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Back to Service to Science Main Page Kim Dash Kim Dash is primarily responsible for overseeing CSAP’s Northeast Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies’ (CAPT) Service to Science initiative. She works with local program directors, developers, and evaluators, as well as other Northeast CAPT staff and associates, to improve the evaluation and utility of innovative programs and practices designed to address the structural and individual factors associated with substance abuse. Before joining the CAPT staff, Ms. Dash served on a number of research and evaluation projects at EDC. Most recently, she managed two federally-funded projects in EDC’s Center for Research on High Risk Behaviors—Reach for Health Middle Childhood Risk Prevention Study and Multi-level Bystander Strategies: Preventing Youth Violence. She worked with the New York University Division of Nursing to evaluate how hospitals across the country adopt clinical protocols that positively affect care for the elderly. She evaluated Beth Israel Hospital’s Boston-based, Choose Nursing!® program that promoted professional nursing as a key career option for racial and ethnic minority youth; and she served on an EDC team that evaluated Boston Children’s Services’ (now the Home for Little Wanderers) Project Excel—a full-service school pilot program in East Boston. Ms. Dash is currently a doctoral student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University. She earned her M.P.H. in health education from the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health – Chapel Hill and her B.A. in social geography from Clark University. Shai Fuxman is a research associate at CSAP’s Northeast CAPT. His role at the CAPT is to provide technical assistance and contribute to materials development, supporting the work of state and local prevention practitioners in the design, implementation, and evaluation of evidence-based substance abuse prevention efforts. His work includes writing original materials including case studies related to effective prevention practices, conducting literature searches and obtaining articles, and reviewing and summarizing research literature and best practices in specific areas. Mr. Fuxman obtained his M.Ed. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education
and his B.A. in psychology and sociology from Brandeis University. Prior
to joining the CAPT team, Mr. Fuxman served as the research assistant
for the Global Center of the Health and Human Development Division at
EDC. In this capacity he supported projects such as the World Health Organization
Collaborating Center, the Network of Violence Prevention Practitioners,
and FOCUS on Young Adults Reproductive Health. In these and other projects,
he developed and maintained projects’ websites, conducted both print
and internet-based research, and translated content from English to Latin
American audiences. Robert Apsler, Ph.D., is assistant clinical professor of psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Harvard Medical School and President of Social Science Research & Evaluation, Inc. He is a social scientist specializing in applying rigorous research methods to applied settings and has worked in the areas of mental health, injury prevention, substance abuse prevention and treatment, domestic violence, and policing. His research has been supported by grants and contracts from numerous federal, state, local, and private agencies. Recent research involved conducting a randomized trial of a middle school substance abuse prevention program, assisting a large social service agency in reorganizing and implementing rigorous assessment of outcomes within all its services, helping youth development and immigrant parenting programs achieve recognition as model programs, and evaluating replications of existing model prevention programs. Dr. Apsler attended Stanford University as an undergraduate and earned a doctorate in social psychology at UCLA. Margie DuBrow is the principal consultant in Creative Management Strategies, Inc., a firm which specializes in community planning and building the institutional capacity of nonprofit organizations. She has a strong track record of effectively managing county-wide cross-system planning committees, which oversee the development, launch, operation, and evaluation of programs that strengthen families and communities. Dr. DuBrow has worked closely with executives in public systems and nonprofit agencies and with community leaders to build coalitions focused on community change. She co-designed and conducted an intensive 60-hour “training-of-trainers” program in outcomes-based planning and evaluation for staff in Community Action Agencies on a state and national level. She has conducted training programs and technical assistance in evaluation with a range of agencies including family centers, youth development programs, mental health services, family literacy programs, after school programs, services for the homeless, adult day care centers, in-home care, and senior centers. For over 20 years, she has conducted training programs and technical assistance in strategic planning, organizational management, and grantsmanship with staff across multiple sectors. She has successfully raised major grants to support healthy families, juvenile delinquency prevention, emergency response in the schools, and for health and social services for older adults. Dr. DuBrow earned her doctoral degree in organizational development from Temple University in Philadelphia. She earned her M.S. in education and her B.A. in American Literature from Syracuse University. She is certified as a Communities That Care trainer in Pennsylvania. Chelsey E. Goddard is an associate director for CSAP's Northeast CAPT. Ms. Goddard works closely with the center director and staff in conducting research, developing training and educational materials, data collection, and writing reports and articles. She provides technical assistance to state and local alcohol and other drug professionals on effective prevention strategies, knowledge application, and technology. Ms. Goddard earned her M.P.H. in health behavior and health education from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and her B.A. in Spanish and Latin American literature from Wesleyan University. She has a diverse background working in the adolescent health field on issues including substance abuse, HIV/AIDS and sexuality education. Ms. Goddard has worked as a coordinator of the University of Michigan safer sex peer education program, a research associate in the Office of Postgraduate Medicine at the University of Michigan, a program assistant for international programs at Advocates for Youth in Washington, D.C., and a community health worker at the Washington Free Clinic. Dr. Wayne Harding is CSAP's Northeast CAPT's principal evaluator. He was a founder of and is Director of Projects for Social Science Research and Evaluation, Inc., a research firm located in Burlington, Massachusetts. He holds academic positions as a lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, The Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, MA; and as faculty member of the Zinberg Center for Addiction Studies, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He received an A.B. in sociology from Brandeis University, an Ed.M. in education and social policy from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and a Ph.D. in alcohol and social policy research from Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University. Dr. Harding has over 25 years of