| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | Social Work |
| Office: | CB 324 |
| Phone: | 216-523-7514 |
| Fax: | 216-687-5590 |
| Email: | C.A.MALLETT@csuohio.edu |
| Web: | http://academic.csuohio.edu/mallett_ca |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. CB 324, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
Education: | ||
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J.D., Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2003
Ph.D., Social Work, The Ohio State University, 1999 MSW, Social Work, University of Maryland, 1995 B.A., Political Science, University of Findlay, 1986 B.A., Marketing, University of Findlay, 1986 | ||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Christopher A. Mallett teaches research methods, statistics, program evaluation, and mental health policy graduate and undergraduate courses in the School of Social Work, Cleveland State University. He received his Ph.D. from The Ohio State University, Juris Doctor from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law, M.S.W. from the University of Maryland at Baltimore, and B.A. in political science from the University of Findlay. He is licensed in Ohio as an independent social worker and attorney. For over ten years prior to academe, Dr. Mallett worked with and advocated for at-risk youth and families in Ohio, Maryland, and the District of Columbia within juvenile justice, mental health, and special education settings. Prior to working with youth, Dr. Mallett assisted in the resettlement of refugees and their families to the Washington, D.C. area, performed vocational counselor with numerous different populations, and was a sales and marketing director for two different companies. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Dr. Malletts research is focused on identifying, advocating for, and finding programmatic and policy changes to assist at-risk youth. He has published research including the impact of TANF and Medicaid devolution on future Head Start policies for at-risk children and families; Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Juvenile Court delinquent youth risk factors, multiple social policy systems access concerns (health care; mental health/addictions; child welfare; and special education), and delinquency outcomes; the psychiatric diagnostic demarcations of the juvenile justice and adolescent mental health populations; the life histories and mitigating factors of juvenile offenders on death row; legal analysis of federal circuit courts application of Supreme Court death penalty decisions; 50-state law analysis of transferring juveniles to adult criminal courts; and a history of the social construction of adolescent, psychiatric behaviorally-based disorders.
His current research includes: state law analysis of juvenile competency standards; analysis of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Lorain County, Ohio, and Ashtabula County, Ohio, delinquent youth disability populations and juvenile court outcomes; program evaluation of a local delinquent youth legal assistance agency; program evaluation of local mental health courts; federal rules and regulations governing evidence-based practice for youth programs; identifying maltreatment to delinquency predictors; and finding explanations for the juvenile courts' disproportionate minority contact problem. | ||
| Professional Experience: | ||
| Program Evaluation
Evaluations for children¿s services agencies, juvenile courts, mental health and/or substance abuse agencies, various county department partnerships, Family First Councils, county mental health and drug boards, legal organizations, and advocacy groups focused on improving children and youth disability systems coordination, determining effective child and youth practice, and assessing program effectiveness/outcomes. Projects have included disproportionate minority contact and confinement (DMC) problem assessments and state-reporting for juvenile courts; development and evaluation of programs to improve maltreated children and youth¿s academic and school difficulties; design and evaluation of programs to decrease minority youth detention and incarceration placements; annual assessments of mental health board-funded agency clients¿ satisfaction surveys; researching and building predictive models to help identify maltreated children who were most at risk for juvenile delinquency adjudication; and designing procedures and tracking outcomes to identify risk and protective factors for juvenile offender populations, as well as multi-system involved youth (delinquency, addictions, foster care, and residential placement). Public Policy and Advocacy *Agency, regional, and state advocate, lobbied for public and private nonprofit child-caring agencies on behalf of at-risk youth and their families. Selected to decision-making statewide task forces and committees to appropriately design managed care systems for Ohio public dollar expenditures. *Recognized state expert on Medicaid, behavioral healthcare, and managed care effects on youth with disabilities and their families. Recruited to present to and educate numerous constituent groups, policy makers, and legislators around these complicated policy issues. *Advocated through the Council of Behavioral Healthcare Organizations and the Ohio Association of Child-Caring Agency¿s Behavioral Health\Medicaid Advisory and Legislative Committees focused on juvenile justice, mental health and substance abuse treatment, child welfare, and public financing - Medicaid, Title IV-E, behavioral healthcare. Well-versed in statutory regulations, legislation, and administrative rule-making. Legal Practice *Assisted in defense of juvenile offenders and adults, charged and/or indicted, during all legal defense stages ¿ discovery, depositions, et al. *Researched criminal law areas including felony/misdemeanor crimes, sentencing issues, domestic relations, evidentiary/discovery issues, and juvenile law. *Researched civil law areas including Equal Employment and Ohio Civil Rights, administrative, probate, domestic relations/family, and housing. Prepared courts of common pleas, juvenile, appellate, federal district, and Ohio Supreme Court briefs and memorandums of law advocating for defendants/clients. | ||
| University Service: | ||
| (University)
Graduate Council (2007 to present) University Admissions and Standards Committee (2007 to present) Center for Health Equity Planning Committee (2005 to present) Faculty Lecture Program (2004 to present) Honors Program Research Course Development Committee (2005) (CLASS) Budget and Planning Committee (2005 to 2007) e-learning Task Force (2007 to present) (School of Social Work) BSW Evaluation Committee, Chair (2006 to present) Faculty Search Committee, Chair (2006-2007) MSW Evaluation Committee (2006 to present) MSW Admissions Committee (2005- present) Academic Standards Committee (2005-2006) Strategic Planning Committee (2004 to present) Admissions and Continuance Committee (2004 to 2006) | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| National District Attorneys Association, 36th National Conference on Juvenile Justice, Reducing minority youths incarcerations through via mental health services and advocacy?, March 13th, 2009, Orlando, FL.
