Dr. Bonnie Zucker received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from UCLA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Zucker has served as Director of Adult Behavior Therapy Programs in the Department of Psychiatry at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles and the Assistant Training Director of the UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services (UCLA-CAPS). Through these positions, she has trained numerous mental health trainees and professionals on a wide range of topics, including evidenced-based treatments for a variety of psychiatric disorders. She has also provided trainings to laypersons on topics such as stress management, insomnia, and mindfulness. Dr. Zucker currently works at the VA MIRECC where she collaborates on various research projects, as well as on the development of educational tools to help individuals with severe mental illness and their families. In addition, Dr. Zucker has a private practice with offices in Pacific Palisades and West Los Angeles (www.bonniezuckerphd.com).

Dr. Erika Van Buren currently serves as Vice President of Evaluation and Learning for First Place for Youth, where she is responsible for leading the design, utilization, and maintenance of the organization’s performance management system statewide. Dr. Van Buren received her doctorate in clinical psychology from UCLA. With over 20 years of experience, she has cultivated expertise in the areas of school and community mental health program development and evaluation, quality improvement and performance management practices, ethnic identity development and promotion, and culturally and linguistically responsive service delivery to children, youth and families. Prior to First Place for Youth, Dr. Van Buren served as Director of Research for the Family Service Agency of San Francisco and Director of the Division of Organizational Development for the DC Department of Mental Health. She has worked as a practitioner, consultant, and trainer in a variety of academic and community settings, including community mental health clinics, schools, youth development centers, and hospitals. Her contributions to the field of child and family mental health and child welfare can be found in technical and non-technical publications, book chapters, and television appearances.

Dr. Shirley Glynn received her doctorate in clinical/social psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1985. Dr. Glynn is a Research Psychologist at UCLA who has been conducting research on psychosocial interventions, especially family interventions, supported employment, and social skills training, to support recovery from schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses for the past twenty years.