Dr. Cervantes received his Ph.D. in Psychology from Oklahoma State University. Dr. Cervantes is Research Director at Behavioral Assessment, Inc. and is Senior Research fellow at the California State University, Long Beach Center for Behavioral Research and Services Department of Psychology. He served as Research Psychologist at the UCLA Spanish Speaking Mental Health Research Center (1984-89) and held a full-time faculty appointment in the USC School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences (1990-1995). He has served as Principal Investigator on numerous NIH and Foundation funded studies and has published extensively over a 25-year career span.  Dr. Cervantes has served or currently serves on a number of national level advisory groups and committees, including CSAP’s Technical Expert Group for the National Cross-Site Evaluation of Substance Abuse Prevention Grants for Minority AIDS Initiative, SAMHSA’s State Incentive Grant Evaluation Guidance Committee, and numerous other expert panels. Dr. Cervantes served as a science consultant for the United Nations International Drug Control Program (UNDCP).   He has published well over two dozen scientific journal articles as well over a dozen book chapters relevant to Hispanic/Latino youth, family, mental health, and health issues. He is the developer of the Hispanic Stress Inventory and Familia Adelante, a family focused behavioral health promotion program. Dr. Cervantes has over 20 years of experience in the conduct of community-based research and evaluation and is familiar with necessary multi-dimensional evaluation methodologies needed in community and applied settings.  Finally, Dr. Cervantes has served as an expert witness to the courts on issues related to Hispanic families, drug and alcohol abuse, cultural risk factors including immigration/acculturation stress, and juvenile gangs. He has served as an expert on over twenty death penalty cases, both in the trial/penalty phase, as well as in the appeals process.
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Clarissa Cervantes obtained her Doctoral of Physical Therapy in 2000. Mrs. Cervantes has extensive experience in health care and mental health research as well as data entry, data management and statical analyses. Clarissa works closely with the data manager and lead evaluator as a resource person for technical assistance, research and reporting; she also assists with the implementation of formal evaluations and data analysis. Mrs. Cervantes is responsible for identifying suitable software for conducting statistical analysis; assist with financial reports, accounting and CFO duties as necessary as well as monitoring project performances. Clarissa recently served on projects such as the Targeted Capacity Expansion (TCE) - HIV, Project Corazon, Bienvenidos Children’s & Family Center Research Evaluation, Spiritt Family Services Technical Assistance, Project Cabezon, Project Safe, Project Heal, Youth Adelante, Stop Short of Addiction, The Southwestern Regional Behavioral Health Conference Evaluation, Pima Community College AP3 SAMHSA Project, USC Spanish Language Survey for Cervical Cancer Prevention Study, CSAT  Project, Hispanic Stress Inventory (HIS-A & HIS-2), Mental Health Comes To Hollywood, Pasadena Public Health Department Study and National Hispanic Latino ATTC & PTTC.  Clarissa works as marketing specialist for Familia Adelante, a program developed specifically to address cultural barriers and stress related to family and youth development. Mrs. Cervantes is fluent Portuguese-English-Spanish languages; she has traveled worldwide and has gained a lot of cultural diversity experience and lately she has developed a keen interest for photography.  Clarissa Cervantes, DPT Ms. Camacaro is a member of BAI’s research, data management team and manages projects for BAI. She provides assistance to lead evaluator through providing logistics for meetings and research for reports. Ms. Camacaro maintains training schedules, invoicing for specific projects, assists in project management, staffing logistics, and trains incoming employees and clients in data entry and data collection. She is bilingual in English and Spanish and has a keen interest in the physical and emotional growth of child development.  Donna Camacaro, AA

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Cindy serves as a Sr. Research Associate II for BAI. She assists with grant writing and proposal development efforts, research and reporting, training and technical assistance, and survey development. Cindy assists with all aspects of program evaluation activities and reporting. She has an associate degree in technical writing from Oklahoma State University, a bachelor’s degree in liberal sciences from University of Oklahoma (2003), and a master’s degree in Teaching, Leadership and Learning /Adult Education and Vocation from Oklahoma State University (2005).  Cindy Keig, MS
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Dr. Dennis Fisher, Professor Emeritus August 2014 – Present, became the Director of the Center for Research and Behavioral Services (CBRS) at California State university, Long Beach, in August 2000. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Dr. Fisher has collaborated with PI (Cervantes) completing NIH research on the development of the Hispanic Stress Inventory – Adolescent Version, the Re-standardization of the Hispanic Stress Inventory for Adults, and several smaller contracts and SAMHSA grants. Dr. Fisher received his B.S. from the University of California, Riverside, an M.S. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Alaska Anchorage, his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and completed post-doctoral studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dennis Fisher, Ph.D. Alan Kumamoto is a founding partner of Kumamoto Associates, a marketing, management, and communications general partnership located in Greater Los Angeles area. Alan conducts leadership workshops and capacity building seminars for national and international clients. His career spans work in business, government, and nonprofit organizations has been in charge of a human relations training for the Los Angeles County Human Relations Commission and served as a senior trainer of program planning and proposal writing for The Grantsmanship Center. Alan served as President and Executive Director for the Center for Nonprofit Management, responsible for training and consultation to a variety of nonprofit corporations and he is a certified trainer for the United States Department of Justice Weed and Seed Program. He serves as a training and technical assistant consultant to the City of Los Angeles Community Development Department to build capacity among nonprofit and faithbased agencies. Alan is the KA lead consultant to Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics providing training and technical assistance along a life cycle continuum from growth to maturity or from decline back to growth. Alan most recently developed curriculum for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Executive Leadership Development Program. He has been a change management consultant to agencies for over 30 years.   