Background and Experience

Mark worked at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for 8 years. In his role he developed the UCLA Consultation and Response Team—the campus-wide multidisciplinary student behavioral intervention team focused on supporting at-risk students. As the Director of Case Management and the Coordinator of the UCLA Consultation & Response Team, Mark established a case management team that directly supports students in distress, including victims and survivors of sexual violence. He has created key partnerships between psychological services, law enforcement, Student Affairs, Employee Relations and the UCLA Health Care system to successfully address students of concern and those at risk, and students that may pose a threat to themselves or the campus community.

Prior to working at UCLA, Mark worked as a psychotherapist in community mental health, treating child and adolescent victims and survivors of sexual violence at the Joseph J. Peters Institute in Philadelphia, PA as well as juveniles who had committed sexual offenses. In his treatment of juveniles, Mark worked with probation referred youth, assessing for risk of future recidivism and regularly testifying in Juvenile and Family Courts on behalf of his clients. Mark continued this work at the Children’s Crisis Treatment Center in Philadelphia, providing trauma focused therapy to child and adolescent survivors of trauma, victims of crimes, and those experiencing traumatic grief and loss. Mark worked with the clinic treatment team and Philadelphia Courts to implement trauma informed care in this system.

Mark has expertise in violence prevention, risk assessment, threat management, and development of behavioral intervention and crisis response teams. He is available for training and consultation on these topics to schools, universities and businesses.

Topics include:

  • Developing crisis response services and behavioral intervention teams

  • Identifying and responding to students, employees and customers of concern

  • Suicide and violence prevention

  • Post incident response and support

To learn more about trainings offered or case consultation, please visit Trainings Offered and Case Consultation & Support.