children of Prisoners. As principal investigator, Johnston has completed 12 major research projects for the center. Among those studies is the first longitudinal investigation of children of criminal offenders, begun in 1991 in Southeast Los Angeles County. She has been a founding board member of organizations serving women offenders, including: Phase ReEntry Programs; the National Network for Women in Prison; and Girls and Gangs in Los Angeles County. Johnston is the editor of the first American text on incarcerated parents and their children, which was published by Lexington Books in 1995. Johnston received her doctorate from Stanford University School of Medicine.
 

Michelle Joyner
Communications Director
National Military Family Association

Address:
2500 North Van Dorn St., Suite 102
Alexandria, VA 22302-1601

Phone:
703.931.6632

E-mail:
michelle.joyner@nmfa.org

Web:
www.nmfa.org...

NMFA is a resource on issues affecting military families’ quality of life. It addresses housing, education, health care, separation and more. The Virginia-based association provides resources and support to spouses and children of those serving in the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Public Health Service.
 

James Kemple
Director
K-12 Education Policy Area
MDRC

Address:
16 E. 34 St., 19th Floor
New York, NY 10016-4326

Phone:
212.340.8676

E-mail:
james.kemple@mdrc.org

Web:
http://www.mdrc.org/index.html ...

Once focused on evaluations of state welfare-to-work programs, MDRC now studies public school reforms and programs to help low-income people succeed in college. Its five main policy areas are: promoting family well-being and child development, improving public education, promoting successful transitions to adulthood and supporting low-wage workers and communities. Also see: http://www.mdrc.org/publications/428/overview.html
and http://www.betterhighschools.org/docs/NHSC_EmergingEvidenceBrief_111606F...
 

Martha Kempner
Director of Public Information
SIECUS/Sexuality Information and Education Council of the U.S.

Address:
130 W. 42nd St, Suite 350
New York, NY 10036

Phone:
212.819.9770, ext 324

E-mail:
mkempner@siecus.org

Web:
http://www.siecus.org/...

Each year, SIECUS distributes hundreds of thousands of print and electronic resources to educators, advocates, parents, researchers, physicians and others working to expand sexual health programs, policies and understanding. SIECUS also helps individuals locate research, write accurate news articles, create sexual health curriculum and build support for high quality programs in their community.
 

Beverly LaHaye
Founder, Chairman
Concerned Women for America

Address:
1015 Fifteenth St. N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.488.7000

The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens - first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing society - thereby reversing what the members believe to be a decline in moral values in our nation.
 

Beverly LaHaye
Founder, Chairman
Concerned Women for America

Address:
1015 Fifteenth St. N.W.
Suite 1100
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.488.7000

The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens - first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing society - thereby reversing what the members believe to be a decline in moral values in our nation.
 

Claire Lerner LICSW
Director
Parenting Resources
Zero to Three

Address:
2000 M St., NW
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.638.1144

E-mail:
clerner@zerotothree.org

Web:
www.zerotothree.org...

Lerner is a licensed clinical social worker, child development specialist, and director of parenting information and resources at Zero To Three where she oversees development of all parenting content, including its web site and numerous publications. She is also the co-author of Zero To Three's parent books, "Learning & Growing Together" and "Bringing Up Baby." Lerner writes a regular column in American Baby Magazine on young children's behavior. She is frequently quoted in Parents Magazine, Parenting, Child Magazine and Fit Pregnancy. In addition, she has been quoted in numerous national daily newspapers such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe and London Times. Lerner has been a practicing clinician for over 17 years, providing parent education and counseling services to families with children of all ages. She also trains early childhood professionals and pediatricians on early childhood development and working effectively with parents. Lerner has participated on numerous national advisory panels and task forces related to early child development. She is currently on the Council of the National Parenting Education Network and is a liaison to the American Academy of Pediatric's Committee on Early Childhood Development.
 

Debbie Linchesky
Media Relations Manager
Public Affairs
American Academy of Pediatrics

Address:
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007

Phone:
847.434.4000

E-mail:
dlinchesky@aap.org

Web:
http://www.aap.org/...

The American Academy of Pediatrics is an organization of 60,000 pediatricians committed to attaining optimal physical, mental, and social health and well-being for all infants, children, adolescents and young adults. Along with its monthly scientific and continuing education journals, Pediatrics (www.pediatrics.org) and Pediatrics in Review, the academy publishes patient education guides. Its Web site provides topical information on childhood health, on issues ranging from breast feeding to autism to obesity to disaster preparedness. It also posts policy statements, practice guidelines and other child health resources.
 

