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Curriculum Vitae - Abbreviated

August 2016

Bernie Fabry

Phone: (412) 367-4087

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Educational History

West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia

1983 Ph.D. in Child Clinical Psychology, specializing in Applied Behavior Analysis

8/807/81 Internship, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, & Meyer Children's Rehabilitation Institute, Omaha, Nebraska

Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan

1975 M.A. in Clinical Psychology, specializing in Applied Behavior Analysis

1971 B.A. in Psychology

Educator Experiences

1/05-4/14 Educator, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (WPIC), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA.

7/99-6/14 Adjunct faculty, School of Education (2005-2014), Social Work (past), and Graduate School of Public & International Affairs (past), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

Educator for graduate courses on applied behavior analysis (Department of Instruction and Learning, School of Education), residential treatment for troubled adolescents (Social Work), and program evaluation (Graduate School of Public & International Affairs).

1/04-5/04 Adjunct faculty, Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University – New Kensington, New Kensington, PA.

Educator for advanced undergraduate community psychology course.

10/99-1/03 Educator, Family Services of Western Pennsylvania; Certified trainer for QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) for Suicide Prevention, and Crisis Intervention.

3/98-6/98 Guest Professor, Department of Psychology, Universidade Lusofona, Lisbon, Portugal

Responsible for teaching a course on clinical skills as part of a post-graduate course on psycho-social interventions with juveniles and families. The course was supported by the Commission for Luso-American Culture, a Fulbright program in Portugal, and by The Pressley Ridge Schools as a sabbatical leave.

1997-2007 Consultant/Educator, Pennsylvania CASSP (Child and Adolescent Service System Program), PA CASSP Training and Technical Assistance Institute, Penn State, Harrisburg, PA.

2/87-10/99 Educator/Consultant, The Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Provided consultation and training internally to all Pressley Ridge programs in three states, and to other agencies and schools around extremely challenging children and adolescents. Provided training workshops on positive approaches, nonaversive treatment, functional assessment/analysis and mood disorders. Developed two state-sponsored multi-day training institutes (1991 and 1994) on positive approaches to serving people with disabilities. Served as a trainer for the Pennsylvania Child and Adolescent Service System Program (CASSP) on therapeutic support staff services, behavioral assessment, behavioral interventions and ethics for psychologists.

Clinical Experiences

1986-Current Managing Editor and Data-based Case Studies Editor, Education and Treatment of Children, 1996-current. Editorial Review Board, 1986 to 1989. Book Review Editor, 1989 to 1990

1996-2000 Editorial Board, The Pennsylvania Journal on Positive Approaches,

1/03-4/14 Clinical Director/Lead Psychologist, RESPOND, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic (WPIC), University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA

Responsible for leading a Mobile Treatment Team (MTT), established to assess and treat very challenging children and adolescents and their families across home, school and community settings, focusing on Applied Behavior Analysis. The overall goal of the MTT is to provide comprehensive and intensive outpatient mental health and support services to children and adolescents with dual mental health and intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum diagnoses and complex needs. The team includes a lead psychologist, psychiatrist, psychiatric nurse, behavior analyst, assistant behavior analyst, and psychiatric social worker. The youths live in small group-home settings under contract to the MTT and are placed in the most appropriate educational setting with support from the RESPOND collaborating agencies. The program is a collaborative project of WPIC, Familylinks, Passavant Memorial Homes, and Penn Residential with the Allegheny County Department of Human Services.

Conduct psychological (best practice) evaluations of children and adolescents for behavioral health and rehabilitation services through the WPIC Early Intensive Behavioral Intervention program for children with autism spectrum disorder.

Lead quality improvement/ program evaluation projects for for Child and Adolescent Services division.

10/99-12/02 Director, Children’s Services, Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, New Kensington, Pennsylvania

Responsible for creating, developing, and administering mental health and drug & alcohol services for children, adolescents and their families. Services are provided in outpatient offices as well as the homes, communities, and schools of the service consumers. Responsible for developing and guiding agency outcomes evaluation. Participate in developing agency wide trainings. Participate in changing agency culture through values clarification and implementation of best practices. Chair regional subcommittee on children’s mental health services in managed care. Total budget of over $4.5 million.

6/96-10/99 Director, Intensive Therapeutic Services

Research Associate and Consultant

2/87-5/96 Director, Home Places,

The Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Responsible for creating, developing and managing all aspects of three innovative community-based treatment programs for children, adolescents and young adults with either mental health diagnoses, dual mental health and intellectual disability diagnoses, or autism spectrum diagnoses. Two of the programs adopted a no-reject, no-eject policy and served children and adolescents who had been institutionalized multiple times due to extreme behaviors and/or severe reputations. The third program provided intensive therapies to preschool age children with autism. Components of the programs included community-based residential treatment homes staffed by teacher/counselors; foster family-based treatment homes in which individualized, planned, accountable treatment occurred within the context of normal family and community living; a wraparound service in which services were provided within a child's home, school and community; independent living; and work and community life coaching and support. Total budget of over $4.5 million.

One of the programs, Home Places, was awarded the "Everyday Lives Vision to Reality Award for 1994" by the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Retardation.

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Served on advisory committees to State and County Offices on positive approaches to serving challenging individuals and family-based approaches to serving people with disabilities. Developed multiple Positive Approaches training conferences across Pennsylvania, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Office of Mental Retardation and the CASSP Institute.

Developed and implemented practical program evaluation projects and a clinical tracking tool for all agency programs serving approximately 600 youths. The projects included assessing youths at entry, tracking and monitoring treatment progress, assessing status at discharge, and a practical follow-up methodology which is repeated each year. Produced annual follow-up reports for all agency programs. Developed a PC-based clinical tracking tool. Served on advisory committees to organizations interested in adopting routine outcome evaluation. A journal article describing the outcome project was published. In addition, the U.S. General Accounting Office cited the outcome project in a January, 1994 report on residential care in the United States.

2/852/87 Director, Pittsburgh PRYDE, The Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Responsible for developing and managing all aspects of a foster familybased treatment program for troubled and troubling youth. Parents received ongoing training and supervision in the use of therapeutic skills including applied behavior analysis, relationship building, therapeutic teaching, use of motivation systems, familybased living, and advocacy in the school, community and with the biological family. Total budget of approximately $1,400,000 for 16 program staff who supervised 50 families caring for and treating approximately 70 youths.

9/831/85 Director, Continuing Care, Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Girls and Boys Town, Nebraska

Responsible for all training, consultation, and supervision of Family Teachers who operated family-based programs to teach independent living and community reentry skills to older troubled and troubling youths about to leave Boys Town. Responsible for aftercare crisis intervention for former Boys Town residents. Responsible for supervising all aspects of Boys Town's postsecondary education scholarship program including counseling and advising formerly delinquent and predelinquent youths. Total budget of approximately $500,000 for 12 staff, 30 residential youths.

Select Publications

Good, M., Odah, C., Bell, B., Dalton, E. (with principal contributions by Fabry, B.). (May 2011). Residential Enhancement Service Planning Opportunities for New Directions Program (RESPOND): A Program Evaluation. Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Retrieved December 2, 2012, from http://www.alleghenycounty.us/uploadedFiles/DHS/About_DHS/Report_and_Evaluation/RESPONDl.pdf. (An updated report derived from: Fabry, B. (July 2009). RESPOND (Residential Enhancement Service, Planning Opportunities for New Directions): Annual Report. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC.)

Fabry, B., McGonigle, J. Rasky, J., & Lubetsky M. (2005, September). Ten things we can do to meet the diverse needs of children with dual diagnoses. PA CASSP Newsletter, 14(3), 5-7.

Fabry, B., Reitz, A. L., Luster, W. C. (2002). Community treatment of extremely troublesome youth with dual mental health/mental retardation diagnoses: A data based case study. Education and Treatment of Children, 25(3), 339-355.

Fabry, B. (2000). To walk in troubling shoes: Another way to think about the challenging behavior of children and adolescents. Publication Series. Pennsylvania CASSP Training and Technical Assistance Institute, Penn State, 2001 North Front Street, Building 1, Suite 316, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Fabry, B. (1996). I know you know what I said; But do you know that what I said is not what I meant? The Pennsylvania Journal on Positive Approaches, 1(1), 7-11.

