meet the lane county prevention team

C.A. Baskerville, CPS          541.682.3031 

 Program Supervisor & County Prevention Coordinator

Her duties are as varied as the curls in her hair...

C.A. is the countywide prevention coordinator whose responsibility includes managing substance abuse prevention programs and activities for which Lane County H&HS contracts or implements. She works cross-systems, including juvenile crime, early childhood, etc., to help ensure greater coordination of prevention efforts. She also provides project management for contracted prevention programs across the county.

Additionally, C.A. provides staff support and prevention expertise for a variety of programs and efforts across the county. This include staff support to the Mental Health Advisory/Local Alcohol and Drug Planning Committee, the Perinatal Periods of Risk project with Public Health, and has served on the leadership team of Success by Six for the past several years.

C.A. is a certified prevention specialist, a trainer for the Substance Abuse Prevention Specialist Training (SAPST) program and an adjunct faculty for the University of Oregon.

Favorite prevention websites:

•  Center for the Application of Prevention Technologies
•  The Foundation for A Better Life
•  Alcohol Policies Project

Julie Hynes, MA, CPS          541.682.3928

 Certified Prevention Specialist & Prevention Program Webmaster

Julie has coordinated Lane County's problem gambling prevention program since its beginning in 2002. Julie's passion is to help youth, families, and communities make healthy decisions about gambling and other behaviors.

Current roles include: developing & providing interactive presentations, workshops, and original educational tools; researching the latest trends in gambling behavior; facilitating Lane County's problem gambling advisory committee; and designing a variety of prevention program materials.

Julie also develops and manages the prevention program websites, which include this site, Healthy Brain Development site, Problem Gambling Prevention site, and Oregon Problem Gambling Services Prevention site. She is also the administrator of the Problem Gambling Prevention Weblog.

Julie has a background as a registered dietitian, specializing in perinatal services and working with monolingual Spanish speakers. Her hobbies include video games, bike riding, football, and most of all, her kindergartner and baby boy.

Favorite prevention websites:

• Technology in Prevention Blog
• Connected Communities on Ning.com
• Drugfree.org

Monica Langley         541.682.4161 

 Administrative Assistant

Monica began providing her expertise to the Prevention team in December 2006. She has more than fifteen years of administrative experience and enjoys applying her skills and talents to assisting the Prevention team with various tasks, which include organizing the prevention resource library, assisting with various Prevention events  and much more.

Monica enjoys spending time with her family, bike rides, trips to the beach, baking and an occasional hockey game.

Favorite prevention websites:

• Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
• Birth to Three

Sandy Moses, MS         541.682.3650  

 Prevention Specialist

Sandy has worked in various public health capacities for over 20 years and coordinated numerous projects, including the Hennepin County (MN) Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Project, a Perinatal HIV Prevention Project, and the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) and Perinatal Council for a 23-county region in California. 

Positions she has held include: Sr. Health Promotion Specialist for the Hennepin County Human Services and Public Health Dept., Regional Perinatal Coordinator for NE California, Program Specialist for the CA Dept. of Health Services, Training Coordinator for the California Birth Defects Monitoring Program, and Cancer Information Service Director for Minnesota and the Dakotas. 

Sandy organized the 2007 & 2008 Brain Conferences and currently coordinates the Healthy Babies, Healthy Communities Initiative.

Sandy enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, movies, walking, biking, and gardening (when no weeds are involved).

Favorite prevention websites:

• March of Dimes
• National Organization on Fetal Alcohol Syndrome
• SAMHSA Fetal Alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) Center for Excellence
• Zero to Three

Mo Young         541.682.3817 

 Prevention Specialist

Mo has been a resident of Lane County for most of her life.  She is a new addition to Lane County’s prevention team, having transferred from the Department of Children and Families.  Her previous focus was on Positive Youth Development, Youth/Adult Partnerships and the 40 Developmental Assets, all of which will help in her role on the Prevention Team.

Mo has a background in community organizing and human rights.  Her hobbies include: sewing, volunteering in the community and spending time at home with her sweetie and their 3 cats and ball python.

Favorite prevention website:

• Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets