Steering Committee:

MnCRC has a steering committee comprised of representatives from all of its partnering agencies.

The MnCRC Advisory Committee members and the agencies they represent include:

• Abi Gewirtz, PhD - MnCRC Project Director
• Pamela Harris, PhD - African American Family Services
• Mary Jo Avendaño, PhD, LMFT - Centro & Tubman Family Alliance
• Andrea Northwood, PhD, LP - Center for Victims of Torture
  
• Alan Goodell-Holmes, PhD, LP - Family and Children's Service
• Kathy Rygh, JD - Minneapolis City Attorney's Office
  
• John Baumann, M.A. - Minneapolis Police Department
  
• Jim Johnson, LICSW - Minneapolis Public Schools
• Dan Reidenberg, Psy.D., FAPA - Suicide Awareness Voices of Education (SAVE)
• Jen Polzin, M.A. - Tubman Family Alliance
• Arlene Schatz, MSW, LICSW - Washburn Child Guidance Center
• Norma A. Renville, BA -Women of Nations
• Dawn Reckinger, PhD - MNCRC Project Coordinator
• Linnette Werner, PhD - MNCRC Director of Evaluation

CDPP Clinical Team

• CDPP involved many Minneapolis police officers who responded to 911 calls where a child had witnessed trauma, and in particular, family violence.

  Clinicians and/or advocates responded with an officer to the scene or followed up with the family after the police officers cleared the scene.

  The clinical team consisted of:

  • Clinical Supervisor:
    • Dr. Mary Jo Avendaño -Centro

  • Clinicians:
    • Benita Amedee
    • Cheryl Bemel - University of Minnesota
  • Advocates:
    • Peggy Bloomstrand - African American Family Services

• Program Team:

  In addition to a clinical team, CDPP had many University of Minnesota interns helping with data entry. This project was supervised by Amanuel Medhanie.

Research Program Team:

MnCRC has a research program that includes a study with interactions between mothers who have been abused and their children (between ages 6 - 12 years old).

This study is conducted by an interviewer team made up of University of Minnesota graduate students, led by Lisa Goldstein.

The study is then coded by University of MInnesota interns, supervised by Cheryl Bemel.

MnCRC Project Director:

Dr. Abigail Gewirtz, agewirtz@umn.edu

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