experience conducting both basic and applied research. He has been a principal or co-principal investigator on grants and/or contracts from local agencies, state agencies, foundations, and from such federal agencies as The National Institute on Drug Abuse, The National Institute on Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, The National Institute on Mental Health, the Veteran's Administration, the National Institute of Justice, and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP). Dr. Harding has authored or co-authored over 60 research reports and had made over 100 presentations about his work at national and regional conferences, colleges, community meetings, and in other settings. Dr. Kreiner is a social scientist at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University. For the past decade, he has designed and conducted needs and resources assessments, research, and evaluation in the areas of substance abuse prevention and treatment and HIV prevention. As project director for Massachusetts’ four-year state substance abuse prevention and treatment needs assessment projects, he developed innovative measures and models of substance abuse-related problems, risk, and protection at the town and Zip Code levels. These measures were used in Massachusetts’ CSAP-funded State Incentive Grant, for which he was the lead statewide evaluator, to inform the funding of 24 community coalitions. Dr. Kreiner is currently lead evaluator for several projects involving infrastructure change: an effort to enhance the prevention infrastructure of the six New England states to address inhalant abuse; two initiatives – one in Massachusetts and one in Vermont – to improve coordination, at the state agency and local provider levels, of adolescent substance abuse treatment services; and a project in five MetroWest Boston communities to address youth substance abuse. He is also lead evaluator of two SAMHSA-funded HIV and substance abuse prevention projects addressing these issues in minority populations, and is working with four community coalitions in Rhode Island to evaluate their substance abuse prevention efforts in multiple domains. With one of these coalitions, he is also evaluating a pilot adolescent screening and brief intervention project. Dr. Kreiner received his B.A. in philosophy from Princeton University and his doctorate in organization theory from the University of Southern California. Craig Love has over 30 years experience in substance abuse prevention planning and implementation, the role of co-occurring disorders in prevention and treatment, evaluation of community programs, research and evaluation data collection and analysis, developing risk and protective frameworks, and using large data sets for the purposes of program improvement. He is also well versed in the Strategic Prevention Framework, cultural competence in prevention programming, and strategic analysis and presentation of data for program development and improvement. At Westat, Dr. Love has directed CSAP’s Data Coordination Center, projects related to Native American public health and criminal justice issues, FASD prevention and HIV/AIDS. While at Brown University he directed several research and evaluation projects including substance abuse prevention, community prevention and AIDS prevention. He developed courses on Native American studies that have launched a new curriculum at the school. Deborah McLean Leow is an associate director for CSAP's Northeast CAPT. Ms. McLean Leow is responsible for the overall management of technical assistance and training services delivered to CAPT clients. In this role, she assesses state needs and designs systems for service delivery on a state-specific and regional basis. Ms. McLean Leow also designs and delivers professional development opportunities for both prevention practitioners and leaders using face-to-face and distance-education methods. She oversees the CAPT Associates Program - a cadre of over 20 seasoned preventionists who deliver technical assistance and training on behalf of the CAPT. Ms. McLean Leow earned her MSW from Syracuse University and her BA in sociology from Hobart and William Smith Colleges. Previous to her work with EDC, Ms. McLean Leow served as special assistant to the Vice President of Student Affairs at Syracuse University where she coordinated a federally-funded program geared at implementing effective approaches to substance abuse prevention. She was instrumental in developing a comprehensive program including a university-wide policy to address alcohol and drug abuse, a referral and intervention program for students-at-risk, and a campus-community coalition. During her six years at Syracuse, Ms. McLean Leow coordinated a campus-wide, peer-based HIV/AIDS prevention program, conducted HIV/AIDS testing counseling, and was a research associate in the Department of Psychology where she coordinated a community-based HIV/AIDS prevention research project with socially/economically disadvantaged women. Ms. Prost is a Northeast CAPT Associate and research associate at the Schneider Center for Behavioral Health, Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. Her primary work is conducting evaluation with community-based outreach, treatment and prevention programs. Programs include evidence-based, promising and innovative interventions addressing substance abuse, co-occurring disorders, trauma and HIV prevention and education interventions. Program target populations include: youth and their families, those experiences homelessness, new immigrants, forensic and minority populations. Her research approach is collaborative, comprehensive and participatory with attention to process as well as outcome evaluation, fidelity, adaptation and integration of target population and providers at all levels. She has conducted workshops in the evaluation of art-based programs, bridging research and practice, confidentiality, and participant recruitment, tracking, and retention. Dr. Snell-Johns has worked as a program evaluator for over eight years, with a strong emphasis on capacity-building approaches to evaluating drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs, parenting programs, and whole-school reform approaches. Dr. Snell-Johns is the founder of Promoting Positive Change, which specializes in program evaluation, program development, and technical assistance services that rely on collaborative approaches to promoting change with children, families, and communities. Before forming Promoting Positive Change, Dr. Snell-Johns worked in Evaluation Services at the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory (SEDL), where she was responsible for evaluating the implementation of a reform model in multiple schools across the state of Arkansas. Prior to her work at SEDL, Dr. Snell-Johns served as the lead evaluator for a collaborative partnership serving low-income families. She led training, collaboratively designed evaluation plans, created surveys, and used results for program improvement. Dr. Snell-Johns also served as a consultant to a Parents as Teachers program and helped develop a district-wide evaluation system. Dr. Johns is co-author of several articles and chapters related to Empowerment Evaluation. In addition to her work as an evaluator, Dr. Snell-Johns is an individual and family therapist. She received her undergraduate degree in Plan II (Liberal Arts Honors Program) from the University of Texas at Austin and her doctorate degree in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Back to Service to Science Main Page
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