About Us
The RADAR Development Team
Our team brings together more than 80 years of combined experience in child forensic interviewing, clinical practice, law enforcement, and trauma-focused evaluation. The RADAR faculty includes leading experts who have developed, refined, and taught this model across clinical, investigative, and military settings. Together, they ensure that every trainee learns from professionals who have spent decades working directly with children, families, and multidisciplinary teams.
RADAR Faculty
Mark D. Everson
Senior Developer/Instructor
Mark D. Everson, PhD is a retired professor from the Department of Psychiatry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In his tenure, he directed the UNC Program on Childhood Trauma and Maltreatment. His specialty is forensic evaluation in cases of suspected child maltreatment.
Scott Rodriguez
Developer/Instructor
Scott Rodriguez is a retired law enforcement officer from the Dare County Sheriff’s Office, where he served as a criminal investigator and conducted child forensic interviews. He currently serves as a co-developer and instructor for RADAR Models. Scott has conducted forensic interviews at children’s advocacy centers in both North Carolina and Louisiana. He continues to support the field by providing ongoing consultation and peer review for forensic interviewers working within children’s advocacy centers.
Kate Homan
Instructor
Kate Homan, MS is a Senior Consultant for Modell Consulting Group, LLC. Since 2017, Ms. Homan has assisted in teaching and co-authoring multiple multidisciplinary trainings. This included leading the development of a first-of-its-kind project, collaborating with national experts to develop a forensic interviewing model for interviewing adults (FIND Foundations); in addition to co-authoring the suite of Project FIND trainings for interviewing individuals with disabilities and SAFE trainings for interviewing older adults. In addition to developing and delivering trainings, Ms. Homan has spent over 12 years interviewing children who have experienced abuse and trauma in Louisiana, as well as providing ongoing consultation and facilitating peer review for CACs and state chapters across the country.
Julie Ozier
Instructor
Julie has more than 25 years’ experience working with children and adults who’ve experienced abuse or trauma. She has worked in Child Protective Services, Rape Crisis, and Child Advocacy. Julie has been recognized by the courts as an expert in child abuse, sexual abuse, trauma and child forensic interviewing. She is trained in EMDR and is NC State rostered in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Child Parent Psychotherapy and Problematic Sexual Behavior Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Julie currently treats children and adults impacted by trauma, anxiety, and stress/burnout and provides training/consultation in RADAR forensic interviewing, Ethics and Child Sexual Abuse. She also provides clinical consultation and supervision to other practitioners.
Maria Isabella Pontoriero
Instructor
Maria Isabella Pontoriero, New Orleans Child Advocacy Center
Building trust. Gathering truth.
Chapel Hill, NC USA
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