UCSD CCARTA provides motivational interviewing training for the California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation, Division of Juvenile Justice. Trainings are delivered by UCSD CCARTA consultants that are experts in motivational interviewing, as are printed training materials. Training will be conducted statewide in DJJ facilities and implemented in three phases over a three-year period.
Melinda Hohman, PhD, MSW,is a Professor at the School of Social Work, San Diego State University, San Diego, since 1995.
Dr. Hohman teaches courses in substance abuse treatment, research, and social work practice. Dr. Hohman's research interests include substance abuse assessment and treatment services and the overlap of substance abuse treatment and Child Welfare services. She has been a trainer in Motivational Interviewing (MI) since 1999, training community social workers, Child Welfare workers, probation and parole officers, other correctional staff, and addiction counselors across Southern California. Currently Dr. Hohman is the evaluator on two Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services expansion grants for women receiving drug treatment in a residential setting.
Recently she was appointed to be the Project Director of the Cal-METRO Project which involves training in Motivational Interviewing for over 2,000 of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation/Division of Juvenile Justice Employees and is administered by UCSD/CCARTA.
Neal Doran, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the UCSD School of Medicine, and program evaluator on the Cal-METRO project at the Center for Criminality and Addiction Research, Training, and Application. Neal received his undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in 1997, and his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2006. He completed his clinical internship at the UCSD/VA San Diego joint program, where his rotations included (1) UCSD Burn Service; (2) VA Spinal Cord Injury Service; (3) UCSD Palliative Care Center. Neal was awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, which he completed in 2008 prior to joining CCARTA. He also maintains a research program within the Department of Psychiatry, including a study designed to identify college students at risk for initiating cigarette smoking, funded by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Neal has 15 peer-reviewed scientific publications, and has presented his work at numerous professional conferences nationwide.
