Jeanne Knopf DeRoche, MA, CPC

Jeanne Knopf DeRoche is the founding principal of The Knopf Company, Inc., a Plymouth, Michigan training and consulting firm specializing in substance abuse prevention. Her consulting and training expertise is in the development and implementation of high-risk programs for students and families, chemical dependency treatment and substance abuse, tobacco and violence prevention programs for health care, education and business organizations.

At The Knopf Company, Ms. Knopf DeRoche conducts training programs for client organizations throughout the state of Michigan. Training programs include the "Conflict Resolution Curriculum Training Program", "Peer Mediation Train-the-Trainer Program", "Peer Mediation Student Training", "Violence Prevention Policies and Strategies", "Conflict Resolution for School Support Staff", "Educational Support Group Training Program", "ParentPlus", "Drug-affected Children", and "The Drug Matrix - Individuals, Families and Organizations".

For the past 25 years, Ms. Knopf DeRoche has managed the Substance Abuse Prevention and Training efforts in Out-Wayne and Monroe Counties, under contract with Southeastern Michigan Community Alliance, the local coordinating agency for the Bureau of Substance Abuse & Addiction Services. Currently Ms. Knopf DeRoche manages the tobacco prevention efforts as the coordinating Designated Youth Tobacco Use Representative.

As a student assistance program and substance abuse curriculum consultant, Ms. Knopf DeRoche has trained professional educators, student assistance specialists and social workers on substance abuse, tobacco, violence prevention, drug-exposed children and other topics. Ms. Knopf DeRoche has conducted trainings in Hawaii, Minnesota, Montana, Washington, D.C and the Province of Alberta and the Northwest Territories in Canada. As an international speaker, she has expertise in the areas of family dynamics, high-risk children, alcohol and other drug treatment and prevention as well as parenting.

For more than two years, Ms. Knopf DeRoche directed the substance abuse treatment and education programs for W. J. Maxey Training School in Whitmore Lake, Michigan; Arbor Heights Community Placement Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan; and the Substance Abuse Aftercare Program in Wayne, Genesee, Saginaw and Kent Counties, as contracted with the Michigan Department of Social Services, Office of Children and Youth Services.

Additionally, Ms. Knopf DeRoche evaluated chemical dependency treatment programs and developed a strategic development plan for a major hospital and has designed intensive outpatient treatment models for several chemical dependency treatment programs.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche has been a management and training consultant for a number of large federal agencies in Washington, D.C., including U.S. Department of State, U.S. Information Agency, Agency for International Development, and Peace Corps, where she designed and conducted training for personnel administrators and specialists in career counseling and assignments planning. The lead trainer for a training-of-trainers conference for Employee Assistance Plan Representatives and the pre-retirement planning program for UAW-Ford, she also trained their Life/Education Advisors in counseling skills.

Prior to establishing The Knopf Company in 1984, Ms. Knopf DeRoche was a management employee of Henry Ford Hospital, where she designed and directed the family-intensive outpatient program at the hospital's Fairlane Center in Dearborn, Michigan, and designed the family therapy component at Maplegrove Alcohol Treatment Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan. Additionally Ms. Knopf DeRoche operated a private counseling practice.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche is the principal author of Paper People, a school-based substance abuse prevention program for elementary-age children. This program is used in numerous preschools and elementary schools across the state, as well as in second grades in the New York City school district. Ms. Knopf DeRoche authored Children in Focus, an eight-session program for children at risk in chemically dependent families, and the Peer Mediation Program Manual, a program for implementing peer mediation at the elementary, middle and high school levels. She is co-author of the Conflict Resolution Curriculum Guide, an eight-session curriculum for implementing a school-based conflict management program; Educational Support Groups Curriculum Guide, which contains six eight-session curricula for conducting educational support groups in schools or agencies; ParentPlus, an eight-session parent education program for high risk families; and Design and Development of a Student Assistance Program, a "Train-the-Trainer" program for student assistance professionals.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche served as the chairperson of the Tobacco-Free Michigan Action Coalition (TFMAC), a statewide advocacy and information organization whose goal is to initiate a tobacco policy to protect Michigan citizens from tobacco and secondhand smoke. Ms. Knopf DeRoche volunteered for the American Heart Association for the Coalition of "Smoking OR Health" and served as the founding president of the Wayne County (MI) Smoking and Tobacco Intervention Coalition. Ms. Knopf DeRoche is the founding and former president of the Michigan Association for Children of Alcoholism and Other Addictions, and a past board member of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Ms. Knopf DeRoche was on the Advisory Board of Taylor Teen Health Center. Ms. Knopf DeRoche assisted in the design of the substance abuse treatment program for delinquent girls at Vista Maria and served on their professional advisory board.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche's community service commitments are numerous.

She is past-President of the Plymouth, MI Chamber of Commerce and served as chairperson of its Annual Auction and is currently chairperson of the Education Committee. In 2001, the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce voted her "Volunteer of the Year". Ms. Knopf DeRoche is a graduate of the inaugural class of Leadership Plymouth and served as president of the Plymouth A.M. Rotary Club for 2000-2001. From 2001- 2007, Ms. Knopf DeRoche serviced as the Youth Services Coordinator for Rotary District 6400 (Wayne, Monroe, Livingston counties and Essex county in Canada). Ms. Knopf DeRoche has received the Rotary Cog Award for outstanding service and in 2004 Business Direct Weekly newspaper honored Ms. Knopf DeRoche as an "Influential Woman in Business". In addition, Ms. Knopf DeRoche is a founding Advisory Board Member of the Community Foundation of Plymouth.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche acts as the community liaison to the Plymouth Community Youth Advisory Commission and helped found Youth Leadership Plymouth, an eighth grade leadership program run in cooperation with the Plymouth Canton Community Schools, Rotary Clubs of Plymouth, Kiwanis Clubs of Plymouth, City of Pymouth, Plymouth Township, Schoolcraft College, Plymouth Community Arts Council, Plymouth Historical Museum, St. Joseph Mercy Health Care System and the Plymouth Comunity Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Knopf DeRoche earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics and social sciences from the University of Detroit and a Master's degree in guidance and counseling from Oakland University. Ms. Knopf DeRoche holds Michigan certification as a Substance Abuse Prevention Consultant.