Valerie Knowles

Dr. Valerie Knowles is a Bahamian child and adolescent psychologist trained in the Bahamas, Jamaica and New York. She has served as the School Psychologist and Section Head of the Psychological Services Unit in the Ministry of Education; is the former Consultant Psychologist to the Bahamas' Ministry of Health and Social Development's local Juvenile Detention Centers; Past local Psychometric Consultant for the Inter-American Development Bank's Hopedale Project, (an executed grant that secured institutional strengthening and improved service delivery for persons with learning and behavioral challenges); past Executive Director of the Bahamas Family Planning Association; a former Clinical Director at Exodus Village (Male Drug Rehabilitation Centre; Bahamas Association of Social Health); former member of the Juvenile Panel in the Bahamas' Juvenile Court; Previous National Coordinator with the Implementation Fidelity Project (IFP) a collaborative research, HIV prevention effort between the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Health, and Wayne State University via the Focus on Youth Project in the Bahamas; Invited Panelist at the United Nations' 49th Session of CEDAW held at the United Nations' Headquarters in New York; Member of the Bahamas Psychologist Association, American Psychologists Association, National Association of School Psychologist; Graduate of the traditional Government High School, University of the Bahamas, Elmira College in New York, Graduate Professional training with the Faculty of Medical Sciences University of the West Indies Mona Campus, and Northern Caribbean University, Mandeville Jamaica.