Betsy McAlister Groves,
Violence in the Lives of Children

Betsy McAlister Groves, MSW, LICSW, is the founding director of the Child Witness to Violence Project at Boston Medical Center and assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. She is the past recipient of a fellowship from the Open Society Institute and has been a fellow at the Malcolm Weiner Center of Social Policy at Harvard University. Her publications include a book, Children Who See Too Much: Lessons from the Child Witness to Violence Project, published in 2002, and articles in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Pediatrics, Harvard Mental Health Letter, and Topics in Early Childhood Special Education. She has served on the Massachusetts Governor's Commission on Domestic Violence and the Massachusetts Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee. In addition, she has served as a consultant to Family Communications, Inc., producers of Mister Roger's Neighborhood; the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges; and the Family Violence Prevention Fund. Ms. Groves received her master's degree from Boston University School of Social Work and her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary.