Plenary I – "Effective Drug Strategies: Learning from Experience"

Mathea Falco
President of Drug Strategies

Mathea Falco, J.D., is President of Drug Strategies, a non-profit research institute that identifies effective approaches to substance abuse. The author of The Making of a Drug-Free America: Programs that Work (Times Books, 1994), Ms. Falco comments frequently on drug policy in the media and in public speeches across the country. Until her move to Washington, D.C. in 1993, she was Director of Health Policy, Department of Public Health, Cornell University Medical College in New York City. From 1977 to 1981, Ms. Falco was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics Matters. In earlier positions, she served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Juvenile Delinquency Subcommittee and Special Assistant to the President of the Drug Abuse Council. Ms. Falco has been a member of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University, a Trustee of Radcliffe College, and the Chair of the Visiting Committee on Harvard University Health Services. She has also served on the national boards of Girl Scouts, USA; Bib Brothers of America; the International Women’s Health Coalition; the Ploughshares Fund; and the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. Ms. Falco is a graduate of Radcliffe College and Yale Law School.

Peter D. Hart
Peter Hart Research

For nearly 30 years, Peter D. Hart has been one of the leading analysts of public opinion in the United States. Since 1971 he has directed Peter D. Hart Research Associates, which has conducted more than 5,000 public opinion surveys that have included interviews with more than two and a half million individuals.

As an established leader in survey research, Mr. Hart has been the pollster for NBC News and The Wall Street Journal since 1989. In the political realm, Mr. Hart has represented more than 40 U.S. senators and 30 governors, ranging from Hubert Humphrey and Lloyd Bentsen, to Jay Rockefeller and Bill Bradley. Additional focuses on public policy and cultural issues have included work for such clients as the Smithsonian Institution to the Kennedy Center, and in the international realm, studies in South America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The firm also has conducted strategic planning projects for such corporate clients as Time Warner Inc., American Airlines, Chrysler Corporation, Kodak, Microsoft, and AT&T.

Mr. Hart appears frequently on the major television programs that discuss public policy issues, including Meet the Press, The Today Show, and The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. And, along with Robert Teeter, Peter Hart was selected by NBC News and The Wall Street Journal to conduct all of the public opinion polling for these institutions, which was the first time any outside firm had been retained by a news organization to conduct surveys that bear the name of the sponsoring organization.

Neil Goldschmidt has served as Governor, Mayor of its major city, U.S. Cabinet Secretary, and executive officer of a Fortune 500 corporation.

Today he has a small consulting firm focused primarily on strategic planning and problem solving for national and international businesses. He serves a limited number of clients on a continuing basis. In addition, he chairs Drug Strategies, Inc. and the Oregon Children’s Foundation. He is also a member of the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation Board.

Goldschmidt currently serves on the Trilateral Commission, formed in 1973 by private citizens of Western Europe, Japan and North America to foster closer cooperation among these three regions on common problems. Also, he was appointed by then House Speaker Thomas Foley to serve on the Commission to Promote Investment in America’s Infrastructure, created under the Integrated Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). He was chair of Governor John Kitzhaber’s statewide Transportation Initiative. Goldschmidt was presented the 1998 Citizen of the Year Award by the Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors. In 2000, he received the Aurbrey R. Watzek Award for Lewis & Clark College.

Since completing his term as Governor, Mr. Goldschmidt has continued his interest in children’s issues through the Oregon Children’s Foundation, created in 1991 by Goldschmidt and the Ater Wynne Hewitt Dodson & Skerrit law firm. The Foundation’s initial effort, SMART, is an early literacy program for children in kindergarten through second grade. The Foundation recruits SMART business and organization sponsors to allow their employees to leave work during the day to tutor children in public schools. Currently 8,500 volunteers are reading to and with 8,500 students each week.

Prior to his 1986 gubernatorial campaign, Goldschmidt was executive of NIKE, Inc., serving as international Vice President from 1981 to 1985 and as President of NIKE Canada from 1986 to 1987.

Goldschmidt served as Secretary of Transportation for President Jimmy Carter from 1979 until January 1981, and was known for his work to revive the ailing automobile industry. He also spearheaded efforts to deregulate the airline, trucking and railroad industries.

At the time of his appointment to the Cabinet, Goldschmidt had already served nearly seven years as Mayor of Portland. Elected in 1972 at the age of 32, he was the nation’s youngest big-city mayor. During Goldschmidt’s years as Mayor, Portland became a national model for mass transit, building both a light rail system and a downtown transit mall. His administration made a strong commitment to preserving Portland neighborhoods, creating new downtown housing and revitalizing an aging city business core.

Goldschmidt is a graduate of the University of Oregon, where he was president of the student body. He earned a law degree from the University of California’s Boalt Law School in 1967 and was a Legal Aid lawyer in Portland from 1967 until his election to the Portland City Council in 1970. He was presented with an honorary doctorate degree from Oregon Health Sciences University in 1999.

