Experts Guide

Salinas is an expert on family violence, adverse childhood experiences, maternal and child health and perinatal epidemiology. He serves as the Director of the Harrell Center for the Study of Family Violence in the USF College of Public Health.

Heide is an internationally recognized consultant on adolescent homicide, parricide and family violence. She has evaluated and consulted with attorneys regarding homicide offenders, specifically those who killed parents. As a licensed mental health counselor, she specializes in treating survivors of trauma, including police officers/first responders, adolescents and young adults, adult children of alcoholics and other high stress families, survivors of childhood abuse, sexual abuse and sexual assault.

Stone's research interests include family violence, juvenile delinquency/juvenile justice, youth development, women and crime, human trafficking, public policy and program evaluation.