Victim Researcher Profile

BIO

I have two decades of experience working in the area of parental substance abuse and child maltreatment. During this time, I have evaluated and implemented evidence based interventions across three US states, acquiring a broad range of knowledge about the process of planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining programs in the field among very diverse populations (urban, rural, frontier, various cultures, ethnicities). This knowledge has placed me in a position to understand the multiple and complex risk and protective factors for children in the child welfare system, and to design programs and services in a way that is responsive to the consumer, the state service systems and places me in a unique position to always strive to examine equity from multiple perspectives. My robust record of research and commitment to advancing knowledge around this population is sustained, innovative, and goal driven. Each of the projects I have worked on has required a multidisciplinary collaboration, responsiveness to timelines, frequent and transparent communication and processes, and a grounding in realistic and rigorous research practices.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Drug-Related Victimization

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance