| Michelle D. Duhart has over twenty years experience in the health and human services field where she has utilized her social work degree working with various entities and agencies in the fields of prevention, treatment, juvenile justice, law enforcement, community development and risk-focused youth development.
The past nine years has allowed her to focus her fourteen years of direct services experience working with communities throughout the United States and Bermuda providing comprehensive strategic consultation, training and technical assistance on a prevention planning system to reduce problem behaviors and increase the healthy development of youth in addition to currently working and with the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on a juvenile offender initiative. As a former certified Communities That Care® Project Consultant with Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. and later the Channing Bete Company, Inc., Michelle supported and assisted with revisions of the Communities That Care® (CTC) prevention planning system and co-wrote the revisions of the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offenders training curriculum. Additionally, Michelle has worked with Drs J. David Hawkins and Richard F. Catalano at the University of Washington Social Development Group on the Community Youth Development Study. Michelle further assisted and supported statewide CTC capacity-building in Michigan and Kansas, as well as delivered training and technical assistance to diverse communities throughout the U.S., and Bermuda. In her role as CTC Project Consultant, Michelle supervised and managed 8 sites in the Channing Bete Company’s partnership with Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America Greenhouse Project. In addition to her work with CTC, Michelle provided extensive training and technical assistance to Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent and Chronic Juvenile Offenders and Weed and Seed communities through the Department of Justice; which has allowed her to target specific technical assistance to communities in the areas of: juvenile delinquency, gang violence, board development, grant preparation and writing, conflict resolution, leadership development, peer mentoring, balanced and restorative justice strategies, volunteer recruitment, retention and development to name a few. Lastly, Michelle has served on numerous boards, committees and task forces and advisory groups in addition to serving as a state and federal grant reviewer.
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