Chris Blaber

Ms. Blaber is the Associate Director of the Center for School and Community Health Programs in EDC/HHD. A senior staff member at EDC for over two decades, Ms. Blaber has led a wide array of projects focusing on child and adolescent health and mental health issues. Since 1992, Ms. Blaber has served as Project Director of Teenage Health Teaching Modules, a comprehensive health curriculum for adolescents that addresses substance abuse, mental health, violence prevention, and a host of other health topics. Ms. Blaber also serves as Mental Health Products Lead for the SAMHSA-funded National Center for Mental Health Promotion and Youth Violence Prevention, where she develops materials on issues such as child and adolescent mental health and identifying and implementing evidence-based interventions. Ms. Blaber holds a Master of Education degree with a concentration in health education from Boston University. She is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.