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Ph.D., Professor

Address: Ellis Institute
9 N. Edwin Moses
Dayton, OH 45402-6837

Phone: 937-775-4327
Fax: 937-775-4323
E-mail: betty.yung@wright.edu

Areas of Specialization/Interest

Interpersonal Violence; Child Abuse; Ethnic Minorities and Disadvantaged groups including Appalachians; Prevention Programming; Adolescents, Mentorship Relationships.

Classes Taught

Grant Writing

Biographical Information

Betty R. Yung, Ph.D., a graduate of the University of Kentucky, is an associate professor and the director of the Center for Child and Adolescent Violence Prevention in the School of Professional Psychology . She also serves as the Grants Officer for SOPP, providing assistance to faculty in locating funding sources, grant proposal development and grant writing. Her background includes extensive experience in juvenile court administration and direct service to court-referred youth, and as a grants specialist and consultant for university academic programs, public schools, and community agencies. Her particular areas of research include: children and adolescents, prevention programming, adolescent violence, program evaluation, and ethnic minority and Appalachian health and mental health needs. Dr. Yung has had a major, programmatic role in the development and evaluation of the Positive Adolescent Choices Training (PACT) Program, a nationally known adolescent violence prevention program. Dr. Yung teaches an elective course in grant-writing.

November 2008 Dr. Yung was named as the Ohio Researcher of the Year award from the Health Policy Institute of Ohio.   The award was given for a statewide study of capacity building needs of Ohio minority health service providers; she was the lead researcher working with a team of folks from Wright State, University of
Akron, and Case Western. The award comes with a cash prize for the authors and an additional award to the lead author's department, i.e., SOPP.