CECP Information Booklet

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• Center Overview
• Mission
• Center Staff
• Address
• Subcontractors
• Advisory Board
• Strategic Partners
• Expert Teams
  • Internal Consultants
  • Interdisciplinary Research Team
  • Expert Practitioners
  • Family Panel
  • Consumer Review Panel
  • Prospectors
  • Knowledge Transfer And Use Experts
  • Resident Realists
  • Greenhouses and Nurseries

CENTER OVERVIEW

Children and youth with emotional and behavioral problems are placed at risk of achieving dismal educational and social outcomes. The National Agenda for Achieving Better Results for Children and Youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED) and A System of Care for Children and Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbances present blueprints for change. However, at present, there is a significant gap between what we know from research and development about how to better serve these children and the actual practice of serving them. The U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs has funded a Center to work with other Federal agencies to surmount the barriers to collaboration and knowledge use in the multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder, multi-ethnic context in which children with emotional and behavioral problems live and are served.

The Center is engaging in a series of strategic activities designed to help SED community members to develop a greater capacity to produce, access, and use information, and to collaborate. These activities are organized around four objectives to: (1) facilitate and to expand effective interagency collaboration; (2) identify and develop useful and useable information; (3) foster the exchange of such information; (4) evaluate the Center's activities. The Center is engaging in a series of mutually reinforcing activities that cut across all tasks. These activities build upon a consumer-driven information needs assessment that identified the information needs of families, teachers, mental health practitioners, child welfare workers, and juvenile justice personnel. Specifically, these activities will:

• build on Federal efforts to improve collaboration and practice,
• address barriers to improving practice and sustaining collaboration,
• be driven by the needs of those who will use the information,
• focus on access to useful and useable information,
• link different knowledge communities in a sustained manner,
• employ effective communication strategies,
• address barriers to effective information use and exchange,
• align with, build upon and enhance the capacity of the Federal and state infrastructure that supports knowledge development and use,
• reach out to historically marginalized groups, and
• possess the capacity for continuous self-examination and improvement.

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MISSION

It is the mission of the Center to support and to promote a reoriented national preparedness to foster the development and adjustment of children with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance. To achieve that goal, the Center is dedicated to a policy of collaboration at Federal, state, and local levels that contributes to and facilitates the production, exchange, and use of knowledge about effective practices. We have strategically organized the Center to identify promising programs and practice, promote the exchange of useful and useable information, and facilitate collaboration among stakeholders and across service system disciplines.

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SUBCONTRACTORS

• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health, Georgetown University
• Warger, Eavy & Associates

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ADVISORY BOARD

Mary Lynn Cantrell, Positive Education Program
Gail Daniels, Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
Gary DeCarolis, Center for Mental Health Services
Karl Dennis, Kaleidoscope, Inc.
Michael Faenza, National Mental Health Association
José Flores, La Familia Counseling Services
Dixie Jordan, PACER Center
Michael Kane, American Institutes for Research
Susan Loucks-Horsley, WestEd
Frank Wood, University of Minnesota
Tom V. Hanley, Project Officer, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Department of Education

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STRATEGIC PARTNERS

Contact information for Strategic Partner organizations is available.

• American Federation of Teachers
• Correctional Education Association
• Council for Children with Behavioral Disorders
• Council for Exceptional Children
• Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services on Early Childhood Research Institute
• Elementary and Middle Schools Technical Assistance Center
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Counseling and Student Services
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Urban Education
• Federal Resource Center for Special Education
• Federation for Children with Special Needs
• Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health
• Fiesta Educativa
• Great Lakes Area Regional Resource Center
• Institute for Family-Centered Care
• Judge Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
• Mid-South Regional Resource Center
• Mountain Plains Regional Resource Center
• National Association of Psychiatric Treatment Centers for Children
• National Association of School Psychologists
• National Association of State Boards of Education
• National Association of State Directors of Special Education
• National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education Through the Use of Technology
• National Clearinghouse for Professionals in Special Education
• National Early Childhood Technical Assistance System
• National Education Association
• National Educational Service
• National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities
• National Institute for Urban School Improvement
• National Mental Health Association
• National Recreation and Parks Association
• National Resource Network for Child and Family Mental Health Services
• National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health
• National Transition Alliance for Youth with Disabilities
• Northeast Regional Resource Center
• Oregon Research Institute
• Oregon Social Learning Center
• Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health
• Resource Center for  Educational Equity
• School Mental Health Project, University of California, Los Angeles
• School Social Work Association of America
• South Atlantic Regional Resource Center
• Supporting Students with Serious Emotional Disturbance in Rural Schools and Communities, UAP of Vermont
• Teacher Educators for Children Behavioral Disorders
• Technical Assistance Alliance for Parent Centers
• Western Regional Resource Center
• Zero to Three

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EXPERT TEAMS

In order to identify knowledge, to enhance its usability and usefulness, and to promote the exchange of ideas, the Center draws upon members of eight diverse teams as well as staff from our strategic partners, nurseries and greenhouses. These individuals usually work together in collaborative, inter-disciplinary, cross-stakeholder work groups to identify, develop and validate information and tools. Members of these groups also join together in panels, site visits, electronic discussions, the co-authoring of articles and conference presentations.

