Alyssa Benedict, MPH

Alyssa Benedict completed her graduate work at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine Graduate Program in Public Health.  As a Graduate Fellow she conducted extensive research on the concept of gender-specific programming for females, and became an advocate for the implementation of gender-specific services and policies for system-involved females at the program and system levels.  She is the founder and Executive Director of CORE Associates, LLC (Creating Opportunities through Research and Education) and provides training and technical assistance in the assessment, development, implementation, and evaluation of gender-specific services/interventions to agencies, programs, institutions and systems that work with females. 

In addition to her direct service experience, training and technical assistance, Ms. Benedict has developed several products designed to assist organizations in their efforts to provide best practice services to females, including, but not limited to, program-level assessment and gender-specific approaches to client assessment, service/treatment planning and behavior management/motivation.  She has worked with multiple private agencies and state departments that serve adolescent and adult females and is a national consultant for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the National Institute of Corrections and other entities.  Ms. Benedict has been a consultant to various task forces working to enhance services for girls and women and has been a featured presenter at several conferences, including the national Adult and Juvenile Female Offenders (AJFO) conference and the New England Council on Crime and Delinquency conference.