Yvonne Vissing is Professor of Healthcare Studies, at Salem State University.  She was previously Professor of Sociology and chair of that department. As Founding Director of the Salem State University Center for Childhood & Youth Studies in Massachusetts, she has created international partnerships with the University of Nottingham in England and Swansea University in Wales. She has also been appointed US Policy Chair by the international Hope For Children United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child Policy Center.  She is also on the American Association for the Advancement of Science Human Rights Council and on the Steering Committee for Human Rights Educators USA (HREUSA). 

Dr. Vissing attended Indiana University Bloomington and Western Michigan University.  She also was a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Research Scholar and graduated from the Equitas International Training Program in Human Rights, located in Montreal. She was a tenured professor at Ferris State University, and has been a Visiting Professor in the College of Human Medicine at Michigan State University, Department of Health Management & Policy at the University of New Hampshire, and has taught courses at a variety of other institutions just for fun.

She was a long term board member of the National Coalition for the Homeless, the New Hampshire Juvenile Parole Board, is a trainer for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, an organizational consultant for the American Sociological Association’s consultant corps where she conducts program reviews, evaluations, mediations, needs assessments and strategic plans.  Dr. Vissing works with a variety of child advocacy, health, education, business, legal, civic and social service organizations and has created two online businesses to assist them – Training 4 Excellence and Child Abuse Prevention Training 4 Organizations. A former clinician and agency administrator, she brings wide vision to her work with both individuals and organizations.