Research Faculty Directory
 | Karen Cellarius, Research Associate email more Practice Experience: Community Services, Multicultural Services, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Criminal Justice, Education, Data systems. |
 | Beckie Child, Research Associate email more Research Interests: Mental health system transformational change, interpersonal violence for people with disabilities, peer-delivered services, integration of primary and mental health care, alternatives to hospitalization for mental health crises, sexuality and disability. |
Debi Elliott, Research Associate, Director Survey Research Laboratory email more Research Interests: Criminal Justice, Juvenile Justice, Substance Abuse, Mental Health, Trauma, Victims of Crime, Culturally Specific Services, Peer Services, Peers as Evaluators, Survey Research. |
 | Sarah Geenen, Research Assistant Professor, psychologist email more Practice Experience: Dr. Geenen is the director of two federally funded studies (My Life and Project Success) that are using a randomized design to examine the impact of enhanced self-determination on the education and post school outcomes of foster youth with disabilities. Research Interests: Foster care, disability, at-risk youth, self-determination and youth development. |
 | L. Kris Gowen, Research Associate email more Research Interests: sexual and mental health of transition-aged youth, sexuality education, practice-based evidence |
 | Heidi Herinckx, Research Associate, Assistant Director RRI, Instructor email more Research Interests: mental health consumers as providers, implementation of evidenced based practices in adult mental health and substance abuse service systems, integrated holistic service delivery, supported employment and Mental Health Courts. |
 | Jared Ivie, Research Associate email more Practice Experience: School-based wraparound, community mental health services for children, adolescents, and families; youth psychiatric residential care; systems of care; program evaluation.
Research Interests: Systems of care; children's mental health; gay and lesbian issues; diversity and social justice. |
Ally Jamieson, Research Assistant email more Research Interests: Positive Human Development, Interpersonal neurobiology, social attachment theory, positive youth development, and traumatology |
 | Anna Malsch, Research Associate email more Research Interests: Children's mental health, the connection between community (both geographical and psychological) and the health and well-being of children and families, the relationship between prosocial behavior and health, and work-family balance.
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 | Michael J. McCarthy, Graduate Assistant, Research Associate email more Research Interests: Dyads, acquired disability, brain injury, stroke, mental health outcomes, chronic illnesses across the lifespan. |
Elizabeth (Lizzie) McNeff, Research Associate email more Research Interests: interpersonal violence, disability, human sexuality and gender, community-based, participatory research. |
Anna Rockhill, Senior Research Associate email more Research Interests: domestic violence and child welfare, substance abuse and child welfare, youth resilience in Native American families, fatherhood in child welfare, guardianships. |
Angela Rodgers, Research Associate email more Research Interests: child welfare, child trauma and resilience, family group conferencing, evaluation of innovative practices, workplace culture and workforce retention in child welfare. |
 | Don Schweitzer, Graduate Assistant email more Research Interests: Runaway and homeless youth, adult & family homelessness, positive youth development, and community building.
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 | Rollin Shelton, Research Associate email more Practice Experience: Adult mental health, peer-delivered services, interpersonal violence, organizational development, evidence-based practice in recovery and resilience. Research Interests: Adult mental health, peer-delivered services, interpersonal violence, organizational development, evidence-based practice in recovery and resilience. |
 | Janet Shakuntala Walker, Co-Director of Training and Dissemination and Research Associate at the Research and Training Center on Famiy Support and Children's Mental Health email more Practice Experience: children's mental health, collaborative activity, self-directed teams, systems of care, organizational development in the public sector, conflict resolution, moral development Research Interests: program implementation and replication, children?s mental health, wrap-around services and systems of care, youth and family empowerment. |
Jim M White, Research Associate email more Research Interests: Foster Care alumni study, understanding administrative data, disproportionality in child welfare, teens, educational outcomes for foster youth, client satisfaction with involuntary clients. |
 | Diane Yatchmenoff, Research Assistant Professor email more Research Interests: child welfare policy and practice; the intersection of child welfare and children's mental health; family homelessness; maternal depression; client engagement in community-based and mandatory services.
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