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In order to disseminate training and maximize the number of persons that can benefit from its services, the Center for Research & Professional Development draws from a pool of the nation's top experts in juvenile justice who act as trainers and consultants for the Center. Should you be interested in training opportunities with the Center, please contact us. Consultants & TrainersDr. Altschuler currently Co-Directs the Juvenile Reintegration and Aftercare Center (JRAC). He is also Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator on an Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention funded project, which has developed a model of intensive aftercare for the high-risk juvenile parolee being released from secure correctional facilities. Demonstration programs based on the model were established in four of the states: Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia. Dr. Altschuler also has been providing technical assistance on transition and aftercare to other OJJDP funded juvenile initiatives, as well as state and local agencies. Most recently, he began working with the Department of Labor on the Youth Offender Demonstration Program, which includes 29 sites nationwide. Dr. Altschuler travels extensively, consulting with public and private juvenile justice officials, state legislators, direct service practitioners and researchers. Norman N. Bell III, M.S. was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA in 1971. He has a B.S. in Criminal Justice from Lincoln University in PA. He has an M.S. in Administration of Human Services from Chestnut Hill College in Philadelphia where he is also employed as an adjunct faculty member in the sociology department. Mr. Bell has been employed by the City of Philadelphia for the division of Juvenile Justice Services for almost 15 years, currently working as a counselor supervisor. He is the chief operating officer and founder of B-Hive Solutions, LLC an agency committed to the behavior enrichment of young adults and the personnel that work with them. He coaches high school basketball, enjoys several fraternal memberships, attending church and spending quality time with his sons Xavier and Ethan. Mel Brown, Ph.D. has a unique background that includes a combination of administration, research, publishing, teaching, training and consulting experience. As Executive Director of the Montgomery County (Texas) Department of Community Supervision and Corrections, Dr. Brown has responsibility for the operations of Juvenile Court Intake, Juvenile Detention, Juvenile Probation, Juvenile Parole, Adult Probation, an Adult Residential Treatment Center, a Probationer Assessment Center, Offender Employment Program, Pre-Trial Programs, and an Education and Training Center. Montgomery County's juvenile detention center was the first juvenile facility in Texas to be accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA) and its juvenile probation services was the first juvenile probation accredited in Texas by ACA. The Montgomery County Juvenile Detention Facility was one of four facilities in the county to be designated by the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and ACA as a National Resource Center. Mel Brown's is an accomplished author, speaker, and consultant. Carol Cramer Brooks is the Director of Program Development and Support Services for the State of Michigan Department of Human Services, Bureau of Juvenile Justice. She is responsible for the education, training, quality assurance, and policy units for the state run confinement facilities and community-based programs. Prior to her current position, Ms. Cramer Brooks was the principal of the Kalamazoo County Juvenile Home Schools in Kalamazoo MI where she also was special education teacher for sixteen years. Pamela A. Clark, MSW, LSW is the Director of the Bartholomew County Youth Services Center. The Youth Services Center operates a sixteen-bed detention program, a ten-bed emergency shelter program, an intensive non-residential Day Treatment program and a juvenile house arrest program. Ms. Clark has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and music from William Woods University and a master’s degree in social work (MSW) from Indiana University. She is an active member and former President of the Indiana Juvenile Detention Association (IJDA). Ms. Clark is currently the President Elect of the National Juvenile Detention Association (NJDA). She also serves as a consultant with NJDA’s Center for Research & Professional Development participating on jurisdictional planning teams and providing training for detention staff in communities across the country. Ms. Clark has previously served as Executive Director of the Foundation for Youth of Bartholomew County, Inc. and for the Bartholomew County Youth Advocacy Commission. She was a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff from 1984-1988, a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, in Kenya, East Africa from 1980-1982, and a VISTA volunteer paralegal with the Legal Aid Society of Lincoln, Inc. in Lincoln Nebraska from 1974 to 1975. Barbara A. Collins, M.S. is an independent consultant who works with government and private