Curriculum Vitae Eric C. Brown Social Development Research Group 9725 3rd Ave. NE, Suite 401 Seattle, WA 98115 Phone: (206) 221-3195 e-mail: ricbrown@uw.edu EDUCATION 2003 Ph.D. Educational Measurement and Research Cognate area: Children s Mental Health College of Education 1999 Certificate in Mental Health Planning, Evaluation, and Accountability 1993 Master of Arts - Economics College of Arts and Letters 1987 Bachelor of Arts - Economics / International Studies College of Social and Behavioral Sciences EXPERIENCE July, 2010 present Research Assistant Professor 2009 2010 Lecturer 2002 2010 Research Scientist Social Development Research Group 1998 2002 Research Assistant Professor Department of Child and Family Studies 1987 1998 Senior Statistician / Coordinator of Statistical Research Department of Epidemiology and Policy Analysis Department of Child and Family Studies Page 1 of 5 (updated 9-15-11)
FUNDED RESEARCH 2008 - present Principal Investigator (subcontract) Development of Maximum Individualized Change Analysis Methodology National Institute of Mental Health Research Grant MH082445-01 Roger A. Boothroyd, Principal Investigator 2008-2011 Principal Investigator Randomized Controlled Trial of the Steps to Respect School Bullying Prevention Program Seattle Committee for Children/Raynier Foundation 2000-2002 Principal Investigator Characteristics and Service Patterns of Children in the Florida Child Protection System Collaborative Faculty Grant Award, University of South Florida Collaborative for Children, Families, and Communities Florida Dept. of Children and Families, Office of Child Protective Services 2000 2002 Co-Investigator Evaluation of the Florida Dept. of Children and Families Community-Based Care Initiative Robert I. Paulson and Mary I. Armstrong, Principal Investigators Florida Department of Children and Families 2000 2002 Co-Principal Investigator Assessment of Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs among Middle-School Youth Svetlana Yampolskaya, Co-Principal Investigator Hillsborough County Workforce and the Hillsborough County Children s Board 1999-2002 Co-Investigator Development and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Interagency Collaboration National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Center Grant #84-133B-7 1999-2002 Co-Investigator Impact of Managed Care and System of Care Policies on Service Access for Children with Culturally Diverse Backgrounds National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research Center Grant #84-133B-7 1998-2002 Principal Investigator The Information Utilization Project: A Profile of Florida s Child Protection System Data Florida Dept. of Children and Families, Office of Child Protective Services AFFILIATED RESEARCH STUDIES 2011, September Investigator, Project Director present Supporting Early Transitions Study Richard F. Catalano, Principal Investigator, University of Washington Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Page 2 of 5 (updated 9-15-11)
AFFILIATED RESEARCH STUDIES (continued) 2010, February Investigator present International Youth Development Study Todd Herrenkohl and Richard F. Catalano, Principal Investigators, University of Washington National Institute on Drug Abuse Grants #DA 12140 and #DA10768 2009, March present Consultant Promoting School Success by Targeting the Peer Context: A Test of a Middle School Bullying Prevention Program Dorothy L. Espelage, Principal Investigator University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 2004 present Research Scientist The Community Youth Development Study J. David Hawkins, Principal Investigator Social Development Research Group,, University of Washington 2006 2007 Research Scientist Preventing Adolescent Cannabis Use in the Netherlands and the United States: A Bi-national Investigation of the Communities That Care Prevention System J. David Hawkins, Principal Investigator Social Development Research Group,, University of Washington 2002 2004 Research Scientist The Raising Healthy Children Project Richard F. Catalano, Principal Investigator Social Development Research Group,, University of Washington 1988 1998 Coordinator of Statistical Research The National Adolescent and Child Treatment Study 1998 Senior Statistician Evaluation of Intensive In-home Crisis Services for Children and their Families Mary E. Evans, Principal Investigator 1996 Senior Statistician Evaluation of Florida s Family Services Response System Mario Hernandez, Principal Investigator PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS Brown, E. C., Low, S., Smith B. H., & Haggerty, K. P. (in press). Results of a Group Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program. School Psychology Review. Hawkins, J. D., Oesterle, S., Brown, E. C., Monahan, K. C., Abbott, R. D., Arthur, M. W., & Catalano, R. F. (in press). Sustained decreases in risk exposure and youth problem behaviors after installation of the Communities That Care Prevention system in a randomized trial. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Page 3 of 5 (updated 9-15-11)
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (continued) Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., & Briney, J. S. (2011). Prevention service system transformation using Communities That Care. Journal of Community Psychology, 39(2), 183-201. Arthur, M. W., Hawkins, J. D., Brown, E. C., Briney, J. S., Osterle, S., & Abbott, R. D. (2010). Implementation of the Communities That Care prevention system by coalitions in the Community Youth Development Study. Journal of Community Psychology, 38(2), 245-258. Hawkins, J. D., Oesterle, S., Brown, E. C., Arthur, M. W., Abbott, R. D., Fagan, A. A., & Catalano, R. F. (2009). Results of a Type 2 translational research trial to prevent adolescent drug use and delinquency: A test of Communities That Care. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 163(9), 789-798. Brown, E. C., Graham, J. W., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Abbott, R. D., Oesterle, S., Briney, J. S., Catalano, R. F., & Baldwin, M. M. (2009). Design and analysis of the Community Youth Development Study longitudinal cohort sample. Evaluation Review, 33, 311-334. Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Van Horn, M. L., & Abbott, R. D. (2008). Multilevel analysis of a measure of community prevention collaboration. American Journal of Community Psychology, 41, 115-126. Fleming, C. B., Catalano, R. F., Mazza, J. J., Brown, E. C., Haggerty, K. P., & Harachi, T. W. (2008). After-school activities, misbehavior in school, and delinquency from the end of elementary school through the beginning of high school: A test of social development model hypotheses. Journal of Early Adolescence, 28, 277-303. Hawkins, J. D., Brown, E. C., Oesterle, S., Arthur, M. W., Abbott, R. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2008). Early effects of Communities That Care on targeted risks and initiation of delinquent behavior and substance use. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 15-22. Hawkins, J. D., Catalano, R. F., Arthur, M. W., Egan, B., Brown, E. C., Abbott, R. F., & Murray, D. M. (2008). Testing Communities That Care: Rationale and design of the Community Youth Development Study. Prevention Science, 9(3), 178-190. Van Horn, M. L., Fagan, A. A., Jaki, T., Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Abbott, R. D., & Catalano, R. F. (2008). The use of mixture models to evaluate differential intervention effects in group randomized trials. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 43(2), 289-326. Brown, E. C., Hawkins, J. D., Arthur, M. W., Briney, J. S., & Abbott, R. D. (2007). Effects of Communities That Care on prevention services systems: Findings from the Community Youth Development Study at 1.5 years. Prevention Science, 8(3), 180-191. Cortes, R. C., Fleming, C. B., Catalano, R. F., & Brown, E. C. (2006). Gender differences in the association between maternal depressed mood and child depressive phenomena from Grade 3 through Grade 10. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 35(5), 810-821. Brown, E. C., Catalano, R. F., Fleming, C. B., Haggerty, K. P., & Abbott, R. D. (2005). Adolescent substance use outcomes in the Raising Healthy Children project: A two-part latent growth curve analysis. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 73(4), 699-710. Brown, E. C., Catalano, R. F., Fleming, C. B., Haggerty, K. P., Abbott, R. D., Cortes, R. R., & Park, J. (2005). Mediator effects in the social development model: An examination of constituent theories. Criminal Behavior and Mental Health, 15(4), 221-235. Boothroyd, R. A., Banks, S. M., Evans, M. E., Greenbaum, P. E., & Brown, E. C. (2004). Untangling the web: An approach to analyzing the impacts of individually tailored, multicomponent treatment interventions. Mental Health Services Research, 6(3), 143-154. Yampolskaya, S., Brown, E. C., & Vargo, A. C. (2004). Assessment of teen pregnancy interventions among middle school youth. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(1), 69-83. Page 4 of 5 (updated 9-15-11)
PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS (continued) Evans, M. E., Boothroyd, R. A., Armstrong, M. I., Greenbaum, P. E., Brown, E. C., & Kuppinger, A. D. (2003). An experimental study of the effectiveness of intensive in-home crisis services for children and their families: Program outcomes. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 11(2), 92-102. Yampolskaya, S., Brown, E. C., & Greenbaum, P. E. (2002). Early pregnancy among adolescent females with serious emotional disturbances: Risk factors and outcomes. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 10(2), 108-115. Evans, M. E., Boothroyd, R. A., Greenbaum, P. E., Brown, E. C., & Armstrong, M. I. (2001). Outcomes associated with clinical profiles of children in psychiatric crisis enrolled in intensive in-home interventions. Mental Health Services Research, 3(1), 35-44. Greenbaum, P. E., Dedrick, R. F., Friedman, R. M., Kutash, K., Brown, E. C., Lardieri, S. P., & Pugh, A. M. (1996). The National Adolescent and Child Treatment Study (NACTS): Outcomes for children with serious emotional and behavioral disturbance. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, 4, 130-146. Greenbaum, P. E., Brown, E. C., Friedman, R. M. (1995). Alcohol expectancies among adolescents with conduct disorder: Prediction and mediation of drinking. Addictive Behaviors, 20, 321-333. TEACHING AND LECTURING Lecturer, Substance Abuse Prevention Program Evaluation Workshop, Workshop presented to the meeting of the Inter- American Drug Abuse Control Commission (CICAD), Organization of the American States (OAS). Antigua, Guatemala (May 9 13, 2011). Guest Lecturer, SOCW 579A Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prevention Science: Children and Adolescents, University of Washington, (Winter 2011) Lecturer, SOCW 506 Social Welfare Research and Evaluation, UW, (Winter 2011) Instructor, SOCW 600 Independent Study (Fall 2010) Lecturer, Methods to Evaluate Prevention Programs and Strategies: An Approach Based on Prevention Science, 3-day workshop presented at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia (September 29 October 1, 2010) Guest Lecturer, SOCW 579A Interdisciplinary Approaches to Prevention Science: Children and Adolescents University of Washington,, (Winter 2010) Lecturer, SOCW 506 Social Welfare Research and Evaluation, UW, (Winter 2010) Guest Lecturer, EDPSY 490 Educational Statistics, University of Washington, School of Education (Summer 2009) Guest Lecturer, EDPSY 576 Hierarchical Linear Modeling, University of Washington, School of Education (2007-2009) Guest Lecturer, EDPSY 575 Structural Equation Modeling, University of Washington, School of Education (2006-2008) Instructor, EDF 6407 Statistical Analysis for Education Research I, University of South Florida, College of Education (2001) AWARDS AND MERITS Florida Educational Research Association Distinguished Paper Award Nominee (1998, November) USF Department of Measurement and Research Doctoral Research Award Recipient (1999) Page 5 of 5 (updated 9-15-11)