Al Stein-Seroussi, PhD, is a Senior Program Evaluator at the PIRE’s Chapel Hill (NC) Center. His area of expertise is assisting state and local stakeholders in evaluating and monitoring their substance abuse prevention initiatives. During his 23 years at PIRE, he has managed dozens of evaluation contracts and is adept at working with clients to meet their evaluation needs and PIRE’s contractual obligations.
His recent projects include directing the evaluations of four Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grants (SPF-SIG), four Safe Schools/Healthy Students grants, and two grants to integrate behavioral and physical health care. These projects have typically involved working with multiple communities to help them clarify their goals, create clear linkages between their goals and programmatic activities, identify culturally appropriate process and outcome measures, collect and analyze data, and report findings. Dr. Stein-Seroussi was also a member of the PIRE team that evaluated the Student Mental Health Program of the California Community Colleges.