Allen Kumamoto Also, a founding partner of Kumamoto Associates, a marketing, management, and communications general partnership located in Greater Los Angeles area, provides technical assistance to non-profit organizations on program development and  evaluation, project management, and organizational development and training. She specializes in market research, needs assessments, and feasibility studies. Ms. Kumamoto was the project manager for a Transportation Communications Needs  Assessment Study, to understand communication channels and information needs for non-English speaking Asian communities. She was the principal evaluation investigator for an entertainment job training program. Prior to forming Kumamoto Associates, Ms. Kumamoto was an appointee in the Los Angeles City Mayor’s Office, Division of Human Resources, where she was responsible for staffing city department task forces and community advisory committees, and establishing a low interest loan, volunteer, and energy conservation projects. After leaving the Mayor’s Office Ms. Kumamoto also consulted as a sole proprietor with business organizations, major arts institutions, and engineering firms.  Ms. Kumamoto is a former Commissioner for the City of Los Angeles Housing Authority and Telecommunications Board. Joanne Kumamoto Dr Padilla is currently a Professor of Psychological Studies in Education at Stanford University. His interests include academic resilience and positive school experiences of students from at-risk backgrounds; psychological acculturation and adjustment of immigrants, especially children and adolescents; and simultaneous and successive forms of bilingual development. He publishes widely in his areas of research expertise. He is also interested in quantitative research methods in multicultural contexts. He serves as the principal investigator of the California Foreign Language Project (CFLP), a program that assists California teachers in foreign language instruction by offering year-round professional development programs, including intensive institutes in the summer and follow-up sessions during the school year. Dr. Padilla received his B.A., (Psychology) New Mexico Highlands University; M.S. (Experimental Psychology) Oklahoma State University; Ph.D. (Experimental Psychology) University of New Mexico. Amado Padilla, Ph.D. Daniel Santisteban is Professor Emeritus, School of Education and Human Development, University of Miami. He earned his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Miami in 1991 and completed his internship at Bellevue Hospital/NYU. He is a Clinical Psychologist with over 25 years of experience conducting clinical trials, developing, and testing behavioral treatments for under-served families and communities. He is currently the Director of Research and Implementation for Training and Implementation Associates (TIA). He developed the Culturally Informed and Flexible Family Based Treatment for Adolescents (CIFFTA) – an evidence based adaptive adolescent and family behavioral treatment. Dr. Santisteban is the recipient of the American Psychological Association Division 45 Distinguished Career Contributions to Research Award, and the National Hispanic Science Network Award for Excellence  in Research to name a few. Daniel Santisteban, Ph.D.
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Adrian Reyes is the founder and president of Adrian Information Strategies, a fullservice market research and data processing company in Dallas, Texas. With over thirty years experience in all facets of market research and data processing, he has established and managed local, state, and national accounts, and has conducted hundreds of qualitative and quantitative studies. Mr. Reyes is fully bilingual in English and Spanish. Mr. Reyes attended City College of New York and the Computer Programming Institute of New York. He was instrumental in the development of interactive computer programs for survey research tabulation. Currently, Mr. Reyes serves as data manager to BAI and has been responsible for data collection, database management, Web site development and maintenance and online/distance training. He has also been instrumental in questionnaire design, providing both web-based online and offline survey data entry of evaluation instruments. Adrian Reyes, BA Dr. Cristo specializes in Clinical Psychology, applying a cognitive behavioral approach to resolving psychological problems and integrates individual, family, social, environmental, and cultural factors. She earned a Ph.D. from California School of Professional Psychology, California State University Los Angeles (1987). Martha Cristo, Ph.D.
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Mr. David Salinas has over 12 years of clinical and social service research experience combined. As a research associate, Mr. Salinas has been the clinical coordinator/data manager for privately and federally funded clinical trials ranging from traumatic orthopedic research to studies focusing on co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders in adolescents. Mr. Salinas is also experienced in implementing health services research like needs assessments for non-profit entities, city, and county departments, and for state agencies. Major assessment areas include evaluation of health services gaps in HIV prevention, treatment, and care; adolescent sexual health education in schools; and mental health and substance abuse needs among adolescents. Mr. Salinas speaks both Spanish and English. Salinas has both a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and in Spanish Literature from the University of Colorado at Boulder and a Master of Public Health.  David Salinas, M.P.H.