Adele Roth, MS

Research Associate, Co-Director

Durham Family Initiative

Duke University Center, Child and Family Policy

G3 BUILDING PREVENTION SYSTEMS: A PROMISING ALTERNATIVE TO “PROGRAMMING” OUR WAY TO PREVENTION

Adele Spitz Roth serves as the Co-Director of Durham Family Initiative (DFI), a comprehensive, community-based child maltreatment prevention program at Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy. Adele brings over twenty years of experience in systems and capacity development at the community and state level, including program management, infrastructure development, and policy development in health and human services delivery systems. 

In her role as Co-Director of DFI, Adele has focused on systems change and community capacity building.  One crucial component has been to build and maintain collaboration among key county government leaders and child serving agency directors to work towards improved outcomes for children

Adele also serves as co-evaluator of NC Division of Social Services’ initial and continuous implementation of NC Multiple Response System and the federally funded “Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care”. She also serves on several state-level policy forums including Child Maltreatment Prevention Leadership Team and Children’s Services Workgroup that have influenced the way ‘business is done’ across the state to achieve.