Robert H. (Robin) Jenkins, Ph.D.

My background includes involvement with vulnerable populations and the systems designed to assist them. I've had a myriad of professional volunteer, leadership and advocacy experiences in behavioral health, juvenile justice, criminal justice, substance abuse interventions, nonprofit development and management, program design and implementation, state government work as well as faculty appointments at the collegiate level (behavioral sciences and criminal/juvenile justice). I have held national leadership roles as the Coalition of Juvenile Justice's Chair, on the National Juvenile Justice Network's Executive Committee, the Federal Advisory Committee on Juvenile Justice (OJJDP), and gubernatorial appointed positions in North Carolina on the North Carolina Governors Crime Commission, State Advisory Group (Juv. Justice) Chair, and served on several other state boards and commissions. A former Chief Deputy Secretary in the NC Dept of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention and Deputy Director in the NC Dept of Public Safety-Division of Juvenile Justice. Prior to that, I've helped to establish and lead community-based nonprofit agencies with an array of prevention, intervention and treatment services. A co-founder of a local Children's Advocacy Center, I am a lifelong advocate for the protection and positive development of children and families. I am a participating member of the American Psychological Association, National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives, American Evaluation Association, and the Society of Community Research and Action