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Ivy Jones Turner Ivy Jones Turner has worked with non-profit organizations focusing on youth development for over 15 years. Her non-profit background includes training and technical assistance, program evaluation, grant management, and organizational development. Ivy has worked with large and small non-profits, including AmeriCorps programs and faith and community based agencies. She has managed academic and mentoring programs for at-risk and juvenile justice involved youth through law enforcement and faith-based agency partnerships. Most recently, Ivy served as technical assistance provider, grant manager and writer, as well as new site developer with National TenPoint Leadership Foundation and The Ella J. Baker House. Ivy is a certified conflict mediator. Ivy holds an MPA from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Chris Blaber is the Associate Director of the Center for School and Community Health Programs in EDC/HHD. A senior staff member at EDC for over two decades, Ms. Blaber has led a wide array of projects focusing on child and adolescent health and mental health issues. Since 1992, Ms. Blaber has served as Project Director of Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health curriculum for adolescents that addresses substance abuse, mental health, violence prevention, and a host of other health topics. Ms. Blaber also serves as Mental Health Products Lead for the SAMHSA-funded National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, where she develops materials on issues such as child and adolescent mental health and identifying and implementing evidence-based interventions. Ms. Blaber holds a Master of Education degree with a concentration in health education from Boston University. She is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish. Roger Jarjoura, Ph. D., is the founder of Aftercare for Indiana through Mentoring (AIM). Dr. Jarjoura is also an Associate Professor in the Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis. He has a background in research, program design, implementation, and evaluation, and his work has focused specifically on mentoring, juvenile justice, and corrections. He is currently a co-investigator on a three-year evaluation of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America’s Targeted Re-Entry project. Dr. Jarjoura has served as an investigator on many evaluation studies, including the evaluation of AIM, which involved a randomized experimental design and a four-year post-release follow-up period. Dr. Jarjoura has extensive experience developing mentor training materials. He developed the AIM Re-Entry Training Institute, which offers 40 hours of training to prepare professionals to work in the field of re-entry. He has also developed a training for mentors of children with incarcerated parents. Dr. Jarjoura received his Ph.D. in criminology from the University of Maryland. Kristen Llobrera provides research and writing support to the TATP MSIY team. She is responsible for collecting and analyzing data, maintaining databases, and assisting in the development of materials, guides, proposals, and presentations. Additional responsibilities include updating the Web site and assisting with the publication of the monthly newsletter. Previously Kristen served as a Research Associate at the American Institutes for Research (AIR) working on a number of projects, including the Technical Assistance Partnership, a federally funded project providing technical assistance for system of care communities working to improve outcomes for children with serious emotional disturbance. In addition, Kristen has served as an advocate for sexual assault survivors and has worked on health, community organization, and youth empowerment projects in Bolivia and Honduras. Kristen received her B.A. in Peace and Global Studies from Earlham College. |
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