agencies to improve management and human services. Since 1973 she has designed and managed programs to support the development of healthy children, teens, and adults. Among her recent projects, she served as project coordinator on a Reclaiming Futures grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Santa Cruz County (CA) Department of Probation, working with a multidisciplinary coalition to assess and improve substance abuse services to youth in the juvenile justice system. She has served as a consultant to the San Francisco Department of Juvenile Probation in developing internal training capacity. She recently co-wrote the Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Plan (SHOCAP) training program for the International Association of Chiefs of Police. Barbara serves as executive director of the Juvenile Justice Trainers Association, which she helped establish in 1984. She has been associated with the National Institute of Corrections as a trainer since 1994 and has designed or co-written several NIC seminars for juvenile justice and adult corrections personnel. She has developed and delivered numerous training programs for agency and facility administrators, supervisors, and line staff on supervision skills, writing skills for managers, conducting internal investigations, group dynamics of adolescents, crisis management/physical restraint, and conducting personal and room searches, and many other topics. Barbara C. Dooley, Ph.D. serves as the Associate Director of Training and Education for the National Juvenile Detention Association. She is also a certified therapist and licensed counselor, a juvenile justice trainer and consultant. For almost 20 years, Dr. Dooley was with Madison County Juvenile Court Services starting in 1983 as the Director of the Tennessee Juvenile Justice Training Center. In 1984 she was appointed Director of Juvenile Court Services. She has worked with youth and families for more than 30 years. Dr. Dooley has been an active member of the National Juvenile Detention Association since 1989 serving as Tennessee's representative to the Executive Board and as President from 1998-2000. In the community her past service includes Chairperson of the Foster Grandparents Advisory Board, President for United Way of Madison County, President of the Wo/Men's Resource and Rape Assistance Board and Board Member of the Year in 1995. She is Past-President of the Big Brothers/Big Sisters Board. At the present time she serves as the Secretary for the Tennessee Suicide Prevention Network. Dr. Dooley was chosen as Madison County Child Advocate of the Year in 2001. Michael Finley is a site manager with the W. Haywood Burns Institute. In his new position, Mr. Finley is working collaboratively with stakeholders in nine jurisdictions throughout the country to reduce racial disparities on the local level. Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. Finley was the Disproportionate Minority Confinement Coordinator with Maryland's Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention (GOCCP) where he worked with local and state leaders to develop state and local plans to reduce racial disparities throughout the state. An attorney, Mr. Finley began his legal career as a Soros Justice Postgraduate Fellow with the Youth Law Center in Washington , D.C, a non-profit public interest law firm that works on behalf of children and youth in juvenile justice and child welfare systems across the country. At the Youth Law Center, Mr. Finley was involved with reform litigation and legislative and administrative advocacy in legal issues related to children, with a particular emphasis on improving the conditions of confinement for children in state custody and the overrepresentation of minority youth in the justice system. As part of the Building Blocks for Youth initiative, a national campaign to address overrepresentation issues, Mr. Finley worked to build constituencies that had not been a part of the traditional juvenile justice advocacy community. Prior to joining the Youth Law Center in 1999, Mr. Finley served as the judicial clerk for the Honorable David B. Mitchell in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City . He is a graduate of Morehouse College and George Washington University School of Law. Kia N. Loggins is the Director of Training at the CRPD office, through the National Juvenile Detention Association. Prior to this position, she worked as an Intensive Probation officer at Ingham County Family Court- Juvenile Division. There she co-facilitated Girls Social Skills Groups and initiated the Intensive Probation Community Service for Girls program. She also served on the Child Benefit Fund executive board where she assisted in the distribution of funds and coordination of fundraising programs for neglected, abused, and delinquent children in need. In addition, Ms. Harris has experience as a Youth Development Worker at the Eaton County Juvenile Detention Facility. Kia is a proud graduate of Michigan State University's criminal justice program. Micheal James is the Administrator of Youth Services for the 38th Judicial Circuit Court, Family Division, in Monroe County, Michigan. He also currently serves as the Monroe County Probate Court