Joseph Galano, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary and a core faculty member in the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Galano has worked at the local, state, and national levels to prevent child abuse and neglect. Since 1995, he has worked with Prevent Child Abuse Virginia to develop Virginia's statewide child abuse prevention initiative, Healthy Families Virginia. He was a member of the steering committee that developed the Blue Ribbon Plan to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in Virginia and currently serves on Healthy Families Virginia's Advisory Council. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Healthy Families America (HFA) Research Practice Network and is a member of the HFA State Leaders Network. In recognition of his career accomplishments, the American Psychological Association honored him with the 1996 Distinguished Contribution to Practice in Community Psychology award.
<p> Joseph Galano's recently edited volume The Healthy Families America Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory, and Practice does an admirable job seeking to bridge the gaps between research knowledge, professional practice and policy regarding the initiative....this book offers numerous tantalizing bits of analysis and thought...Their realistic view of the ...difficulties...is balanced by a set of positive, affirmative recommendations. <p>- Julie Cooper Altman, Ph. D., Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services <p>