National Association of Social Workers (Ohio Chapter) 2008 Annual Conference. Alternatives for youths advocacy program: Effectively reducing minority youths incarcerations, Nov. 14, 2008, Columbus OH. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Core College: The Role of the Judge, Youth entering juvenile court; Youth and families with disabilities, September 24th, 2008. National District Attorneys Association, 35th National Conference on Juvenile Justice, The prosecutors dilemma: Youths with disabilities involved with Juvenile Courts?, March 11th, 2008, St. Louis, MO. The Performance Institute, 2008 Youth Services Summit, Assessing youth with mental health and behavioral issues, July 21st, 2008, Washington, D.C. The Performance Institute, 2008 National Summit on Juvenile Reentry, Mental health concerns for at-risk and re-entering youth, January 9th, 2008, Washington, D.C. Ohio Program Evaluators Group 2008 Spring Evaluators Exchange. Evaluating legal representation and juvenile court services for incarcerated minority juvenile offenders in Cleveland, Ohio, May 16, 2008, Columbus, OH. Public Children Services Association of Ohio Annual Conference (2007). Child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency: Examining gender and child welfare etiology differences in Lorain County, Ohio, Sept. 29, 2007, Columbus, OH. Child Welfare League of America, National Conference, Children 2006. Youth and families with multiple disabilities: A hidden social policy problem, March 1, 2006, Washington, DC. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Forum on Children and Families in Court Hope and Justice. Juvenile court probation supervised youth (and families): A hidden social policy problem, October 17, 2005, Cleveland, Ohio. Child Welfare League of America, 2005 Juvenile Justice National Symposium: Joining Forces for Better Outcomes. Socio-historical analysis of juvenile offenders on death row, June 2, 2005, Miami, FL. Bryn Mawr College Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research, Center for Child and Family Well-being Conference. The diagnostic demarcations of the youth mental health and juvenile justice populations, April 8, 2005, Bryn Mawr, PA. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 26th Annual Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Justice Management Conference. Juvenile competency standards: Ineffective and in need of reformation, September 19th, 2007, Albuquerque, NM. National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, 25th Annual Juvenile Probation and Juvenile Justice Management Conference. Understanding the needs of youth and families with disabilities in the juvenile justice systems, September 18, 2006, Providence, RI. | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| I have integrated my community service with the at-risk youth and juvenile justice advocacy groups. As a board member of the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court Advisory Board (2004 to present), I have assisted in the continuous monitoring of court and jurist policy decisions advocating for the best interests of the court-involved youth. As a member of the Juvenile Justice Advocacy Alliance (2004 to present), I have proactively worked with other advocates to end harmful juvenile court and state juvenile justice practices and improve community-based services for these youth and families. As a member of Voices for Children of Greater Cleveland (2004 to present), I have assisted in expanding these state-wide efforts to assist at-risk adolescents within mental health and juvenile justice systems, trying to impact state legislation. As noted earlier, my research and scholarship expertise on the local juvenile justice population has been utilized in many training and workshops throughout Cuyahoga County. | ||
| Research Grants: | ||
| I was the principle (and sole) investigator for three research grants. First, from the Lorain County Integrated Services Partnership ($10,000) to conduct a pilot study of the Lorain County Childrens Services population who are later adjudicated delinquent by the Lorain County Juvenile Court. Second, from the Lorain County Mental Health Board (part of the Integrated Services Partnership consortium; $28,500) to further investigate the pilot study findings and build a predictive, explanatory model of LCCS-supervised children most at risk for later delinquency. The findings from these research studies are being used to assist a very at-risk population in Lorain County (LCCS serves 2,500 children and families annually; Lorain County Mental Health Board serves 3,000 at-risk youth and families annually; and Lorain County Juvenile Court adjudicates 400 youth delinquent annually). The third grant ($10,000)is with Dr. Patty Stoddard-Dare as lead investigator in evaluating consumer satisfaction of Lorain County Board of Mental Health funded agency providers. | ||