Full Name
Leena Augimeri
Company/Organization
Child Development Institute
Speaker Bio
Leena Augimeri, PhD is SNAP Co-Founder/Director of SNAPĀ® Scientific & Program Development at Child Development Institute and Adjunct Professor, University of Toronto. For 38 years, this innovative scientist-practitioner has focused on research, development, dissemination, and implementation of evidence-based children/youth mental health (MH) and crime prevention (CP) strategies, and the creation of a comprehensive MH CP framework for children/youth with serious disruptive behaviour problems that included community referral protocols, risk/need assessment guides (EARL-V3), and gender-sensitive SNAP model programs.