National Behavioral Health Revitalization Plan

Anne Kuppinger has focused her professional energies on fostering partnerships among researchers, providers, funders, policymakers, families, youth and communities to improve access to effective and responsive services for children and families. Over the years Anne has worked at the Center for the Study of Social Policy, the New York State Office of Mental Health, Families Together in New York State, the NYU Langone IDEAS Center and the Community Technical Assistance Center at NYU. In recent years, her focus has been on scaling up the training and credentialing of Family and Youth Peer Advocates, promoting family-driven and youth-guided practice, and supporting children’s services providers in a variety of ways. Anne earned her BA in History from Boston College and her Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Maryland at College Park. She and her husband, Dan, live in Albany, New York.

Barbara Huff is retired however continues doing part time consulting in the area of children’s mental health. She is the parent of a daughter who grew up with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse challenges. Her struggle to get appropriate services, supports, and treatment for her daughter led her to advocate on a larger scale. As the founder of Keys for Networking, a statewide family-run advocacy organization in Kansas, she led a national movement to create a voice for families in their children’s care, in systems change, and in the evaluation of services and supports. She became one of the founders and the first president of the national Federation of Families for Children’s Mental Health. She served 13 years as the Federation’s Executive Director. Ms. Huff’s presidential appointment to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Advisory Council raised the family voice to a new level of influence on policy and systems change. Barbara later worked part time as the Family Outreach Director for the Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health Campaign.

Ann Garland is a 2022-23 Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Mental Health, Professor Emerita in Psychiatry at UCSD and former Professor & Chair of the Department of Counseling & Marital and Family Therapy at the University of San Diego. Her scholarly work aims to improve mental health care for children and families by bridging the gap between science and community practice in local, national, and international contexts. Drawing from her experience training mental health professionals across disciplines she published the book, Pursuing a Career in Mental Health: A Comprehensive Guide for Aspiring Professionals (2022, Oxford University Press).

Dr. Garland received her PhD in Clinical & Community Psychology from Yale University, an M.A. from Teachers College at Columbia University, and a B.A. from U.C. Berkeley.

Bruce Chorpita, PhD, is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York under the direction of David Barlow. Dr. Chorpita performed his clinical residency at the University of Mississippi, and held a faculty position with the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1997 to 2008. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Chorpita also served as the Clinical Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, helping implement evidence-based services statewide in their system of care. During this time, Dr. Chorpita received awards from the Hawaii Psychological Association, the Hawaii Board of Regents, and Governor Linda Lingle.

Dr. Chorpita currently directs the Child FIRST Program at UCLA, which is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of mental health services delivered to all children, through innovation in mental health treatment design, clinical decision-making and information-delivery models, and mental health system architecture and processes. This work occurs primarily in the context of partnerships with community agencies delivering mental health services throughout California and across the country. Dr. Chorpita also is president of PracticeWise, LLC, a consulting organization that provides decision support technology and training to mental health organizations across the country and that regularly publishes a report of evidence-based child and adolescent psychosocial interventions for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Dr. bijoux is the Deputy Director for Equity and Racial Justice. As a Senior Fellow at Georgetown University and member of the CJJR senior leadership team, Dr. bijoux advances a racial justice and Community Development framework in all of CJJR’s programs and initiatives, including the Crossover Youth Practice Model, Breakthrough Series Collaborative, and antiracism trainings in numerous counties across the United States.

A nationally recognized race scholar and thought leader, Dr. bijoux has worked as the Director of the Dually Involved Youth Initiative in Santa Clara County, CA and as a program coordinator consultant with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services, where among other things, he facilitated equity and fairness workshops and co-chaired the DYS Family Advisory Council. He also served as an adjunct professor at Newbury College. Dr. bijoux holds a PhD in Social Policy from the Heller School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, and a Master of Public Health from Drexel University’s Dornsife School of Public Health.

Jeffrey Aaron, Ph.D. is a clinical and forensic psychologist who serves as Juvenile Justice & Behavioral Health Program Manager for the Virginia Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services, where he focuses on the intersection of the mental health and juvenile justice systems.  Previously, Dr. Aaron was the Director of the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents (CCCA), Virginia’s only state-operated psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents, and prior to that role, served as Clinical Director of an adolescent inpatient unit, Ethics Committee chair, Forensic Coordinator, and Director of Psychology at CCCA.

Dr. Aaron is on the faculty at the University of Virginia School of Medicine and is associate faculty at the Institute of Law, Psychiatry & Public Policy, also at UVa.  He conducts forensic psychological evaluations of adolescents and adults, with areas of specialization that include adolescent decision-making, mitigation, juvenile transfer, evaluating confession evidence, trial competency, and post traumatic stress.  He has provided invited testimony before the Virginia House and Senate and has presented across Virginia and nationally on forensic and clinical mental health evaluation, adolescent development and legal decision-making, trauma, and other clinical and forensic topics.

Dr. Aaron was a member of the Mental Health Workgroup of the Virginia Governor’s Task Force on School and Campus Safety, and the Charlottesville/Albemarle gang intervention project known as Gang Reduction through Active Community Engagement. He is currently focused on understanding and trying to improve interactions between police and youth, given the potential for those interactions to be highly consequential. A primary focus of this work is training, including providing training to law enforcement officers to help them better understand youth, assessment of the need and rationale for such training, and evaluation of its effectiveness.

Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., is Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department from 2012 to 2019. She holds a joint position with the Division of Children, Youth and Families at the New York State Office of Mental Health as a Research Scientist. Previously she was Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, specializing in children’s mental health services research. Before coming to New York, she was Associate Director for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research with the National Institute of Mental Health, and oversaw the entire portfolio of research on children and adolescents, spanning basic to applied studies. This gave her a broad perspective on research gaps and the theoretical and methodological connections that exist among different areas of science. In 2000 she served as the Scientific Editor for the Office of the Surgeon General’s National Action Agenda on Children’s Mental Health with Dr. David Satcher. She was instrumental in crafting NIMH’s Blueprint for Change report, which forecasted the emergence of the field of implementation and dissemination research, and she also contributed to the 1999 Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health.

In 2012, she was awarded the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science SIG Achievement Award. In 2015, she received the Carl A. Taube Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and monographs, and has been appointed to two National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committees: Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders and the Forum for Children’s Well-Being, where she currently co-chairs the Collaborative on Pediatric Vital Signs for the Health and Well-Being of Children.

Dr. Hoagwood is Director of the Center for Implementation-Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices among States, known as IDEAS, an ALACRITY Center funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH113662) (www.ideas4kidsmentalhealth.org). This work builds on two prior NIMH-funded centers, as well as numerous other federal grants and state contracts, all focused on improving children’s mental health services in state systems. Her specific research interests focus on parent activation in children’s health services, quality measurement in children’s behavioral health, and improving state policies that affect child and family services through the use of scientific evidence.

Leonard Bickman, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at Florida International University and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Ontrak Health Inc. He previously held the Betts Endowed Chair and was Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University. Professor Bickman is an internationally recognized leader in program evaluation and mental health services research. He has been recognized for his contributions by several organizations including the American Evaluation Association’s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, The American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy, The Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (HHS), Jeannie P. Baliles Child Mental Health Services Research Award and Vanderbilt University’s Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research. He has published more than 15 books and monographs and 200 articles and chapters and has been principal investigator on over 25 major grants from several state and federal agencies. He was co-editor of the Applied Research Methods Series, the Handbook of Applied Social Research, the International Handbook of Social Research, and the forthcoming Evaluation Handbook. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council, Center for Mental Health Services of SAMHSA.

Dr. Maurice Feldman is a Professor Emeritus in the Dept. of Applied Disability Studies. He is a registered clinical psychologist in Ontario and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (Doctoral level). He has over 170 peer-review publications and 250 invited addresses, conference presentations/posters, and workshops. He is considered a world-leader on parenting by persons with learning difficulties. The evidence-based Step-by-Step© Parenting Program he and his colleagues developed and evaluated is emulated worldwide. He conducts parenting assessments of parents with learning difficulties and has written the only book on this topic (Feldman & Aunos, 2010). He provides both in person and virtual workshops to train workers in the Step-by-Step© Parenting Program. In addition to his work in parenting, Dr. Feldman has additional clinical expertise and conducts research in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and intellectual disabilities. He is the lead researcher in the design and validation of a parent-report screener to track early infant development called the Parent Observation of Early Markers Scale (POEMS). The POEMS predicts ASD diagnosis as early as 9 months of age in at-risk children (Feldman et al., 2012) and is used to identify treatment targets for parent-mediated interventions for infants and young children at-risk for ASD (Azzano et al., 2022a, b). He is currently conducting a study of an online version of the POEMS (called the Parent Observation Checklist).

