Joy Dryfoos

Curriculum Vitae Summary

Current Occupation

Independent researcher, writer and lecturer.

Major projects:

  1. Promoting “Full-service community schools”: tracking development of new models for school/community collaboration. Resulting in Inside Full-Service Community Schools: Vision and Reality (Corwin Press, 2002), with Sue Maguire, Principal of Molly Stark Elementary School. Community Schools in Action (Oxford University Press, 2005) with Jane Quinn, Co-editor.

  2. “Developing a Strategy for Adolescents-at-Risk”, a research effort to design community, state and federal strategies to improve the quality of life for disadvantaged youth. Specific risk areas include early childbearing, substance abuse, school failure and dropout, delinquency and depression. This work was supported by the Carnegie Corporation from 1984 to 2002. Resulted in over 100 articles and four books: Adolescents-at-Risk: Prevalence and Prevention (Oxford University Press, 1990). 1989-1991 project involved tracking Youth-at-Risk initiatives in communities and states. 1992-1993 project focused on school-community programs; Full Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families (Jossey-Bass, 1994). 1994-95 project: update on adolescents-at-risk. 1995-98: Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in a High Risk Society (Oxford University Press, 1998) 1999-2001; Current work Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today (Oxford University Press, August 2006).

  3. Plainfield (N.J.) High School Study: Transitions that have taken place in a typical American high school since 1870 in terms of the structure and organization of the school (curriculum, tracking, discipline, staffing, financing, outcomes) and look at how these trends are influenced by changes in race and social class. The William T. Grant supported the initial stages of this endeavor.

Consultancies:

C.S. Mott, Dewitt Wallace-Readers Digest, Fund for the City of New York, Kansas Health, Stillman, Wilder, Open Society, and Wellness foundations; Proposal review for Grant, Carnegie, Robert Wood Johnson, Educational Foundation of America.

Advisory Committees, Panels and Boards

Advisory Committees: Family Support America; Achievement Plus, Wilder Foundation; Academy for Educational Development; New York State Department of Health Robert Wood Johnson School-based Services Project; Philip Morris USA Youth Project; New Jersey School-Based Youth Centers Evaluation; Urban Institute-Robert Wood Johnson School Based Clinic Prevention Task Force; University of Kansas Pregnancy Prevention; Public Private Ventures Extended School Evaluation.

Steering Committee, Boston Roundtable for Full Service Schools, Appointed 2004.

Consultant, Children's Aid Society and Prudential Foundation, Documentation of Quitman Community School, Newark, New Jersey, 2001 to present.

Senior Consultant, Public Education Network, Chair of Taskforce on School Community Partnerships, Appointed 2001.

Steering Committee, Coalition for Community Schools, Appointed 1999.

Committee on Comprehensive School Health, Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1994 -1996.

Trustee and Vice-President, Milton Eisenhower Foundation, 1991-2001.

Panel on High Risk Youth, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1989-1993.

Task Force on Youth Development and Community Programs, Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development of the Carnegie Corporation, 1990-1993.

Panel on Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing, National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences, 1985-1987.

Editorial Board, Journal of Adolescent Health, 1992-1998.

Editorial Board, American Journal of Public Health, 1986-1992.

Task Force on Education and High Risk Youth, New York State Board of Regents, 1987-1989.

Center Associate and Research Advisory Committee, Girls Inc.

Honors

Recipient: Irving Cushner Award from National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Assocation, 1990 Annual Meeting in Washington.

Recipient: Carl Shultz Award from Population and Family Planning Section, American Public Health Association, 1992 Annual Meeting in Washington.

Gallagher Lecture: Society for Adolescent Medicine, 1998 Annual Meeting in Atlanta.

Sophie Smith Collection of Women's History Manuscripts at Smith College: the Joy G. Dryfoos Papers were entered into collection in 2001.

Recipient: Charles Loring Brace Award, at 2001 Annual Meeting, Children's Aid Society, New York, October 18, 2001.

Hall of Fame, Plainfield (New Jersey) High School, 2003.

Honored by Coalition for Community Schools, 2005.

