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I lead the Norton School's Community Research Evaluation & Development (CRED) Team,which conducts high quality, culturally responsive, community-based research and evaluation that promotes the health and well-being of children, youth, adults and families throughout Arizona and the Southwest. As the Evaluation Specialist for Arizona Cooperative Extension, I support evaluation and evaluation capacity building across the state signature program areas (Child and Family Development; Youth Development; Leadership Development; Healthy Living; Water, Plants, and Natural Resources; Food and Fiber Production Systems; & Animal Production Systems).
I am Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Psychology and with the Institute for LGBT Studies. Show Less
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Grants
- NIH iPERT Conference Evaluation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2023
$14.8K
Active - FTF Statewide 2023 & Regional Needs and Assets Planning
Principal Investigator (PI)
2022
$545.9K
Active - University Of Arizona-Reducing Family Stress Sustainable Community Project
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$80.0K
Active - Women's Foundation Childcare and Workforce
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$28.6K
Active - Women's Foundation Childcare and Workforce (Promising Careers for Self-Sufficiency)
Co-Investigator (COI)
2022
$14.3K
Active - PROJECT CREAR: Culturally Responsive Engagement, Articulation, and Research
Key Personnel (KP)
2021
$2.0M
Active - Bridging Faculty and Student Cultures: Culturally Responsive Support for STEM Students Transferring between Two and Four Year Hispanic Serving Institutions
Key Personnel (KP)
2019
$4.8M
Active - University of Arizona Cooperative Extension Sustainable Community Project to Promote Early Language and Literacy Development in Native Communities
Key Personnel (KP)
2019
$501.2K
Active - Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program (DTAP) & Specialty Courts Initiative - Evaluation Services
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$340.0K
Active - Pathways: Elevating Self-Sufficiency through Career Technical Education for Single Mothers
Principal Investigator (PI)
2019
$62.1K
Active
News
- Compassion for the Environment: UA Wants to Talk About It
2017
- Medical Debt Occurs Despite Insurance, UA Study Shows
2011
- Arizona's Smoking Ban Reduced Hospital Visits, UA Study Finds
2010
Publications (48)
Recent
- 4-H End-of-Year Program Evaluation for Volunteers: Volunteer Feedback to the Transition to Virtual Programming Caused by COVID-19
2021
- CAREGIVING CHANGES FOR WORKING FAMILIES RAISING YOUNG CHILDREN DURING THE COVID-19PANDEMIC
2021
- 121 The Southern Arizona Equine Health Symposium: Impacts on extension program reach and the change to a virtual event
2021
- Communities of Practice for Extension Educator Evaluation Skill Development: A Case Study of Evaluation Capacity Building
2020
- Feasibility of an intensive outpatient Perception-Action Approach intervention for children with cerebral palsy: a pilot study.
2020
- Arizona Cooperative Extension Rangeland Monitoring Evaluation Report 2018-2019
2019
- Health in All Policies: Working Across Sectors in Cooperative Extension to Promote Health for All [EC1](was EC2 last year)
2018
- Feasibility of an intensive outpatient Perception-Action approach intervention for children with cerebral palsy: A pilot study [RC1] (was RC2 last year)
2018
- Health in all policies: Working across sectors in Cooperative Extension to promote health for all
2018
- Feasibility of an intensive outpatient Perception-Action Approach intervention for children with cerebral palsy: a pilot study
2018
- Is intensive outpatient physiotherapy feasible for parents of young children with cerebral palsy? A mixed-method pilot study
2017
- Conceptualization and development of the kind discipline measures for schools
2017
- Child Care and Early Education Accessibility in Tucson
2017
- Kind Discipline: Developing a Roadmap through a Concept Mapping Process [RC1]
2017
- Kind discipline: Developing a conceptual model of a promising school discipline approach
2017
- Discipline in School Settings and Student Well-Being
2016
- Studying the teaching of kindness: A conceptual model for evaluating kindness education programs in schools
2016
- UNPACKING RURALITY
2015
- Community partner concept mapping project: 2012-2013
2013
- Arizona Department of Health Services, Bureau of Tobacco and Chronic Disease Community Partner Concept Mapping Project: 2012-2013
2013
- Evaluating intense rehabilitative therapies with and without acupuncture for children with cerebral palsy: A randomized controlled trial
2012
- Intimate partner abuse in divorce mediation: outcomes from a long-term multi-cultural study
2011
- Health insurance status, medical debt, and their impact on access to care in Arizona
2011
- Hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction, angina, stroke, and asthma after implementation of arizona's comprehensive statewide smoking ban
2011
- Mediator assessment, documentation, and disposition of child custody cases involving intimate partner abuse: a naturalistic evaluation of one county s practices.
2010
- The Value of Smoking Prevention: An Estimate of the Dollar Value of Preventing One Otherwise-Smoker from Starting
2010
- DIVORCE MEDIATION WITH AND WITHOUT LEGAL REPRESENTATION:A FOCUS ON INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AND ABUSE
2010
- TOBACCO CESSATION QUITLINES: A PLATFORM FOR BEHAVIOR CHANGE RESEARCH
2010
- Divorce mediation with and without legal representation: a focus on intimate partner violence and abuse
2010
- Water-pipe tobacco smoking among middle and high school students in arizona
2009
- Are cost-inclusive evaluations worth the effort?
2009
- Analysis of mediation agreements of families reporting specific types of intimate partner abuse
2009
- 青少年的性节制: 生活史的观点
2007
- Sexual restrictedness in adolescence: A life history perspective
2007
- Methodological issues in tobacco use surveillance of Hispanics in the Southwest
2006
- Acculturation as a predictor of the onset of sexual intercourse among Hispanic and white teens
2005
- Content analyses of title V abstinence-only education programs: Links between program topics and participant responses
2005
- Unpacking cultural factors in adaptation to type 2 diabetes mellitus
2002
- Proposed Applications of Conventional Research Tools to Homeopathic Clinical Research
1999
- Unpacking proxy variables: Cultural factors in adaptation to Type II diabetes
1999
- Ecocultural Research: A Mental Health Researcher's Guide to the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Culture
1999
- Self-reported chemical sensitivity and wartime chemical exposures in Gulf War veterans with and without decreased global health ratings
1998
- Cognitive dysfunction and disability in geriatric veterans with self-reported intolerance to environmental chemicals
1997
- Dogma or data: Bragging rights.
1997
- Dogma or Data: Bragging Rights
1997
- Psychology in the public forum
1997
- Perceptual, thematic and taxonomic relations in children’s mental representations: Responses to triads
1993
- Increasing autistic children's spontaneous verbalizations of affection: An assessment of time delay and peer modeling procedures
1986