Ana Silvia Arauz , M.A.
A doctoral student in Educational Leadership and student research assistant, Ana Silvia
assists the IVDB with qualitative interviews and the translation of various research tools
into Spanish. Ana Silvia also works on a school- and community-based violence
prevention project in her native country of El Salvador.
email: anasilvia_arauz@s4s.org
Zoe Brady
Zoe is a research assistant for the First Step and Early Screening projects. She’s
responsible for organizing and coordinating data collection.
email: zbrady@oregon.uoregon.edu
Michael Bullis, Ph.D.
Mike is a professor and researcher at the University of Oregon. He earned his Ph.D. from
the University of Oregon in 1983 in Special Education and Rehabilitation, specializing in
research methods. He is a nationally certified rehabilitation counselor. Since 1986, Mike
has been awarded and managed 30 externally funded research and model demonstration
projects, totaling more than $15 million, focusing on high-risk (those with emotional
disorders or who are in the correctional system) adolescents. Before returning to the UO
in 1995, he was a research associate at the University of Arkansas’ Rehabilitation
Research and Training Center on Deafness and the Associate Director of the Teaching
Research Division of Western Oregon University.
email: bullism@oregon.uoregon.edu
Kristina Derbacher, B.S.
Kristina is a research assistant for the First Step and Early Screening projects. Her duties
include organizing and collecting data for those projects. Kristina received her B.S. in
Psychology from the UO in 2000.
email: keva72@yahoo.com
Debra Eisert, Ph.D.
Debi is an associate professor, research associate at the IVDB and a licensed psychologist
at the UO’s Center on Human Development. Her research interests include trauma, brain
development and disability, and resiliency and risk factors in girls. Debi is also a licensed
psychologist and associate professor of Pediatrics at Oregon Health Sciences University.
She received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Nebraska in
1978.
email: debrae@oregon.uoregon.edu
Edward G. Feil, Ph.D.
Ed is a research associate at the IVDB and a Research Scientist at Oregon Research
Institute. He is a co-developer of the Early Screening Project (ESP) and First Step to
Success intervention. He has received several research grants from the national Head
Start Research Program, Department of Education, and National Institutes of Health. His
research interests include early screening and intervention for young children at-risk for
the development of behavior problems and using computer-mediated technologies for
social support and health promotion interventions. Ed received his Ph.D. in School
Psychology and Early Intervention from the University of Oregon in 1994.
email: efeil@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Annemieke Golly, Ph.D.
Annemieke is the First Step to Success coordinator/teacher. She co-authored and
coordinates the First Step to Success program, an early school and home intervention for
young children (preschool through second grade) at-risk for anti-social behavior, and has
trained hundreds of teachers across the United States, Canada and Japan. She co-authored
the B.E.S.T. (Building Effective Schools Together) program for effective school-wide,
classroom and individual student management. Annemieke is a certified special
education teacher and has taught children with behavior and conduct disorders for the
past 18 years. She received her Ph.D., in Special Education at the University of Oregon.
email: agolly@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Katy Higgs
Katy does data entry and supports the front office staff at the IVDB. She works
predominantly entering school data and developing reports for schools. She is a student in
Family and Human Services program at the UO.
Michelle Jensen, M.Ed.
Michelle is a doctoral student and research assistant at the IVDB, where she works on
research projects funded by the Hamilton Fish Institute. Michelle’s research interests
include resiliency and risk factors in girls, school engagement, and diversity and equity
issues. Prior to coming to the UO, she was a secondary level teacher and prevention
coordinator. She received her Masters in Education from Stanford University in 1995.
email: mkjensen@oregon.uoregon.edu
Brooke Johnson
Brooke is the accounting assistant and a student in the Family and Human Services
program at the UO. She handles all billing for copy machines, supports grant
administration, and manages the IVDB library.
email: bej31158@gladstone.uoregon.edu
Ceci LaFayette
Ceci is the Business Manager at the IVDB. She is responsible for the fiscal management
of grants and contracts, personnel and payroll management. In addition, she is the
Clinical Services Building Manager.