Victoria Lopez
Executive Director
The Florence Project
Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project

Address:
300 S Main Street
PO Box 654
Florence, AZ 85232

Phone:
520.868.0191

The Florence Project is a nonprofit legal service organization that provides free legal services to men, women and children detained by the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), formerly known as the INS.
 

Elizabeth Marquardt
Affiliate Scholar
Institute for American Values

Address:
1841 Broadway, Suite 211
New York, NY 10023

Phone:
212.246.3942

E-mail:
info@americanvalues.org

Web:
http://www.americanvalues.org...

Marquardt authored a study about the effect of divorce on children. She currently is researching and writing a book on the moral and spiritual lives of children of divorce.
 

Joe S. McIlhaney Jr. M.D.
Founder, Chairman
The Medical Institute

Address:
1101 S. Capital of TX Highway
Building B, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78746

Phone:
512.328.6268

E-mail:
dcampos-nemoto@medinstitute.org

Web:
http://www.medinstitute.org/...

The Medical Institute is designed to confront the world epidemics of nonmarital pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease with incisive health care data. Dr. McIlhaney was appointed to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS in 2001.
 

C. Kevin Morrison
Attorney
Bryant Law Firm

Address:
950 Kennedy Building
321 S. Boston Ave.
Tulsa, OK 74103-3313

Phone:
918.587.4200

Web:
http://www.bryantlaw.com...

Kevin Morrison is an attorney and child advocate. Formerly of Tulsa Children's Law, he handles legal matters involving children, including representing parents and children involved in juvenile court proceedings, adoptions, guardianships and special education matters. Morrison has significant experience in the juvenile court system. In 1994 he began representing children in abuse and neglect cases on a pro bono basis while continuing his commercial litigation practice. A few years later he left private practice to become an assistant district attorney in Tulsa County’s juvenile court, where he handled a civil child abuse docket adjudicating custody and termination of parental rights issues. In 2001 he became a judge in the Tulsa County juvenile court where he was responsible for emergency custody hearings and the juvenile delinquency detention docket. In 2002 Morrison moved to the Washington, D.C. area, serving as a senior attorney with the National Juvenile Justice Prosecution Center, where he trained juvenile court prosecutors, and wrote and spoke on juvenile justice issues. Morrison is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma law school and received his bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University.
 

Debra Ness
President
National Partnership for Women & Families

Address:
1875 Connecticut Ave. N.W., Suite 710
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.986.2600

E-mail:
info@nationalpartnership.org

Web:
http://www.nationalpartnership.org...

The partnership uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family.
 

David Osher
Managing Research Scientist and Director
Center for Effective Collaboration and Practice
American Institutes for Research, Pelavin Research Center

Address:
1000 Thomas Jefferson St. N.W., Suite 400
Washington, DC 20007

Phone:
202.944.5373

E-mail:
dosher@air.org

Web:
http://cecp.air.org/ or http://cecp.air.org/vc/top...

Osher focuses his work on knowledge use, violence prevention, schoolwide and community-wide interventions for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, and building meaningful collaborations at federal, state, and local levels. Osher is Principal Investigator of The Center for Effective Collaboration & Practice; The Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health; The National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Violence Prevention; The National Coordinator Training and Technical Assistance Center for the Safe and Drug Free Schools Program; The National Evaluation and Technical Assistance Center for the Education of Children and Youth Who Are Neglected, Delinquent, or At Risk; and of research that focuses on the impact of specific types on prevention and treatment interventions. Osher has authored, co-authored, or edited over 150 books, monographs, chapters, articles, and reports. He helped the U. S. Department of Education develop The National Agenda for Improving Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance and is an expert on making collaboration work.
 

Eboo Patel Ph.D.
Founder and Executive Director
Interfaith Youth Core

Address:
1111 N. Wells, Ste. 501
Chicago, IL 60610

Phone:
312.573.8941

E-mail:
eboo@ifyc.org

Web:
http://www.ifyc.org...

A religious scholar and interfaith leader, Patel established the Chicago Interfaith Youth Core to encourage young people to strengthen their religious identities. He is the co-editor of "Building the Interfaith Youth Movement" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2006) and is currently writing a book on the role of religious youth in the 21st Century with Beacon Press.
 

