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Earlier this year, Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, participated in a forum titled “Community Safety Challenges, Oversight and Reforms.” Flannery was joined by City of Shaker Heights Mayor David Weiss and Alcohol, Drug Addiction and…

Maggie McGuire, a research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, and Samantha L. Cocco, administrative specialist at the Begun Center, gave a presentation titled “Why Should I Let Researchers on My Team? Ways to Leverage Practitioner-Researcher Partnerships”…

Rachel Lovell, research assistant professor at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-authored a case study with award-winning journalist and former reporter at The Plain Dealer Rachel Dissell, related to their work addressing the thousands of previously untested rape…

Dan Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, was featured by Children and Screens as one of many leading figures in the fields of public health, education, psychology and parenting to weigh in with their suggestions on the best ways to address violent…

New initiative supporting children’s behavioral health programs to be part of university’s Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education A new, multi-million-dollar statewide effort to transform adolescent behavioral health programs and agencies will be housed at Case Western…

Vaishali Deo, who recently joined the Begun Center as a research associate, co-authored an article on 2016 fentanyl and heroin overdose deaths, comparing them to previously studied heroin-associated fatalities from 2012. The piece, published in the <em>Journal of Forensic…

The Center for Innovative Practices’ Bobbi Beale, a senior consultant and trainer, and Richard Shepler, director, contributed to an informational video series produced by the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities as part of the Supporting Youth with Intensive and Complex Needs online…

Ivette Noriega, a postdoctoral scholar at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-wrote an article titled “Emotional memory processing in post-traumatic stress disorder affected Colombian youth.” The piece was published in the International Journal of Psychology. In…

Jane Timmons-Mitchell, senior research associate at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, co-authored a piece titled “Screening for suicidality and its relation to undiagnosed psychiatric comorbidities in children and youth with epilepsy.” The article was published in the…

Mark S. Fleisher, research professor at the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, had a chapter published in the book Social Bridges and Contexts in Criminology and Sociology: Reflections on the Intellectual Legacy of James F. Short, Jr. Fleisher’s chapter, titled “Social…