Dr. Richard L. Wiener received his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Houston and studied law at the University of Nebraska/Lincoln (UNL) College of Law where he earned a Master’s Degree in Legal Studies. He is currently the Charles Bessey Professor of Psychology and Law at UNL where he served as the director of the Law and Psychology Program from 2002 until 2015. Dr. Wiener is the past editor of Law and Human Behavior, the official journal of the American Psychology/Law Society (Division 41 of the American Psychological Association) and formally the Secretary/Treasurer of the Society for Psychological Study of Social Issues (SPSSI).

Wiener serves as the research consultant for the Nebraska Administrative Office of Probation (NAOP) and also serves the Nebraska Judiciary as a Supreme Court appointee to the Committee on Problem Solving Courts. Dr. Wiener is a research and evaluation consultant for Lancaster County, the City of Lincoln, Nebraska, and the Vermont Network against Domestic Violence.

Professor Wiener studies the application of social and cognitive psychology to problems of legal decision-making with a focus on diversity and inclusion issues in the law. He also has wide expertise in applied research and program evaluation. He is the recipient of funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Justice and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Dr. Wiener has published numerous research articles, edited volumes, book chapters and law review articles. Professor Wiener teaches courses at the graduate level and in the Law College at UNL. Dr. Wiener is best known and cited for his work in legal decision making including judgments about sexual harassment, jury decision making in capital murder, and emotion in the law. He has published numerous articles in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Law and Human Behavior, Sex Roles, Psychology Public Policy and the Law and the Journal of Experimental Psychology – Applied. In addition, he is the editor, co-editor, and major contributor to several books in the University of Nebraska Law and Psychology book series, which include “Social Consciousness in Legal Decision Making: Psychological Perspective” (2007), “Civil Juries And Civil Justice: Psychological And Legal Perspectives” (2008), “Mental Disorder and Criminal Law: Responsibility, Punishment and Competence” (2009),“Emotion and the Law”(2010), Problem Solving Courts (2012), Justice, Conflict and Wellbeing (2014).

William (Bill) Reay has been a national leader in mental health services and behavioral health services research for more than 25 years. As one of the original Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) developers, Bill was associated with both child and family research centers in Portland, Oregon and Tampa, Florida. As one of the founding members of the National Federation for Children’s Mental Health, he has been central to organizing parents across the United States to improve mental health care for children. Bill is one of the original leaders in the System-of-Care development and movement, and served as a professional research member of the United States Department of Education’s Evaluation Team for the Research and Training Centers.

Bill received his Master of Arts degree in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Nebraska, Department of Psychology, at Omaha. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology with a minor in Law from the University of Nebraska, combined Department of Law and Psychology, College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill has written numerous professional articles on a variety of subjects associated with public health and behavioral health services.

Joe McHugh is a storyteller, musician, writer, educator, and award-winning public radio journalist. He served as the founding director of the Youth Museum of Southern West Virginia where he also produced and hosted a weekly segment on Appalachian folkways for West Virginia Public Television. As an artist and curriculum developer, he has worked for numerous government agencies and non-profit organizations including the National Endowment for the Arts, United State Justice Department, West Virginia Department of Culture and History, Pennsylvania Department of Education, California Department of Education, California Youth Authority, Judicial Counsel of California, Washington State Office of Public Defense, California School Library Association, National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association.

He has also served on the faculty of the Gates Foundation-funded Washington State Educational Leadership Academy, the Evergreen State College, and Davis and Elkins College. He has authored seven books as well as numerous stage and radio plays. He is currently the producer and host of two public radio/podcast series: Rosin the Bow, an Audio Journey Through the World of the Violin Family (rosinthebow.org) and The Telling Takes Us Home, a Celebration of American Family Stories. (americanfamilystories.org)

Johanna Bergan (she/her) is a change leader working in systems transformation to effectively support young people navigating our country’s social systems. Johanna has fourteen years of experience advocating for important changes in youth serving systems and most recently served as the Executive Director at Youth MOVE National from 2015 to 2022. Her voice has been heard on several national platforms including advising technical assistance and research and training centers which support and promote the value of youth voice. Some of her most important professional experiences included serving the Youth MOVE National Board of Directors during the visioning process to create the Youth MOVE Chapter Network. Johanna intentionally provides ongoing support, coaching, and mentoring to emerging youth leaders and the leaders of youth driven organizations to further strengthen the national youth movement.