email: lafayett@oregon.uoregon.edu
Bonnie McClure
Bonnie is the travel acquisitions clerk for the IVDB. She also supports the front office
staff with clerical duties. If you have travel-related questions, are trying to find out when
an IVDB faculty member returns to town, or have questions regarding First Step
trainings, Bonnie’s the person to talk to.
email: bmcclure@oregon.uoregon.edu
Arden Munkres
Arden is the graphic designer for the IVDB. He produces videos, books, pamphlets,
Power Point programs and overhead transparencies for IVDB communications needs.
email: ardenm@oregon.uoregon.edu
Vicki Nishioka, Ph.D.
Vicki is a research associate at the IVDB. She currently works as project manager of the
IVDB Hamilton Fish Institute project that conducts research, evaluation, and
dissemination activities in the prevention school and community violence. She is also a
member of the evaluation team for three federally-funded Safe Schools/Healthy Students
Initiatives in Oregon. Her research interests include alternative education, family support,
school-based mental health programs, service coordination, and development of universal
screening procedures for middle school populations. Vicki has been a director of a
network of residential, family support, educational, and vocational programs for children
and adolescents with developmental disabilities, antisocial behavior, and mental health
disorders. She has also coordinated two federally funded teacher inservice training
programs. She received her doctorate degree in Special Education from the University of
Oregon in 2001.
Kindle Anne Perkins Rowe, Ph.D.
As a research assistant at IVDB, Kindle implements the Safe and Drug Free Schools and
Communities Act in Bureau of Indian Affairs schools, supports evaluation of the Safe
Schools/Healthy Students project in Oregon, and conducts research and training on the
First Step to Success project. She also conducts behavioral consultation and does grant
writing for the IVDB. Kindle’s research interests include school-wide discipline, youth
violence prevention, school safety, systems change and behavioral issues. She received
her Ph.D. from the University of Oregon in 2001.
email: kinsrowe@earthlink.net
Bonnie Seibert, LCSW, MSW
Bonnie Seibert is a licensed clinical social worker who has worked with children with
behavioral and emotional difficulties for over 20 years in various settings such as, school,
residential treatment and psychiatric hospitals. Areas of expertise include behavior
management, preventative interventions, student assessment/plan intervention, classroom
and school-wide effective behavior support, and clinical expertise. Bonnie has
implemented and trained professionals in the use of the First Step to Success program, an
early school and home prevention tool for young children at risk for anti-social behavior.
She is co-coordinator of the Oregon Initiative Project, whose goal is to put the First Step
intervention in all the schools in Oregon. Bonnie is also working to adapt the First Step
Program for use in Head-start pre-school classrooms as part of a five year federal grant
researching effective interventions with young children. Bonnie received her Masters in
Social Work at San Diego State University.
email: bseibert@oregon.uoregon.edu
Herbert H. Severson, Ph.D.
Herb is on the faculty of the University of Oregon’s Counseling Psychology program and
has co-authored several measures and interventions with Hill Walker, the IVDB’s codirector. A past director of the School Psychology training program at the U of O, Herb is
currently a Senior Research Scientist at the Oregon Research Institute and co investigator
on several NIH grants that focus on prevention of substance use and tobacco use, as well
as parenting and tobacco cessation using the internet. Herb has conducted research on
early screening and interventions for children displaying aggressive and anti-social
behaviors. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1973.
email: herb@ori.org
Anna M. Sontag. M.A.
Anna is a doctoral student, Reading Coordinator for Disability Services and student
research assistant at the IVDB. Projects she works on include the Girls Research Interest
Network (G.R.I.N.), the Different Functions in Different Contexts Study, development of
a county agency networking for delinquent girls, and the development of a
curriculum for delinquent youth. A certified secondary teacher, Anna is currently
teaching writing to girls who are adjudicated in the Oregon Youth Authority.
system.email: amsontag@darkwing.uoregon.edu
Jeffrey R. Sprague, Ph.D.—use current web page bio
Jane Squires, Ph.D.
Jane is an Associate Professor in the Early Intervention program and Associate Director
of the University Affiliated Program (University Center for Excellence in Developmental
Disabilities). She directs research studies and outreach projects in the area of
developmental screening and the involvement of parents in the monitoring of their young
child's development. Jane also coordinates the master’s level Early Intervention program
and teaches courses on early intervention and early childhood foundations, curriculum,
and assessment. Jane received her Ph.D. in Early Intervention/Special Education from the
University of Oregon in 1988.
email: jsquires@oregon.uoregon.edu
S. Ann Thurber
Ann is the secretary and office assistant to Hill Walker, Director
of the University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities and
Co-Director of the Institute on Violence and Destructive Behavior. Ann can assist with
questions regarding Hill’s writings, the UCE core grant and the Head Start Adaptation of
First Step to Success.
email: athurber@oregon.uoregon.edu
Hill M. Walker, Ph.D.—use this updated bio and b/w photo on current webpage
Hill M. Walker, Ph.D.
Hill is a professor of Special Education, Co-Director of the Institute on Violence and
Destructive Behavior, and Director of the Center on Human Development in the College
of Education at the University of Oregon. He has a long-standing interest in behavioral
assessment and in the development of effective intervention procedures for use in school
settings with a range of behavior disorders. He has been engaged in applied research
during his entire career, dating from 1966. His research interests include social skills
assessment, curriculum development and intervention, longitudinal studies of aggression
and antisocial behavior, early intervention prevention, and the development of early
screening procedures for detecting students who are at-risk for social-behavioral
adjustment problems and/or later school drop-out. He is the co-author, along with Herbert
Severson, of Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders (SSBD) (Sopris West, 1990);
author of The Acting Out Child: Coping With Classroom Disruption (2nd edition, Sopris
West, 1995) and co-author, along with Mark Shinn and Gary Stoner of Interventions II,
published in 2002 by the National Association of School Psychologists. His most
influential book, with Geoffrey Colvin and Elizabeth Ramsey, is Antisocial Behavior in
School: Strategies and Best Practices (Brooks/Cole, 1995).
email: hwalker@oregon.uoregon.edu
Ronald L. Williams, M.A.
Ron is a Trainer/Evaluator with the IVDB. He provides consultation and training in the
areas of School Wide Discipline and Functional Behavior Assessment and ongoing
training of school-based Positive Behavior Support Teams in the Western United States.
He brings to the Institute twenty-six years of experience in public education and
rehabilitation. Ron has worked as a vocational trainer, teacher, administrator, parent
trainer, and program consultant in the area of severe problem behavior. He has also
consulted privately with residential organizations and given long-term assistance to
school districts that are attempting to develop quality services for low-incidence
populations. Ron received his M.A. in Special Education from Arizona State University
in 1978.
email: oregonron@onemain.com
Pamela Yeaton, MSW
Pam is the Evaluation Specialist of the Safe and Sound Youth Project, a collaborative
effort among public, private and non-profit organizations to expand outreach and access
to medical, mental health, and support services for homeless, runaway, and at-risk youth
in Lane County. Ms. Yeaton has been a research assistant for the evaluation of the
Deschutes County Community Youth Investment Project, a "close-custody" treatment
program designed to keep adjudicated youth in Deschutes County, and hold them more
accountable at the community level. Her experience includes assisting in the evaluation
of the State of Oregon's Juvenile Crime Prevention Program. This state-wide juvenile
crime prevention effort was developed by the Oregon Criminal Justice Commission to
reduce juvenile crime in Oregon, coordinate with other children and families planning
and services, and to evaluate efforts to determine program efficacy and provide program
accountability. Ms. Yeaton has particular expertise in program evaluation and youth
intervention. She received her MSW in 1999.
email: pyeaton@aol.com