Manley Lecture, National Community Education Association, 2005.

Recent Publications, Major Presentations, Films

Books:

Putting Boys in the Picture: A Review of Programs to Promote Sexual Responsibility Among Male Adolescents, Santa Cruz, CA: Network Publications, 1988.

Adolescents-at-Risk: Prevalence and Prevention, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Full Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1994.

Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in a Risky Society, New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Inside Full-Service Community Schools, with Sue Maguire, Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2002.

Community Schools in Action: Lessons from a Decade of Practice, editor, with Jane Quinn Carol Barkin, New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Adolesence: Growing Up in America Today, New York: Oxford University Press, August 2006.

Papers:

“A Tale of One City - White Flight and a Failing School System,” Education Week, March 30, 2005.

“Interventions in Schools in the USA,” Enhancing the Well Being of Children and Families through Effective Interventions—UK and USA Evidence for Practice, Colette McAuley, Peter Pecora, and Wendy Rose, Editors. Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, London and Philadelphia (in press).

“The Effects of Health and Social Welfare Factors on Literacy Development in Urban Schools.” James Flood and Patty Anders, Editors, Literacy Development in Urban Schools, Urban Partnership, 2005.

“A Full-Service Community School,” in Promising Practices to Connect Schools With the Community, Diana Michael, Editor, Vol. in Family School Community Partnership Issues, Greenwich CT: Information Age Publishers, 2003.

“Comprehensive Schools” in M Walsh, M Brabeck, and R. Latta, Meeting the Hyphen: Schools-Universities-Communities-Professions in Collaboration for Student Achievement and WellBeing, Yearbook of National Society for the Study of Education on Interprofessional Collaboration and Comprehensive School Services, 2003.

“Never Retire” in A. Radosh & N. Bauer-Maglin (eds), Confronting Retirement: A Non-Traditional How-To and How-Not-To Guide for Women, New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2003.

“Full-Service Community Schools; Creating New Institutions” KAPPAN, Jan. 2002. Vol 83:5, 393-399.

“Full-Service Community Schools: An Inclusive Concept” in Reclaiming Children and Youth, Fall 2002.

“Foreword” in Building a Community School, Children's Aid Society, New York, 2001.

“Foreword” in J. Veale, R. Morley & C. Erickson, Practical Evaluation for Collaborative Services, Thousand Oaks, CA, Corwin Press, 2001.

“Evaluation of Community Schools: An Early Look,” Coalition for Community Schools Web site (www.communityschools.com), 2000. Indexed in ERIC: UD034026 at edrs.com.

“The Mind-Body-Building Equation,” Educational Leadership, March 2000 pp 14-17.

“A Grandmother's Rhetoric,” PPFY Network (Theme Issue on Preventing Teen Pregnancy in the New Millennium: Implications for Policy and Practice) Vol. 2. No. 4: 1, December 1999.

“Full Service Community Schools”, New Designs for Youth Development, Vol. 15, and No. 4: 40-42, 1999.

“Full Service Community Schools: Integration of Mind, Body, and Building” in R. Kronick, Human Services and the Full Service School: The Need for Collaboration, Charles Thomas Publishers, 2000.

“Full Service Community Schools”, Blueprint, 1999.

“The Role of School in Children's Out-of-School Time” in M. Larner (ed.) The Future of Children: When School is Out, Vol. 9 No. 1, 1999.

With Andrea S. Taylor “Creating a Safe Passage: Elder Mentors and Vulnerable Youth”, Generations (Special Issue on Intergenerational Strategies) Vol XXII No.4 43-48, Winter 1998-1999.

“Involving Schools in Teen Pregnancy Prevention”, in Get Organized: A Guide to Preventing Teen Pregnancy, Washington DC: The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, 1999.

“Message for the Millennium” Column, Youth Today, December 1999.

“21st Century Potential” Column, Youth Today, October 1999.

“Lessons from Littleton” Column, Youth Today, June 1999.

“Liberate the Teachers”, Column, Youth Today, April 1999.

“Challenging the Affluent”, Column, Youth Today, December 1998.