Karen Yost, MA, has over 30 years’ experience providing, developing, and overseeing services for individuals with behavioral health issues, SUDs, and intellectual/developmental disabilities. The is a Licensed Social Worker and Licensed Professional Counselor. In addition, she is a Nationally Certified Counselor, Approved Licensed Professional Supervisor, Master Additions Counselor, Clinically Certified Domestic Violence Counselor, Certified Sex Offender Treatment Specialist and Certified School Counselor for grades K-12. She has extensive experience in training, trauma-informed practice, multi-system collaboration, working with first-responders and law enforcement and working with rural and economically challenged communities. She has served as President and CEO of Prestera Center for Mental Health Services in West Virginia, which is the State’s largest Certified Comprehensive Behavioral Health Center, serving predominantly rural communities providing comprehensive behavioral health care and substance use treatment. She was appointed to serve on the Governor’s Advisory Committee on Substance Abuse that has been a leader in framing statewide and community responses to the opioid crisis and the Governor’s Indigent Defense Commission. She also brings the frontline perspective and experience of program directors across a range of clinical settings as well as expertise in service integration at local, regional, and state levels.

Pat’s lived experience as a parent set the foundation for her career path. As a nationally recognized family-leader, Hunt brings over 30 years of experience promoting and advancing positive outcomes for children with behavioral health needs and their caregivers. Hunt’s extensive experience with overseeing federal and state grants includes serving as the founding director of a statewide family-run organization. Pat has served as a VISTA Volunteer; directed a three year federally funded rural substance abuse prevention project; managed SAMHSA statewide network and community action grants, served as president of the Maine’s mental health planning council and was the only non-state employee member appointed to the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet early in her career. A key leader in shifting policy in Maine yielded her appointment by the President of the Senate to an oversight committee for children’s services. Her expertise in public policy and planning has supported 42 states to develop policy solutions, and implement and sustain evidence-based and best practices for children, young adults and their families. Her accomplishments also include developing policy briefs for grassroots experience to inform state and national decisions, and providing consultation to federally funded comprehensive community mental health System of Care sites to advance technical and adaptive change. Hunt received nominations for Robert Woods Johnson and Lewis Hine awards. During the past 20 years, her personal experience has continued to inform her work in the managed care industry and two national family-run organizations. This experience continues to fuel her passion for developing solutions within child serving systems.

Prameela Boorada is a social-impact storyteller with an artsy, entrepreneurial spirit. She currently serves as the CEO/Founder of Impact Playground – which is an identity-driven, social-justice education platform designed for youth and a 2023 awardee for the Oak and Tides Foundation x Look Up and Live’s Innovation Challenge. Growing up in India, Prameela was raised on a wonderful selection of fables, mythology, biographies and experiences. After moving to the United States, she attended UC Davis and graduated with a degree in Quantitative Psychology.

She recently started as the “Youth Coordinator” for the YouthLab Initiative by Hopelab, a mental health innovation lab based in San Francisco. She will be doing this full-time role alongside leading Impact Playground. Prameela has also worked on several social-impact ventures. She built an app to provide culturally-congruent anxiety care strategies. She secured a Research Fellowship at HeadStream Innovations where she surveyed the impact of vulnerability in digital spaces on youth wellbeing, advised 15 startups on how to focus their DEI efforts and published a collection of stories from creatives of color. She got involved in grass-roots mental health advocacy through MannMukti and launched a national South Asian Youth Fellowship in 2020. She recently served on Mental Health America’s 2021 Youth Mental Health Leaders Council where she advocated for building more inclusive, equitable, and ethical platforms for youth advocates. She has presented, co-presented, and been a panelist at several conferences nationally.

