Funding Information

• 1996-1997 Orchard Foundation Rappaport/ Reynolds “Small Group Discussion Program Evaluation”
• 1997-1998 Children’s Studies Rappaport/ Reynolds “Building Resiliency at Harvard: The Academic Advisory Program”
• 1997-1998 Hirsh Family Rappaport “A Model Advising Foundation Program Promoting Academic Success in High Schools”
• 1997-1998 Roy A. Hunt Rappaport “Evaluation of Advising Foundation Program”
• 1997-1998 William J. Rappaport Rappaport “Advising Program and Lia G. Poorvu Evaluation” Foundation
• 2003-2007 EXPORT National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparity “School Systems Enhancement Project”

Current Activities

• Cambridge Rindge and Latin High School Advising Program:
  
  Principal Investigator of Evaluation (seeking to understand gap in the literature of different pathways and trajectories of advisor’s role in shaping adolescent adjustment; developing appropriate interventions with adolescents to prevent psychopathology and foster resilience; professional development with teachers to strengthen positive relationships with students that promote educational success).
   
• Project EXPORT: School Systems Enhancement Program
  
  Despite the enormous allocation many schools spend on students of special education, the research about how to enhance service delivery is sparse. In a unique collaboration with Cambridge Health Alliance Center of Multicultural Research and the Cambridge Public Schools, I am a co-investigator in a four-year EXPORT grant to identify how disruptive students are managed correctly and to design interventions that increase integration of mental health services and examine how to identify patterns that can optimize academic engagement.

Invited Presentations

• 1995 Presenter, “Adolescence and Popular Culture.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, New Orleans, LA
• 1996 Presenter, “How Can Psychiatry Encourage Hope for Adolescents? A primary Prevention Program in an Urban High School.” New England Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Belmont, MA
• 1997 Presenter, “Collaborative Primary Prevention for Adolescents.” American Psychiatry Association, San Diego, California
• 1998 Lecturer, “Advising: The Magic Match.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Los Angeles, CA
• 2000 Lecturer, “An Advising Program in a Large Urban High School: The Magic Match.” Center for School Mental Health Assistance, National Conference on Advancing School- Based Mental Health Programs, Atlanta, GA
• 2000 Presenter "Violence prevention: New approaches for clinical application." Massachusetts Medical Society conference
• 2000 Presenter, “Practical Approaches to Developing a School Based Mental Health Program.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry symposium, NYC, NY
• 2000 Presenter, “Missing the Mark: Theory and Practice in Response to School Violence.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry symposium NYC, NY
• 2000 Presenter, “Epidemic Violence: Can Nurture Win over Nature?” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry symposium, NYC, NY
• 2001 Key Note Speaker, “School Violence.” Conducting Day conference, “School violence and the clinician’s assessment of violent children,” Dartmouth, NH
• 2002 Key Note Speaker: “Missing the Mark: School Violence,” “Identifying Students at Risk: Increasing the Safety Net,” and “Adolescent Depression and Suicide.” Conducted Annual MacNamee Memorial Day Conference, “School violence and the clinician’s assessment of violent children,” co-sponsored by Dartmouth Medical School and the MacNamee Memorial Foundation, Dartmouth, NH [Word DOC]
• 2002 Chair, Speaker, “Foundations of School Consultation.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry symposium, San Francisco, CA.
• 2003 Chair: “Aggression in Children and Adolescents.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Institute, Miami, FL
• 2003 Presenter: “Threat Assessment in the School Setting.” American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Institute, Miami, FL [PPT]