Neil Goldschmidt was born June 16, 1940, in Eugene, Oregon, where his parents still reside. He is married to Diana Snowden, a former executive with Pacific Power and Light and Interim Superintendent of Portland Public Schools. They share four children – Josh, a Portland police officer, Becca, who works in marketing for R&H Construction, Neilan, a graduate of Central Catholic High School attending Arizona State, and Kirstin, Deputy District Attorney for Multnomah County. Neil is the proud grandfather of Micaela, born in November 1995 and Jaden born in may 1999.

Hubert Williams, J.D.
President, Police Foundation

Hubert Williams is President of the Police Foundation, a private, nonprofit research and technical assistance organization in Washington, D.C. A 30-year veteran of policing, Williams served as Newark, New Jersey's Director of Police for eleven years. In 1992 he was Deputy Special Advisor to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners, investigating the police department's preparedness for and response to the 1992 riots. Mr. Williams earned his B.S. degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law. He is a member of the American and National Bar Associations, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Executive Research Forum, and the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, of which he was Founding President.

Luncheon Speaker

Claude Allen
Deputy Secretary
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Claude Allen was appointed in March to be the Deputy Secretary of HHS under Secretary Tommy Thompson. He comes into this position as a proven leader at the state level having been the secretary of Health and Human Resources in Virginia. Gov. Gilmore appointed Allen as Health and Human Resources Secretary in January 1998. He was responsible for overseeing 13 agencies and 15,000 employees, and focused on providing quality health care for all Virginians while continuing to implement the state's successful welfare reform initiative. As secretary, Allen led Gov. Gilmore's initiative for Virginia's Patients Bill of Rights passed in 1999 that gave patients the right to appeal adverse coverage decisions made by their health plan and receive direct access to physician specialists. Before joining the Gilmore administration, Secretary Allen was counsel to the Virginia attorney general and, later, deputy attorney general for the Civil Litigation Division in the attorney general's office.

Edward H. Jurith
Acting Director
Office of National Drug Control Policy

Mr. Jurith was appointed to serve as ONDCP Acting Director by President Clinton on January 10, 2001. Prior to that time, he had served as ONDCP General Counsel since 1994.

During his tenure as General Counsel, Mr. Jurith was responsible for ensuring ONDCP compliance with all Federal laws and regulations and served as general legal adviser to the Director and ONDCP staff. He took a one-year sabbatical in 1997 as an Atlantic Fellow in Public Policy at the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom where he lectured on drug policy issues. In addition, as part of his Atlantic Fellowship program, Mr. Jurith assisted the UK Anti-Drugs Coordinator develop the Blair Government strategy for reducing drug abuse.

Mr. Jurith has over 20 years of Federal, drug policy-making experience. Before becoming General Counsel he served ONDCP Director of Legislative Affairs from 1993 to 1994. He came to ONDCP from the U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, where he was Staff Director from 1987 to 1993 and Counsel from 1981 to 1986. While on the staff of the Select Committee he was instrumental in the development of the Anti-Drug Abuse Acts of 1986 and 1988. These laws provide the statutory framework for the current U.S. national drug control policy. Prior to his Federal Government service, Mr. Jurith was an attorney in private practice in the City of New York from 1976 to 1981.

He is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from American University, Washington, DC, in 1973 with a BA in Political Science, cum laude, with honors in government. He received a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1976 and is a member of the New York and District of Columbia Bars. Mr. Jurith has lectured widely on drug policy at U.S. and British universities and has publications dealing with substance abuse and drug policy.

Mr. Jurith is married to Kathleen Healy of Cincinnati, Ohio. The couple has two children: Theodore 14, and William 11.

Gloria Danziger
Staff Director
American Bar Association Standing Committee on Substance Abuse

Gloria Danziger has served as Staff Director of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Standing Committee on Substance Abuse since 1993, where she is responsible for drafting and implementing ABA policy on issues involving alcohol and other drugs, as well as for collaborating with representatives from major national organizations. In addition, she serves as the Project Director for the ABA’s Communities, Families, and the Justice System initiative to develop and implement unified family courts in six selected sites (Washington, D.C.; Baltimore, MD; Atlanta, GA; San Juan, PR; King County, WA; and Cook County, IL). Ms. Danziger is also the Project Director for the Scripps-Howard Foundation-funded Literacy, Truancy, and Family Courts project.

Ms. Danziger chairs the National Substance Abuse Coalition, an association of 35 national organizations formally committed to addressing substance abuse as a public health issue. NSAC was co-founded by the American Bar Association, the American Medical Association and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Danziger is the author of numerous books and reports on public policy, including People and Governing (Kettering Foundation 1996), Women’s Movements in America (Praeger 1992), Politics and People: Who Should Govern? (Kettering Foundation 1990); Environmental Politics: The Solid Waste Mess (Kettering Foundation 1990). Prior to joining the ABA, she practiced immigration law. She has also served as Managing Editor of ?Justice Quarterly? (the official journal of the American Criminal Justice Society), and has worked as a reporter for Jack Anderson Associates, the Atlantic City Sun newspaper, and for the East European Bureau of the Voice of America in Munich, Germany.

Ms. Danziger is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, Oxford University (M.Phil. in Politics) and London University (B.A. Honours in Philosophy).

Adele Harrell
Director of the Program on Law and Behavior
The Urban Institute

Dr. Harrell has been actively engaged in studies of drug abuse since 1975. She is currently evaluating the Brooklyn Treatment Court services for female offenders and Breaking the Cycle, a program linking court and treatment services for drug-involved defendants. Prior research includes an evaluation of the system-wide drug testing in case management at pretrial, probation and parole, and studies of the relationship between arrestee urinalysis results and community indicators of drug problems among adults and juveniles. She recently completed an experimental evaluation of the impact of the Children at Risk Program, a comprehensive drug prevention program for youth 11 to 13, and a five-year experimental evaluation of the D.C. Drug Court.

Dr. Harrell has also conducted a number of studies of domestic violence. She is co-directing the evaluation of a three site demonstration project to provide enhanced judicial oversight of domestic violence cases and is a senior researcher on the evaluation of the Violence against Women Act STOP block grant program. Her earlier work with the justice system response to domestic violence includes a quasi-experimental evaluation of the impact of court-ordered treatment for domestic violence offenders, an assessment of court-related practices in restraining orders for domestic violence victims, an evaluation of the Bureau of Justice Assistance 8-site Family Violence Demonstration programs, a comparison of mediation versus custody evaluation in the resolution of custody disputes involving domestic violence, and an evaluation of the police training provided under the Family Violence Prevention and Services Act.

George Washington University, Ph.D. in Sociology, 1983
George Washington University, M.A. in Sociology, 1978
Sweet Briar College , B.A. in Psychology, 1962

John Varin
Idaho Attendance Court Judge

Judge Varin is a lifetime resident of Idaho. He attended the University of Idaho College of Business and College of law and obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree in General Business and Juris Doctor in Law. Judge Varin engaged in private legal practice from 1971 until 1985 when he became a Magistrate Judge. He was the Camas County Prosecuting Attorney from 1973 until 1985. Currently he is assigned as the Juvenile Court Judge for 5 south central Idaho counties He also handles the regular flow of cases in his home county of Camas where he lives with his wife Cindy. He has two adult children, Amy and Will. Judge Varin completed the first course on Civil Mediation at the National Judicial College in 1993. He currently serves on several Supreme Court Committees and is the Chair of the Juvenile Judge Advisory Committee. He was awarded the Kramer Award in 1996 a statewide award for excellence in judicial administration. Judge Varin has given presentations on mediation, juvenile justice and other topics at national, state and local forums.

D. Dwayne Simpson, Ph.D.
Director and Saul B. Sells Professor of Psychology
Institute of Behavioral Research, Texas Christian University

Dwayne Simpson came to the Institute of Behavioral Research (IBR) at TCU in 1966 as a graduate student. He joined the faculty in 1970 and later assumed leadership responsibilities for the 20-year Drug Abuse Research Program (DARP) on effectiveness of the national community-based treatment system. After moving to Texas A&M University and serving as Professor of Psychology and Director of the Behavioral Research Program from 1982 to 1989, he returned to TCU as Professor of Psychology and Director of the IBR. In 1992, he was named the S. B. Sells Professor of Psychology. Simpson’s principal research interests focus on therapeutic enhancement and program management strategies, improving the assessment of client attributes and treatment process, and development of more comprehensive evaluation models for understanding treatment effectiveness and client recovery stages. He serves on advisory boards for national research centers and other treatment evaluation projects, is on the editorial boards for professional journals, and is a Fellow in the American Psychological Association. He has published over 225 papers and consults with local, national, and international agencies about substance abuse and evaluation issues.

Chip Silverman, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.S., C.A.S.
Former Vice President of Government Relations and Addictions Programs
Magellan Health Services, Inc. (formerly Green Spring Mental Health Services).

Dr. Silverman has over 30 years experience in the health care industry with an expertise in substance abuse administration. Prior to joining Green Spring Health Services, Inc., Dr. Silverman was Special Advisor to the Governor for Substance Abuse Policy in Maryland; Acting Director of the State of Maryland’s Addictions Services Administration; and Director of the Maryland Drug Abuse Administration. He is the recipient of two national awards: The David E. Smith Award for Career Achievement and Pioneering in the Field of Addictions, and the Dole-Neyswander Award for Achievement in the Methadone Treatment Field. Additionally, Dr. Silverman began the first publicly-funded treatment program in the nation for compulsive gambling in 1978. He is certified by the State of Maryland as an addictions counselor, and has trained thousands of counselors for the Office of Education and Training for Addictions Services (OETAS) in the Mid-Atlantic Region. Chip has also been nationally credentialed as a Certified Addictions Specialist (C.A.S.) by the American Academy of Health Care Providers in Addictive Disorders of which he is a member of their International Advisory Board. Silverman speaks and lectures throughout the country. He is an adjunct instructor at the Loyola College Graduate School for Psychology in Maryland where he teaches "Current Issues in Addictions" to masters and doctoral students.

Silverman was also Assistant Dean and Acting Dean of Morgan State University’s graduate school.

