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Familia Adelante Enhancing Youth and Family Life Skills Dr. Cervantes received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Cervantes is Research Director at Behavioral Assessment, Inc. and is Senior Research fellow at the California State University, Long Beach Center for Behavioral Research and Services Department of Psychology. He served as Research Psychologist at the UCLA Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center (1984-89) and held a full-time faculty appointment in the USC School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1990-1995). He has served as Principal Investigator on numerous NIH and Foundation funded studies and has published extensively over a 25-year career span. Dr. Cervantes has served or currently serves on a number of national level advisory groups and committees, including CSAP’s Technical Expert Group for the National Cross-Site Evaluation of Substance Abuse Prevention Grants for Minority AIDS Initiative, SAMHSA’s State Incentive Grant Evaluation Guidance Committee, and numerous other expert panels. Dr. Cervantes served as a science consultant for the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP). He has published well over two dozen scientific journal articles as well over a dozen book chapters relevant to Hispanic/Latino youth, family, mental health, and health issues. He is the developer of the Hispanic Stress Inventory and Familia Adelante, a family focused behavioral health promotion program. Dr. Cervantes has over 20 years of experience in the conduct of community-based research and evaluation and is familiar with necessary multi-dimensional evaluation methodologies needed in community and applied settings. Finally, Dr. Cervantes has served as an expert witness to the courts on issues related to Hispanic families, drug and alcohol abuse, cultural risk factors including immigration/acculturation stress, and juvenile gangs. He has served as an expert on over twenty death penalty cases, both in the trial/penalty phase, as well as in the appeals process. Clarissa Cervantes obtained her Doctoral of Physical Therapy in 2000. Mrs. Cervantes has extensive experience in health care and mental health research as well as data entry, data management and statical analyses. Clarissa works closely with the data manager and lead evaluator as a resource person for technical assistance, research and reporting; she also assists with the implementation of formal evaluations and data analysis. Mrs. Cervantes is responsible for identifying suitable software for conducting statistical analysis; assist with financial reports, accounting and CFO duties as necessary as well as monitoring project performances. Clarissa recently served on projects such as the Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) - HIV, Project Corazon, Bienvenidos Children’s & Family Center Research Evaluation, Spiritt Family Services Technical Assistance, Project Cabezon, Project Safe, Project Heal, Youth Adelante, Stop Short of Addiction, The Southwestern Regional Behavioral Health Conference Evaluation, Pima Community College AP3 SAMHSA Project, USC Spanish Language Survey for Cervical Cancer Prevention Study, CSAT Project, Hispanic Stress Inventory (HIS-A & HIS-2), Mental Health Comes To Hollywood, Pasadena Public Health Department Study and National Hispanic Latino ATTC & PTTC. Clarissa works as marketing specialist for Familia Adelante, a program developed specifically to address cultural barriers and stress related to family and youth development. Mrs. Cervantes is fluent Portuguese-English-Spanish languages; she has traveled worldwide and has gained a lot of cultural diversity experience and lately she has developed a keen interest for photography. Clarissa Cervantes, DPT Ms. Camacaro is a member of BAI’s research, data management team and manages projects for BAI. She provides assistance to lead evaluator through providing logistics for meetings and research for reports. Ms. Camacaro maintains training schedules, invoicing for specific projects, assists in project management, staffing logistics, and trains incoming employees and clients in data entry and data collection. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and has a keen interest in the physical and emotional growth of child development. Donna Camacaro, AA Adrian Reyes is the founder and president of Adrian Information Strategies, a fullservice market research and data processing company in Dallas, Texas. With over thirty years experience in all facets of market research and data processing, he has established and managed local, state, and national accounts, and has conducted hundreds of qualitative and quantitative studies. Mr. Reyes is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Mr. Reyes attended City College of New York and the Computer Programming Institute of New York. He was instrumental in the development of interactive computer programs for survey research tabulation. Currently, Mr. Reyes serves as data manager to BAI and has been responsible for data collection, database management, Web site development and maintenance and online/distance training. He has also been instrumental in questionnaire design, providing both web-based online and offline survey data entry of evaluation instruments. Adrian Reyes, BA