Administrator and the Drug Court Coordinator for the Monroe County Juvenile Drug Court. Mr. James has twenty-eight years of experience working in the Juvenile Justice System as a Child Care Worker, Juvenile Probation Officer, Referee, Court Administrator Program Director and Grant Writer. Since 2001, he has been actively involved in the Juvenile Justice Strategic Planning Forum in Monroe County and the development and implementation of a Juvenile Drug Court Program. Mr. James has recently coordinated the Balanced and Restorative Justice Community Training Conference in Monroe and is member of the Building Restorative Communities Initiative Steering Committee. Micheal is a member of the Michigan Association for Family Court Administration (MAFCA) serving as the organization's Secretary and a member of the Executive Board. He is a member of the Juvenile Justice Association of Michigan (JJAM), the Michigan Association of Drug Court Professionals (MADCP) and the National Association of Drug Court Professional(NADCP). He holds a B.A. in Social Sciences and History from Western Michigan University and a M.P.A. degree from the University of Toledo . Reggie LaGrand, MSW was raised in New York and Battle Creek, Michigan. He earned a Bachelor¹s Degree from Olivet College and his Master¹s of Social Work from Western Michigan University. For the past 14 years, Reggie was student support specialist and assistant principal at Ann J. Kellogg Elementary in Battle Creek. He has also provided private-practice individual and family therapy in Battle Creek since 1990. Reggie recently accepted the position of Juvenile Home Director for Calhoun County, Michigan. In addition to his years of public school involvement, Reggie previously worked for nine years with the juvenile court system in Calhoun County, with positions ranging from probation officer to director of an award-winning residential treatment program. Reggie has first-hand knowledge of the strengths and weaknesses of the juvenile justice system and of the unique challenges facing youth today, and possesses a keen understanding of organizational structure and climate and their important role in staff motivation and development. Wayne R. Liddell retired as the Director of the Berrien County Juvenile Center in the State of Michigan. He had served in several supervisory and administrative capacities since joining the organization in 1982. During his tenure, Wayne was involved in the achievement of several accreditation awards for the centers’ residential and secure detention programs. He also managed the secure detention program when it served as one of three “National Juvenile Detention Resource Centers” designated by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 1985 to 1989. Prior to joining Berrien County, Wayne worked as a social work counselor at Highfields, Inc., a private residential facility for juvenile offenders, from 1978 to 1982. He started his career in juvenile justice as a youth camp counselor at the Cedar Creek Youth Camp in Washington state where he worked from 1974 to 1977. Wayne has been an adjunct faculty member at the Lake Michigan College in the Corrections, Probation and Parole department since 1990. He frequently provides training and consultation for juvenile justice agencies and also conducts accreditation audits for the American Correctional Association. Wayne obtained his Bachelors’ Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois Chicago, in 1973 and a Masters’ Degree in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University in 1980. He has completed several trainer certification programs, including the American Correctional Associations’ “training for trainers” and the Crisis Prevention Institute Instructor certification program. Wayne is the Executive Director of the Michigan Juvenile Detention Assocation, and past president of the National Juvenile Detention Association. He has also served as president, president-elect, and first vice president since joining NJDA in 1989. He has also held offices in the Michigan Juvenile Detention Association as past president, president, vice president and treasurer. Wayne has also been active in the American Correctional Association, participating on various committees, including the delegate assembly. He is also a former member of the board of commissioners serving on the commission on accreditation for corrections with ACA. Wayne recently completed his term of office on the ACA board of governors. Wayne has provided extensive training and consulting services to numerous juvenile corrections and detention jurisdictions specializing in the areas of program development, facility operations, overcrowding, staff development, crisis intervention and other relevant topics in the field. Catherine Lowe concurrently serves as Director of the Education Division of the Administrative Office of the Courts and as Director of the California Center for Judicial Education and Research. She holds a masters degree in public administration from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, a Bachelors degree in English from Dominican College in San Rafael, California, and a lifetime certificate in court administration from the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges in Reno, Nevada, where she served as Director of Curriculum Development immediately prior to joining the AOC. Ms. Lowe has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels for 20 years, while administering court-related agencies and programs. She has held special appointments from three governors in the western states and served as seminar leader for the nationally-recognized Harvard Executive Development program in Cambridge . She has developed a number of model programs in crime and delinquency prevention, authored articles on organizational change as well as, continuing professional education. Ms. Lowe is a published poet. Joan Maar, M.A., has been teaching for twenty years in both Florida and Michigan. She has taught elementary and middle school and adult education. For the past twelve years, she has been teaching in the juvenile detention setting. She was an adjunct professor at the University of South Florida , Tampa , for three years and is currently an adjunct professor at Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti , Michigan . The last two years, she has been involved with a national consulting firm working with school districts on developing school-wide discipline programs. She is a trainer for CRPD's Division of Education. Jim Moeser has worked in juvenile justice for 30 years, serving in a number of positions with the Dane County Juvenile Court Program in Madison, Wisconsin and served in 2003 as the Administrator for the State of Wisconsin Division of Juvenile Corrections. Jim has been involved in wide variety of community and juvenile justice system related efforts, including overseeing operations of secure and non-secure residential facilities, gang intervention programs, restitution and victim services, mental health services for youth in the juvenile justice system, and collaborating with community agencies, schools, and law enforcement. Jim has been involved in training and consultation in Wisconsin and throughout the country in areas of Balanced and Restorative Justice (BARJ), juvenile detention alternatives, coordinating mental health and juvenile justice services, teen courts, and victim-offender conferencing. Jim has published articles on implementing BARJ principles in detention settings and in the community and on integrating mental health and juvenile justice systems. Jim has served on numerous local boards and committees focusing on youth/family issues and is currently a member of his local school board. Most recently, he provided writing and editorial assistance in the Desktop Guide to Reentry Programs in Juvenile Confinement. Hon. Pamela A. Moskwa has over 30 years in family law. She began as a caseworker in the family court. She then obtained her law degree and practiced family law for 12 years. For the past 10 years, she has been a Family Court and Probate Judge for the 38th Judicial Circuit Court, in Monroe County , Michigan. In the past several years, Judge Moskwa has been instrumental in leading a county-wide Juvenile Justice Strategic Planning Forum, securing community support in educating the community and developing new approaches to juvenile justice, delinquency and prevention. As a direct result of this effort, Monroe County is one of only three counties in the entire state which has been able to control its child care spending while maintaining and enhancing effective programming for juvenile offenders. Further, these Strategic Planning efforts have resulted in Monroe County receiving grant funding for Juvenile Drug Court ($500,000), Balanced and Restorative Justice training (BARJ - $10,000) and Building Restorative Communities (BRC - $75,000). Judge Moskwa served on the State Committee on Juvenile Justice for 10 years and has participated in a number of state level advisory groups on family, juvenile court and adoption issues. She is a presenter for the Michigan Judicial Institute, as well as for CRPD's Jurisdictional Planning Assistance events. William Newhouse is a consultant to courts and agencies that provide services to families and youth, focusing on systems analysis and organizational planning. He was the lead coordinator for the State Court Administrative Office in developing policies and procedures related to the implementation of the family division of the circuit court. Mr. Newhouse worked in the probate court system for 17 years as a Probation Officer, Youth Counselor, Program Manager, and Probate Court Administrator in Eaton and Calhoun County Probate Courts. Since 1989, he worked for the State Court Administrative Office as Probate Court Analyst, Manager of Probate Court Services, Manager of Family Division Implementation Services, and as Assistant Director of Trial Court Services. He is a graduate of Olivet College with a B.A. in Psychology, Sociology, and Political Science, and has a Masters degree in Public Administration from Western Michigan University. Bill currently provides assistance to CRPD's Division of Strategic and Effective Practices. Gregory G. Owens, LSW, is a licensed social worker with over 25 years of experience in the field of social work practice, policy and administration. He is the Youth Local Assistance Program Specialist in the Office of Strategic Planning and Policy Development of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, in Rensselaer, New York. From 1998 through August 2004, he was the director of the Family Advocacy Bureau at OCFS. He held a variety of management positions within the agency for the past 18 years. He chairs the agency wide initiative on youth mentoring and was instrumental in forming the agency’s disproportionate minority representation committee. He has held many different management and leadership positions, including Vice President for Service Programs for the Urban League of Westchester County, Inc., Executive Director of Homes Away from Home, Inc., of East Harlem, New York, and Executive Assistant to the Director of the NYS Division for Youth. Mr. Owens is an independent consultant, under contract with Leadership Training with the American Public Human Services Associations located in Washington, D.C. He also works with the Center for Research & Professional Development through Michigan State University on juvenile justice jurisdictional planning. In February 2003, Mr. Owens was awarded the 2003 Governors’ Award for African American Leaders of Excellence in State Government. His credo is “Never Give Up. Never, Ever, Ever Give Up!” Brian Philson is the Director of Residential Services at Highfields, Inc. John Rhoads recently retired as the Chief Probation Officer of Santa Cruz County, California. Prior to coming to Santa Cruz , he worked for Sacramento County , California Probation for over 29 years. Mr. Rhoads served as Chairperson of the Bay Region of the Chief Probation Officers of California, on the Probation Services Task Force and the Family and Juvenile Law Advisory Committee of the Judicial Council of California. He has made positive changes in the reform of juvenile justice. He has also served on other statewide committees, including the Blue Ribbon Commission on Out-of-State Probation Placement, the California State Board of Corrections Standards Review Executive Steering Committee, and the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault (CALCASA) Strategic Forum. He was also Chair of the Santa Cruz County Criminal Justice Council for two years. John's formal education includes a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from California State University at Sacramento , plus a Master of Arts Degree in Correctional Counseling from Chapman College . He is also a licensed Marriage, Family and Child Counselor. Currently, he is a consultant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation in their Juvenile Detention Reform Initiative in various replication sites including Santa Clara , San Francisco , and Ventura Counties in California , Ada County ( Boise ) in Idaho , Washoe and Clark Counties in Nevada and the State of New Mexico . He serves as a member of the National Associates Program on Youth Justice for the Vera Institute of Justice, and he is a regular presenter for CRPD's Division of Strategic and Effective Practices. Felton Satterfield has over 30 years of experience in management and training within government and social services agencies. His professional training focuses on meeting the needs of at-risk youth in group homes, adult and juvenile facilities and community-based environments. He has been conducting training for middle management staff and line staff in topics such as communication, supervision, leadership, legal issues, cultural diversity, crisis management, anger management, behavior modification systems, and leadership skills since 1984. He has developed and provided training and technical assistance for organizations including the National Juvenile Detention Association; national Juvenile Justice Trainers Association; federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; the Alameda County (CA) Office of Education; Education, Training and Research Associates; and American Correctional Association. In addition, he conducted court-ordered Anger Management training for the Santa Clara Men's Work Furlough Program. He is a consultant/facilitator and speaker at national conferences. Marc Schindler is a staff attorney with the Youth Law Center in Washington, DC, a non-profit public interest law firm which works on behalf of children and youth in juvenile justice and child-welfare systems across the country. As a staff attorney, Marc is involved with providing training, technical assistance, law reform litigation, and legislative and administrative advocacy in legal issues related to children, with a particular emphasis on improving the conditions of confinement for children in state custody and addressing the disparate treatment of minority youth in the justice system. Marc is currently co-chairs the Juvenile Justice Coalition in Washington, a group of national children's advocacy organizations working to promote rational and effective federal juvenile justice policy. He and his colleagues at the Youth Law Center have also worked with public officials, agency administrators and staffs, parents and youth, community groups, attorneys, and other children's advocates across the country on juvenile justice, child welfare, health, mental health, and education issues, and have litigated successfully on behalf of children whose rights have