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Internal Consultants

Several senior AIR staff work with the Center in such areas of child development and early intervention, finance, services to at-risk and culturally diverse students, child and family welfare, school reform, juvenile justice, evaluation, and knowledge transfer.

AIR Internal Consultants:

Bea Birman	Michael Kane	Carlos Rodríguez
Lorelei Brush	Tom Parrish

Interdisciplinary Research Team

The Research Team includes the editors of major journals, the directors of many centers and projects, and experts from various disciplines. The Center draws upon them to align disciplinary perspectives, to help identify, produce, and share information, and to ensure that the information that is identified and produced is consistent with the research knowledge base.

Project descriptions are available for many of our researchers.

Interdisciplinary Research Team:

Howard Adelman	R. Kenton Denny	Howard M. Knoff	John B. Reid
Robert Algozzine	Harold Dent	Krista Kutash	Abram Rosenblatt
Carmen Arreaga-Mayer	Stephen Elliott	Cheryl M. Lange	Robert Rutherford
Richard Ashcroft	Michael Epstein	Katherine Larson	Gary Sasso
Janice Baker	William Evans	Philip Leaf	Thomas Scruggs
George Batsche	Betsy Farmer	Constance Lehman	Richard Shores
George Bear	John Firman	Peter Leone	James G. Shriner
Marva Benjamin	Steven Forness	Nick Long	Richard Simpson
Tony Biglan	Wayne Fox	Suzanne Martin	Nirbhay Singh
Sheldon Braaten	Barbara Friesen	Margo Mastropieri	Russell Skiba
Larry Brendtro	Robert Gable	Richard Mattison	Steve Smith
Tanis Bryan	James Garbarino	Gail McGee	Phillip Strain
Michael Bullis	James Gilliam	Margaret McLaughlin	Beth Stroul
Lyndal M. Bullock	Charles Greenwood	Marjorie Montague	George Sugai
John Burchard	Eleanor C. Guetzloe	Dan Morgan	Bill Swan
Robert Cantrell	Ruth Hamilton	Francie Murry	Dwight Sweeney
Judith Carta	Beth Harry	C. Michael Nelson	Linda Taylor
Douglas Cheney	Norris Haynes	Ron Nelson	Rick Van den Pol
Andrew Chisom	Kathleen Hebbler	Peter Noblock	Cynthia Warger
Hewitt B. Clark	Jo M. Hendrickson	Margo Okazawa-Rey	Jo Webber
John Clark	Asa Hilliard	Chris Petr	Richard Whelan
Joe Cocozza	Kenneth Howell	Lewis Polsgrove	Bruce Wolford
Martha Coutinho	Lawrence Johnson	Marleen Pugach	Frank Wood
Richard Dávila	James E. Jones	Andres J. Pumariega	Paula Wood
			Mitchell Yell

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Expert Practitioners

The team of expert practitioners includes nationally recognized professionals from education, mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare, youth and community development, and early intervention. The Center draws upon them to reduce the gaps between researchers, practitioners, and consumers; to align diverse practice perspectives, to identify and share new forms of practice-generated knowledge, and to ensure that Center products are consistent with practice needs and experience.

Expert Practitioners:

Anthony Amato	Maketa Groves	Anne Peterson
Paul Andis	Jerome Hanley	Scott Poland
Deborah J. Andrews	DeVon Hardy	Gayle K. Porter
George Bailey	Mark Hawk	Ted Price
Richard Barnum	Wayne Holden	Ken Reavis
James Bell	David Howard	Ginger Rhode
Mary Lynn Cantrell	DJ Ida	Matty Rodriguez-Walling
Chloe Coney	Beverly Johns	Kwesi Rollins
Sherianne Cotterell	Dixie Jordan	Jane Sapp
Andrea Criste	Sandra Keenan	Carl Smith
Raymond Crowel	Steve Kukic	William Underwood
Beth Dague	Hugh Leichtman	John VanDenBerg
Mary Jo Dare	Neil Mazer	Kenley Wade
Cliff Davis	Jan McCarthy	Loren Warboys
Shelly Davis	Ellen McGinnis-Smith	Paul Watson
Joan Dodge	Jonathan McIntire	Kathi Wilhite
Carrie Eidson	Hector Mendez	Faye B. Williams
Frank Fecser	Roslyn Holliday-Moore	Gordon Wrobel
Michael George	Brenda Muhammad	Glenn Young
Sybil Goldman	Lucy Ely Pagan
Soliel Gregg	Marshall Peter

Family Panel

The family panel includes leaders of national and state-wide family organizations with knowledge about education, mental health, juvenile justice, child welfare and early intervention practices. The Center draws upon them to reduce the gaps between researchers, practitioners, and the consumers of service, and to ensure that Center products build upon the expertise of, are useful to, and are useable by all families.