Mercedes Perez de Colon
Chief Programs Officer
AVANCE

Address:
118 N. Medina St.
San Antonio, TX 78207

Phone:
210.270.4630, ext. 677

E-mail:
mcolon.nat@avance.org

Web:
http://avance.org...

The AVANCE Parent-Child Education Program focuses on parent education, early childhood development, brain development, literacy, and school readiness. The program serves predominantly poor Latino families in underserved communities. AVANCE reaches more than 20,000 individuals annually in centers and chapter sites throughout Texas and Los Angeles, California.
 

Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G St., NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

E-mail:
frc@sojourn.com

Web:
http://www.frc.org/...

The Family Research Council (FRC) champions marriage and family as the foundation of civilization. FRC formulates public policy that upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. It opposes abortion, homosexuality and same-sex marriage and produces policy papers through its Center for Marriage and Family Studies.
 

Adam Pertman
Executive Director
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute

Address:
525 Broadway, Sixth Floor
New York, NY 10012

Phone:
617.332.8944

E-mail:
apertman@adoptioninstitute.org

Web:
http://www.adoptioninstitute.org...

The institute, founded in 1996, is a national nonprofit organization devoted to improving adoption policy and practice. Pertman, a former Boston Globe reporter, was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for his writing about adoption. He is the author of "Adoption Nation" (Basic Books, 2001).
 

Terry Portis
Executive Director
SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People)

E-mail:
tportis@hearingloss.org

SHHH is the nation’s largest organization for people with hearing loss. According to 2003 CDC data, every day in the U.S., approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns (or 33 babies every day) is born profoundly deaf with another 2-3 out of 1,000 babies born with partial hearing loss.
 

Suzanne Ripley
Vice President and Director
Academy for Educational Development
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY)

Address:
P.O. Box 1492
Washington, DC 20013-1492

Phone:
202.884.8200

E-mail:
sripley@aed.org

Web:
http://www.nichcy.org/...

NICHCY is an information clearinghouse that provides information, referrals and publications on disabilities and disability-related issues, particularly those involving youth. Ripley advises families and educators on how best to serve children with special needs. Her focuses include special education, the rights of disabled children and early intervention.
 

Jennifer Rodriguez
Legislative and Policy Coordinator
California Youth Connection

Address:
604 Mission St., Ninth Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

Phone:
415.442.5060, Ext. 21

E-mail:
jennar22@hotmail.com

Web:
http://www.calyouthconn.org...

Rodriguez is the legislative and policy coordinator for the California Youth Connection (CYC), a nonprofit advocacy organization of current and former foster youth. CYC has 22 county-based chapters and over 400 members. It works on the local, state and national levels to educate legislators and policymakers about how policies and programs affect foster youth. As a former foster youth with years of placement in group homes and institutions, Rodriguez has both personal and professional experience with the issues facing foster children. She was emancipated from foster care to homelessness without a high school diploma, job skills or any adult support. After receiving a G.E.D. and vocational training, Rodriguez graduated in 2001 from the University of California, Davis, with a bachelor’s degree in sociology with high honors. She now attends law school at UC Davis.
 

Marc Rotenberg
Executive Director
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)

Address:
1718 Connecticut Ave. NW
Suite 200
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.483.1140, ext 106

E-mail:
rotenberg@epic.org

Web:
http://www.epic.org/...

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values. Rotenberg teaches information privacy law at Georgetown University Law Center and has testified before Congress on many issues, including access to information, encryption policy, consumer protection, computer security, and communications privacy.
 

Kelly Sakai
Meida Contact
Families and Work Institute

Address:
267 Fifth Ave., Floor 2
New York, NY 10016

Phone:
212.981.2559

E-mail:
ksakai@familiesandwork.org

Web:
www.familiesandwork.org...

The nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization studies the changing workforce, family and community. It examines issues such as caregiving leave, workplace flexibility, reduced work time and increased productivity in its “2008 Guide to Bold New Ideas for Making Work Work” (www.familiesandwork.org/3w/boldideas.pdf). FWI is based in New York. The New York-based nonprofit provides research and analysis in four major areas: the workforce and workplace; education, care and community (including early education); parenting; and youth development. Ellen Galinsky is its president.
 

Amy Saltzman
Communications Director
Appleseed

Address:
727 15th St., NW, 11th Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.347.7960

E-mail:
asaltzman@appleseeds.net

Web:
http://www.appleseeds.net...

