Dr. Griffin, is a clinical psychologist and attorney. He is also a ChildTrauma Academy Fellow.  Dr. Griffin presently serves as the Associate Director of the Mental Health and Services Policy Program at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. He is also the Clinical Director of the Illinois Childhood Trauma Coalition and a member of the Illinois Juvenile Justice Commission.

Previously, Dr. Griffin worked in the Director’s Office at the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services where he helped develop the Department’s Behavioral Health Team and its Trauma Program.  Dr. Griffin has also worked for the state Office of Mental Health, where he was Chief of Juvenile Forensics and oversaw the Mental Health Juvenile Justice Initiative, a statewide program linking mentally ill minors in detention centers to community based treatment.  He has been a unit chief of both short term and long-term inpatient psychiatric adolescent units.  Dr. Griffin has served as an assistant public defender in juvenile court.  He has published several articles related to mental health and juvenile justice.

Dr. Griffin obtained both his law degree and his doctorate in clinical psychology from Northwestern University.  He completed an internship in clinical and forensic psychology through Harvard Medical School.