Jane Adams	Dixie Jordan	Velva Spriggs
Deborah Anderson	Trina Osher	Judy Sturtevant
Kathy Berg	Carmen Pola	Liz Sweet
Marge Critchlow	Judy Rinkin	Mary Telesford
Gail Daniels	Barbara Sample	Teri Toothman
Karen Gora	Terry Sanders	Deborah Toth-Dennis
Iliana Hernandez	Tessie Schweitzer	Evelyn Williams
Barbara Huff	Elaine Slayton	Virginia Wood
Debbie Hyatt	Sue Smith	Cherran Zullo

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Consumer Review Panel

The Consumer Review panel includes a diverse and talented group of consumers and former consumers of services, many of whom currently work in the human services. The Center draws upon them to ensure that Center activities and products build upon the understanding that consumers and former consumers provide.

Consumer Review Panel:

Coretta Boston	Langston Craig	Angela Nelson
Hervina Brown	José Flores	Gregory L. Pettys
Alex Castellanos	Jodi Gorham	John Seita
	Samuel Green	Megan Washam

Knowledge Transfer and Use Experts

The knowledge transfer team includes experts on individual, organizational, school and community change, communication, and technical assistance. The Center draws upon the individual expertise of team members to help develop, evaluate, and refine Center products and strategies.

Knowledge Transfer and Use Experts:

Mary Lynn Cantrell	Ron Havelock	Hubert Sapp
Wayne Fox	Susan Loucks-Horsley	Carol Valdivieso
Russell Gersten	Ceasar McDowell

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Resident Realists

The resident realists are a group of experienced individuals from various backgrounds, with excellent instincts for solving problems and for spotting contradictions. They serve as institutionalized critics of Center activities who, when appropriate, individually review Center strategies and tactics.

Resident Realists:

John Clark	Dixie Jordan	Richard Segall
Mike Epstein	Nancy Peña	Evelyn Williams

Prospectors

The Prospectors are a group of specialists and national experts who, in the course of their work, are in and out of schools, programs and communities across the nation. They employ a common protocol to identify promising programs and practices.

Prospectors:

Karl Dennis	Angela Nelson	Jane Sapp
Jodi Gorham	William E. Pfohl, Jr.	Carl Smith
Krista Kutash	Kathy Potter	John VanDenBerg
DeAnn Lechtenberger	Hubert Sapp

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Greenhouses and Nurseries

The Center's Greenhouses and Nurseries are a set of local and state programs from which practice-based knowledge can be gleaned. Greenhouses are programs of some duration that have produced outcome data and which have been visited by a Center staff member. Nurseries are program which are at an earlier state of development or for which outcome data are not yet available or which have not been visited by a Center staff member. The Center identifies Greenhouses and Nurseries so that other may learn from them, and it draws on these programs and their staffs to provide informaiton on organizational change, program needs, and promising practices.

Contact information, programs descriptions and links for our nurseries and greenhouses are available.

Greenhouses:

• Asian Pacific Development Center, Denver, CO
• BEST and FACT, UT
• Boys Town, Boys Town, NE
• Comer School Development Program, New Haven, CT
• Fast Track, NC, TN, PA, and WA
• Kaleidoscope, Inc., Chicago, IL
• La Familia Counseling Services, Hayward, CA
• Lane School, Lane Educational Services District, Eugene, OR
• Latin American Youth Center, Washington, DC
• Positive Education Program (PEP), Cleveland, OH
• Project ACHIEVE, FL
• Stark County Family Alliance, OH
• State of Vermont Best and Wraparound Initiatives
• Wediko Children's Services, NH
• Westerly Public School District, Westerly, RI

Nurseries:

• Bertha Abess Children's Center, Inc., Miami, FL
• Community School District 6, New York, NY
• District 4J, Eugene, OR
• Florida Shared Services Network
• F.R.I.E.N.D.S. Project, Bronx, NY
• Harris County Juvenile Probation Department, Houston, TX
• Institute for Community Initiatives, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
• Little East Havana, site of the Annie E. Casey Urban Mental Health Initiative, Miami, FL
• Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services, CA
• Los Angeles County Office of Education, Special Education Division, CA
• Meramec Valley Community School, Pacific, MO
• Orchard Place, Des Moines, IA
• Santa Clara Valley Mental Health Department, Family and Children's Services Division, CA
• Sustaining Systems Project, Phoeniz, AZ
• Center for Mental Health Services, Comprehensive Community Mental Health Services for Children and their Families Grantees:

ACCESS, VT		Milwaukee, WI
Alexandria, VA		Ohana Project, HI
Baltimore, MD		Partnership Project, ND
Birmingham, AL		Pen-Pal Project, NC
Bronx, NY		Philadelphia, PA
Charleston/Dorchester, SC		Providence, RI
Communities Living for Children and Families, MI		Raleigh, NC
Dona Ana County, NM		Riverside, San Mateo, Ventura, Santa Cruz
Indian Township Health Center, ME		and Solano Counties, CA
KanFocus, KS		Santa Barbara, CA
K'E Project -- Navajo Nation, NM		Sonoma-Napa, CA
LaGrange, IL		Southern Consortium, OH
Lane County, OR		Stark County, OH
Lincoln, NE		United Tribes of North Dakota, ND
Local Mental Health for San Diego County, CA		Waterbury, VT
Madison, WI		Wichita, KS
		Wings Project, ME

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