Under the leadership of Dr. Gilberte Bastien at the Morehouse School of Medicine, and together with colleagues at Emory University, and the University of North Carolina–Charlotte, we determined the readiness of Haitian-Creole churches to implement mental health interventions. We built a better understanding of the factors and supports that can facilitate health and wellness in…

For the past five years, we have been investigating school and coalition-level readiness with the University of Colorado–Boulder. Recently, we have begun consolidating that data to explore the appropriateness of modifying readiness assessment and how readiness clusters together within a network.

Together with friends and colleagues at Arizona State University and the American Institutes for Research, we are studying how readiness at multiple levels (individual, school, community) and across multiple roles (student, teacher, parent, administrator) impacts attitudes and beliefs about school safety. This groundbreaking longitudinal study collected data on multiple level, but had two major interruption…