Nancy Golden, President
Nancy is currently Superintendent of Springfield Public Schools. She is a collaborative leader known for her creativity and for her commitment to approaching every situation from the view of possibility. Before coming to Springfield Public Schools, she was Director of the administrative licensure program at the University of Oregon. Her area of specialization included collaborative leadership, creativity, instructional strategies, facilitation, and personnel evaluation. Nancy has also served as Deputy Superintendent of the Albany School District, Staff Development and Special Education Director in the Eugene School District, and Personnel Assistant in Springfield Public Schools. Nancy has loved all of her jobs, though her favorite was teaching in Springfield Public Schools almost 25 years ago. Nancy was incredibly honored to return to the school district where she began her teaching career. Nancy has presented nationally and internationally on numerous topics including teaching and reaching at-risk youth. Nancy is also the co-author for Toolkit for High Performance Teams and Educational Leadership Improvement Tool.

Kip Leonard, Vice President
Kip is a Eugene native. He was appointed to the District Court in 1986 and to the Circuit Court in 1989. As a District Court Judge, he instituted a program for early resolution of cases that has been replicated in other counties. He served as Presiding Judge of the Circuit Court from 1996 to 2000 and is currently the Juvenile Court Judge, hearing all juvenile delinquency and dependency cases. In Juvenile Court, he recently began the state’s first Juvenile Drug Court. He has served as Chair of the Lane County Public Safety Coordinating Council, a member of the Domestic Violence Council, and a board member of the Boys and Girls Club and is active with community sports programs for youth.

Hill Walker, PhD, Board Member
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, all 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 (since 1966). His research interests include social skills assessment, curriculum development and intervention, longitudinal studies of aggression and antisocial behavior, 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 of Systematic Screening for Behavior Disorders, author of The Acting-Out Child: Coping with Classroom Disruption, and co-author of Children’s Social Behavior: Development, Assessment and Modification. His most recent book is Antisocial Behavior in School: Strategies and Best Practices.

Phillip A. Fisher, PhD, Board Member
(See description on "CR2P Investigators" page.)

Lois Day, Board Member
Lois is the Program Manager for the Child Welfare Program in Lane County. She has worked in child welfare for the last 20 years beginning her career as an emergency response worker. She has worked or supervised every program in a child welfare field office and in 2006 was the Interim Adoption Manager for the state. Prior to working with child welfare, Lois practiced law with Legal Aid. Lois is a member of the Board of Directors for Girl Scouts of the Western Rivers Council and serves on the Stewardship Committee for Nextstep Recycling. Focusing on children's issues for the past 25 years, Lois has served on numerous boards and worked with several programs dedicated to enhancing services for and the condition of children and their families.

John Landsverk, Board Member
John Landsverk has a doctorate in sociology, directs the Child and Adolescent Services Research Center (CASRC) at Children’s Hospital in San Diego, is Senior Scholar at the Brown School of Social Work, Washington University in St. Louis, and Senior Research Professor at the School of Social Work, University of Southern California. Dr. Landsverk has received numerous project and center grants from the NIMH and other federal agencies to conduct research on the mental health care for children and adolescents involved with child welfare. These include: a current NIMH funded advanced center focusing on the development of innovative research methods to conduct implementation research related to public child welfare and mental health service systems; and a recently completed NIMH funded Child and Adolescent Interdisciplinary Research Network (network of 25 researchers and service system managers from the disciplines of clinical and developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, social work, health care economics, and pediatrics with a principal focus to improve mental health services for children involved with child welfare systems through the implementation of evidence-based interventions). Dr. Landsverk has published widely on findings from national child welfare study, National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being, with support from his just completed NIMH funded study, Caring for Children in Child Welfare. These publications include multiple chapters in two books based on NSCAW, Child Protection: Using Research to Improve Policy and Practice, and a forthcoming book on NSCAW to be published by Oxford University Press, on which he was a co-editor. In addition, he is a co-author for Beyond Common Sense: Children Welfare, Child Well-Being, and the Evidence for Policy Reform, published in 2005. Dr. Landsverk chairs the Braam Oversight Panel that is providing technical assistance and monitoring oversight for a mediated settlement to a class action litigation involving the child welfare and mental health systems in the State of Washington.