Dr. Alvy is a prolific author of parent training programs and seminars, and books and articles on parent training, child development and child abuse prevention. He has co-written parent training programs for African American and Latino American families, Effective Black Parenting and Los Niños Bien Educados, which are the most widely used culturally-specific programs in the United States. His books include Black Parenting: Strategies for Training, and his articles have appeared on the editorial pages of metropolitan newspapers and in such professional pubications as the American Psychologist and the Journal of Community Psychology.

Dr. Alvy's latest works include the most comprehensive and authoritative book ever written on parent training, Parent Training Today: A Social Necessity. This book contains the knowledge base and strategic plan for effective parenting movements and projects. It is supplemented by a carefully crafted checklist for communities to chart their progress in achieving fully functioning local effective parenting movements and by tape recordings of Dr. Alvy's speeches about the movement. Another recent publication is his guidebook for parents, The Power of Positive Parenting: Ten Guidelines for Raising Healthy and Confident Children.

His expertise as a researcher and scientist has been acknowledged through research and demonstration grants from a variety of federal government agencies and from his being selected to serve on scientific review committees. Dr. Alvy has been a Principal Investigator on research projects sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

Dr. Alvy has also distinguished himself as a creator and supervisor of a variety of community service projects to increase parental effectiveness and reduce child abuse, drug abuse, juvenile delinquency, school failure and gang involvement. Projects that he has designed and directed have gained the support of various state and local funding bodies, and the support of over 75 private foundations and corporations, including the Ford Foundation, AT&T, Xerox, Annenberg, Mattel and GTE.

Dr. Alvy was previously affiliated with Kedren Community Mental Health Center in South Central Los Angeles for seven years where he served as Director of Children's Services, and with the California School of Professional Psychology for 17 years where he was a Professor and Dean for Academic Affairs. He has also taught at other institutions, including UCLA and the California State University at Los Angeles.

Dr. Alvy has received numerous awards for his and CICC's accomplishments in improving the quality of child rearing in America, including being honored in the White House in 1995 as part of the First National Parents' Day Celebration, receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997 from the State University of New York at Albany, where he received his doctorate, and earning the "Illuminating the Way to the New Millennium Award" from the Parenting Coalition International and the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention in 1999.

Dr. Alvy continues to be an advocate for children's rights before government and civic bodies, and to appear on television and radio programs on child, family and parent training issues. He also continues to serve as a consultant on these matters to governmental agencies, corporations, news departments and film and television companies. He draws inspiration and support from his wife, a special education teacher, and their two daughters, with whom he lives in Sherman Oaks, California.

An excellent article about Dr. Alvy from the American Psychological Association can be found at http://www.apa.org/monitor/may96/kerby.html. The article is entitled "A Multicultural Guide to Less Spanking and Yelling."