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John VanDenBerg,
PhD Dr. VanDenBerg has over 15 years experience as a human services consultant, working in the U.S. and Canada. John managed the first demonstration of cross-agency statewide wraparound process, the Alaska Youth Initiative. He has been a major innovator and pioneer in development and improvement of the wraparound process, which now reaches over a quarter million families worldwide. John consulted with the federal government, state and local departments of child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health, education, including special education, and developmental disabilities, as well as with private foundations and private agencies around the U.S. and Canada. He is involved with partnerships between the faith community and implementation of the wraparound process, and is dedicated to global improvement of human services for children and their families. He has a bachelor's degree from metropolitan State College in Colorado and a Masters and Doctorate in developmental and Child Psychology from the University of Kansas. Previous to starting VVDB with Jim Rast, he managed VanDenBerg Consulting, Inc., and was President of the Community Partnerships group. |
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He was the director of the Center for Research and Public Policy, the Presley Ridge Schools, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, from 1991 to 1993. He was the Coordinator of the Alaska Youth Initiative and Coordinator of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services for the Department of Health and Social Services, State of Alaska from 1986 to 1991. He was the Administrator, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, Division of Mental Health and Mental Retardation, Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, State of Kansas from 1982 to 1983. Previous to the state level jobs, he worked in a variety of clinical and direct practice roles in Kansas, Colorado, and California, in state mental hospitals, residential treatment centers, and in family clinics. John has performed thousands of days of site level consultation around the U.S. and Canada. For example, when working for the Michigan Interagency Family Preservation Initiative Mental Health and Child Welfare Reform Project, John organized and provided three years of extensive state and local level technical assistance by training more than 15,000 Michigan providers and consumers in over forty counties. Technical assistance has focused on assisting counties to restructure to an integrated services model, and on teaching direct practice alternatives such as the wraparound process. He has been a consultant and advisor to The Sacred Child Project, a nationally recognized North Dakota effort to use the wraparound process to return Native American Youth from off-reservation back to their home communities. John also works with First Nation communities in Canada (Cree, Metis, and others), and has worked with many other tribes in the U.S. He was honored for his work with indigenous peoples at a special ceremony at the First Native American Wraparound Conference. He has provided system of care development in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nevada, Saskatchewan, Arizona, and many other sites. Currently engaged in ongoing consultation with these and other key innovative restructuring efforts, through state and county-level training of alternatives to use of hospitalization and residential treatment. He has published articles in many journals, including the Journal of Child and Family Studies, Reaching Today's Youth, the Journal of Administration and Policy in Mental Health, Coping, and other publications. He is one of the leading writers and lecturers in the system of care field and with the wraparound process. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Vermont. He was a past national Vice Chairperson of the State Mental Health Representatives for Children and Youth and was the 1992 National Chairperson of the Alliance for the mentally Ill Child and Adolescent Network. He serves on other various national committees on service reform. He is on the advisory board of the CMHS grant in Clark County, Washington. He is on the State Board of Directors of the Colorado Federation of Families for Children's Mental Health. Dr. VanDenBerg lives in Parker, Colorado. He is married to watercolor artist and printmaker Janene Parks VanDenBerg and has three children: Rain, Maggie, and Will. He is adored by Grover, a yellow Lab. When not riding in an airplane, he is an organic gardener, a halibut and salmon fisherman, and a woodworker. He is a member of the Prairie Unitarian Universalist Church. You can contact John at (303) 790-4099 ext. 105 or e-mail john@vroonvdb.com
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