Dr. Caryn C. Blitz This is Me

Education

 Web References

1. 1. Arkansas Substance Abuse Online Community - How to Measure Youth Substance Abuse Outcomes

   www.arkansasdrugabuse.com/cont - [Cached]

   Published on: 6/1/2005   Last Visited: 11/4/2006

   by: Evelyn Yang, MA and Caryn Blitz, Ph.D
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   by: Evelyn Yang, MA and Caryn Blitz, Ph.D
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   Evelyn Yang is the Evaluation and Research Manager and Dr. Caryn Blitz is the Deputy Director of Evaluation and Research at CADCA's National Coalition Institute.
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   Evelyn can be reached at > This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it > and Caryn can be reached at > This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it >.

2. 2. CADCA

   cadca.org/AboutCADCA/staff.asp - [Cached]

   Published on: 11/2/2004   Last Visited: 11/2/2004

   Caryn C. Blitz, Ph.D. Deputy Director
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   Caryn C. Blitz, Ph.D. Deputy Director
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   Dr. Caryn Blitz is the Deputy Director of Evaluation and Research at the National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. In this role, she is responsible for advancing coalition research to improve coalition effectiveness and for improving coalition evaluation to better assess and capture coalition outcomes. In addition, Dr. Blitz is responsible for translating these research findings and new evaluation methodologies and performance measures into materials that the field can effectively use. Dr. Blitz will work with the Institute's Scientific
   
   Advisory Panel and the research/evaluation community to advance research, evaluation techniques, and performance measures. Finally, Dr. Blitz is responsible for tracking CADCA's activities, including the activities of the Institute, to ensure that coalitions' training, technical assistance, research, and evaluation needs are being met.
   
   Prior to joining CADCA, Dr. Blitz was a Project Director and Research Associate at the Social Development Research Group, University of Washington. She directed the CSAP-funded Arkansas Substance Abuse Prevention Needs Assessment Studies, a collaborative effort with the State of Arkansas to implement a statewide system for assessing levels of drug use and risk and protective factor incidence and prevalence using validated survey and archival indicators. The project developed tools and procedures for assessing existing prevention resources and community readiness to implement comprehensive prevention programs in two communities. She has implemented and reported on substance abuse prevention surveys and was recently part of the team responsible for evaluating the Seattle Schools 'Safe Schools Healthy Students' implementation of the Communities That Care program. She also was an evaluator for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services' State Incentive Grant (SIG), reviewing outcome measures and providing technical assistance to the 18 SIG sites and data analysis for the SIG evaluation report. From 1997-1998, Dr. Blitz was a Congressional Science Fellow in the AAAS Fellows Program, sponsored by the American Psychological Association. During that year, Dr. Blitz was a full-time legislative assistant in the Office of Senator Christopher Dodd, Committee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, where she worked on early childhood development, substance abuse and prevention, and other health, mental health, and welfare issues affecting children and families.
   
   Dr. Blitz holds a B.S. in English and Science from the University of Michigan, a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and M.A and Ph.D. degrees in Clinical and Community Psychology from DePaul University. She received her predoctoral clinical training at the Yale University School of Medicine and was an NIAAA postdoctoral research fellow at the Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

3. 3. Achieving Outcomes through the National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute

   www.dlnets.com/cadca_30Jan03.h - [Cached]

   Published on: 9/16/2002   Last Visited: 3/4/2004

   Caryn Blitz, PhD, Deputy Director, Research and Evaluation, National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute (NCACI): Dr. Blitz is the Deputy Director of Evaluation and Research at the National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute at CADCA. In this role, she is responsible for advancing coalition research to improve coalition effectiveness and for improving coalition evaluation to better assess and capture coalition outcomes. In addition, Dr. Blitz is responsible for translating these research findings and new evaluation methodologies and performance measures into materials that the field can effectively use. Dr. Blitz will work with the Institute's Scientific Advisory Panel and the research/evaluation community to advance research, evaluation techniques, and performance measures. Finally, Dr. Blitz is responsible for tracking CADCA's activities, including the activities of the Institute, to ensure that coalitions' training, technical assistance, research, and evaluation needs are being met.
   
   Prior to joining CADCA, Dr. Blitz was a Project Director and Research Associate at the Social Development Research Group, University of Washington. She directed the CSAP-funded Arkansas Substance Abuse Prevention Needs Assessment Studies, a collaborative effort with the State of Arkansas to implement a statewide system for assessing levels of drug use and risk and protective factor incidence and prevalence using validated survey and archival indicators. The project developed tools and procedures for assessing existing prevention resources and community readiness to implement comprehensive prevention programs in two communities. She has implemented and reported on substance abuse prevention surveys and was recently part of the team responsible for evaluating the Seattle Schools 'Safe Schools Healthy Students' implementation of the Communities That Care program. She also was an evaluator for the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services' State Incentive Grant (SIG), reviewing outcome measures and providing technical assistance to the 18 SIG sites and data analysis for the SIG evaluation report. From 1997-1998, Dr. Blitz was a Congressional Science Fellow in the AAAS Fellows Program, sponsored by the American Psychological Association. During that year, Dr. Blitz was a full-time legislative assistant in the Office of Senator Christopher Dodd, Committee on Labor, Health, and Human Services, where she worked on early childhood development, substance abuse and prevention, and other health, mental health, and welfare issues affecting children and families.
   
   Dr. Blitz holds a BS in English and Science from the University of Michigan, a BA in Psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and MA and PhD. degrees in Clinical and Community Psychology from DePaul University. She received her pre-doctoral clinical training at the Yale University School of Medicine and was an NIAAA postdoctoral research fellow at the Alcohol Research Center, Department of Psychiatry, University of Connecticut School of Medicine.