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NSAA National Advisory Council

The mission of NSAA’s Advisory Council to assist NSAA in enhancing the association’s national presence and best practices development efforts. 

The primary functions of the Advisory Council are to assist the association in a range of important issues related to both the association membership and the field.  Among these responsibilities will be updated information on key and emerging issues related to at-risk students, need assessment, prevention, intervention, and treatment issues, educational issues, funding issues, best practice research and analysis.  Board members will also assist in working with policy makers in the federal government and fields related to Student Assistance. 

Tthe current Advisory Council shows a strong background in Student Assistance as well as research and evaluation, program design, grant writing and review and working with federal and national level organization’s related to SAP initiatives. 

The following Advisory Council members share NSAA’s commitment to building a strong national agenda for Student Assistance Programs.  

Advisory Council:

James F. Crowley, President of Community Intervention, Inc

A nationally recognized trainer and keynote speaker at national conferences. His areas of expertise include Student Assistance Programs, support group facilitation, alternatives to suspension, community mobilization, children of alcohol/drug dependent families, children of divorce, and ATOD intervention.   In 2003, the National Association of Children of Alcoholics awarded him for his contributions to the COA field.  Mr. Crowley is the executive producer of two award-winning educational films and several instructional videos. He is the author of several books on student assistance and community mobilization.  He is a former Board President for the National Association for Children of Alcoholics (NACoA).

Cynthia Timmons

Mid-Continent Comprehensive Center

Oklahoma

Ms. Timmons is a leader in the feild of Student Assistance and was a former NSAA board member and President. She is currently involved wtih children whose parents are incarcerated.

Sis Wenger

Executive Director of the National Association for Children of Alcoholics. 

A former member of the President’s Advisory Commission on the Drug-Free Communities Program, a founding member of the National Drug Prevention League, and holds several national advisory positions, including the Johnson Institute’s Council of Advisors.  She received the Senator Harold Hughes Award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in 2001 for building bridges between the alcohol research community and the prevention, treatment and policy-making communities and for translating research to practice.

 

 

 
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