Rebecca Jackson, Ph.D., is the current Chair of the SOCCPN Leadership Board. She is the Assistant Clinical Director for the Florida Civil Commitment Center. Previously, she was a Chief Psychologist with the South Carolina Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program. She is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Forensic & Correctional Mental Health Counseling program at Palo Alto University. Her primary professional interests are in the areas of psychopathy, risk assessment, and sex offending. In addition to her published work, she has presented and delivered training regionally and nationally on these topics. In 2008, she received the Theodore Blau Award for Early Career Contributions to Clinical Psychology.
Rebecca Jackson, PhD
The Geo Group, Inc
Florida Civil Commitment Center
13619 Southeast Highway 70
Arcadia, FL 34266
869-491-4851
rejackson@geogroup.com
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Tara Travia, Ph.D., is the current Vice-Chair of the SOCCPN Leadership Board. She is Clinical Director for the Pennsylvania Sexual Responsibility and Treatment Program, the only Civil Commitment Program to receive men for civil committed from the Juvenile Justice System as they reach the age of 21. In this role, she continues to provide treatment, assessment and case management for residents and supervision for members of the Interdisciplinary Treatment Team. Dr. Travia currently is employed by Liberty Healthcare Corporation and serves as Chair for the Liberty Workgroup on Sex Offender Specific Development. She also serves as Web Coordinator/Liaison as well as a member of the Research Workgroup for the national Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network (SOCCPN). Dr. Travia also conducts assessments of both adult and juvenile sex offenders for various counties in PA.
Tara Travia, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
Pennsylvania Sexual Responsibility and Treatment Program (PA-SRTP)
Licensed Psychologist
Torrance State Hospital
PA-SRTP Beistel Building
P.O. BOX 111
Torrance, PA 15779
Phone: 724-675-2015
Fax: 724-675-2003
c-ttravia@state.pa.us
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Alan Blake, MS, is Chief Operating Officer of the Missouri Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Service (SORTS) with two treatment sites at Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center in Farmington and Fulton State Hospital in Fulton. Alan began his career as a forensic psychologist at Larned State Hospital in Kansas. He assisted in the early development of the Missouri Sex Offender Program (MOSOP) in the Missouri Department of Corrections as a staff psychologist before moving to Saint Louis State Hospital, Saint Louis Missouri. In the Missouri Department of Mental Health he has been an acute care psychologist, unit manager, forensic coordinator, Chair of the Missouri Eastern Region Forensic Committee, and Chief of Clinical Services at Saint Louis Psychiatric Rehabilitation Center. He is a member of ATSA and a beginning member of SOCCPN.
Alan Blake, MS, LP, HSP
Chief Operating Officer
Sex Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment Service
Hoctor-Blair Complex
Southeast Missouri Mental Health Center
1016 West Columbia Street
Farmington, Missouri 63640
573-218-7079
Guhlman Forensic Center
Fulton State Hospital
600 EAST FIFTH STREET
Fulton, Missouri 65251
Phone: 573-592-4100
FAX: (573) 592-3009
alan.blake@dmh.mo.gov
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Timothy Budz, MSW, LCSW has served as Facility Administrator for The GEO Group, Inc. at the Florida Civil Commitment Center since 2006. He has 12 years experience working with Sexually Violent Predators. During his tenure at FCCC, he has overseen the transformation of the program into one of the nation's premier residential programs for men who have sexually offended. GEO's accomplishments at FCCC were recently validated when a class action lawsuit filed against the program in 2004 was dismissed prior to trial in the United States District Court, Middle District of Florida.
Mr. Budz has over 26 years experience in health and human services. He was the first Facility Director of the Sexually Violent Persons Program in the State of Illinois. During his tenure, Budz successfully defended his design and operation of the SVP program in Illinois in a class action lawsuit in United States District Court. His leadership and program expertise resulted in a favorable ruling to the State after trial on every issue brought by the plaintiffs while establishing constitutional practices in this emerging sex offender field.
Mr. Budz has also been the Executive Director for residential programs for persons with traumatic brain injuries and people living with AIDS. He has demonstrated success in the in the start-up and relocation of residential facilities throughout his career. Mr. Budz received Bachelor and Master's degrees from the University of Illinois. In addition, he has a Certificate in Business Administration with an emphasis in applied strategic planning from the University of Illinois, College of Business Administration.
Mr. Budz has volunteered in leadership roles in numerous not-for-profit organizations throughout his career. He has been active within the Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network since 1999 including Secretary of the Board. He is currently the Vice-President of Business Development for the DeSoto County Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Budz serves as the Inner Guard on the Board of Directors for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elk-Arcadia Lodge 1524.
The GEO Group, Inc.
13619 Southeast Highway 70
Arcadia, Florida 34266
Tel: 863-491-4804
Cell: 561-212-4890
tbudz@geocareinc.com
www.geogroup.com
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Kenneth Carabello, MSW, is a Vice President of Operations for Liberty Healthcare Corporation. Since 1992 he has held clinical, supervisory and administrative positions in forensic mental health programs working with offenders in state and federal systems. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Carabello was designated by the CA Department of Mental Health as the first state-wide Community Program Director for persons conditionally released under the Sexually Violent Predator law throughout the state. He currently oversees outpatient SVP programming in CA and both inpatient and outpatient SVP programming in IL. He has degrees from Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California. He has lectured nationally and internationally on sex offender management and forensic mental health issues. He is the past president of the Forensic Mental Health Association of California and former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Safe NOW Project. In 2005, Mr. Carabello led the creation of the Steering Committee which resulted in the establishment of the Sex Offender Civil Commitment Program Network.