been violated in juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Prior to joining the Youth Law Center, Marc served as an assistant public defender in Baltimore where he represented children in juvenile delinquency proceedings, and in 1996 he received the Cahill Award, presented annually to the outstanding public defender in the state of Maryland. Marc is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Maryland School of Law. Chuck Seidelman is the Director of the Macomb County Juvenile Justice Center in Mt. Clemens, MI. His 25 years of experience working with juveniles was built through the years starting as a teacher and group leader at the Okeechobee School for Boys, a State Operated Training School in Okeechobee Florida; a Juvenile Probation Officer and Detention Superintendent for the Ottawa County Juvenile Court in Grand Haven Michigan; the Director of the Youth Services Center in Columbus Indiana, and for the past six years has worked for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, previously as Superintendent I of the Mayfield Youth Development Center, a 36 bed juvenile treatment program operated by the Kentucky Department of Juvenile Justice and accredited by NCCHC and the American Correction Association. Mr. Seidelman is a Graduate of Grand Rapids Junior College, and Western Kentucky University with a BS in Sociology. He has served on several professional boards including the Michigan Juvenile Detention Association, the Indiana Juvenile Detention Association, and currently serves on the Executive Board of the National Juvenile Detention Center, the Juvenile Delinquency Prevention Council of Mc Cracken County, and as a Commissioner of Accreditation for the American Correctional Association. Charly Skaggs is the Executive Director of the Williamson County Juvenile Services Department. Charly earned his Masters Degree from Sam Houston State University. He is Past President of both the National and Texas Juvenile Detention Associations. Charly has presented his team building processes throughout the United States to a wide variety of audiences. He is an adjunct professor for the University of Mary Hardin Baylor and Temple College. He lives in Belton with his wife Becky. Charly has three grown children, two daughter-in-laws, and is anticipating his first grandchild in September, 2005. Marc Steiner NCCRE Training Specialist, holds a BA from the California State University at Northridge, and a MA in communication from the University of New Mexico. He has been involved in the mediation field for 11 years as program coordinator, trainer, and volunteer for community mediation programs and non-profits, running one of the oldest and diversely-referred parent/teen mediation programs in the country. As a training specialist with the National Center for Conflict Resolution Education the past two year, he has helped implement mediation programs in youth prisons, schools, and community organizations, and has taught conflict resolution to youth-involved workers such as school administrators and counselors, detention workers, police, and probation officers. Marc has extensive work with at-risk youth, particularly teens involved with the juvenile justice system, and human service agencies. Marc also has trained organizations in collaborative consensus-building models involving private non-profits and human service/community collaboratives , and has facilitated mediations for individuals, private and non-profit organizations, and state and federal agencies. Jon Trzcinski is licensed clinical social worker with over thirty-two year's service in the juvenile justice and child welfare fields. His career has included a wide variety of experiences in children's residential programs, field services, quality assurance and administration. His private practice has included private individuals and attorneys, and organizations such as the National Juvenile Detention Association, the United States Department of Justice, the American Correctional Association, the University of Oklahoma's School of Social Work, the National Resource Center for Youth Services, and a variety of State, County and private agencies. Jon has contributed articles to such diverse publications as “Social Casework,” “Corrections Today,” and “Child and Youth Care Forum”. He has also written several chapters that were included in books published by the American Correctional Association and the National Resource Center for Youth Services. Jon holds a Masters degree from the University of Oklahoma 's School of Social Work and is licensed by the Oklahoma State Board of Licensed Social Workers. He currently provides training and analysis for Jurisdictional Planning Assistance projects. Carol Rapp Zimmerman, Ph.D. received her degree at Michigan State University, School of Criminal Justice with a M.A. Public Policy and Management from Ohio State University. She served as Project Manager for the OJJDP grant: Desktop reference for reentry of juveniles from secure confinement in 2002-2003. Prior to moving to Michigan, Carol was the Deputy Director of Ohio Department of Youth Services. She has also worked as a report. She is the author of several publications.
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