Appleseed works at the local level, establishing and networking independent public interest law centers that identify and address issues community-by-community. As a legal pro bono network, Appleseed centers focus on public education, health care, child welfare, justice and immigration. Appleseed released the report, “It Takes a Parent: Transforming Education in the Wake of the No Child Left Behind Act.”
 

Héctor Sánchez-Flores
Senior Research Associate
Institute for Health Policy Studies
University of California, San Francisco

Address:
3333 California Street, Suite 265
San Francisco, CA 94143-0936

Phone:
415.476.3375

E-mail:
hector.sanchez@ucsf.edu

Web:
www.dhs.ca.gov/pcfh/ofp/Programs/MIP...

Héctor Sánchez-Flores is a senior research associate and member of the statewide evaluation team for the Male Involvement Program. He also serves as the liaison to the California Department of Health Services, Office of Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health – Office of Family Planning. Sánchez-Flores works closely with over 20 local projects in California that develop teen pregnancy prevention services specifically for young and teen males. He serves on national boards and advisory committees that address teen pregnancy prevention and male involvement, and he advises policy analysts and legislative leaders on community-based solutions to teen pregnancy and the inclusion of males in prevention efforts and reproductive health education.
 

Bill Saunders
Senior Fellow
Human Life and Bioethics
Family Research Council

Address:
801 G Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.393.2100

The Family Research Council shapes public debate and formulates public policy that values human life and upholds the institutions of marriage and the family. Saunders' focus is on embryo adoption and human cloning.
 

Annetta Seecharran
Executive Director
South Asian Youth Action

Address:
54-05 Seabury St.
Elmhurst, NY 11373

Phone:
718.651.3484

E-mail:
annetta@saya.org

Web:
http://www.saya.org...

Annetta Seecharran is the executive director of South Asian Youth Action (SAYA!), a community-based organization dedicated to creating social change and opportunities to help South Asian youth realize their fullest potential. Prior to joining SAYA! she spent five years at the International Youth Foundation, serving as program manager for YouthNet International, a network of youth development organizations in over 30 countries. Seecharran also founded YouthActionNet, a global initiative promoting youth social entrepreneurship. In addition to her extensive work with youth in New York City’s African American and Latino communities, she has worked with abandoned and disabled children in India and coordinated after-school programs in Poland. She serves on the boards of directors of the New York Immigration Coalition, Peoples Production House, and The Rajkumari Center for Indo-Caribbean Arts and Culture. Seecharran also advises numerous initiatives serving immigrants. She earned a master’s degree in international political economy and development at Fordham University, a bachelor’s degree in political science from Manhattanville College, and executive management certificates from Harvard Business School and Columbia Business School.
 

Tammy Seltzer
Senior Staff Attorney
Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Address:
1101 15th St. N.W., Suite 1212
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.467.5730, ext. 116

E-mail:
tammy@bazelon.org

Web:
http://www.bazelon.org/about/staff/seltzer.htm...

Tammy Seltzer is a senior staff attorney at the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law, a national nonprofit public interest organization formed in 1972 to advance the legal rights of people with mental disabilities. She is working on a project to prevent the unnecessary criminalization of mentally ill adults who have committed nonviolent offenses. She also is involved in a project to improve special education services for children and teens with emotional and behavioral problems who are at risk of arrest and detention. Seltzer has given technical assistance to states and mental health advocates on issues in children’s mental health. Bazelon recently published her reports “Suspending Disbelief,” in which she analyzed the positive behavioral support provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA); and “Teaming Up,” which describes how IDEA and Medicaid can be used to provide comprehensive mental health and support services for children and youth. Her law degree is from the David Clark School of Law at the University of the District of Columbia, and she earned her bachelor’s degree in public policy from Cornell University.
 

Eric Sigmon
Immigration Program Assistant
National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children

Address:
1717 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 200
Washington, DC 20036

Phone:
202.347.3507

E-mail:
NationalCenter@uscridc.org

Web:
http://www.refugees.org/article.aspx?id=1260&subm=...

The National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children provides pro bono legal and social services to unaccompanied children released from detention in the United States. Sigmon provides support by reviewing and processing case referrals, matching children with pro bono attorneys, and coordinating the pro bono trainings.
 

Alvaro Simmons
Chief operating officer
Mary's Center for Maternal and Child Care

Address:
2333 Ontario Road, N.W.
Washington, DC 20009

Phone:
202.483.8196

E-mail:
ASimmons@maryscenter.org

Web:
www.maryscenter.org...

