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Center on Policy Research and Analysis
Mady
Chalk, Ph.D., Director: Dr. Chalk has more than twenty years
experience in addiction and mental health treatment, policy and research.
In the federal government she was Director of the Division for Services
Improvement in the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment in SAMHSA, and
for a period of time was Director of its Office of Managed Care. Chalk
is an expert in the organization and financing of treatment systems in
both the public and private sectors – and in the policies that govern
treatment delivery. She was architect of the Target Cities and the State-wide
Screening, Brief Interventions and Referral to Treatment programs. With
the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation as partner, she led the Network for
Improvement of Addiction Treatment, the first program to promote better
treatment access and broader service availability through implementation
of best practices. She was also responsible for linking the Addiction
Technology Transfer Centers with NIH to foster dissemination and adoption
of evidence based practices in the treatment field.
Jack
Kemp, M.S. is
Senior Policy Associate at the Treatment Research Institute
and former Director of Substance Abuse Services for the Delaware Division
of Substance Abuse and Mental Health (DSAMH). He has over 34 years of
experience in the field of addictions, mainly in senior management positions
in Delaware and New York. As SSA Director in Delaware, he redesigned and
restructured the statewide substance abuse treatment system, and introduced
a performance based contracting model that connects payment to performance.
He served as Executive Leader for the Robert Wood Johnson/CSAT Network
for the Improvement of Treatment (NIATx) State Pilot to improve access
and retention in treatment throughout the state, and for the RWJF Advancing
Recovery grant to implement evidence based practices. Mr. Kemp also is
the Principal Investigator, in collaboration with TRI, for a NIDA grant
on Statewide Science-Based Concurrent Recovery Monitoring in Delaware,
and formerly served as the Director of the Treatment Access Center (TASC),
overseeing a statewide program that provided liaison between the substance
abuse treatment and criminal justice systems. He is a member of the Washington
Circle group, serving on its Policy and Public Sector committees. His
educational background includes an M.S. degree in Educational Counseling
from the University of Scranton, and post-graduate training at the Alfred
Adler Institute of Psychoanalysis in New York City. He is currently enrolled
in the MALS (Master of Arts in Liberal Studies) graduate program at the
University of Delaware.
Kelly Alanis-Hirsch, Ph.D. is a Project Coordinator at the Treatment Research Institute. She recently completed her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin where her dissertation proposed and evaluated a methodology for revising an existing self-administered survey instrument used extensively with clients in substance abuse treatment, with implications for the development of new self-administered surveys. The methodology represented a blending of quantitative and qualitative processes and ultimately led to the production of an instrument that appears promising. In addition to her doctoral work, Dr. Alanis-Hirsch worked as research assistant for the Addiction Research Institute, Center for Social Work Research, at The University of Texas at Austin, and held various positions in a specialized substance abuse treatment facility in Texas. Her current research interests include survey and instrument development, cultural and contextual issues specific to substance abuse populations, and the use of medications for assisting in the treatment of substance use/abuse disorders.
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