Robert Calame, Canada
Robert Calame has been an employee with Batshaw Youth and Family Centres since 1981. Robert returned to McGill University to complete his studies at the McGill University School of Social Work after eight years of working as a youth care worker.
  Robert assumed a position in Batshaw's Social Service department in 1990, where he continued to work with adolescents in residential treatment. In 1992, Arnold Goldstein's Aggression Replacement Training program was selected as a treatment approach for two high-security boy's units.
  Robert was envolved in the development of the approach after training with Dr. Goldstein and went on to develop a Family ART group for youth and parents, to enhance the transfer of the youth ART program to the home environment.  
Robert was asked to propose and then lead an implementation of the ART program on an agency-wide basis.
Batshaw has 24 residential programs and numerous other specialized services where the ART model is beeing used or will be applied over the next years.

Contact Information:
Robert Calame
Batshaw Youth and Family Centre
Dorval Campus
825 Avenue Dawson
Dorval (Québec) H9S 1X4
Canada
Phone: +1 514 636 09 10
Fax: +1 514 636 66 11
E-mail: Robert_Calame@ssss.gouv.qc.ca

 Bengt Daleflod, Sweden, Chair, Research Committe
  Bengt Daleflod, is a psychologist, specialized in Cognitive Behavioural psychotherapy (CBT). He started his clinical carrier in the psychiatric care for children and adolescents, and since 1986 he has been working with incarcerated juvenile delinquents.
  Between 1990-96 he was a member of a research team, which studied the effects of the compulsory treatment given at the institutions in Stockholm County. Working within SiS (The National Board of Institutional Care) and now connected to Sundbo Youth Home, he is engaged in introducing and developing methods for working with young offenders.
  The ambition is to develop a comprehensive program based on scientific evidence (eg."what works"). Aggression Replacement Training is one of the main interventions that have been introduced.
  Daleflod is also an active member of the Swedish Behavioural Therapy Association with a special assignment to work out guidelines for treatment of various psychological disorders. He is also devoting a lot of his time to staff training and supervision.

Contact Information:
Bengt Daleflod
Norra Rudbecksgatan 6,
752 36 Uppsala
Sweden
Phone: +46 18 50 14 97
E-mail: daleflod@telia.com

Webpage: www.stat-inst.se

 Eva L. Feindler, United States
Eva L. Feindler, Ph.D. is currently a professor of psychology at the Long Island University Doctoral program in Clinical Psychology. As a faculty member of the Specialty Track in Family Violence and as Director of the Psychological Services Clinic, she is directly involved in programs to help children and families manage their anger and resolve conflict. She received her undergraduate degree in psychology from Mount Holyoke College and her masters and doctoral degrees from West Virginia University. Her clinical internship training was completed at the Children's Psychiatric Center in Eatontown, New Jersey. Prior to her position at LIU, Dr. Feindler was an associate Professor of Psychology at Adelphi University where she also directed the Masters Degree program in Applied Behavioral Technology. She has authored several books (Adolescent Anger Control: Cognitive-Behavioral Strategies; Handbook of Adolescent Behavior Therapy, Assessment of Family Violence), numerous articles on parent and child anger, its assessment and treatment and has conducted professional training workshops across the United States and internationally. She is featured on a training video (published by Research Press) which presents the various components of Aggression Replacement Training. Currently she is writing a book entitled The Comparative Treatment of Anger Disorders.
Finally, she has served an appointed term on the New York State Board for Psychology, a term on the Board of the Nassau County Psychological Association and was the Program Coordinator for the Association for the Advancement of Behavior Therapy Conference in 1995. She also served on the APA Commission on Violence and Youth from 1992-1995 and on the APA Task Force on Violence and The Family.

Contact Information:
8 Prospect Av.
Garden City
New York 11530
USA
E-mail: ELFPHD@aol. com

 Aaron Gregory, United States
 Aaron C. Gregory is Facility Director, NYS OCFS at Taberg Residential Center.
  Mr. Gregory began his career in Juvenile Justice in 1984 with the former New York State Division for Youth, now the Office of Children and Family Services. Throughout most of Mr. Gregory's career he has worked with delinquent, aggressive youth between the ages of 14 to 21. During his 17 and ½ years in the Juvenile Justice field Mr. Gregory has held a variety of positions, including direct care, program/recreational-planning specialist, youth counselor, assistant facility director and currently Facility Director.
  In all of these roles, he has been involved with some level of ART on a daily basis. As a direct care staff and facilitator he worked with Dr. Glick and Dr. Goldstein in implementing the pilot of ART within an institutional setting at Annsville Youth Camp.
  Mr. Gregory taught the three components of ART to youth within the facility and later he trained other staff members, providing them with the keys to facilitating and presenting the ART program with a realistic approach.
  Finally, as an administrator Mr. Gregory has monitored the ART program within a facility, enrolling residents into groups as they arrive, maintaining documentation concerning groups in progress and overseeing the logistics to insure the effective delivery of the program.

Contact Information:
Aaron Gregory
Taberg Secure Center
New York State Division for Youth
Taberg, NY 13471
USA
Phone: +1 315 245 0084
Fax: +1 315 245 0088
E-mail: Aaron.Gregory@DFA.STATE.NY.US

 Nikolai Hamstein, Sweden
Nikolai Hamstein has been a member of the Oasis staff since 1991. Since 1997 he has been involved in developing The Oasis ART program at The Oasis Residential Center in Aneby Sweden.
In 1998 he contributed strongly to the formation of The Oasis Childrens unit Karlsborg.
As a natural and intuitive educator he is also an appreciated ART lecturer in a variety of settings. Alongside his dutys at The Oasis Childrens Unit Karlsborg Mr Hamstein has also been studying Cognitive Behavorial Therapy in Linköping Sweden.






Contact Information:
Nikolai Hamstein
Barnhemmet Oasen
P.O. Box 199
578 24 Aneby
Sweden
Phone: +46 380 472 22
Fax: +46 380 419 20
E-mail: nikolai.hamstein@oasen.com

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 Luke Moynahan, Norway
Luke Moynahan is a Special consultant at Glenne Senter - County Habilitation Service - Vestfold Norway specialist centre for the treatment and education of persons with autism spectrum disorders.
  He is the author of several books and articles on social skills training, family and network therapy and applied behaviour analysis with social systems.
  At present developing enhanced Aggression Replacement Training programmes for use with individuals with pervasive developmental disorders and their families and social networks.

Contact information:
Luke Moynahan
Austisme - og atferdsseksjonen
Glenne Senter, Fogdeveien 55
3184 Horten
Norway
Phone: +47 33 07 88 00
Fax: +47 33 04 36 22
E-mail: luke.moynahan@siv.no

 Rune Nensén, Sweden, Chair, Executive Committee
  Rune Nensén is the founder of The Oasis in Sweden. He has a BSc in social work and has many years of experience in the social services field as a socialworker, Supervisor and program director in cities in southern Sweden.
  Since 1990 he has primarily worked as the director and Program Director for The Oasis which the past 10 years has served more than 80 cities in Sweden with assesment and treatment of families with young children.
   In 1997 Nensén introduced ART at the Oasis as a successful program for both families and children.





Contact information:
Rune Nensén
Barnhemmet Oasen
P.O. Box 199
578 24 Aneby
Sweden
Phone: +46 380 472 09
Fax: +46 380 418 11
E-mail: rune.nensen@oasen.com

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 Sara Salmon, United States
 Shirley (Sara) Salmon, Ph.D. has served as a classroom teacher, counselor, director, and assistant superintendent for student support services.
 Most of her work was done in the Ferguson Florissant School District in St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis, she served as an adjunct professor at St. Louis University, Washington University and the University of Missouri at St. Louis.
 She has her B.A. in psychology, M.A. in counseling psychology, her Ph.D. in clinical psychology and her specialist degree in the superintendency.
 She is also a licensed psychologist in the state of Missouri and has held a part-time practice in St. Louis for twenty five years. She has published several articles in the counseling journals and has co-authored two books: Peer Helping for the Preadolescent, Accelerated Development Press , 1990 and Feelings, Accelerated Development Press, 1992.
 She has worked closely with Dr. Arnold P. Goldstein in the development of Aggression Replacement Training curriculum activities and additional program components for the past fifteen years. She was instrumental in the creation of the "Peace Curriculum" which expanded on the original A.R.T. model. She has conducted research regarding the effectiveness of A.R.T. with permanently expelled high school districts attending a Re-Entry Center where they received the A.R.T. curriculum three hours per day.
The results, both short-term and long-term, were significant.  
  Dr. Salmon has written many grants where A.R.T. has been funded through the federal government. She has conducted training in the states of Arkansas, California, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and New Mexico. Currently she is implementing three grants in Colorado where A.R.T. will be used in transition centers for violent students. One of these grants will research the effectiveness of A.R.T. in combination with Restorative  Justice as a way to impact these students and the community in effective, more permanent ways. In addition, the federal government has provided additional funding to add "school-home" links to the Peace Curriculum so that parents and their children can practice the A.R.T. skills at home.
 Dr. Salmon is now Executive Director of a non-profit organization, The Center for Safe Schools and Communities, Inc. The mission of this non-profit is to bring the Peace Curriculum to as many school districts and organizations as possible and to help those organizations obtain funding in order to deliver the curriculum and services in effective ways.  Dr. Salmon currently resides in Erie, Colorado with her daughters, Amie and Shannon. Her son attends law/mba school at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.

Contact Information:
Sara Salmon
450 Tynan Court
Erie, CO 80516
USA
Phone: +1 303-828-9733
Fax: +1 303-828-4589
E-mail: sarasalmon@msn.com

http://groups.msn.com/CenterforSafeSchoolsandCommunities/home.htm

 Garbis H. Sarafian, Sweden, Chair, Membership Committee
Garbis H. Sarafian professional career started as a Youth Worker in 1983. After eight years of work in different settings of the social services field he joined The Oasis in 1991. As a staff member at The Oasis Residential Center for twelve years Mr Sarafian has a wide experience of residential care. During his years at The Oasis he has worked seven years as a frontline worker and from there on as an administrator. He has built the Oasis and the ICART websites which he also maintaines on a regular basis.
Together with The Oasis CEO Rune Nensén Garbis has been working with planning, administrating, arranging and documenting ART workshops and conferences since 1997.
Currently he spends his time between administrating parts of ICART's work and as a Oasis staff member.


Contact Information:
Garbis H. Sarafian
Barnhemmet Oasen
P.O. Box 199
578 24 Aneby
Phone: +46 380 472 47
Fax: +46 380 418 11
E-mail: garbis.sarafian@oasen.com

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