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Odessa Luna, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is an assistant professor in applied behavior analysis at St. Cloud State University. Her research focuses on developing and evaluating training packages to ensure staff members, teachers and parents can implement evidence-based behavioral interventions with vulnerable populations. Steven Lafreniere has served as the executive director of the Alabama Department of Youth Services since 2014. Prior to coming to DYS, he worked for the Alabama Department of Mental Health (ADMH) for nearly 17 years and held numerous positions within that department including: Resource Specialists, Coordinator of Child and Family Services (Mental Illness Division); and Director of the Office of Children’s Services for the Department of Mental Health. He is a graduate of Auburn University and Auburn University Montgomery with a Master of Science in Clinical Psychology.

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training with adolescents in a residential detention facility. Manuscript accepted for publication. Wells, J. B., Minor, K. I., Angel, E., Matz, A. K., & Amato, N. (2009). Predictors of job stress among staff in juvenile correctional facilities. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 36(3 ), 245-258. Kristen Brogan, MS, BCBA, is a doctoral candidate in the Cognitive and Behavioral Science Program at Auburn University. Her research interests include the assessment and treatment of problem behavior emitted by justice-involved youth, problematic sexual behavior, and delay discounting. John T. Rapp, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is an alumni professor in the Department of Psychology at Auburn University. His research interests include the assessment and treatment of stereotypy for children with autism spectrum disorder, treatment of problem behavior display by foster children and justice-involved youth, and applications of single-subject experimental designs.

DYS Grant Funding General Information (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.dys.alabama.gov/ FundingGenInfo.html Hanley, G. P., Jin, C. S., Vanselow, N. R., & Hanratty, L. A. (2014). Producing meaningful improvements in problem behavior of children with autism via synthesized analyses and treatments.  Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis ,  47 (1), 16-36. https://doi.org/10.1002/ jaba.106 Liebling, A. (2004) Prisons and Their Moral Performance: A Study of Values, Quality, and Prison Life . Oxford: University Press. McDougale, C. B., Coon, J. C., Richling, S. M., O’Rourke, S., Rapp, J. T., Thompson, K. R., & Burkhart, B. R. (2019). Group procedures for decreasing problem behavior displayed by detained adolescents. Behavior Modification . Advance online publication. https://doi. org/10.1177/0145445518781314 O’Rourke, S., Richling, S., Brogan, K., McDougale, C., & Rapp, J. T. (2019). Tolerance

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