Robert Lettieri is the Director of Youth Training at Families Together in New York State. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Community and Human Services from SUNY Empire State University. Robert is a national public speaker and advocate who is passionate about creating a more inclusive and supportive society. Growing up in both the health care and mental health systems, he is dedicated to advocating for others who have endured both similar and abstract hardships. Being a part of multiple boards and committees on state and local levels, he consistently strives to advocate for the larger voice. With years of experience managing a statewide workforce and directing a statewide training program, Robert takes his passion for advocacy to new levels every opportunity he gets.

Judge Lawrence Gendler (ret.) was Sarpy County’s (NE) first, full-time juvenile prosecutor and only the second juvenile court judge appointed in the county (1992). Since his appointment, he has served on several committees and initiatives across NE. In 2006, he was appointed to the NE Supreme Court Judicial Ethics Committee, became Vice Chair in 2010, and was appointed Chair in the final year of his term. Judge Gendler is an inaugural member of the Supreme Court Committee on Problem-Solving Courts and oversaw the establishment of NE’s first juvenile drug court. In 2006, the Supreme Court established a statewide project called “Through the Eyes of the Child.” Judge Gendler was the Project Chair (from its inception until his retirement in 2021) overseeing the establishment and ongoing work of 25 judge-led, multidisciplinary teams across the state, focused on improving outcomes for youth and families in the court system. As Project Chair, he was appointed as an initial member of the Supreme Court Commission for the Protection of Children in 2006. As part of his Commission duties, he chaired an education subcommittee. Seeking to improve educational outcomes for court-involved youth, the subcommittee designed and implemented an education court report form, which has become a mandatory part of all child welfare and juvenile justice court reports.

Deborah (Deb) Latzke has been with Counseling Services of Southern Minnesota since 2018. Currently, she is the Director of School-Linked Mental Health Services (SLMH). Deb completed her Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology at Southwest Minnesota State University, followed by her Master of Science degree in Community Counseling at Minnesota State University-Moorhead. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC), a Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC) and a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist with the International Certification Board of Clinical Hypnotherapy. Deb is a Nationally Certified Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapist (TF-CBT), an Eye Movement Desensitization Rehabilitation (EMDR) trained therapist, the agency Supervisor of Managing and Adapting Practices (MAP) in which she also holds certification and is a Minnesota Board Approved Supervisor with the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy for Licensed Professional Counselors and Alcohol and Drug Counselors.

In addition to her clinical work, Deb provides clinical supervision to clinical trainees and licensed professionals. She provides training to new clinical staff/interns who are part of the School-Linked Program in MAP and assists them in becoming certified as a MAP therapist.  Deb oversees and manages the School-Linked grant and ensures compliance with the State of Minnesota. Deb works in collaboration with supervisors of other specialty services CSSM provides. Most recently, Deb completed and applied for CSSM to become a Certified Substance Use Disorder clinic through the Department of Human Services in the state of Minnesota.

Deb is an advocate for mental health and substance use treatments and services while both providing direct care and supervising staff to ensure compliance and ethical treatment modalities and services are delivered.

Adam Bernstein has led PracticeWise technology operations for over a decade and provides leadership and management for clinical products. He received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from UCLA and a coterminal B.A. in computer science and M.A. in psychology from Stanford University. This dual clinical and technical expertise makes him well-suited to build and communicate the applied tools of clinical science, moving from the data bits to the training room and administrative consultation. His research has focused on helping service systems inform selection of evidence-based treatments to benefit as many youths and families as possible in their unique local service populations.

Aleta Angelosante, PhD, is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the NYU Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry where she serves as the Clinical Director of the Anxiety and Mood Disorders Service. Dr. Angelosante treats children, adolescents, and young adults with anxiety disorders – including obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and panic disorder, depressive disorders, and other related disorders using evidence based interventions such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), habit reversal therapy (HRT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT).  She has published articles and chapters on youth anxiety, and currently is the Lead Trainer at the Evidenced-Based Treatment Dissemination Center, training mental health practitioners throughout New York State. Dr. Angelosante has been intensively trained in DBT and is a Training Professional for Managing and Adapting Practice (MAP).

Bruce Chorpita, PhD, is currently Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his PhD in psychology from the University at Albany, State University of New York under the direction of David Barlow. Dr. Chorpita performed his clinical residency at the University of Mississippi, and held a faculty position with the Department of Psychology at the University of Hawaii from 1997 to 2008. From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Chorpita also served as the Clinical Director of the Hawaii State Department of Health Child and Adolescent Mental Health Division, helping implement evidence-based services statewide in their system of care. During this time, Dr. Chorpita received awards from the Hawaii Psychological Association, the Hawaii Board of Regents, and Governor Linda Lingle.

Dr. Chorpita currently directs the Child FIRST Program at UCLA, which is dedicated to improving the effectiveness of mental health services delivered to all children, through innovation in mental health treatment design, clinical decision-making and information-delivery models, and mental health system architecture and processes. This work occurs primarily in the context of partnerships with community agencies delivering mental health services throughout California and across the country. Dr. Chorpita also is president of PracticeWise, LLC, a consulting organization that provides decision support technology and training to mental health organizations across the country and that regularly publishes a report of evidence-based child and adolescent psychosocial interventions for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Eric Daleiden, Ph.D. seeks to help youth and families achieve their personal vision of the good life through his professional endeavors, engagement in community and youth development activities, and family dedication. He is currently the president of Kismetrics, LLC and a partner of PracticeWise, LLC. He has experience launching and growing multiple organization including as co-founder of PracticeWise, LLC, the Research and Evaluation Training Program of the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, the Center for Community Research and Development at the University of Tulsa, and a community soccer collective that has been thriving for 20 years. Dr. Daleiden holds degrees in psychology and philosophy with a Ph.D. in psychology from The Ohio State University. He has published over 100 scientific papers and book chapters with his research of the past decade focused on improving understanding and delivery of behavioral health services, including efficient ways to identify, implement, evaluate, adapt, and coordinate mental health treatments for youth supported by high quality evidence from scientific and service systems. Specific topics include analytic models for extracting and aggregating information from independent lines of treatment research across a body of literature; design and implementation of modular, multi-focus, multi-investigator evidence-based treatments; and measurement feedback systems design, implementation, and evaluation. Dr. Daleiden’s recent investigations are exploring opportunities afforded by contemporary large-scale efforts toward health information interoperability and semantically linked data.

Heather Brennan, Ph.D., is the CEO of PracticeWise. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the healthcare industry with a focus on strategic direction and business growth in women’s health and wellness. Prior to joining PracticeWise, Dr. Brennan has held a variety of executive leadership positions including serving as the VP/General Manager of MTF Biologics’ Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Franchise, where she drove significant growth and solidified a leadership spot for the company in post-mastectomy breast reconstruction. Dr. Brennan is passionate about using her experience in the business of healthcare to advance the field of behavioral health and enhance patient outcomes through scientific evidence. She graduated from Lehigh University with a Mechanical Engineering degree and from Rutgers University with her doctorate in Biomedical Engineering.

Dr. James H. Sorrell is a psychiatrist based at the Methodist Fremont Health Behavioral Health outpatient clinic. He majored in philosophy and history as an undergraduate at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln before attending medical school at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC). He completed an internship and residency at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He also completed a residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University Medical Center in St. Louis. He spent 20 years as a member of the UNMC faculty and working with the medical center’s organ transplant program. He also has served as a consultant for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, assisting with child services and people with developmental disabilities. Dr. Sorrell specializes in helping patients with brain injuries, developmental disabilities, and complex mood disorders like depression.

Dr. John LaNear serves as Vice President of Academic Affairs for Capitol Technology University. Until this recent appointment, Dr. LaNear was Provost and Chief Academic Officer for Northcentral University. In previous roles, he has served as a faculty member, department chair, dean, and in various other administrative roles in private and public colleges and universities in California, Missouri, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Prior to his work in higher education, Dr. LaNear practiced law and served as an Assistant Attorney General in the state of Missouri. Dr. LaNear’s academic research has focused on two key areas: academic freedom and special education law. He has been published in a variety of journals focused on education and law, including Education and the Law, the Encyclopedia of Education Law, the Journal of Educational Administration, the Journal of Law and Education, the Education Law Reporter, and others. He was selected as a Fellow of the Higher Education Law Roundtable at the University of Houston and has given numerous professional presentations for a variety of organizations, including the Association for Study of Higher Education, the Education Law Association, the American Education Research Association, and the University Council for Educational Administration. Dr. LaNear has also served as Regional Higher Education Case Reporter for the Education Law Association’s School Law Reporter and as School Law and Higher Education Editor for the Missouri Bar Association’s Courts and CLE Bulletin. John earned a B.A. in English from Missouri State University, J.D. degree from the University of Missouri – Kansas City School of Law, a M.S. in Educational Administration and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis from University of Wisconsin – Madison.

