Community Education Centers (CEC) is committed to providing safe and effective treatment programs for adult and juvenile social services and criminal justice populations throughout the United States. To help ensure the highest quality of these services, CEC participates in research studies of its programs and maintains relationships with professionals in the field of psychology, research and criminal justice. Our ultimate goal is to use the results of outcome studies to continually improve our services.

Community Education Centers is affiliated with Penn State University and Drexel University and is currently in the process of compiling joint research papers in order to evaluate the effectiveness of community corrections programs and CEC programs.

Initiatives are also under way with the New Jersey Department of Corrections, Hahnemann University, Penn State and Brigham Young University to evaluate the short- and longer-term impact of CEC�s interventions on individuals in the criminal justice system.

CEC�s research efforts are coordinated by Dr. Robert Mackey, PhD, Chief Operating Officer of CEC. Below is a list of professionals affiliated with Community Education Centers.

Mr. Mike Denhof
Dr. Ralph Fretz
Dr. Kirk Heilbrun
Mr. Michael Oliver
Dr. Dani Rudkin
Dr. Eric Silver

For additional information regarding CEC's research endeavors, please contact Dr. Robert Mackey.




The following research papers have been converted into PDF files and are available for your information. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat, please click here to download the latest version. You will need it to read the documents.

Outcome Research as an Integral Component of Performance-Based Offender Treatment by Ralph Fretz, Kirk Heilbrum and Devon Brown Download-PDF

Clinical Utility and Policy Implications of a Statewide Community Corrections Treatment Process by Lee Underwood, Debbie Kirkwood and Ralph Fretz. Download-PDF

Reintegrating Substance Abusing Offenders From Prison Into Community Corrections Programs: A Multi-Stage Approach by Lee Underwood, Debbie Kirkwood and Robinette Goins-Arthur. Download-PDF

Performing Incest Validation Assessments by Philip Witt, PhD, Howard Silverman, PhD and Ellen Ciccone Zupkus, PhD. Download-PDF

Assessment Centers of Community Education Centers. Download-PDF

A Decade of Advances in Risk Assessment: Implications for Corrections by Greg M. Kramer and Kirk Heilbrun. Download-PDF

Expert Approaches to Communicating Violence Risk by Kirk Heilbrun, Melanie L. O�Neill, Lisa K. Strohman, Quinten Bowman and Judith Philipson. Download-PDF

Violence Risk: From Prediction to Management by Kirk Heilbrun, PhD. Download-PDF

Correctional Best Practices � Director�s Perspectives by Jack Terhune. Download-PDF

Intervention Implications for Reducing Risk of Post-Release Inmates: "Walking Away" from Community Correctional Placements by Barbara Mrozoski, Ralph Fretz, PhD, Eric Silver, PhD, Keri Burchfield, MS, Robert Mackey, Michael Oliver, MHS and Kirk Heilbrun, PhD. Download-PDF