Dr.  Dan   Edwards is the Senior Director of Innovation and Growth for Empower Community Care and at Evidence Based Associates (EBA). As a licensed clinical psychologist and implementation scientist, Dr. Edwards has focused on the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs for children, youth, and families for the past 30 years. Prior to joining EBA, Dr. Edwards was a Senior Vice-President at MST Services and a Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Dr. Edwards is also a member of the Global Implementation Society (GIS), and he serves as an Associate Editor for the GIS scientific publication, Global Implementation Research and Applications (GIRA). He holds advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Florida, and he manages a small private practice working with children, youth, and families in Alexandria, VA

 Dr.  Dan   Edwards is the Senior Director of Innovation and Growth for Empower Community Care and at Evidence Based Associates (EBA). As a licensed clinical psychologist and implementation scientist, Dr. Edwards has focused on the high-quality implementation of evidence-based programs for children, youth, and families for the past 30 years. Prior to joining EBA, Dr. Edwards was a Senior Vice-President at MST Services and a Clinical Professor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. Dr. Edwards is also a member of the Global Implementation Society (GIS), and he serves as an Associate Editor for the GIS scientific publication, Global Implementation Research and Applications (GIRA). He holds advanced degrees from Harvard University and the University of Florida, and he manages a small private practice working with children, youth, and families in Alexandria, VA

Amanda Elliott manages nine Reentry Facility Coordinators and ten Institutional Parole Agents in ten prisons throughout the state of Michigan.  She collaborates with the Wardens and other staff at the facilities to ensure the MDOC Offender Success Model is being successfully implemented, while serving as a liaison between the Department of Corrections and other stakeholders in the community.  Prior to working in this role, Amanda worked as the Gender Responsive Specialist for the MDOC, researching, implementing, and providing quality assurance for evidence-based, gender-responsive training, programing, and risk/needs assessment tools.   Prior to that, Amanda was a Parole Agent in Kent County, supervising male and females under parole supervision in a large urban area. 

Throughout her career with the MDOC, Amanda has been involved in various assessment and process improvement efforts.  She has been involved in EPIC Process Improvement Committees for female programming in the community, assessment instruments, mentoring for men and women under community supervision, expanding reentry services, and providing process improvement for programming recommendations at the Women’s Huron Valley Correctional Facility.  In addition, Amanda was part of the Michigan Gender Informed Practice Assessment (GIPA) team, ensuring that each of the 12 GIPA domains was assessed thoroughly and facilitated the development of comprehensive recommendations that ultimately served as the springboard for a strategic plan at the prison housing women in Michigan.  She trains staff in trauma/ACE, case management, motivational interviewing, cognitive behavioral programming such as Moving On, and Meridians which is for women who have used force in intimate partner relationships. 

Helen  has been involved with FFT since 2002 in different capacities, all of which make her work exciting and challenging. She is a Senior Manager who supports the implementation of FFT and larger systems development along with CQI practices.  She also works with outcomes and evaluations of the model. She is both a Nationally Certified Counselor and a PA Licensed Professional Counselor. Her Masters is in School and Community Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her Doctorate is in Community and Organizational Leadership Studies from Alvernia University.    Helen  is also an adjunct professor of psychology and lives in Philadelphia PA.  

Annie is a Senior Manager at FFT LLC, overseeing the national and international implementation of FFT-CW. She also manages FFT and FFT-CW programing in New York City. Across these roles Annie works closely with provider organizations, community stakeholders, and child protection and justice system partners to ensure impactful, high-quality, and transformative FFT/FFT-CW services for youth and families.

Annie serves as a key member of FFT LLC’s Executive Leadership Team in which she contributes to strategic planning, consultant development, quality clinical training, and the establishment of new initiatives. Annie has worked for FFT since 2003 and during her tenure has been instrumental in the development of the FFT-CW model, and other innovative programming including the ATLAS Initiative, the NYC FFT-IPAS aftercare program, and the movement to integrate evidence-based therapeutic and treatment programs in child protection and juvenile justice systems.

Annie has a Master of Science in Social Work from Columbia University and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NY State. As the former Director of the New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) FFT Program, she oversaw the implementation of FFT Re-Entry programs serving adjudicated youth returning home from institutional care. Annie was initially trained as an FFT therapist while working in a community based mental health clinic in Brooklyn, NY. She lives in New York City with her family.

Dr. David Robinson has 40 years of experience conducting research, developing assessments, and carrying out program evaluations in both youth and adult justice. He was a founder of Orbis Partners (2001), where he is Director of Assessment. He holds a doctorate in forensic psychology from Carleton University (1990). During his graduate years he was a team member on the development of such assessment tools as the adult LSI (Level of Service Inventory) and the youth version (YLS-CMI). After a research career in federal corrections (Canada), Dr. Robinson returned to a focus on developing and implementing innovative risk, needs and strength assessment tools. He has particular expertise in youth justice assessment and has led state-wide implementations of the Youth Assessment and Screening Instrument (YASI) in fourteen jurisdictions. Recently Dr. Robinson has made research advances with his academic colleagues related to the contribution of strength assessment in predicting outcomes and helping practitioners develop effective and collaborative service plans for justice-involved youth and adults.

Daniel has worked with Orbis since 2011 and is the lead team member in charge of Orbis’ software support.  He works closely with both the software team and the implementation team and has a very clear understanding of the ‘user experience’ due to his extensive work with individual software users over the past 12 years.  Daniel also works with software development and customizations as a quality assurance analyst. 

Suzanne Kerns is a Professor at the University of Colorado-Anschutz and Director of Transformative Research at the Kempe Center. Her focus is on enhancing the wellbeing of children and families through ensuring access to proven-effective treatment approaches. She is the PI for the Title IV-E Prevention Services Clearinghouse and is the President of the Society for Implementation Research and Collaboration. She previously was PI for an ACYF-CB grant in Washington State called “Creating Mental Health Connections for Children and Youth in Foster Care” and was key personnel on the University of Maryland’s ACF-funded National Center for EBPs in Child Welfare.

Katelynn Cirell currently serves as the Assistant Director of the Community Services Department at MHY Family Services. In this role, Katelynn's focus is clinical oversight of all MST Programs, as well as the growth and development of adaptation programs, specifically MST Psychiatric and MST Problem Sexual Behavior. Prior to this, Katelynn served as the MST Program Manager, and an MST Therapist at MHY.

Richmond "Rick" Parsons joined Carey Group in 2022 as deputy director after 30+ years of probation and parole experience in two Pennsylvania counties. In addition to his leadership roles at the county level, he served on the Governor’s Advisory Board of Probation, the executive board of the County Chief Adult Probation and Parole Officers Association of Pennsylvania, and the Pennsylvania Evidence-Based Practices Implementation Team. He is a founder and past president of the Mid-Atlantic Region Chapter of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. He specializes in identifying organizational roadblocks and facilitating needed organizational changes.

Deidra Ewing is the Project Director for the Texas Project. She is the ongoing point person for EBA's goal of ensuring quality services to MST programs in Texas.  She’s a proud graduate of Sam Houston State and Prairie View A&M University.  Her professional career includes 17+ years of advocacy for at-risk youth and families within the Harris County Juvenile Probation Department. She’s a two-time best-selling author with self-development books in all major department stores and has been recognized in the Houston community as one of Houston’s Women History makers. Her experience includes years of court, field, family therapy, sub-acute hospitalization facilitation, program management, supervisory leadership, recruitment, marketing, branding, product, commercial, and real estate sales.