Speakers
JoLynn Carney is an Associate Professor of Counselor Education and Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Counselor Education at The Pennsylvania State University. She is a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor who has experience working in community mental health agencies, private practice, and schools. Her research and publishing is well known in the areas of intervention and prevention aspects of youth violence, bullying, and adolescent suicide. Her current research focus is on the psychophysiological influence and impact on peer abuse.
Mary Dolan currently serves as a Safe Schools Coordinator with the Center for Safe Schools, located in Pennsylvania. Her professional experience includes public school counseling and participation in all facets of comprehensive safe schools planning. She has received training and certification in the areas of Olweus Bullying Prevention, Internet safety, peer mediation, crisis response, and resiliency. Mary coordinates the Protecting Kids Online Internet safety program, PA Bullying Prevention Network, PA CARES: Creating an Atmosphere of Respect and Environment for Success (a Highmark Foundation Healthy High Five bullying prevention initiative) and Mission Homefront. She speaks to Pennsylvania and national audiences on topics such as relational aggression, cyber-bullying, comprehensive safe schools planning and how schools and communities can support children during military deployment. Mary has recently spoken on Pennsylvania radio and news stations to raise awareness and to provide prevention strategies on bullying in the schools and cyber-bullying among today's youth.
Richard Hazler is Professor-in-Charge of Counselor Education and Coordinator of the Elementary School Counseling program at The Pennsylvania State University. He is known for research in the areas of peer-on-peer abuse and school violence in addition to other youth and counselor training issues. His experiences beyond being a faculty member have included being an elementary school teacher, school counselor, and counselor in a university, the Army, a prison, and private practice as well as being a counselor educator.
H. Peter Montminy, Ph.D.
Child Clinical Psychologist
Director, MidStep Centers for Child Development, State College, Pennsylvania
Dr. Peter Montminy is a child psychologist and family wellness coach, as well as a father of four (including three girls!). After being educated at Dartmouth, Penn State, and Yale he served as the director of child and adolescent services at Penn State's Psychological Clinic and then went on to become the founding director of the MidStep Centers for Child Development. For the past twenty years he has helped thousands of families cope with all kinds of aggression and conflict, while earning his real degree at home, raising his four children with his wife, Mary. Dr. Montminy is a renowned speaker, delivering interactive workshops filled with laughter, love, and learning.
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