During the past 25 years, Chip has written for the Baltimore News-American newspaper, was a contributing editor for Baltimore Magazine, and produced segments for the Evening/PM Magazine television show. He has appeared in the movies "...And Justice For All," "Diner," "Tin Men," and "Liberty Heights;" all courtesy of close friend and Oscar-winning director, Barry Levinson, who wrote the Foreword to Diner Guys (1989), Chip’s first book. Chip also co-authored (with Bob Litwin) an historical novel called The Block (1995), a mystery about Baltimore’s red-light district. In 1999 came Aloha, Magnum, about the TV series "Magnum, P.I.," co-written with Larry Manetti, a co-star of the series. His novel, The Last Bookmaker (2000), again co-authored with Bob Litwin, is a crime/suspense thriller.

Dr. Silverman is reputed to be the only white person in a Black Hall of Fame in the country. He was inducted into the Morgan State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991 after forming, coaching, and guiding the only black college or university lacrosse team in the United States to two national tournaments and the greatest upset in the history of intercollegiate sports. His fifth book, the recently published Ten Bears, co-written with Miles Harrison is about the Morgan lacrosse team. The Foreword is written by Kweisi Mfume, President of the NAACP.

Mark Gornik
Bureau Chief
Offender Programs, Idaho Department of Correction

Mr. Gornik was formerly Inmate Substance Abuse Programs/Volunteer Services Coordinator, Idaho State Correctional Institution. He coordinated the inmate treatment programs including; substance abuse, cognitive restructuring, cognitive skills, and volunteers. Currently, as Bureau Chief for Offender Programs, IDOC, he coordinates and trains statewide offender programs including; substance abuse, sex offender, cognitive / behavioral, volunteer services, and other treatment related programs. He currently serves as a consultant to the National Institute of Corrections Academy in Longmont, Colorado and the Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs in Washington, D.C. He provides technical assistance on the following topics: Correctional Supervision; Cognitive and Substance Abuse Programs; Leadership Development; Effective Intervention for High Risk Offenders; Assessment and Case Management; and Criminality. He provides presentations and workshops for various Universities, Seminars and Conferences.

Mr. Gornik is a certified addictions counselor and certified clinical supervisor. He received his master’s degree in the Science of Interdisciplinary Studies at Boise State University. He is an adjunct faculty member of Boise State University.

Gwen Grams, Ph.D., Manager
Planning, Evaluation and Research
Oregon Department of Human Services
Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs

Gwen has more than 20 years of experience in the alcohol/drug field, including work in both the legislative and executive branches. She spent four years with the Illinois House staff as a budget and policy analyst on alcohol/drug issues, four years in the Office of Lt. Governor - now Governor George Ryan, and 10 years with the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse. Currently, she is the manager of planning, evaluation and research in the

Oregon Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs.  She holds a Ph.D. in quantitative experimental psychology from DePaul University, Chicago, IL.

Patricia Kempthorne
Idaho First Lady
Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free

Patricia Kempthorne, married to Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne for 23 years, grew up in Boise, Idaho and graduated from the University of Idaho with a degree in business management. The First Lady's interests encompass issues concerning children, families and communities and finding solutions to the specific challenges they face, including parenting, education, healthy life choices and work-life balance. She helped to found the Family and Workplace Consortium in Idaho, which encourages and assists companies in developing a family consciousness in practice and policy. In addition, she has owned her own business consulting for employers on family and work/life issues. In 2000 Mrs. Kempthorne joined Business Psychology Associates, in Boise, as the Director of Work-Life Initiatives.

As part of the Governor's Generation of the Child initiative, she serves as the co-chair of the Governor's Coordinating Council for Families and Children and as a liaison for numerous boards and commissions.

Mrs. Kempthorne is a member of Leadership to Keep Children Alcohol Free. The initiative has brought together 28 Governors' spouses in support of a nationwide public education effort focused upon preventing underage drinking, with a special focus on the 9-15 age group.

Mrs. Kempthorne serves on the University of Idaho College of Business and Economics advisory board, is an honorary chair for the Boys and Girls Club and the Idaho State Library Summer Reading Ambassador. She also serves on the advisory councils of Idaho Kids Count, St. Luke's Children's Hospital and The Casey Family Foundation. She is on the board of directors for the Boise Family YMCA and the World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame.

Bob McKeagney
Deputy Director for Program Operations
Child Welfare League of America

To develop and disseminate practice standards as benchmarks for high-quality services that protect children and youths and strengthen families and neighborhoods;

To promote high-quality services through training, consultation, conferences, publications, and other membership services;

To formulate and promote public policies at every level that contribute to the well-being of children, youths, families, and neighborhoods;

To ensure that all child welfare services are provided in a manner that demonstrates respect for the cultural and ethnic diversity of our neighborhoods and our nation;

To promote open exchange of data, resources, and ideas within and across systems that serve children, youth, and families and to be a conduit for that information; and

To serve children, youth, and families by continually strengthening our member agencies and this, their national organization.

General Arthur Dean
Anti-Drugs Coalition of America

General Dean commanded Army units from Company to Brigade for 10 years and served 10 years at Headquarters, Department of the Army in Washington, DC. He is an U.S. Army and Republic of Vietnam Senior Parachutist and an Army Ranger. He possesses numerous awards with the highest being two awards of the U.S. Army Distinguished Service Medal.

