Steve Bean joined ETR Associates in August 2000 and leads the Program Development Unit of ETR's Training Department. Steve has more than 12 years of experience in the fields of youth development and experiential education. As a Senior Program Manager, he has led the development of several positive youth development and prevention programs, including Cultures & Communities, a violence prevention program for alternative school youth, the Young Women's Leadership Alliance, an afterschool leadership program for high school girls, Girls Creating Games, an afterschool technology program for middle school girls, and Physical Education for the Body, Mind and Spirit, a physical education program focused on martial arts and yoga for alternative school youth.

Steve received a BA in Political Science from Reed College and an MA in Teaching from the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he was a James Madison Fellow.

Before joining ETR, Steve was a full-time teacher/administrator for The Delta School, a charter high school for severely at-risk students, at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Prior to that, he worked as Member Development Coordinator for the Northwest Service Academy (NWSA), an AmeriCorps program in Portland, Oregon. He spent the nine years prior to joining ETR developing and teaching experiential education programs in areas such as environmental education, leadership and team-building, group decision-making and conflict resolution and date-rape and dating violence prevention.

Regina Firpo-Triplett has been a training specialist and manager for ETR for more than 13 years. With a focus on evidence-based teen pregnancy, HIV and substance abuse prevention, Regina has coordinated state-wide and national prevention projects. She has developed and delivered live trainings and conferences for diverse groups of educators from schools, community based organizations, and juvenile facilities.

Regina was a founder and key writer for the Resource Center for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention (ReCAPP) website. The last few years she has focused on providing high quality skill-based training and support to educators online. She is currently principal investigator on her fourth federally funded innovative research and development grant providing online educator curriculum trainings and support.

Prior to coming to ETR, Regina worked in Los Angeles County as Program Manager for the Juvenile Court AIDS Program and as the Director of Health Education for Juvenile Court Health Services. Regina earned her Masters in Public Health with an emphasis in School and Community Health Education from California State University Northridge.

Regina Firpo-Triplett,
MPH, CHES
Program Director

Orin Johnson, a native of Memphis, Tennessee, currently provides capacity building assistance trainings and technical assistance to community-based, HIV prevention organizations serving predominantly African-Americans throughout the states of Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington and Guam.

Previously, Orin served as the training and technical assistance manager for Community Health Awareness Group, the largest African-American run community-based organization in the state of Michigan. He was also the director of education and technical assistance with Community Health Outreach Workers, Inc. in Detroit. In Minneapolis, he served as the health education manager for the Minnesota AIDS Project for which he headed the HIV prevention programs for Gay/Bi men, as well as the Positive Link Program for HIV positive individuals and the Workplace program designed for minority businesses in the city.

Orin has been involved with HIV education and prevention for the last 10 years in a variety of both paid and volunteer positions from teen health educator and teen buddy to health educator and HIV test counselor. At the same time, he has helped others in the HIV field learn about the disease, its treatment and prevention.

Orin has worked equally well in the academic arena as both student and professor teaching at community colleges and universities for 10 years. His area of expertise is communications related courses, such as public speaking, interpersonal, small group and organizational communication. His academic background in communications strengthens his ability to meet his personal goals toward HIV education and HIV elimination. Orin holds a BS in Journalism and an MA in Organizational Communication Management.

With 28 years of experience as a health education specialist and consultant, Nancy Shanfeld has diverse accomplishments in program planning, implementation and evaluation in the public sector as well as the private nonprofit world.

Earning a Masters Degree in Community Health Education (MSPH) in 1977, Nancy began her career in community health education and has transitioned to adult education and school health education over the past 15 years. During the last 13 years, she has enjoyed working at ETR Associates, where she juggles numerous responsibilities including training, writing, and program coordination.

Nancy Shanfeld,
MSPH, CHES
Health Education Specialist

Julie Taylor has more than 30 years of experience in health and family life education in the public school and college setting, community-based organizations, and with non-profit organizations. She was one of the founding members of ETR Associates and has acted as the Associate Director of Training for 12 years.

In the course of her work at ETR, Julie has worked with over 60% of the school districts in California and over 75% of the state Departments of Education nationwide to adopt, disseminate and/or implement effective programs to reduce sexual risk taking behaviors in young people. In addition, she has developed and disseminated a program to reduce adolescent sexual abuse and has some experience in drug, alcohol and tobacco prevention programs.

Julie has coordinated both statewide and nationwide projects, managed a diverse staff as well as a cadre of consultant trainers who deliver ETR programs. For 12 years she was ETR's Project Director for the CDC-funded Dissemination Project and the Survive Outside Project and served as Project Director for California's HIV Reporting by Non-Name Code statewide training project.

Currently, Julie is the Project Director for a CDC-funded HIV capacity building project for health departments and community-based organizations in the western region of the US. In addition, she is an experienced, professional trainer and facilitator who has developed, coordinated and delivered a wide variety of training programs to thousands of educators and CBOs across the country.

Kay Todd has been a staff member of ETR since it was founded in 1981 and has served as trainer and project coordinator for the California Office of Family Planning Training and Technical Assistance contract for over 20 years. As the project coordinator, she currently coordinates training and technical assistance for state-funded family planning projects throughout California. She is responsible for planning, design, materials development including the development and facilitation of trainings, workshops, conferences, statewide meetings, a youth summit for young men, and providing technical assistance for organizations and their staff.

Kay has trained health educators, teacher and other health professionals from around the United States to deliver pregnancy prevention education, HIV/AIDS prevention education, program planning, and curriculum development and implementation in both classroom and community settings. She assisted in the development and delivery of ETR's National Family Life Education Institutes. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Sacramento State University.

Kay Todd, MSW
Project Coordinator