Robin Jenkins

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ABOUT ROBIN JENKINS

Experience includes extensive involvement with vulnerable populations and the systems designed to assist them. As an applied research scientist, educator and practitioner, I have a myriad of work, volunteer, leadership and advocacy experiences in behavioral health, applied implementation activities, criminal/juvenile justice, substance abuse interventions, child welfare, nonprofit development and management, state government work as well as full-time faculty and adjunct teaching at the university level (behavioral sciences and juvenile/criminal justice). Also, held national leadership roles as the Coalition of Juvenile Justice\'s Chair, on the National Juvenile Justice Network\'s Executive Committee, the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (OJJDP), and gubernatorial appointed positions in North Carolina on the North Carolina Governors Crime Commission, State Advisory Group (Juv. Justice) Chair, and served on several other state boards and commissions. A former Chief Deputy Secretary in the NC Dept of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Deputy Director in the NC Dept of Public Safety-Division of Juvenile Justice, have managed multi-million dollar large scale systems. Prior to that, helped to establish and lead community-based nonprofit agencies providing an array of prevention, intervention and treatment services. A co-founder of a local Children\'s Advocacy Center, am a lifelong advocate for the protection and positive development of children and families. Also, am a participating member of the American Psychological Association, founding board member of the National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives, the American Evaluation Association, Society for Implementation Research Collaboration, and support the Society for Prevention Research, as well as the Society of Community Research and Action (Div, 27, APA).