Alvaro Simmons has served as Mary's Center's chief operating officer since early 2006. The center, established in 1988, serves families and individuals in metro Washington, D.C., who have limited or no access to health-related services. Alvaro has 18 years experience in the health care field, in addition to nearly 20 years as an educator in New York public schools and colleges. In his professional roles at various medical centers and hospitals, Alvaro has led multiple units working toward the best health care of patients in obstetrics, drug use treatment, mental health, and adolescent health units. For the past six years, Alvaro has worked in federally qualified health centers while leading the organizations to comply with FQHC regulations.
 

Marjorie Speers Ph.D.
Executive Director
Association for the Accreditation of Human Research Protection Programs, Inc.

Address:
915 15th Street, N.W.
Suite 400
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.783.1112

E-mail:
mspeers@aahrpp.org

Web:
http://www.aahrpp.org/www.aspx...

Dr. Speers served as Acting Executive Director at the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, where she oversaw the development of "Ethical and Policy Issues in Research Involving Human Participants." AAHRPP offers accreditation to institutions that conduct or review research with human participants.
 

Glenn T. Stanton
Director/Senior Research Analyst
Social Research and Cultural Affairs
Focus on the Family

Address:
8605 Explorer Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80920

Phone:
719.531.3336

E-mail:
N/A

Web:
http://www.family.org...

Focus on the Family is devoted to spreading Christian doctrine and preserving traditional family values, particularly the traditional institution of marriage.
 

Paul Taylor
Acting Director
Pew Hispanic Center

Address:
1615 L St. NW
Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036-5610

Phone:
202.419.3600

E-mail:
info@pewhispanic.org

Web:
www.pewhispanic.org...

The nonpartisan research organization aims to improve understanding of the U.S. Hispanic population and to chronicle its growing impact on the nation. Researchers have expertise in demographics, immigration and more. Based in Washington, D.C., it’s supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.
 

Lloyd Thacker
Executive Director
The Education Conservancy

Address:
805 SW Broadway, Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97205

Phone:
503.290.0083

E-mail:
lthacker@educationconservancy.org

Web:
http://www.educationconservancy.org...

Thacker is founder of the Education Conservancy, which helps students, colleges and high schools overcome commercial interference in college admissions. Its mission is to return control of college admissions to those who are directly involved in education: students, colleges, parents and high schools.
 

Donna Thompson Ph.D.
Director
National Program for Playground Safety

Address:
University of Northern Iowa
School of HPELS, WRC 205

Phone:
800.554.7529

E-mail:
donna.thompson@uni.edu

Web:
http://www.playgroundsafety.org/home.htm...

The National Program for Playground Safety (NPPS) conducts research on playground safety. Thompson has been certified as a playground safety inspector by the National Recreation and Parks Association.
 

Sean Tipton
Administrator
Public Affairs
American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM)

Address:
409 12th Street SW, Suite 203
Washington , DC 20024-2188

Phone:
202.863.2494

E-mail:
stipton@asrm-dc.org

Web:
http://www.asrm.org/...

ASRM's mission is to be the nationally and internationally recognized leader for multidisciplinary information, education, advocacy and standards in the field of reproductive medicine.
 

Stephanie Ventura
Senior Demographer and Chief, Reproductive Statistics Branch
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns. She is an author of the report “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the congressionally mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Marie Weller
President
Parents Without Partners

Address:
1650 South Dixie Highway, Suite 510
Boca Raton, FL 33432

Phone:
561.391.8833

E-mail:
pwppres@parentswithoutpartners.org

Parents Without Partners provides single parents and their children with an opportunity for enhancing personal growth, self-confidence and sensitivity towards others by offering an environment for support, friendship and the exchange of parenting techniques. Study issues for both custodial and noncustodial parents. Resources are provided through local chapters.
 

James H. Wendorf
Executive Director
National Center for Learning Disabilities

Address:
381 Park Ave. South, Suite 1401
New York, NY 10016

Phone:
212.545.7510

E-mail:
jwendorf@ncld.org

Web:
http://www.ncld.org/...

NCLD seeks to ensure that children, adolescents and adults with learning disabilities have every opportunity to succeed in school, work and life. The Web site offers state-specific resources and fact sheets.
 

