Elaine Cassidy Senior Project Manager Elaine Cassidy is a Project Manager at OMG. Before joining OMG in November 2008, Elaine was a Program Officer in Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, where she oversaw research and evaluation activities for the Foundation's Addiction Prevention and Treatment and Vulnerable Populations portfolios. In this role, she worked on grant-making related to violence prevention, youth development, school-based interventions, and addiction. She also designed and tracked performance indicators to track portfolio progress. Elaine has experience and expertise in evaluation that utilizes mixed methods and multi-systemic perspectives and incorporates community engagement and participatory research. Previously, Elaine held research, administrative, and teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania. She worked in the Philadelphia public schools, managing a within-school, anti-aggression program for adolescents in an urban remedial disciplinary system, and in the Trenton public schools, conducting a research study of obesity and psychosocial health among elementary and middle school students. She is a trained mental health clinician, who has provided therapeutic care to children and families in school, outpatient and acute partial hospitalization settings. Elaine holds a B.A. in Psychology and Liberal Studies from the University of Notre Dame, an M.S.Ed. in Psychological Services from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in School, Community and Child-Clinical Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. She has held post-doctoral positions at the Center for Health, Achievement, Neighborhood, Growth and Ethnic Studies (CHANGES) at the University of Pennsylvania and at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Research and Evaluation. < Return to Staff Listing