The parenting education programs and seminars that Dr. Alvy has authored and co-authored include the CICC’s trio of national model programs: Confident Parenting: Survival Skill Training, Effective Black Parenting and Los Niños Bien Educados. The latter two programs have become the most widely used culturally-specific parenting skill-building programs in the United States.

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, as well as being Principal Investigator on the research project funded by the First 5 LA Proposition 10 Commission to further validate The CICC Discovery Tool.

Dr. Alvy has also distinguished himself as a creator and director of numerous 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, Verizon and Hearst.

Dr. Alvy was previously affiliated with Kedren Community Mental Health Center in the Watts area of Los Angeles for seven years where he served as Director of Children's Services, and with the Los Angeles Campus of 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, the California State University at Los Angeles, and the State University at Albany.

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 Parent's Day Celebration, receiving the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1997 from the State University of New York at Albany, where he received his doctorate in Psychology, 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 and speaker/guest on these matters to community groups, governmental agencies, corporations, news departments and film and television companies. He draws inspiration and support from his wife, Mary, a special education and kindergarten teacher, and their two daughters, Lisa and Brittany. Dr. Alvy now has his own website to facilitate his consulting and speaking (http://www.dralvy.com) and his own Web Log (http://www.educatedparenting.com)

	Alvy Family Photo: Daughter Lisa, Dr. Alvy, wife Mary, and daughter Brittany, 25th Wedding Anniversary Celebration, Beverly Hills Hotel, 2005.

	President Clinton congratulating Dr. Alvy for an Award for Enhancing the Status of Parents, National Parents Day, Oval Office, Washington, DC, 1995.