Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Youth and Families
Committee on Education and the Workforce
Field Hearing
"Preventing Youth Violence and Crime:
The Role of Families, Schools, and Government"

Portage West Middle School
7145 Moorsbridge
Portage, MI
June 21, 1999

WITNESS LIST
Dr. Susan Caulfield
Associate Professor of Sociology
Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI

Mr. Darnell Jackson
Director, Office of Drug Control Policy
Michigan Department of Community Health
Lansing, MI

Dr. Kay Royster
Superintendent, Kalamazoo Public Schools
Kalamazoo, MI

Mr. Bob Ezelle
Executive Director
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo, MI

Ms. Caroline Burgess
Youth Advisory Board
Kalamazoo, MI

Dr. Jay Newman
Superintendent
St. Joseph County Intermediate
School District
Centreville, MI

Pastor Phillip McElhenny
First Assembly Christian School
Portage, MI

Mrs. Patricia Fitton
South Haven, MI