“Do Parents Matter?” Column, Youth Today, October 1998.

“Carving Up the Kids” Column, Youth Today, September 1998.

“The Rise of the Full-Service Community School” The High School Magazine, Vol. 6 No. 2 38-42 October 1998.

“Thirty Years in Pursuit of the Magic Bullet”, Journal of Adolescent Health, 23:6:338-343, 1998.

Safe Passage Monograph adapted from book, North Central Education Research Laboratory (NCREL), 1998.

“Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in A Risky Society” PPFY Network, Vol. 1 No. 1, Sept. 1998.

“School-Based Health Centers in the Context of Educational Reform,” Journal of School Health, Special Issue: Alliances and School-Based Health Care. Dec. 1998, 404-408. Condensed as “School-Based Health Centers and Education Reform,” Education Digest 1999 Vol. 64 No. 7 65-68.

“School-based Health and Social Service Centers,” in T. Gullotta (ed.), Child and Family Health Care: Issues for the Year 2000 and Beyond, Sage, 1999.

“Viewpoint: Intensive Intervention Needed” Youth Today, 7:1 p.29, 1998.

A Look at Community Schools in 1998, Fordham University: National Center for Schools and Communities, Occasional Paper 2, 1998. Eric ED 423 034 PS 026 748.

“National Community Schools Strategy”, prepared for First Summit on Community Schools, May, 1997.

“Young Adolescents Need Adults to Take a More Active Role” interview in Community Youth Roles National Helpers Network Inc 3:3 Fall 1997.

“School-Based Services: Exemplary Program Models” in R. Illback, ed., Integrated Services for Children and Families: Opportunities for Psychological Practice. Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1997.

“Young Adults Need to Take More Responsiblity”, Interview, Insight, National Helpers Network, Fall, 1997.

“Cloning Charismatic Leaders”, Youth Today, 1997.

“New Approaches to the Organization of Health and Social Services in Schools”, Schools and Health: Our Nation's Investment, Appendix D. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, Report of Committee on School Health, Academy of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, 1997.

“The Prevalence of Problem Behaviors: Implications for Programs”, in R. Weissberg, T. Gullotta, R. Hampton, B. Ryan, and G. Adams (eds.) Healthy Children 2010: Enhancing Children's Wellness. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 17-46, 1997.

With C. Brindis and D. Kaplan, “Research and Evaluation in School-Based Health Care”, in L. Juszczak and M. Fisher, Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art. Health Care in Schools, Philadelphia, PA: Hanley & Belfus, 1996.

“Full Service Schools,” Educational Leadership, April, 1996.

“Adolescents at Risk: Shaping Programs to Fit the Need.” In L. Anderson and H. Walberg (eds.), Journal of Negro Education. Special issue on Coordinated Children's Services, Vol. 65, No. 1, Winter 1996.

“Collaborating to Make a Difference”, CITYSCHOOLS, 1996.

“From Where I Sit”, Family Life Educator, December 1995.

“Full Service Schools” in The Challenge of Parenting in the '90s, Washington, D.C.: Aspen Institute, 1995.

“Foreword” in R. Lerner, America's Youth in Crisis: Challenges and Options for Programs and Policies, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1995.

“Foreword” in J. Lindsay, Teenage Couples: Caring Commitment and Change, Buena Park, Ca.: Morning Glory Press, 1995.

“New Frontiers in School Health Services,” Current Issues in Public Health, 1:1, 1995.

“Theme Issue: Messages”, PSAY Network, Vol.3. No.1: 1, 11-12, 1995.

“Full Service Schools: Revolution or Fad?” Journal of Research on Adolescence, 5:2, 1995. Reprinted in R. Lerner (ed.) Adolescence: Development, Diversity and Context, Hampden, Ct.: Garland Press, 1999.

“Full Service Schools: Schools and Community-based Organizations Finally Get Together to Address the Crisis in Disadvantaged Communities.” Paper presented at 1995 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, CA. April 22, 1995. Disseminated through Resources in Education ERIC #EA 026 919.

“Medical Clinics in Junior High School: Changing the Model to Meet Demands.” Journal of Adolescent Health, 17.7:449-557, 1994.

“Effective Prevention Strategies: What's Working?” Prevention Strategies for Teen Pregnancy: Unlocking the Policy Dilemma. Pasadena, CA: Symposium Proceedings, Adolescent Pregnancy ChildWatch, 1994.

“School-Linked Comprehensive Services for Adolescents,” Paper prepared for Invitational Conference sponsored by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement of the U.S. Dept. of Education, et al. September 28-October 2, 1994, to be published in conference report.

“Adolescent Fertility: A Valid World Population Concern?” PSAY Network Vol 2:2, 3-4, June 1994.

“Under One Roof”, American School Board Journal, 181:8 28-31, 1994.

“Full Service Schools” Harvard Education Letter Spring 1994.

“Full Service Schools: Conceptualizing New Institutions,” News and Issues, NY: National Center for Children in Poverty, Winter/Spring 1994.

“Full Service Schools: What They Are and How to Get to Be One”, NASSP Bulletin, December:29-35, 1993.

“Beware the Social Skills Gurus,” Youth Today, March/April, 1993.

“What Works: Putting the Pieces Together,” Successful Youth Development: Building Resiliency, Washington DC: Center for Substance Abuse Prevention and National Assembly for Youth, Proceedings of Issue Forum, February 12, 1993.

“A Decade of Denial and My Home Town,” Family Life Educator, Spring 1993.

“Lessons from Evaluation of Prevention Programs,” Prevention Evaluation Report, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, 1:1 2-4, 1993.

“Preventing Substance Abuse: Rethinking Strategies,” Editorial, American Journal of Public Health, 83:6 793-795, 1993.

“School as a Place for Health, Mental Health and Social Service Centers,” Teachers College Record, Spring, 1993. Reprinted in R. Takanishi (ed.) Adolescence in the 1990s: Risk and Opportunity. New York: Teachers College Press, 1993.

“Common Components of Successful Interventions for High Risk Youth,” in N. Bell and R. Bell (eds.) Perspectives on Adolescent Risk Taking, Newbury Park CA, Sage Press, 1993.

“Adolescent Preventive Health Issues: A More Complex View,” Newsletter, Society for Adolescent Medicine, Vol 3:1 1-3, 1992.

“Pregnancy Prevention All Over Again,” TEC NETWORKS Newsletter, Summer, 1992.

“Bound and Gagged: America's Family Planning Network”, Journal of American Health Policy, January, 1992.

“Involving Parents in Their Adolescents' Health: A Role for School Clinics,” Editorial. J. Dryfoos and J. Santelli, Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 13:4 259-260, 1992.

“School and Community-Based Prevention Programs”, in S. Coupey and L. Klerman (eds) Adolescent Medicine: State of the Art Reviews. Adolescent Sexuality: Preventing Unhealthy Consequences, Philadelphia: Hanley and Belfus, 3:2 241-256, 1992.v

“The Determinants of Early Childbearing and Other Risk Behaviors: Framework for A Prevention Strategy” in L. Lipsett and L. Mitnick (Eds.), Self Regulation, Impulsivity, and Risk-Taking Behavior: Causes and Consequences Norwood, NJ: Albex Publishing, 1991.

“Fighting Neglect of Adolescent Needs”, Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 1991.

“The Changing Population of Hastings: A Look at Census Returns,” Hastings Historian, Fall, 1991.

“Males: What to Do About 'Em.” TEC NETWORKS Newsletter, June 1991.

“Pregnancy Prevention and Condom Distribution: Schools and Community Agencies”, Report to Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, New York City, 1991.

“Adolescents at Risk: A Summation of Work in the Field: Programs and Policies”, in D. Rogers and E. Ginsberg (ed.) Adolescents at Risk: Medical and Social Perspectives, Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1992. Reprinted in Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 12:8 630-637, 1991.

“School-based Social and Health Service Programs for At-Risk Students”, Urban Education, 1991.

“Preventing High Risk Behavior” Editorial. American Journal of Public Health, 81:2. 1991.