Donald Whitehead
Executive Director
National Coalition for the Homeless

Address:
1012 Fourteenth St., N.W., Suite 600
Washington, DC 20005

Phone:
202.737.6444

E-mail:
nch@ari.net

Web:
http://www.nationalhomeless.org/...

The National Coalition for the Homeless, founded in 1984, is a national network of people who are currently experiencing or who have experienced homelessness, activists and advocates, community-based and faith-based service providers, and others committed to ending homelessness. The coalition can connect journalists with the names of over 150 regional, state and local advocates across the country.
 

Nancy Willard
Executive Director
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use

Address:
474 W. 29th Ave.
Eugene, OR 97405

Phone:
541.344.9125

E-mail:
info@csriu.org

Web:
http://csriu.org...

The Web site provides information to parents, educators, librarians, policymakers and others, so they can assist young people in safe, responsible use of the Internet and other information technologies. Willard, a consultant, holds a law degree and master's degree in special education, working with emotionally at-risk children. She writes a blog and has penned two books about cyber bullying.
 

Joan Williams
Professor of Law, Director
Law
The Center for WorkLife Law (WLL)

Address:
200 McAllister St.
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone:
415.565.4640

E-mail:
williams@uchastings.edu

Web:
http://www.uchastings.edu/?pid=3624...

Williams is an author, who researches work and family issues. Her studies focus on social psychology, conflicts between work and family, caregiving issues and workplace bias against mothers. Williams also is founding director of the Center for WorkLife Law (WLL), a research and advocacy center that seeks to eliminate employment discrimination against caregivers such as parents and adult children of aging parents.
 

Marci Young
Deputy Director
Center for the Child Care Workforce

Address:
555 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20001

Phone:
202.662.8005

E-mail:
myoung@ccw.org

Web:
http://www.ccw.org/...

The center – a project of the American Federation of Teachers Educational Foundation – works to ensure that the early care and education workforce is well-educated, better paid and heard. Its provides data, recent reports and archived newsletters.

 

 
 

 

Stephen Buckner
Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau

Phone:
301.763.3586

E-mail:
stephen.l.buckner@census.gov

Web:
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/...

Buckner handles queries about the decennial and American Community Survey.
 

Lynne M. Casper Ph.D.
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch (DBS)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
casperl@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/...

Casper's areas of scientific responsibility include: Family and household formation, structure, behavior and processes; fertility; marriage, divorce, and cohabitation; marriage and couple relationships; work, family and health; fatherhood; child care; child support and visitation; and child well-being. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

W. Alan Coulter Ph.D.
Project Director
National Center for Special Education Accountability Monitoring

Phone:
504.556.7559

E-mail:
acoulter@lsuhsc.edu

Web:
http://www.monitoringcenter.lsuhsc.edu/aboutus.htm...

NCSEAM), also known as the National Monitoring Center, is federally funded by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) of the U.S. Department of Education to assist states, local agencies, and OSEP in the implementation of focused monitoring and evidenced-based decision-making about compliance with federal law so that improved results are achieved for children with disabilities and their families. NCSEAM is housed at the Human Development Center at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans.
 

Bill Crews
Public affairs specialist
Department of Health and Human Services
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4800

E-mail:
wgc1@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/...

Part of the Centers for Disease Control, NCHS collects data on the number of marriages and divorces in a given year, including first marriages and remarriages, brides’ and grooms’ ages, divorces and whether children are involved.
 

Gerard Donovan
Sergeant
Family Services Unit
New Castle County Police

Address:
87 Reads Way
New Castle, DE 19720

Phone:
302.395.7760

E-mail:
GDonovan@co.new-castle.de.us

Web:
http://www.nccpd.com...

Donovan is a 12-year veteran of the New Castle County (Del.) Police, and since 1995 has worked in the Domestic Violence Unit, the past two years as its commander. Donovan has conducted training seminars throughout the United States on domestic violence and abuse, and the relationship between domestic violence and other crises; his work on the latter was the model for a statewide program for hostage negotiators in California. Donovan helped produce two videos on domestic abuse, one to enhance public awareness, the other to standardize the way police investigate domestic violence calls. The federally funded videos were distributed throughout the United States and abroad. Donovan is also the commander of the department's Crisis Negotiation Team.
 

Maureen Dunn
Division Director
Division of Unaccompanied Children's Services (DUCS)
Division of Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR)

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., 6th Floor
Washington, DC 20447

Phone:
202.401.5709

E-mail:
MDunn@acf.hhs.gov

Web:
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/orr/mission/ducs....

