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Grantmakers in Health
The Lloyd Society's founder, Dr. Catherine Gallagher, will take part in the GIH audioconference Improving Outcomes for Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System on Thursday, Nov. 12 at 2PM EST. Click here for more information or to register.

The Cochrane Collaboration
The Society's Founder, Dr. Catherine Gallagher, and Fellow Dr. Stuart Kinner (Burnet Institute, Australia), successfully completed the third phase of Field Registration for the proposed Cochrane Justice Health Field in Singapore at the annual Cochrane Colloquium. The Society hopes to formally launch the Field in February 2010.

National Conference on Correctional Health Care
The Society's CRO, Dr. Adam Dobrin, participated in the annual meeting of the Juvenile Health Committee at the National Conference on Correctional Health Care in Orlando, Florida, where national leaders from the medical, nursing, legal, academic and psychological communities worked to develop Juvenile Standards to guide best practices among health care workers in juveniles facilities.

Strategic Leadership Series
Executive Director Anne Douds and the Chairman of the Board, Doug Douds, are participating in the Strategic Leadership Series in New York for four days, including conferences with the New York City Police Department and Bellevue Hospital.

Lloyd Society Founder Featured at Georgetown Symposium
Dr. Catherine A. Gallagher addressed the Intersection of Juvenile Justice and Poverty symposium held at Georgetown University Law Center on Thursday, March 26. Dr. Gallagher's presentation was titled “The Impact of Health Care for the Juvenile Justice Population.” For more information, click here.

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The Lloyd Society is a qualified non-profit organization pursuant to 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. Contributions made to The Lloyd Society are tax-deductible charitable donations.

Welcome to the The Lloyd Society, a multi-disciplinary non-profit public charity (501(c)(3)) dedicated to providing complex empirical analysis of various problems that impact high-risk children and adolescents. The Lloyd Society capitalizes on the diversity of its members’ professional backgrounds to provide consulting and research services, including original quantitative and qualitative research, policy analysis, experimental design study development and implementation, as well as expert witness services. The Lloyd Society was developed to address gaps in the available research on data-driven means of addressing the many concerns inherent to high-risk adolescents. It has grown to embrace a variety of projects related to the physical and mental health of children, particularly those within the custody of juvenile justice systems.

The Law

Where professional and administra-tive guidelines fail, the courts remain a powerful resource for effecting change. Our legal Fellows draw upon their extensive professional experience at all levels of the judicial process to provide expert analysis and testimony in civil rights and other legal cases, including actions related to illness and injury sustained while in government custody. Beyond essential legal research capabilities, The Lloyd Society provides its clients with state-of-the-art quantitative analysis of all related case and administrative law. This methodology allows us to describe correlates of case success in the current court environment. We also provide empirical support based on our analyses of national data on relevant research that may be intro-duced as supporting evidence.

Governmental Relations

The Lloyd Society has working partnerships with many government agencies here and abroad. Our work includes government product devel-opment, discrete policy research, leadership briefings, assistance with setting policy agendas and serving as liaison in multi-agency projects and contentious negotiations. Our clients and partners rely on us to develop a rigorous research-based platform that can withstand the scrutiny of executive, legislative and judicial review to promote evidence-based change.

Policy

Ideally, all policies should be rational and scientifically based. The Lloyd Society provides the science behind policy action with policy analysis and evaluation. This is best done prior to implementation, but is often con-ducted to assess an existing policy's effectiveness. The Lloyd Society offers many rigorous methodologies for policy evaluation, including primary evaluation through metanal-yses of the scientific literature. Successful acceptance and imple-mentation of a policy depends largely upon public attitude. Our Fellows are expert survey methodol-ogists and can assess public support of a given action or actor. Economic cost analyses are also central to a policy's success, and we can prepare such estimates for our clients.

Outreach & Education

All senior Lloyd Society Fellows and consultants have advanced academic, legal, or medical degrees and hold academic positions. While publication in top-tiered peer-reviewed research journals and presenting talks at meetings of professional organizations remain priorities in our academic outreach, we also heavily promote the use of more mainstream outlets to reach a broader audience. To this end, we have established a partnership with a production company to create a feature-length documentary film based on some of our work. The Lloyd Society also provides guest lecturers and technical support and welcomes opportunities to work directly with communities in need of our services.

Health

The Lloyd Society Fellows are the leading experts in high-risk adolescent health, conducting work on prevention, intervention, and managed care and evaluating risk factors for chronic and acute illnesses, suicide, and other types of premature death. One of our central missions is to provide the research basis for a revamped and evidence-based system of health care for high-risk adolescents, which must acknowledge their unique health needs while accounting for the complexity of the juvenile and legal systems. In cooperation with our senior medical and public health consultants, current projects seek to develop the first algorithm that will streamline and improve health care for these underserved children.

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