General Dean has served as a member of the Executive Council of the Atlanta Area, Boy Scouts of America; Member of the Board of Directors, Army and Air Force Exchange; Member, Executive Committee, Army Morale and Welfare Board; Member, Board of Managers, Army Emergency Relief; Member of the Board of Directors, Washington, DC Project, Enterprise International Development, Inc. He currently serves as a member of the Defense Science Board Human Resources Task Force; member of the Board of Advisors for U.S. Army Recruiting Command; and Chairman, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, Board of Directors.

General Dean received his undergraduate degree in 1967 from Morgan State University and his master's degree from Central Michigan University in 1977. He is also a graduate of the Stanford University's Advanced Management Program and the U.S. Army's War College.

Kenneth D. Stark
Director, Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse
Washington Department of Social and Health Services

Mr. Stark has worked in the alcohol/drug field since 1971. As a counselor and manager, he has operated residential and outpatient treatment programs. His experiences include adult and adolescent specialties as well as prison-based services. During the 1980's, he managed hospital-based inpatient treatment programs and later was president, and one of the principals, of several comprehensive outpatient treatment clinics that were later bought out by a national health care chain.

Over the years, Mr. Stark has also served as a consultant and educator on alcohol/drug issues. He has taught course work at several colleges and universities as well as consulted with business and industry on issues related to alcohol/drugs in the workplace. Most recently, Mr. Stark has managed the Division of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (DASA), within the Department of Social and Health Services. DASA has a $219 million biennial budget and is responsible for funding and regulating alcohol/drug prevention and treatment programs throughout the State of Washington. Through his employment with the state, Mr. Stark was awarded the 1993 Governor's Management Award.

Mr. Stark has been involved with numerous evaluation and research programs to determine the effectiveness of treatment. He was the co-principal investigator of a five- year, $4.5 million research project to determine effectiveness of specialized treatment services for chemically dependent pregnant women. Mr. Stark is currently the Research Committee Chair and Region X Director for the National Association of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD) and has served as their Treasurer. He has also served on the National Committee for Women's Services for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration within the federal Health and Human Services agency. Mr. Stark is currently on the Executive Committee for the Northwest High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HIDTA) Grant.

Mr. Stark has a broad educational background which includes a Master's of Education (M.Ed.) degree, emphasis on counseling and guidance with a chemical dependency focus area. He also earned a Master's in Business Administration (MBA).

Howard R. Sampson
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment

Mr. Sampson is currently employed as the Director, Division of State and Community Assistance, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, where he is responsible for managing the Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant to the States and Territories.

Mr. Sampson has provided direct clinical and managerial services at the local, regional, State and National levels of government and has managed for profit and non-profit organizations that provide health a human services for over 25 years.

Kevin Mulvey
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention

Kevin P. Mulvey, Ph.D. is an Applied Sociologist with the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), Division of State and Community Assistance, Prior to coming to CSAP he was with the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Office of Evaluation, Scientific Analysis and Synthesis in the Program Evaluation Branch. His areas of expertise are Deviance, Applied Sociology specifically Program Evaluation, and Quantitative Methodology. These areas include but are not limited to the following sub-populations: Homelessness, Criminal Justice, and Substance Users/Abusers. He has been the Director of Evaluation on a 3 year NIAAA demonstration grant 88-91 in Boston. In this capacity he helped to implement not only the program aspects of the project but also design and implement the data collection activities of the evaluation/project staff. In addition he was the Senior Evaluator on a 5 year CSAT Boston Target Cities Demonstration Project. In this capacity he has assisted with the design and implementation of the project. Assisted programs and core staff with the utilization of data for management purposes. In addition, he assisted the Director of the Evaluation with the research activities. Prior to the Federal Government, he was the Senior Researcher/Evaluator with the Boston Public Health Commission’s Office of Research, Health Assessment, and Data System in this capacity was responsible for the Research, Evaluation, and Reporting activities of the Department of Public Health. All of his posts required cooperation and collaboration with these projects national evaluation effort.

Pharis Stanger Moderator
Idaho Department of Health and Welfare

Pharis Stanger is a substance abuse project manager with the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare. He is designated as Idaho state substance abuse director as it relates to the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) and the National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors (NASADAD). He is part of Idaho's Drug Policy Team assisting Governor Kempthorne's Substance Abuse Interagency Task Force and participated in the Drug Policy Summits in Nebraska and Arizona. Of his 26 year career with the Department, he has dedicated the last ten to substance abuse prevention and treatment.

Dr. Sandra Owens Lawson
Office of National Drug Control Policy

Sandra Owens Lawson, Ph.D. is a Senior Policy Analyst at the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. In this capacity, she is involved with analyzing and evaluating public policy including the National Drug Control Strategy. Prior to this appointment, she was a Public Health Advisor, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention monitoring high risk youth grants and state block grants. In that capacity, she was also responsible for providing leadership and authoritative guidance on substantive health administration issues relevant to Managed Care, Welfare Reform, Women’s and Children’s issues. She also served as intergovernmental liaison on state issues. Prior to this assignment, she was the federal government project officer for the National Women’s Resource Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs and Mental Illness. This center served as a repository of information and emerging public policies on women across the life cycle The conceptual framework of the activities of the center was based upon the need in the substance abuse and mental health needs for programming with more gender and cultural specificity.

