Jenny Stern-Carusone is an EDC Senior Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) Associate, prevention expert, and experienced project leader. For over 20 years, she has designed and provided highly effective TTA to support state agencies, tribal governments, Veteran organizations, community-based organizations, schools, and juvenile justice departments in improving prevention strategies and service delivery.  She specializes in evidence-based quality improvement, data-driven decision making, and systems improvement. She is a subject matter expert in injury and violence prevention, youth mentoring, motor vehicle traffic safety, and suicide prevention.

As Associate Director of the Children’s Safety Network at EDC, Jenny builds the capacity of states and jurisdictions to use data and effective strategies to reduce injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency department visits. This includes leading the Child Safety Learning Collaborative, a five-year project supporting Title V agencies nationally in using continuous quality improvement to address high-priority child safety issues. As a Senior TTA Provider for Safeguard Veterans, she is part of a feasibility study testing comprehensive suicide prevention for Veterans. In all of her work, she customizes TTA approaches to address clientele’s unique needs.

Jenny is the 2026 recipient of the Safe States Injury and Violence Prevention Achievement Award and a member of the National Safety Council Pediatric Vehicular Heatstroke Taskforce. She recently co-authored an article in Injury Prevention and a new white paper, and frequently presents her insights at national conferences.

Jenny holds an MSW from Portland State University.