Presented by:
The Child Health Evaluative Sciences (CHES) Research Program and the Department of Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children

Topic:
School mental health interventions for traumatized youth

Speaker:
Bradley D. Stein, MD, PhD Health Services Researcher, RAND; Assistant Professor of Child Psychiatry

Bradley D. Stein, (MD, University of Pittsburgh 1995, MPH, University of Pittsburgh 1997, PhD, Health Policy, RAND Graduate School 2002) is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Health Service Researcher at the RAND Corporation, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 

Dr. Stein has extensive experience in working with schools to improve the services for and functioning of children with emotional and behavioural problems, including emotionally disabled children. He was one of the original leaders of an academic-community partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District that developed, implemented, and evaluated a school-based intervention for children exposed to violence (CBITS) whose evaluation results were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and is now recognized as an evidence-based program by SAMHSA, the Department of Education, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). 

More recently he led a federally funded study examining the implementation of a school-based suicide prevention programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District, and is currently examining the effectiveness of an organizational change intervention designed to make residential treatment facilities more trauma-informed and enhance the resiliency and outcomes of the youth they serve upon return to their communities. Previously, Dr. Stein directed the School Consultation Program for the Department of Psychiatry, University of Southern California, and served as a psychiatric consultant to LAUSD. He currently serves on the Schools Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, is a Deputy Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and serves on the Editorial Board of Psychiatric Services. He has been published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the New England Journal of Medicine, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.