She received a Master’s degree in Social work from Howard University School of Social Work. and Ph.D. in Health from Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is a licensed and board certified clinical social worker. She holds membership in various organizations related to social work and substance abuse issues including the National Association of Social Workers Steering Committee on Alcohol and Other Drugs and the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Substance Abuse.

She has completed a qualitative ethnographic research based case study on the "Psychosocial Factors that Influence the Psychological Well-Being of Professional Black Women in Midlife".

Pastor Freddie Garcia
Victory Fellowship

Freddie Garcia is a former hard-core drug-addict and reject of society, who began his life on a one way street to hell. In June of 1966, he was challenged to a new way of life in Christ. He accepted the challenge and this down and out, good for nothing drug addict was converted into a minister of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Against many odds, Freddie went on to establish "Victory Fellowship of Texas," a Christian Rehabilitation Center. Under his leadership the program has provided free of charge one of the most effective programs in the fight against drug addiction, alcoholism and other life-controlling problems for more than 25 years.

Highlights of Accomplishments:

Victory Temple Church – Pastor Freddie’s church, located at the corner of Buena Vista and Cibolo, with over 600 members, consists of 58% former drug/alcohol users. Once parasites of our society, they now are contributing assets to our community through the preaching of the Cross. Sixty-five other similar churches have been planted and the number is multiplying.

Victory Home-Christian Rehabilitation Center – Open 24 hours, and located in a drug infested area of San Antonio, Texas, this free of charge shelter feeds and houses 60 men and 15 women. Both the homeless and those with life-controlling addictions are confronted with the healing gospel of Jesus Christ. Thirty-five other centers have been planted throughout Texas, New Mexico, California, Mexico, and other foreign countries, such as a Peru, Columbia, Puerto Rico with new target areas in focus.

Victory Leadership Academy – This free of charge, two year curriculum is designed to equip workers to the needs of Christian rehab centers within the inner-city and all over the world. Many go on to become Licensed/Ordained Ministers.

Campus Outreach – Our highly effective Youth Task Force comprised of former gang members, with backgrounds of former drug/alcohol abuse, confront and challenge both Jr. and High School students through our Special Speakers’ Bureau, Assembly Lectures, Discussion Panels, Classroom Participation, and one on one interaction with Teachers/Students. Drama, films, and concerts, are also implemented in our free of charge presentations along with thousands of Pastor Freddie’s autobiography Outcry in the Barrio given out.

Drop-In Centers – Strategically located in the "Gang Turf" within the Housing Projects (H.U.D.), these Christian satellites offer an emergency "House of Refuge" from the storms of violence and death to gang members, drug addicts, alcoholics and prostitutes: thereby, helping diminish gang rumbles and property damage. Street teams canvass the community door to door as an alternative outreach. Twenty-four hour "Live-in House Parents" visibly role model the structural Christian family.

Jail & Prison Ministries – Weekly, teams of former rejects of society spearhead the Jail ministry by personal visits and inmate Bible Correspondence Courses. Monthly, former drug and alcohol users turned ministers visit the various Texas Correctional Institutions and work in conjunction with the Judicial System offering our Victory Home Rehabilitation Center as an alternative to further incarceration.

Rosalind Brannigan, M.P.H. Moderator
Vice President
Drug Strategies

Rosalind Brannigan, M.P.H., Vice President of Drug Strategies, has more than 25 years experience in public health and management consulting on national and international levels for a wide range of government and private sector organizations. She has conducted numerous evaluations for the U.S. Public Health Service, including assessments of the National Health Service Corps and Geriatric Education Centers. Prior to joining Drug Strategies, Ms. Brannigan directed a five-year Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant targeting the special needs of the business community in dealing with the AIDS epidemic. Earlier in her career, she spent five years working in substance abuse, including three years as a program analyst for the Office of Economic Opportunity, managing multi-million dollar programs to combat drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Ms. Brannigan has worked in Africa and the Middle East for seven years. She graduated cum laude from Michigan State University and earned a Masters in Public Health from John Hopkins University.

Kathryn P. Jett
Director
California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs

Kathy Jett was appointed by the Governor as Director of the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs in November 2000. Kathy directs and coordinates the State’s efforts to prevent or minimize the effects of alcohol-related problems, narcotic addiction and drug abuse. The Department provides services that include prevention, early intervention, detoxification, and recovery. She is also responsible for implementation of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 (Proposition 36) and administration of the federal Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment block grant.

Kathy brings a unique perspective from her background and experience in both criminal justice and public health. Prior to her current position, she was appointed Director of the Attorney General’s Crime and Violence Prevention Center in May 1999. In this role, Kathy assisted the Attorney General in advocating effective crime prevention policies and strategies, administering crime prevention grant programs, offering technical assistance to local communities on research "best practices" and model programs and communicating effective crime prevention messages. During her term with the Attorney General’s Office, Kathy launched California Safe from the Start, a comprehensive strategy to bring community leaders from throughout the State together to address the impact of violence on children.

