EMT LOCATIONS AND PRINCIPAL STAFF Folsom, California Office EMT’s corporate office is located in Folsom, California, near Sacramento: EMT Associates, Inc. 771 Oak Avenue Parkway, Suite 2 Folsom, California 95630 Phone: (916) 983-6680 Fax: (916) 983-6693 Our Folsom office is run by Joel Phillips, President of EMT. Mr. Phillips founded EMT Associates, Inc. in 1981. He has over 32 years experience in planning, conducting, and managing research projects related to substance abuse, with a focus on national and state-directed prevention initiatives. Mr. Phillips has been involved with evaluation issues concerning prevention for nearly two decades. From 1986 through 1992, he directed EMT staff in the design and implementation of evaluation plans used in 16 different High Risk Youth Prevention programs. Over the past decade, he has conducted numerous evaluation workshops at various Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) national conferences involving High Risk Youth, Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Infants (PPWI), and Community Partnerships. Mr. Phillips has developed innovative, qualitative evaluation approaches in assessing prevention activities including the use of video and training youth on ethnographic techniques for documenting peer behaviors. He and Dr. Fred Springer developed the Individual Protective Factors Index (IPFI), a multi-dimensional measure of adolescent resiliency. Over the past decade, Mr. Phillips has taken an active role in the development of community-based outcome indicators to broadly assess health outcomes. More recently, Mr. Phillips has served as the lead facilitator for the California Department of Alcohol and Drug Program (ADP) project to develop measures for the National Outcome Measures requirements. As President of the company, Mr. Phillips oversees all professional staff and EMT’s current portfolio of projects. LA-Encino, California Office EMT maintains an office in the Los Angeles area: EMT Associates, Inc. 15720 Ventura Blvd., Penthouse Encino, California 91436 Phone: (818) 990-8301 Fax: (818) 990-3103 The LA-Encino Office is managed by Elizabeth Harris, Vice President of EMT. Elizabeth Harris, Ph.D. has over 15 years of experience in evaluation and survey research with federal, state and local agencies. Dr. Harris' areas of expertise include evaluation of mental health and alcohol and other drug prevention, intervention and treatment programs, and integrated behavioral health services. She has served as principal investigator on national evaluation studies, developed data collection instruments and has been responsible for data collection, analysis and report writing. Dr. Elizabeth Harris is currently the Project Manager for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s contact center evaluation, CDC-INFO. She is also serving as the Principal Investigator for Los Angeles County’s First 5 LA Connect evaluation of a hotline for families with young children and their service providers. Dr. Harris also served as Co-Principal Investigator for the National Minority Substance Abuse and HIV Prevention National Evaluation, a cross-site study funded by the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. In addition, she was the Study Leader for the Caregiver-Child Interaction Study for the National Evaluation of Starting Early, Starting Smart, a joint initiative between CSAT, CSAP and the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) examining the impact of integrated behavioral health care services on families with young children. Dr. Harris has served as the lead evaluator for the Nez Perce Tribe’s Youth Services Programming for the past 10 years. Dr. Harris oversees a staff of 25 research associates and research assistants in the LA-Encino office. Franklin, Tennessee Office EMT maintains an office in Franklin, Tennessee, near Nashville: EMT Associates, Inc. 230 Franklin Rd., #813 Franklin, Tennessee 37064 Phone: (615) 595-7658 Fax: (615) 595-9191 EMT’s Franklin office is managed by Fred Springer, EMT’s Director of Research. Dr. Springer has been research director at EMT Associates, Inc. for over seventeen years and has been with the company since 1981. He is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy Analysis at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. As the Director of Research, he oversees all major research projects. He designs and reviews research methods, instrumentation, and analysis for all EMT studies; supervises and reviews performance and quality monitoring for data collection and study implementation; reviews and contributes to EMT research reports; and presents EMT research products and results in a variety of settings. Dr. Springer has directed or been a senior participant in more than 80 program, community, and state evaluations, many focusing on substance abuse, school dropout, and delinquency prevention. Since the early 1990’s, Dr. springer’s work has focused on large national studies, primarily in substance abuse prevention. Key studies include the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s National Cross-Site Evaluation of High Risk Youth Programs and the SAMHSA and Casey Family Program’s Starting Early Starting Smart multi-site evaluation of integrated services programs for very young children and their caregivers. Dr. Springer has made significant methods and findings contributions to the development of evidence-based policy, programs, and practice in substance abuse prevention, health practice and interventions for family and children, including numerous published monographs and over 60 peer reviewed publications. In addition to being a leading practitioner of applied policy research and evaluation, Dr. Springer has had a distinguished academic career in which he published widely on policy analysis and the use of science-based data in decision systems, including two widely used graduate texts on policy analysis. He was the first Director of the Doctoral Program in Public Policy at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and established a strong program of applied research and education in the Center for Policy Studies at UMSL.