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DR. TERRI SHELTON NAMED DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL ISSUES

GREENSBORO — Dr. Terri Shelton, associate professor of psychology at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, has been named deputy director of the Center for the Study of Social Issues (CSSI).

Dr. Terri Shelton

Established by UNCG in 1996, the center’s mission is to enhance the individuals’ and families’ lives through interdisciplinary research and education at the community, state and national level.

Consistent with the focus of the center, Shelton has a longstanding interest in developing community partnerships and family-centered system-of-care approaches to service delivery. She worked with former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop on his national agenda to establish family centered, community-based systems of care for children with specialized health care needs. She also worked with Vice President Al Gore during her tenure on the board of the Institute for Family-Centered Care based near Washington D.C.

"I love being at the center," Shelton said. "It's an opportunity to make my avocation my vocation. For the first time since working with the Surgeon General, my main job encompasses my real passion of working and building partnerships, doing and evaluating quality work, and really being able to link the expertise of the university and research with dedicated community partners."

In the past five years, the Center for the Study of Social Issues has built a wide array of programs based on input from university faculty, families, schools, churches, police and human services agencies, and has generated nearly $12 million in grants. Among its many services, CSSI coordinates the High Point Youth Violence Initiative, NC Kids, a statewide adoption service for children with special needs, and the Neighborhood Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) in the West Macedonia neighborhood of High Point. It has also assisted Greensboro and Winston-Salem in evaluating the results from a recent Social Capital Benchmark Survey, and continues to contract with area agencies to provide evaluation.

As deputy director, Shelton plans to build on the past successes by continuing to build partnerships among UNCG faculty and the community as well as continuing research on the benefits of systems of care and family-centered approaches to service delivery, particularly with respect to the development of young children. She is also interested in broadening the impact that the center and its research and programs can have on public policy.

Shelton joined the staff of UNCG in 1998. Her research interest and activities include projects with young children with behavioral challenges. She is principal investigator on a grant examining the efficacy of a family-centered approach to working with young children with behavioral difficulties in Head Start, and is co-principal investigator on a National Institutes of Health grant examining the developmental trajectories that may be associated with early childhood behavioral problems.
Shelton is co-author of the textbook, "Assessing Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder," published in March by Plenum/Kluwer Press, which she co-wrote with her husband, Dr. Arthur Anastopoulos, who is a professor of psychology and head of the AD/HD Specialty Clinic at UNCG.

Shelton has written extensively about childhood disorders. She has numerous journal articles, monographs and presentations to her credit, including co-authoring two monographs on family-centered care for children with specialized health care needs. Prior to coming to UNCG in 1998, she was associate professor of psychiatry and pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. There, she was co-principal investigator on a National Institutes for Mental Health grant examining the efficacy of a comprehensive treatment approach for kindergartners at risk for AD/HD.  ###

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