Kenneth Carabello
Vice President of Operations
Liberty Healthcare Corporation
(310) 584-1581
kcarabello@libertyhealth.com
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Austin T. DesLauriers, Ph.D., is the Clinical Program Director for the Kansas Sexual Predator Treatment Program (SPTP). He is presently responsible for all
treatment within the program, for post-commitment evaluations, and for overseeing the transition process. He has worked in a leadership position in SPTP since 1998. He has been active in the process of forming a working group of civil commitment programs around the country for several years and is presently serving on the Executive Committee, as Membership Coordinator, of the Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network (SOCCPN). His work in this field has presented him with opportunities to provide expert witness testimony, contribute book chapters and articles, and to make regional and national presentations on the topic of working with sexual offenders.
Austin T. DesLauriers, Ph.D.
Larned State Hospital
Sexual Predator Treatment Program
1301 KS HWY 264
Larned, KS 67550
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Jerry Isikoff, Ph.D., has been with Liberty Behavioral Healthcare since 2001. He was initially hired as the Phase Three Coordinator whose primary responsibility were network development and oversight of the sex offender containment model approach to the treatment of 450 parole sex offenders in Indiana. He was promoted in 2005 as the Director of the Sexually Violent Predator Program in Illinois where his primary responsibilities are oversight of the Safety First! Conditional Release Program and network development. He is an active participant in ATSA and the Sex Offender Management Board of Illinois. He also serves on the Executive Committee of a recently formed organization, Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network (SOCCPN). Dr. Isikoff has a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has a history of working HMOs with alternative treatment programs and responsible for the development of a central 24 hour 7 triage/intake system for HMO members.
Jerry Isikoff, PhD
Executive Director
Illinois Conditional Release Program
Liberty Healthcare
307 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1220
Chicago, IL 60601
Phone: 312-233-0600 and 312-233-0700
Fax: 312-701-1006
jisikoff@LibertyHealth.com
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Shan Jumper, Ph.D., received his doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of North Dakota. He is a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked in the field of sexual violence since 1991. Following a pre-doctoral internship in outpatient mental health and forensics at Connecticut Valley Hospital/Whiting Forensic Division, he was employed at the Sexually Violent Predator program at the Wisconsin Resource Center, where he conducted SVP re-examinations and provided court testimony and sex offense treatment. In 1999 Dr. Jumper joined the staff of the Sexually Violent Persons program at the Illinois Dept. of Human Services Treatment and Detention Facility as a psychologist, later serving as a Treatment Team Leader and Associate Clinical Director. An employee of Liberty Health Care, he has served as the program's Clinical Director since 2005. Dr. Jumper has worked in private practice as an expert witness in SVP cases, has peer reviewed articles for Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, and is on the adjunct faculty at Argosy University Chicago.
Shan Jumper, Ph.D.
Clinical Director
Illinois Dept. of Human Services
Treatment and Detention Facility
Liberty Health Care
R. R. 1, Box 6A
Rushville, Illinois 62681
shan.jumper@illinois.gov
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Suzonne M. Kline, Psy.D., is the Director of Florida’s 35 million dollar Sexually Violent Predator Program (SVPP). In this capacity, Dr. Kline is responsible for both the screening and evaluations of individuals referred for civil commitment, as well as oversight of the 720 bed Florida Civil Commitment Center - the second largest SVP facility in the nation. She currently serves as Chair of Florida's SVPP Multidisciplinary Team. Dr. Kline has worked in psychiatric hospitals and forensic settings since 1993. She graduated at the top of her class and received her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology (Forensic Concentration) from Argosy University in Washington D.C. She completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral residency at Florida State Hospital, where she specialized in the assessment and treatment of severe personality disorders and mentally disordered offenders. Dr. Kline’s areas of professional interest and expertise include program administration, policy formulation, sex offender management, competency assessment, and adult psychopathology. Since entering the SVP industry, she has dedicated a significant portion of her time to increased awareness of emergent issues in the field, and has been actively involved in workgroups focusing on aged or infirmed sexual offenders residing long-term care facilities.
Suzonne M. Kline, Psy.D., Director
Sexually Violent Predator Program
Florida Department of Children and Families
Mental Health Program Office
1317 Winewood Blvd., Building 6, Rm 217
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0700
Phone 850.921.4490 Fax 850.921.5830
email: suzonne_kline@dcf.state.fl.us
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Jennifer Schneider, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University. She is presently employed by the Department of Human Services as the Director of Research and Quality Improvement at the Special Treatment Unit, New Jersey's civil commitment facility for sex offenders. She served as the Project Coordinator on a federally funded sex offender reentry study that provided counseling and case management to sex offenders recently released from incarceration in collaboration with the Department of Corrections and State Parole Board. In addition, she worked as a Program Development Specialist for the New Jersey Department of Corrections where she supervised the release processes and monitored prosecutor notification for sex offenders. She also taught a variety of undergraduate criminal justice classes at Rutgers University.
Jennifer Schneider, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Quality Improvement
Special Treatment Unit
(732) 499-5393
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