Fabry, B. D., Hawkins, R. P., Luster, W. C. (1994). Monitoring outcomes of services to severely disturbed children and youths: An economical follow up procedure for mental health and child care agencies. Journal of Mental Health Administration, 21(3), 271-282.

Hawkins, R. P., Almeida, C., Fabry, B., & Reitz, A. L. (1992). A scale to measure restrictiveness of living environments for troubled children and youths. Hospital and Community Psychiatry, 43, 54-58.

Goss, D., Hawkins, R. P., Fabry, B., Meadowcroft, P, & Trout, B. (1990). Foster-family-based treatment of an overanxious, conduct disordered Youth. In Feindler, E. L., & Kalfus, G. R. (Eds.) Adolescent Behavior Therapy Handbook, New York, Springer Publishing.

Meadowcroft, P., Luster, W. C., & Fabry, B. D. (1990). Professional staff and organizational structures for therapeutic foster care. In P. Meadowcroft & B. A. Trout (Eds.), Troubled youth in treatment homes: A handbook of therapeutic foster care. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America.

Burge, D. A., Fabry, B. D., Conaway, R. L., & James, J. (1987). Meeting the challenge: Treating diverse and difficult problems in therapeutic foster families. Presented at the meeting of the American Psychological Association, August, New York, NY. Published in American Psychological Association Monitor, September. Washington, D.C.

Fremouw, W. J., McSweeney, A. J., Fabry, B. D., & Trout, B. A. (1982). Evaluation of shortterm outcomes. In A. J. McSweeney, W. J. Fremouw, and R. P. Hawkins (Eds.), Practical program evaluation in youth treatment, Springfield, Ill., Charles C. Thomas.

Fabry, B. (1998). Which outcomes: Developing consensus among stakeholders. Retrieved December 1, 1998 from http://www.standardsandoutcomes.com

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Fabry, B. (1998). Program evaluation as quasi-experimental research. Retrieved December 1, 1998 from http://www.standardsandoutcomes.com

Fabry, B. (1998). Evaluation for internal feedback. Retrieved December 1, 1998 from http://www.standardsandoutcomes.com

Fabry, B. (1998). Integrity and values in the presentation of outcomes. Retrieved December 1, 1998 from http://www.standardsandoutcomes.com

Fabry, B. Burkley, R., & Fletcher, K. (June 2012) EIBI Outcomes Report. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC.

Fabry, B. (July 2009). RESPOND (Residential Enhancement Service, Planning Opportunities for New Directions): Annual Report. Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic of UPMC.

Fabry, B. (2002). Outcome Report 2001. Family Services of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, PA.

Fabry, B. (1987 - 1993). Follow-up Project. Annual reports. The Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, PA. (1993: Full Longitudinal Report, Mini Reports)

Hawkins, R. P., Almeida, M. C., Meadowcroft, P., Fabry, B., & Luster, W. C. (1987). First quarterly report: Evaluation of foster familybased treatment. The Pressley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, PA.

Fabry, B. D., Beier, C., Fixsen, D. L., & Blase, K. (1983). The National Data Network Report. Father Flanagan's Boys' Home, Boys Town, NE.

Fabry, B. D., Hawkins, R. P., Fremouw, W. J., & Kalfus, G. (1979). Effects of the Pressley Ridge programs on youth personalsocial behavior. Pressley Ridge Evaluation Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Fremouw, W. J., Hawkins, R. P., Fabry, B. D., & Trout, B. (1979). Academic achievement at Pressley Ridge Wilderness School. Pressley Ridge Evaluation Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Hawkins, R. P, Fremouw, W. J., & Fabry, B. D. (1979). Social climate and youth satisfaction with two programs for disturbed youths: An evaluation. Pressley Ridge Evaluation Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.

Hawkins, R. P., Fremouw, W. J., Fabry, B. D., Trout, B. A., & Zeigler, R. (1978). Evaluation of two programs: An annual summary report. Pressley Ridge Evaluation Project, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV.