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Current National Partners FRIENDS offers services in collaboration with several National Partners that allows our eligible service agencies to access training and technical assistance that is at the forefront of the field. These partners are active members of the FRIENDS team. Julie Collins, Child Welfare League of America Julie Collins Contact: Karina A. Forrest‐Perkins is a statewide, regional and national advocate serving children and families for over seventeen years. Ms. Forrest-Perkins currently serves as the Executive Director for Prevent Child Abuse Minnesota; the Director of the CBCAP FRIENDS grant for Circle of Parents National; and, is a Faculty Member for the Heartland National Tuberculosis Center. Ms. Forrest‐Perkins provides training and consultation in the following areas: addiction and trauma therapy/education for children, adolescents and families; consultation for non‐profit organizations; and, training for community members and professionals in the area of child maltreatment, fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, cultural competency, and the impact of trauma on early childhood brain development. Ms. Forrest‐Perkins is married, has four children and one adopted cat. She is a member of the Cherokee Nation and lives in St. Paul Minnesota. Contact: Phone: (651) 523-0099 ext. 117 Glenda Eoyang is the executive director of Human Systems Dynamics Institute. As a pioneer in the field of human systems dynamics, she applies principles of self-organizing systems to help people thrive in unpredictable environments. Since 1988, she has provided training, consulting, coaching, research, evaluation, and facilitation support in the public and private sectors. Her approach to systems thinking focuses on a lively integration of theory and practice as she helps people see and influence patterns that emerge within and around individuals, teams, organizations and communities. Her published works include numerous scholarly and practical books and articles including Coping with Chaos: Seven Simple Tools (Lagumo, 1996) and Facilitating Organization Change: Lessons from Complexity Science with Ed Olson (Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2003). She is an associate of the Center for Evaluation, Planning, and Assessment at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada; Scientific Advisor to the Plexus Institute; member of the Circle of Scholars of The Union Institute and University; faculty member at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota; and founding Executive Director of the Human Systems Dynamics Institute. Contact: Dr. Raymond S. Kirk joins the FRIENDS teams as a Director of Research and Program Evaluation at Independent Living Resources, Inc, of Durham, NC. He has held teaching, professional and administrative positions in academe and in government, prior to joining the ILR, Inc., in his present position. He has worked extensively with private sector organizations and foundations on program design, program evaluation and policy analysis. His writing and research activities have focused on both qualitative and quantitative program evaluation and client-centered outcome evaluation, primarily in the areas of child welfare, child protection services, and other youth and family programs. He served as Deputy Commissioner of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services during the administrations of 2 Vermont Governors. Ray is also is the developer of the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale and the North Carolina Family Assessment Scale for Reunification, family functioning scales for use in placement prevention and reunification cases where family preservation service methods are employed. He has also worked with CHTOP as a methodologist and analyst on federally research grants, and on the development of outcome evaluation manuals and guidebooks. Contact: Melissa Van Dyke, LCSW, is the Director of Technical Assistance Services at the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) located at UNC's FPG Child Development Institute. Melissa obtained her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Oregon and a Master of Social Work from the University of Michigan, with a focus on Interpersonal Practice and Policy. Before joining the NIRN team, Melissa worked in state government in New Mexico with families and youth in both the child welfare and the juvenile justice systems. Along with her years in direct service, Melissa worked in the areas of staff development (training) and administration (as Deputy Superintendent of a large juvenile correctional facility). Her recent efforts include working with state and federal initiatives related to scaling up evidence-based practices in K-12 education (www.scalingup.org), evidence-based child abuse prevention programs, and leadership development in Child Welfare. She has also worked with community and state initiatives to transform mental health service systems. Melissa's current research interests include organizational change and system transformation, systems coaching, and complexity sciences. Contact: Street Address for Shipping (UPS/FedEx): Sandra F. Naoom, M.S.P.H, is Associate Director of the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) and an investigator at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For over ten years Sandra has acquired expertise in research and program evaluation; over the last six years Sandra has acquired expertise in the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based programs and practices, the development of fidelity instruments, and the developments of instruments to assess implementation models, as well as understanding the supply and demand of implementing innovations. Sandra also provides consultation, evaluation and technical assistance around implementation of innovations with fidelity. She is a doctoral candidate at the University of South Florida- Tampa, where she also earned her Master of Science in Public Health degree. Contact: |