Kimberly Eaton Hoagwood, Ph.D., is Cathy and Stephen Graham Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. She served as Vice Chair for Research in the Department from 2012 to 2019. She holds a joint position with the Division of Children, Youth and Families at the New York State Office of Mental Health as a Research Scientist. Previously she was Professor of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry at Columbia University, specializing in children’s mental health services research. Before coming to New York, she was Associate Director for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Research with the National Institute of Mental Health, and oversaw the entire portfolio of research on children and adolescents, spanning basic to applied studies. This gave her a broad perspective on research gaps and the theoretical and methodological connections that exist among different areas of science. In 2000 she served as the Scientific Editor for the Office of the Surgeon General’s National Action Agenda on Children’s Mental Health with Dr. David Satcher. She was instrumental in crafting NIMH’s Blueprint for Change report, which forecasted the emergence of the field of implementation and dissemination research, and she also contributed to the 1999 Surgeon General’s Report on Mental Health.

In 2012, she was awarded the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ABCT) Dissemination and Implementation Science SIG Achievement Award. In 2015, she received the Carl A. Taube Award from the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association (APHA). She has co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and monographs, and has been appointed to two National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine committees: Committee to Evaluate the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Disability Program for Children with Mental Disorders and the Forum for Children’s Well-Being, where she currently co-chairs the Collaborative on Pediatric Vital Signs for the Health and Well-Being of Children.

Dr. Hoagwood is Director of the Center for Implementation-Dissemination of Evidence-Based Practices among States, known as IDEAS, an ALACRITY Center funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (P50MH113662) (www.ideas4kidsmentalhealth.org). This work builds on two prior NIMH-funded centers, as well as numerous other federal grants and state contracts, all focused on improving children’s mental health services in state systems. Her specific research interests focus on parent activation in children’s health services, quality measurement in children’s behavioral health, and improving state policies that affect child and family services through the use of scientific evidence.

Leonard Bickman, Ph.D., is currently a Research Professor at Florida International University and Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Ontrak Health Inc. He previously held the Betts Endowed Chair and was Associate Dean for Research at Vanderbilt University. Professor Bickman is an internationally recognized leader in program evaluation and mental health services research. He has been recognized for his contributions by several organizations including the American Evaluation Association’s Alva and Gunnar Myrdal Evaluation Practice Award, a Senior Fulbright Scholar, The American Psychological Association’s Public Interest Award for Distinguished Contribution to Research in Public Policy, The Secretary’s Award for Distinguished Service (HHS), Jeannie P. Baliles Child Mental Health Services Research Award and Vanderbilt University’s Earl Sutherland Prize for Achievement in Research. He has published more than 15 books and monographs and 200 articles and chapters and has been principal investigator on over 25 major grants from several state and federal agencies. He was co-editor of the Applied Research Methods Series, the Handbook of Applied Social Research, the International Handbook of Social Research, and the forthcoming Evaluation Handbook. He currently serves on the National Advisory Council, Center for Mental Health Services of SAMHSA.

Dr. Mario Scalora is the director of the Public Policy Center and professor of psychology with the Clinical Training and Law-Psychology Programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, as well as coordinating an active academic research program engaging in collaborative research in targeted violence. He received his B.S. in psychology from St. Joseph’s University and his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His research interests address various types of targeted violence issues including threats to public institutions and infrastructure/threat assessment, sexual offending, stalking, and workplace violence. This research continues to involve collaboration with state and federal agencies dealing with threat management and counterterrorism issues. Dr. Scalora has extensive relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies related to threat assessment research and consultation assessing predictive risk factors and management strategies concerning targeted threatening, and violent activity. In addition to his role as director, Dr. Scalora also serves as a consulting psychologist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Police regarding campus safety, threat management, and emergency preparedness.