“Youth-at-Risk: Prevention Cannot Wait”, Health Affairs, June 1990.

“Community Schools: New Institutional Arrangements for Preventing High Risk Behavior”, Family Life Educator, Spring 1990.

“The Achievement Train: Can High-Risk Children Get on Board?” Harvard Education Letter, VI:1-4, 1990.

“In Response: Eighty Years of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention.” Grantmakers, 4:1, 1990.

“Family Planning and the Future of American Families: A Strategy for the Coming Decade,” with Richard Sorian, Washington DC: National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association, 1990.

“A Review of Interventions to Prevent Pregnancy,” in Stiffman, A and Feldman, R (eds.), Advances in Adolescent Mental Health, Vol IV: Childbearing and Childrearing. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1989.

“What President Bush Can Do About Family Planning”, American Journal of Public Health, Editorial, 79-6, 1989.

“Schools Get in the Act: Pregnancy Prevention and Public Education,” Equal Play, Fall, 1988.

“Family Planning Programs - A Story of Growth and Conflict”, Family Planning Perspectives, 20th Anniversary Issue. 20:6, 1988.

“School-based Clinics: Three Years of Experience,” Family Planning Perspectives, 20:4, 1988.

“Using Existing Research to Design Comprehensive Pregnancy Prevention Programs,” Family Perspectives, 22:3, 1988.

“Substance Abuse and Youth at Risk: An Interview with Joy Dryfoos,” The State Board Connection: Issues in Brief, 7:6, 1988.

“School-Based Clinics: Their Role in Helping Students Meet the 1990 Objectives,” Health Education Quarterly, 15:1, 1988 with Lorraine Klerman.

“School-Based Clinics,” In: H. Wallace, G. Ryan and A. Oglesby, Maternal and Child Health Practices, Oakland, CA: Third Party Press. 1988

“Whither Family Planning,” American Journal of Public Health, Editorial, 77:11, 1987.

“School Systems Take on Pregnancy Prevention.” The School Administrator, Sept., 1986.

“Research: What We Know,” Preventing Adolescent Pregnancy: A Symposium for Journalists, Scientists Institute for Public Information, May, 1986.

“Hispanic Adolescent Fertility,” Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1986 (Katherine Darabi, Joy Dryfoos and Dana Schwartz).

“Developing a New Strategy for Pregnancy Prevention in the U.S.,” Proceedings of the First International Meeting on Sexual and Reproductive Health of Adolescents, Demographic Academy of Mexico, 1986.

“A Time For New Thinking About Teenage Pregnancy,” American Journal of Public Health, 75:1, 1985.

(Full bibliography includes over 100 published journal articles, 1969-2000.)

Book chapters:

Included in: Annual Edition: Human Sexuality, 1987; Adolescent Reproductive Health Care: Handbook for the Health Professional, 1984; Maternal and Child Health Practice: Problems, Resources and Methods of Delivery, 1982; Pregnancy in Adolescence: Need, Problems and Management, 1982; International Encyclopedia of Population, 1982; Perspectives on Adolescent Pregnancy, 1980 (and five other volumes).

Publications of the Alan Guttmacher Institute:

Teenage Pregnancy: The Problem That Hasn't Gone Away, 1981 (with Richard Lincoln). Factbook on Teenage Pregnancy, Tables and References, 1981 (with Nancy Bourque-Scholl).

“Estimating the Number of Women at Risk of Unintended Pregnancy.” the formula used from 1969 to present for estimating the need for family planning. (four articles). Plans: family planning services, 12 communities, 2 states, 1970-71.

