Steven Marans

Steven Marans, M.S.W., Ph.D., Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry in the Child Study Center and director of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence/Childhood Violent Trauma Center at Yale, was appointed in October to the U.S. Attorney General’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. The task force is part of the Defending Childhood Initiative, whose goals are prevention of children’s exposure to violence as victims and witnesses; reduction of negative aftereffects on children exposed to violence; and development of better understanding and increased awareness of this issue. The task force will identify promising practices, program implementation, and community strategies to prevent and respond to children’s exposure to violence.