John Fantuzzo Ph.D. is Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Policy Research, Evalutation and Measurement Program and Director of the Penn CHILD Research Center of the Graduate School of Education at University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Fantuzzo is also a faculty member of the Doctoral Graduate Group of the School of Social Policy and Practices and the Graduate Program in Public Health Studies. He graduated from Fuller School of Psychology in 1976. His major research goals include: (1) making visible the risk that threaten the well being of young children in Philadelphia; and (2) developing, implementing, and testing comprehensive early interventions to improve the quality of early childhood education for low-income preschool children in the context of their multiple risks experiences. For the past seven years Dr. Fantuzzo and his wife Christine (Fuller Alumna) have been serving as Faculty in Residence in one of Penn’s college houses, there they have set up a special community living program for freshmen who want to be involved in weekly community service to young children in a disadvantaged public school in Penn’s neighborhood. Over the past 7 years these students have delivered over 4,000 individual mentoring hours to children who were significantly behind grade level.