Karol L. Kumpfer, Ph.D., is an American Indian (Pawnee) psychologist and Professor of Health Promotion at the University of Utah. She is the developer of the Strengthening Families Program (SFP 0 to 17 Years), which includes a universal 7-, or 10-. or 14-session selective and indicated prevention family skills training program that has shown effectiveness in independent studies with families in the USA and 36 countries to improve parenting skills, family relations, improve children’s outcomes and reduce substance abuse in parents and adolescents. She specializes in cross-cultural research and dissemination of evidence-based family strengthening interventions to prevent substance abuse, delinquency, child maltreatment, and improve child outcomes. Until 2000, she served as the Director of the US SAMHSA Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) in Washington, D.C. For 15 years, she also directed the National Institute of Justice OJJDP’s Strengthening America’s Families Initiative to locate and disseminate evidence-based family interventions nationwide. Later she conducted a global search for EBP family interventions for the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) for the Compendium on the UNODC web site and wrote the UNODC (2009) Guide to Implementing Family Skills Training Programmes for Drug Abuse Prevention. In January 2013 she submitted to the UNODC a study of gender outcomes for adolescent substance abuse prevention programs. June 2008, she was awarded the prestigious Community and Cultural Research award by the Society for Prevention Research, that she was also the first woman president of in 1998. She has published and presented widely and internationally. She has served on the Boards of Directors of the Society for Prevention Research, APA’s Presidential Committee, the Indian Walk-in Center, Utah Mental Health Association, Strengthening Families Foundation, and Utah Opera and Symphony Guild and Repertory Dance Theatre.