Ivy Jones Turner, an expert in behavioral and mental health promotion and prevention, is an experienced program leader, applied researcher, and evaluator. As an EDC Senior Training & Technical Assistance (TTA) Associate, she works with schools and organizations to design programs and interventions that promote resilience, durable skills, and well-being.

Working with federal, state, community, and school district clients, Ivy incorporates evidence-based practices and the use of lived experience to prevent substance misuse, suicide, youth violence, and bullying. She is currently the TTA Manager for EDC’s Massachusetts Center of Excellence on Problem Gambling Prevention and Regional Lead for SAMHSA’s Strategic Prevention Technical Assistance Center for HHS Regions I and II.

Ivy was the Co-Director of the Center for Strategic Prevention Support and has provided TA to substance misuse prevention providers as part of the Prevention Technology Transfer Center system. She served as Project Director for two mentoring TA projects. For the Center for the Advancement of Mentoring, she directed TA for national, regional and local mentoring programs serving youth populations with a variety of risk profiles. For the Mentoring System-Involved Youth Initiative, she led TA for mentoring programs targeting youth in the juvenile justice and foster care systems.

Before joining EDC, Ivy was City Year’s Deputy Director for Research and Systematic Learning.

Ivy holds an MA in Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and is a certified specialist in prevention and conflict mediation in Massachusetts.