For more than three years, Kathy also served as Chief of the State’s first Office of Women’s Health, which was established in the California Department of Health Services. She was instrumental in increasing awareness of the importance of women’s health to lawmakers and community leaders by developing and coordinating effective policy strategies.

Kathy began her career as a counselor in and adolescent alcohol and other drug program in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. She joined state service in 1977 working as an analyst for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Programs.

Thomas W. Ross
Executive Director
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation

Thomas W. Ross is the Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation. Prior to his appointment in January, 2001, he served as the Director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts from June 1999 until December 2000 and as a Superior Court Judge for the Eighteenth Judicial District of North Carolina from 1984 until 2000. He has served as a Director of the Courts since June 1999, and as a judge since 1984. Prior to 1984, Judge Ross served as an Administrative Assistant to former Congressman Robin Britt, a partner in the law firm of Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, and Harkavy and an Assistant Professor of Law and Government at the Institute of Government at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 1996, Judge Ross was named "North Carolina Trial Judge of the Year."

Judge Ross served as Chair of the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission from 1990 to 1999. In this capacity, he led North Carolina to adopt innovative sentencing guidelines and community corrections legislation which have been called a "model for the nation" by the American Bar Association. North Carolina’s sentencing laws – called Structured Sentencing – were recognized with the 1997 Innovations in American Government Award sponsored by the Ford Foundation and Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

Judge Ross has spoken to governmental leaders in more than 20 states on the topic of sentencing reform and community corrections. His areas of expertise include the role of intermediate sanctions in sentencing policy, and the establishment and operation of sentencing commissions. He is the Advisory Board Chairman of the Vera Institute of Justice’s State Sentencing and Corrections Program.

Judge Ross received a BA degree from Davidson College in 1972 and a JD degree with honors from the University of North Carolina in 1975. He is a 1985 graduate of the National Judicial College General Jurisdiction course. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina with his wife and two children.

Anthony Annucci
Deputy Commissioner and Counsel
New York State Department of Correctional Services

Mr. Annucci has spent his entire adult life working within the criminal justice field, starting out in 1973 as an investigator with the State Senate Select Committee on Crime. After he graduated from law school, he worked for a four-year period as a law assistant to two different acting supreme court justices in Kings County.

Mr. Annucci's legal career within the field of corrections began in 1984 when he assumed the position of Deputy Counsel with the Department of Correctional Services. In 1989, he was promoted to Deputy Commissioner and Counsel and has held this position continuously until the present. As such, he is one of the most experienced corrections counsels in the entire country.

As Deputy Commissioner and Counsel, he is responsible for all of the legal services necessary for the day-to-day operations of the Department which consists of seventy different correctional facilities, an inmate population of approximately 70,000, a work force of over 31,000 employees, and a combined annual operations and capital budget of nearly $2.2 billion. As the head of Counsel's Office, he serves as the chief legal advisor to the Commissioner of Correctional Services and also supervises a staff of fifteen attorneys, five legal professionals, and six clerical personnel.

Over the years, Mr. Annucci has played a pivotal role in helping to shape the field of corrections in New York State, in particular, with legislative initiatives he either drafted entirely, or contributed significantly to, in the drafting process. Among the new programs he played a key role in helping to create are:

1. the Shock Incarceration Program--New York presently has the largest Shock Program in the country;

2. the Comprehensive Alcohol and Substance Abuse Treatment Program;

3. the Willard Drug Treatment Program and Sentences of Parole Supervision;

4. the contracts with localities initiative whereby localities contract with the state to care for state inmates for up to six months;

5. the early parole for deportation program; and

6. the merit time program.

Mr. Annucci also assisted in the drafting of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1995, which created determinate sentencing, and more recently, with the drafting of Jenna's Law. With all of these initiatives, once the legislation was signed into law, Mr. Annucci had to then provide the legal guidance to the Department to help get each of the programs up and running.

In the area of litigation, Mr. Annucci helps to defend against the thousands of lawsuits that are pending in federal and state court against the Department. New York's prison system remains one of the few large correctional systems in the country that has not had a federal master appointed system-wide to oversee any aspect of its operations. In fact, New York is the only large correctional system in the country to have had each and every one of its institutions accredited by the American Correctional Association.

Mr. Annucci is a member of the Legal Issues Committee of the American Correctional Association. In addition, the National Institute of Corrections has enlisted him as a speaker and presenter for several different national training seminars, two of which were sponsored for all corrections counsels in the country, and one that was sponsored for all juvenile offender corrections commissioners in the country. He has also written articles for national publications, the most recent of which was published in a 1999 issue of Corrections Today Magazine and entitled "Effective Strategies for Managing Litigation and Working with Attorney General Offices."

Mr. Annucci was born, raised and educated in New York City. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from Fordham University, a Master of Arts Degree from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and his Juris Doctor Degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Nicholas Turner Moderator
Director, National Associates Program on State Sentencing and Corrections
Vera Institute

Nicholas Turner is the Director of Vera's National Associates Program on State Sentencing and Corrections. He joined the Institute in May 1998 as its special counsel for government affairs after practicing law at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and clerking with the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein, a Federal District Court Judge in Brooklyn, NY. With Judge Weinstein he co-authored "The Cost of Avoiding Injustice by Guideline Circumventions" in the Federal Sentencing Reporter. Previously he worked for Sasha Bruce Youthwork Inc., a Washington D.C. nonprofit organization serving high-risk youth, as a counselor, coordinator of its outreach programs, and then director of its substance abuse prevention program. Mr. Turner has a BA in history from Yale College and a JD from Yale Law School.

Monte J. Stiles
Assistant U.S. Attorney for Idaho

Monte Stiles has served his entire professional career of 19 years as a state and federal prosecutor. He was born and raised in the small farming community of Emmett, Idaho. After high school, Monte attended college and law school at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. During this period of time, Monte twice moved to Washington, D.C. where he worked for Congressman Steve Symms. He also served a voluntary two year mission in Korea for the L.D.S. Church. After graduating from Brigham Young University Law School in 1982, Monte was hired as a deputy prosecutor in the Ada County Prosecutor's Office. In 1984, Monte was appointed as the Supervising Attorney of the new Ada County Drug Prosecution Unit. Soon thereafter, Monte was appointed as a Special Assistant United States Attorney to work with the federal drug task force..

In 1987, Monte was hired by the United States Attorney’s Office to run the federal Organized Crime/Drug Enforcement Task Force – a group of agents and prosecutors who investigate and prosecute high level drug trafficking organizations, including Los Angeles street gangs, biker gangs, international drug smugglers and money launderers, and various other types of serious criminal organizations. As a federal prosecutor for the last 14 years, Monte has worked closely with numerous foreign, federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in investigating and prosecuting major drug traffickers. On a number of occasions, these cases have taken Monte to countries such as Hong Kong and Thailand, where key evidence and witnesses have been found.

In May 1995, Monte and his family moved to Washington D.C. where Monte was on detail for the Department of Justice. While there, Monte served as Special Counsel to the Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys. Monte's primary assignments were in the areas of domestic terrorism, violent crime, juvenile justice, and narcotics. In October 1995, when Monte returned to Idaho, he resumed his duties with the Federal Drug Task Force.

One of his proudest personal and career achievements was helping organize and implement the statewide "Enough is Enough" anti-drug campaign during the past three years. This state-wide effort produced community coalitions in many areas of the state. These coalitions formed in order to fight crime at the local level, with every part of the community being involved. Included in the campaign were businesses, civic organizations, churches, schools, youth volunteer organizations, government, and the media. Through the combined efforts of these groups, over 100 drug prevention seminars were conducted throughout Idaho. Over 173,000 Idahoans attended at least one seminar and over 1 million people watched a drug seminar on television due to media partnerships.

Robert Pennal
Special Agent Supervisor
California Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement

Special Agent Supervisor Robert Pennal, Office of the Attorney General, California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement, is a 20 year law enforcement veteran. Prior to employment with the Department of Justice, SAS Pennal was employed both as a Deputy Sheriff with the Merced County Sheriff Department and a State Traffic Officer with the California Highway Patrol.

SAS Pennal has been with the Bureau of Narcotic Enforcement for 15 years with the last 13 assigned to clandestine laboratory investigations. SAS Pennal is currently the commander of the Central Valley HIDTA, Fresno Methamphetamine Task Force. SAS Pennal has been involved in the investigation of over 400 laboratories. The majority involved the large scale manufacturing of methamphetamine by Mexican national Drug Organizations. SAS Pennal is a recognized expert in the manufacturing and distribution of methamphetamine. SAS Pennal has testified in both state and federal court on the organizational structures of Mexican National Drug Organizations involved in methamphetamine manufacturing. SAS Pennal currently lectures at conferences throughout the United States and Canada and has trained in excess of 3000 police officers.

Thomas Pagel Moderator
Director
Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigations

Thomas Pagel received his B.S. Degree from Michigan State University in 1972 with his major in Criminal Justice. Upon graduation he was accepted into the Michigan State Police where he worked numerous assignments including patrol, S.W.A.T., and training. In 1978 he was promoted to Detective Sergeant. In 1979 he accepted employment with the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation. His assignments have included homicide investigator, supervisor of the drug enforcement section, and Deputy Director. In 1990 he was appointed Director of the Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation and continues to serve in that capacity.

Mr. Pagel has accumulated over 30 credit hours from the University of Wyoming toward a Master of Public Administration degree. He is also a graduate of the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy, the Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government Drugs and Crime Program and has received over 2800 P.O.S.T. training hours.

He is a past President of the National Alliance of State Drug Enforcement Agencies and is currently the Chairman of the Governor’s Substance Abuse and Violent Crime Advisory Board and the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area Project. In 1989, Mr. Pagel was recognized by his peers as the Wyoming Peace Officer of the Year.

Mr. Pagel’s current professional efforts include developing a comprehensive and integrated plan to address the impact of methamphetamine on Wyoming. The Western Governors’ Association awarded Mr. Pagel with the 1999 George S. Mickelson Memorial Fellowship for his work in this area.