Betty R. Yung, Ph.D. - Project Director

Betty Yung, Ph.D., is the Director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Violence Prevention and an Associate Professor, School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University. She has had a major programmatic role in the development and evaluation of the Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT) program.

Dr. Yung was formerly Grants Specialist for the School of Professional Psychology and Officer of Grants, Research, and Evaluation for the College of Education and Human Services at Wright State University. Prior to that, she had ten years of experience in casework and administration of youth programming in a juvenile court setting. Dr. Yung has served as a consultant for local schools, state and county health agencies, and child and family-serving organizations.

Dr. Yung has done extensive research and publication on violence affecting ethnic minority groups. In 1994, she won a Gimbel Child and Family Scholars Award for Service and Scholarship in Violence Prevention. Also in 1994, she and her co-author, Dr. Rodney Hammond, won an award from the Society for Research on Adolescence for the "Best Journal Article on Adolescent Social Policy" for their American Psychologist article on psychology's role in the public health response to assaultive violence among young African-American men.

Michelle Sampson, Psy.D. - Coordinator of Professional Training

Michelle Sampson, Psy.D., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University. Formerly, she served as the Director of the Family Life Center at Central State University, one of 19 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU's) comprising the Consortium of Minority Male Violence Prevention and Research, a project funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health. Dr. Sampson completed her Psy.D. at Wright State University.

As a clinical psychologist, her professional interests include adolescent violence prevention, racial identity development & diversity training, the role of spirituality in well being, women's issues, and couple relationships. Dr. Sampson has served as a consultant for several organizations, including the Dayton Public Schools. She is an experienced trainer and has presented both locally and nationally.

To date, PACT has been an integral part of Dr. Sampson's professional career. As a doctoral student, she was a youth trainer responsible for teaching PACT skills to adolescents in a school setting. Dr. Sampson's internship and post-doctoral work included coordinating the daily activities of PACT, training doctoral students to implement PACT and supervising doctoral students as they implemented the PACT approach in a school setting. Additionally, she developed and implemented a parent training program, IMPACT (Instructing Motivated Parents in Adolescent Choices Training), that is a companion to PACT.

Janeece R. Warfield, Psy.D. - Coordinator of PACT Field Sites

Janeece R. Warfield, Psy.D., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University, in Dayton, Ohio. She was previously Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and Assistant Director at the Georgetown Model Project for individuals with mental retardation and mental illness at Georgetown University Hospital's Child Development Center in Washington, DC. She completed her Psy.D. at Wright State University.

Dr. Warfield's professional interests and specialties are in adolescent violence prevention, multicultural diversity training, developmental disabilities, medical treatment and psychological intervention with infants and preschoolers. She serves as a member on the State of Ohio's Infant Mental Health Task Force and is on the State Planning Committee for Health Education in Ohio.

Dr. Warfield has consulted to various agencies such as HeadStart, universities, schools, and hospitals. She has coordinated and co-facilitated a comprehensive Family Health Wellness Clinic, assisted in design and coordination of an early intervention research project for medically fragile infants, as well as facilitated and coordinated a transition program for HeadStart preschoolers. In addition, she has assisted in curriculum development for a Direct Care Training Initiative of the Administration on Developmental Disabilities for the District of Columbia's Commission on Mental Health.

She is a skilled trainer and has presented workshops and trainings, both at the local and national level. One of her more recent presentation topics was "Working with Consulting Therapists, What Teachers Need to Know about Children Exposed to Violence."

Lori E. Crosby, Psy.D., is an Assistant Professor at the School of Professional Psychology, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.

Dr. Crosby's background is in Pediatric and Clinical Child Psychology. Her professional areas of interest include adolescent violence prevention, multi-cultural issues, adoption, stress management, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), community outreach, and children and adolescents with acute and chronic illnesses. She is a member of the Multi-Ethnic Mental Health Consortium Resource and Training Center. She is a skilled facilitator and has presented both statewide and locally.

Dr. Crosby has consulted with physicians, psychiatrists, nurses, counselors, and social workers in various settings, including a residential treatment center, youth partial hospitalization program, outpatient clinic, and a Mental Retardation Developmental Disabilities (MRDD) classroom. As a doctoral student, Dr. Crosby was a PACT trainer and she assisted with the collection of data on youth trained in the PACT model and a control group. Since that time, she has continued to consult with the program and participate in training seminars.

Kimberly Hudson has served as the Center's Administrative Assistant since its inception. She coordinates responses to information and training requestss, maintains project budgets, and oversees the planning and logistics for Center training activities.