Major Presentations:

Recent: Judge Baker Children's Center Academic Teaching Conference; Coalition for Community Schools in Chicago: National Community Education Association, Keynote speaker in 1993-2001: Public Library Association; American Library Association; South Carolina State Mental Health Conference; Hartman Conference in New London; Community School District 15, New York City; Community Schools, University of Tennessee at Knoxville; From Pilot to Policy, San Francisco; Full Service Schools, Harvard Graduate School of Education (two years); Gallagher Lecture, Society for Adolescent Medicine; National Community School Summit; Girls Inc.; Iowa Department of Education; National 4H; Michigan Department of Health; Aspen Institute Conference for Legislators; International Conference on Youth; Ounce of Prevention; National Health Policy Forum; National Assembly on School-Based Health Services; National Conference of State Legislators; General Federation of Women's Clubs; Family Impact Seminar; Southern Governors Conference on Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention; Pennsylvania State University PRIDE Conference; Office of Substance Abuse National Conference; National Institute on Drug Abuse Research Conference; Youth at Risk Conferences: University of South Carolina, States of Idaho, Kansas, Connecticut, Missouri Department of Education; National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association; Louisiana Legislative Briefing on Adolescent Health Policy; National Association on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting; National Governors Association.

Films:

Today's Life Choices: Challenges of Our Times, 1995 (Notre Dame Univ.)
1001 Future Risk: The Impact of Violence on Children
1002: Future Risk: Society's Problems in Children's Lives

Open Mind Television show with Richard Heffner, September, 1998

Academic Appointments

Adjunct Lecturer, Harvard School of Education.
Adjunct Professor, Columbia University, School of Public Health.

Seminars at Heller School of Brandeis University, University of Michigan School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Sarah Lawrence College, Harvard University School of Public Health, Texas Tech University (Lubbock), Indiana University in Bloomington, University of Virginia in Charlottesville, University of Pittsburgh.

Background

Director of Research and Planning, Fellow, Consultant, Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1969-1981
Research Associate, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, 1967-1968
Research Associate, National Commission on Community Health Services at Sarah Lawrence College, 1964-1966
Research Associate, Research, Writing and Editing Associates, 1960-1966
Community Organizer, Board of Education, Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, 1959-1960

Education:

Antioch College, B.A. Sociology, 1951
Sarah Lawrence College, M.A. Urban Sociology, 1966

Biographical Summary:

Joy G. Dryfoos is an unaffiliated researcher, writer and lecturer in Brookline, Massachusetts. She received support from the Carnegie Corporation from 1984-2001 for a long-term “youth-at-risk” project with a focus on four fields: substance abuse, delinquency, school failure, and teen pregnancy. In addition to more than 100 published articles and book chapters, Dryfoos has written six major books: Adolescents-at-Risk: Prevalence and Prevention, (Oxford 1990) presents strategies for developing more comprehensive programs at the community, state, and federal levels. Full Service Schools: A Revolution in Health and Social Services for Children, Youth, and Families (Jossey Bass 1994) documents the proliferation of school-based youth and family resource centers. Safe Passage: Making it Through Adolescence in a Risky Society (Oxford 1998) shows how families, schools, and communities can insure that adolescents grow into responsible adults and presents her vision of a full service community school. Co-authored by Sue Maguire, principal of an elementary school, Inside Full-Service Community Schools (Corwin 2002) provides further documentation of the emergence and impact of community schools and other school/community partnerships. Community Schools in Action: A Decade of Practice, editor with Jane Quinn (Oxford 2005) documents the work of the Children's Aid Society. Adolescence: Growing Up in America Today (Oxford August 2006) presents the latest research on high risk behaviors and interventions that work for prevention.

Dryfoos is a consultant to foundations including the Kansas Health Foundation, Grant, Wallace-Reader's Digest, Wilder, Skillman, and Open Society. She is a senior consultant to the Public Education Network on their Annenberg supported schools and community partnerships initiative. She is a founder and advisor to the Coalition for Community Schools and on the steering committee of the Boston Roundtable for Full Service Schools. She has served on the Committee on Comprehensive School Health of the Institute of Medicine, the Panels on High Risk Youth and Adolescent Pregnancy of the National Academy of Sciences, and Carnegie Task Force on Youth Development and Community Programs.

Dryfoos was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attended Antioch College (BA 1951) and Sarah Lawrence College (MA Urban Sociology 1967). She is Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Public Health. She has one son, Paul Dryfoos, his wife Cindy, and two grandchildren, Amy and Rose.