Dr. Michael A. Lindsey is a noted scholar of child and adolescent mental health, and a leader in addressing generational poverty and inequality. He is the Dean and Paulette Goddard Professor of Social Work at NYU Silver School of Social Work, and an Aspen Health Innovators Fellow. Dr. Lindsey led the working group of experts supporting the Congressional Black Caucus Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health, which created the report Ring the Alarm: The Crisis of Black Youth Suicide in America. He serves on the New York City Board of Health and is the Incoming President of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.

William (Bill) Reay has been a national leader in mental health services and behavioral health services research for more than 25 years. As one of the original Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) developers, Bill was associated with both child and family research centers in Portland, Oregon and Tampa, Florida. As one of the founding members of the National Federation for Children’s Mental Health, he has been central to organizing parents across the United States to improve mental health care for children. Bill is one of the original leaders in the System-of-Care development and movement, and served as a professional research member of the United States Department of Education’s Evaluation Team for the Research and Training Centers.

Bill received his Master of Arts degree in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Nebraska, Department of Psychology, at Omaha. He received his Ph.D. in Psychology with a minor in Law from the University of Nebraska, combined Department of Law and Psychology, College of Law, Lincoln, Nebraska. Bill has written numerous professional articles on a variety of subjects associated with public health and behavioral health services.

Vanessa Holm is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She is currently working at Pacific Clinics as the Manager of Clinical Foundations, Developer in the Learning & Development Department.  Pacific Clinics Clinical Foundations Skills Development Program was developed in collaboration with PracticeWise and is our Managing & Adapting Practices (MAP) Model of training direct service providers, evidenced informed clinical decision-making, and direct service tools.  Clinical Foundations Trainings have a total of six Modules including four of which that cover: Disruptive Behavior, Depression, Anxiety, and Trauma.

During the past seven years, she has held various positions at Pacific Clinics including Program Manager of Wraparound, and Clinical Program Manager of Success First, an early Wraparound framework in which she managed contracts and teams, provided clinical and administrative supervision, and trained employees in a variety of topics such as: Active Shooter, Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths Assessments (CANS), Crisis Intervention, and Safety Planning. Vanessa is an advocate and passionate about ensuring trauma-informed practices are integrated into agency policies, practices, and trainings. She participates in Pacific Clinics Trauma-Informed Leadership Committee (TLC) and Trauma-Informed Learning Team (TILT).

Over the past two decades, Vanessa has worked in a variety of clinical settings which include non-profit organizations where she has provided direct services to clients and families, oversight for a variety of contracts, trained team members in direct service and skill development, and provided clinical supervision. She assisted service members and their families as an independent contractor with the government as a Crisis Response Supervisor for the Navy at the Fleet and Family Support Center in San Diego, California. Vanessa worked as an Emergency Response Social Worker with the Department of Children and Family Services investigating referrals of allegations of child abuse and neglect.  Her areas of knowledge and expertise include: training and trainer development, adoption, trauma, child abuse, crisis intervention, and domestic violence. Vanessa received her Master of Science Degree in Clinical Psychology from California State University, San Bernardino.

Pat’s lived experience as a parent set the foundation for her career path. As a nationally recognized family-leader, Hunt brings over 30 years of experience promoting and advancing positive outcomes for children with behavioral health needs and their caregivers. Hunt’s extensive experience with overseeing federal and state grants includes serving as the founding director of a statewide family-run organization. Pat has served as a VISTA Volunteer; directed a three year federally funded rural substance abuse prevention project; managed SAMHSA statewide network and community action grants, served as president of the Maine’s mental health planning council and was the only non-state employee member appointed to the Governor’s Children’s Cabinet early in her career. A key leader in shifting policy in Maine yielded her appointment by the President of the Senate to an oversight committee for children’s services. Her expertise in public policy and planning has supported 42 states to develop policy solutions, and implement and sustain evidence-based and best practices for children, young adults and their families. Her accomplishments also include developing policy briefs for grassroots experience to inform state and national decisions, and providing consultation to federally funded comprehensive community mental health System of Care sites to advance technical and adaptive change. Hunt received nominations for Robert Woods Johnson and Lewis Hine awards. During the past 20 years, her personal experience has continued to inform her work in the managed care industry and two national family-run organizations. This experience continues to fuel her passion for developing solutions within child serving systems.