Dr. Flannery has focused her career on improving the lives of children, studying how people change and designing and implementing interventions to help them do so. Dr. Flannery came to the Center for Community Health in January of 2004 following twenty years of leadership in the non-profit and social enterprise worlds. For the ten previous years she served as founder and Executive Director of Juma Ventures, an $8-million enterprise that employs at-risk San Francisco youth in eight profitable businesses. Dr. Flannery designed and continually retooled the organization and its programs to meet the needs of its young employees, offering on-site nutrition and health education, matched savings accounts, and other innovations.

Juma Ventures was born of Dr. Flannery’s experience as Executive Director of San Francisco’s Larkin Street Services, where she worked with homeless teenagers who were trading sex for goods, living on junk food, and struggling with family relationships. Before her move to San Francisco, Dr. Flannery served as Director of Family Services for the Brooklyn Psychosocial Rehabilitation Institute, where she designed programs and support groups for parents with problem adolescents. She also designed and ran programs for children leaving prostitution for Nassau County, New York.

Dr. Flannery has received awards from the U.S. Department of Labor, the San Francisco Foundation, and President Bush’s 1000 Points of Light. Her projects have been funded by the James Irvine Foundation, the Charles & Helen Schwab Foundation, the Walter Hass, Jr. Foundation, and the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

Selected Publications:

Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Flannery, D., Rice, E., & Lester, P. (in press). Families living with HIV. AIDS Care.

Elkavich, A., Rotheram-Borus, M. J., Goldstein, R., Flannery, D., & Jones, P. (2005). Health, mental health, and transmission acts among young people living with HIV. In: Kalichman, S., Ed., Positive Prevention: HIV Prevention for People Living with HIV-AIDS. New York, NY: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.

Rotheram-Borus M.J., Duan N., & Flannery, D. (2004). Interventions that are CURRES: Cost-effective, Useful, Realistic, Robust, Evolving, and Sustainable. In: Remschmidt, H., Belfer, M.L., & Goodyer, I., Eds. Facilitating Pathways: Care, Treatment, and Prevention in Child and Adolescent Mental Health. Heidelberg, Germany: Springer-Verlag Telos.

Rotheram-Borus, M.J., Flannery, D., Lester, P., & Rice, E. (2004). Prevention for HIV-positive families. JAIDS, 37(Supp2), S133-S134.

Flannery, D. , & Deiglmeier, K. (2000). Leading the social purpose enterprise: an examination of organizational culture. In: Social Purpose Enterprises and Venture Philanthropy in the New Millennium. San Francisco, CA: Roberts Enterprise Development Fund.

Flannery, D. , & Deiglmeier, K. (2000). Managing the social purpose enterprise. In: Social Purpose Enterprises and Venture Philanthropy in the New Millenium. San Francisco, CA: Roberts Enterprise Development Fund.

Flannery, D. (2000). Understanding different interpretations of corporate social responsibility in the United States. Business Students Focus on Ethics, 8, 47-59.

Flannery, D. (1997). Toward a theory of corporate socially responsible images: impression management and corporate social performance. Doctoral dissertation.

Flannery, D. (1987). Services for the Adult Psychiatric Client in the Greater New York Area. Brooklyn, NY: Brooklyn Psychosocial Rehabilitation Institute.

Flannery, D. , & Link, I. (1986). A model comprehensive family program for relatives of adult schizophrenics. Psychosocial Rehabilitation Journal, 9(3), 15-24.