DUCS, in accordance with the Homeland Security Act of 2002, assumes responsibility for care and placement of unaccompanied alien children. It also consults with appropriate child welfare professionals and the Department of Homeland Security. It develops placement policy, decisions and recommendations to ensure that children are receiving appropriate care.
 

Grace Zamora Durán Ph.D.
Education Research Analyst
Office of Special Education Programs
U.S. Department of Education

Address:
330 C Street, SW
Mary Switzer Building, Room 4620
Washington, DC 20202

Phone:
202.401.2997

Web:
http://www.coedu.usf.edu/laser/duran.html...

Zamora Durán works on projects related to the disproportionate representation of urban and impoverished children in special education, culturally/linguistically diverse populations, English Language Learners, gender equity, assessment, and curriculum and instruction. Previously she was an assistant executive director at The Council for Exceptional Children and as a special education teacher.
 

Blair Gately
Press Officer
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services

Address:
6001 Executive Blvd
Rockville, MD 20852

Phone:
301.594.6145

E-mail:
bg130m@nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html...

NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA addresses the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach research.
 

Shara Godiwalla
Director
Federal Agency Forum on Child and Family Statistics

Phone:
301.458.4256

E-mail:
sgodiwalla@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.childstats.gov/topiccontacts.asp...

A collaboration of federal agencies and departments, the forum fosters coordination in collecting and reporting federal statistics on family and social environment, economic circumstances, health and health care, physical environment and safety, behavior and education. It releases an annual report, “America’s Children: Key National Indicators of Well-being,” each July. For 2007 data, see http://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp For federal statistics on a range of issues, see www.fedstats.gov
 

Michael Hogan Ph.D.
Director
Ohio Department of Mental Health

Address:
30 East Broad St., Eighth Floor
Columbus, OH 43215

Phone:
614.466.2337

E-mail:
hoganm@mhmail.mh.state.oh.us

Web:
http://www.mh.state.oh.us...

Michael Hogan is director of the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Since joining the department 13 years ago, he has focused on moving mental health in Ohio from an institutionally oriented system to one focused on locally managed community care. President George W. Bush appointed him to chair the President’s New Freedom Commission on Mental Health; the commission concluded its work in July 2003. He is the current president of the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors. Before taking his job in Ohio, Hogan held leadership positions with mental health agencies in Massachusetts and Connecticut. In Massachusetts, he helped make the western part of the state one of the only regions in the country where people with mental retardation and mental illness are treated almost entirely in community care instead of state institutions. As commissioner of mental health in Connecticut, Hogan was credited with reducing state hospital use and costs, and expanding and improving community services. Hogan holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate from Syracuse University. In 2002, Hogan was recognized with awards from the National Governor’s Association and the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
 

Wade Horn Ph.D.
Director
U.S. / State Government Sector
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Address:
12010 Sunset Hills Road
Suite 500
Reston, VA 20190

Phone:
703.885.6000

Web:
http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/press_release/0,1014,s...

Horn is an adviser to health and human services clients of Deloitte Consulting’s state government practice. Before joining Deloitte in 2007, he'd been assistant secretary for ACF since 2001. While there, Horn worked to increase the effectiveness of Head Start and early childhood education programs, promote positive youth development and build partnerships with community and faith-based organizations in delivering social services to the poor. Additionally, Horn launched a mentoring program for children of incarcerated parents and a public awareness campaign to help rescue victims of human trafficking. Earlier, Horn was president of the National Fatherhood Initiative. Contact Tourang Nazari in public relations at 703.885.6233 or tnazari@deloitte.com.
 

Rosalind B. King Ph.D.
Address:
Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch
Executive Building, Room 8B07, 6100 Executive Boulevard, MSC 7510
Bethesda, MD 20892-7510

Phone:
301.496.1174

E-mail:
rozking@mail.nih.gov

Web:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/cpr/dbs/dbs.htm#staff...

King's areas of scientific responsibility include: early child development; socioeconomic contexts of child/adolescent social and physical development; research using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health; infertility and fertility; adoption; work, family, and health. The Demographic and Behavioral Sciences Branch is one of three programs in the Center for Population Research of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
 

Kenneth Meyer
Chief Public Information Officer
U.S. Census Bureau

Address:
4600 Silver Hill Road
Washington, DC 20233

Phone:
301.763.3100

E-mail:
pio@census.gov

Web:
http://www.census.gov...

The bureau’s population division disseminates data on households and families in the annual Current Population Survey, released in March. The American Community Survey covers the nation as well as states, large counties and cities. The bureau also estimates net international migration for the country, states and counties. The fertility and family statistics branch, at the Suitland, Md., headquarters, provides data on childbearing and more.
 

Martin O'Connell
Chief
Fertility and Family Statistics Branch
U.S. Census Bureau/Population Division

Address:
Room 2351, Building 3
Washington, DC 20233

Phone:
301.763.2406

E-mail:
martin.t.oconnell@census.gov

Web:
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fa...

O’Connell is the author of many papers on fertility, child-care and demographic issues related to children, youth and families. The division collects supplemental data regarding fertility for the most current U.S. population survey.
 

Lynn Okagaki Ph.D.
Deputy Director for Science
Institute of Education Sciences
U.S. Department of Education

Address:
555 New Jersey Avenue, N.W.
Suite 600
Washington, DC 20208

Phone:
202.219.2006

E-mail:
Lynn.Okagaki@ed.gov

Web:
http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/cdfs/pages/fac_staff/oka...

Okagaki is deputy director for science at the Institute of Education Sciences in the U.S. Department of Education. She is a developmental psychologist who was professor of Child Development and Family Studies and associate dean of the School of Consumer and Family Sciences at Purdue University. Her research has focused on parenting and minority children’s school achievement and on the socialization of children’s values.
 

Stephanie J. Ventura Ph.D.
Chief, Reproductive Statistics
Division of Vital Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics

Address:
3311 Toledo Road, Room 7418
Hyattsville, MD 20782

Phone:
301.458.4547

E-mail:
sventura@cdc.gov

Web:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchswww/index.htm...

Ventura is a senior demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics and is chief of the Center’s Reproductive Statistics Branch. She has published extensively on a number of fertility-related topics, especially births to unmarried mothers, teenage pregnancy, delayed childbearing and childbearing by Hispanic women. She has also authored many reports on teenage births, including detailed analyses of national and state-specific patterns, and developed with colleagues a set of national estimates of pregnancy rates. She is co-author of the report, “What is Happening to Out-of-Wedlock Teen Childbearing?” and the Congressionally-mandated report, “The Demography of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing.”
 

Andrea Williams
ReConnect Program Coordinator
Women in Prison Project
Correctional Association of New York

Address:
135 East 15th St.
New York, NY 10003

Phone:
212.254.5700, Ext. 338

E-mail:
awilliams@correctionalassociation.org

Web:
http://www.correctionalassociation.org/WIPP/WIPP_m...

Williams will help connect journalists to former women inmates in New York and elsewhere. The Women in Prison Project addresses the effects of New York’s criminal justice policies on women and their families. It is the only project with the authority to visit female correctional facilities to monitor conditions of confinement.
 

Linda Wolfe
Education Specialist in Health Services
School Support Services
Delaware Department of Education

Address:
John G. Townsend Building
401 Federal St., Suite 2
Dover, DE 19901

Phone:
302.739.4676

E-mail:
lwolfe@doe.k12.de.us

Web:
http://www.doe.k12.de.us...

Linda C. Wolfe, RN, is the Delaware Department of Education’s educational specialist in health services. In this job, she works with the 300 nurses in public and private schools throughout Delaware. On the agency level, she advises the department on issues related to health and health services, and represents the agency on health issues. From 2001 to 2003, Wolfe was the president of the National Association of School Nurses (NASN), a professional organization with more than 12,000 members. She received her nursing degree at the University of Delaware and her master’s degree in education administration from Wilmington College, also in Delaware. She served on the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on school health between 1999 and 2001. In 1998, she was a member of the task force that created the current NASN/American Nurses Association standards of professional school nursing. She has written several articles for journals covering health care.
 

Kenneth Wolfe
ACF Acting Deputy Director
Administration on Children and Families
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Address:
370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W.
Washington, DC 20201

Phone:
202.401.9215

E-mail:
kenneth.wolfe@acf.hhs.gov

Web:
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/index.html...

ACF funds state, territory, local and tribal organizations to improve the economic and social well-being of families, children, individuals and communities. It oversees roughly 60 programs involving child welfare and child support, Head Start, child care, family violence, and fatherhood and marriage.