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Sally Stevens, PhD is the Executive Director of the University of Arizona - Southwest Institute for Research on Women and a Distinguished Outreach Professor in the Department of Gender and Women's Studies. Dr. Stevens conducts collaborative research in the area of health disparities, substance abuse, mental health, sexuality, human trafficking, equity, and innovations in education. Much of her work is community-based with a focus on gender and culture, and those living in the U.S.-Mexico border region. Dr. Stevens’ research also includes national cross-site evaluations examining process, outcome, and cost-benefit analysis for programs serving justice-involved youth; and women with children and youth enrolled in various substance abuse treatment modalities. She has been the Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator, Project Director, Evaluator, and Project Advisor for more than 60 projects; with funding from the National Science Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Institutes of Health (e.g. NIAAA; NIDA), Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (CSAT; CHAB), Library of Congress, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, and from other federal, state, local public and private agencies. Dr. Stevens serves as a reviewer for professional journals, conducts trainings and webinars on topics relevant to her work, and has published over 300 journal articles and technical reports. Contact: sstevens@email.arizona.eduShow Less
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Grants
- Dragonfly Community Center Supportive Services for Homeless Individuals and Families
Key Personnel (KP)
2019
$385.0K
Active - Juvenile Justice Initiative - Reducing Burden and Increasing Opportunity
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$62.0K
- Pima County Safety and Justice Challenge Qualitative Evaluation
Key Personnel (KP)
2017
$44.3K
- Innovations in Social Science Learning: The Poverty in Tucson Field Workshop
Co-Investigator (COI)
2016
$248.9K
- ADOT Women in the Workforce Study
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$198.0K
- Pregnant and Postpartum Women and Adolescent Data
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$915.4K
- Evaluation of Southern Arizona anti-Trafficking United Response Network (SAATURN) for the Tucson Police Department
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$70.8K
- Enhanced Collaborative Model to Combat Human Trafficking
Principal Investigator (PI)
2015
$49.3K
- Creating Community Solutions Evaluations
Co-Investigator (COI)
2015
$31.1K
- FY12 Cohort Juvenile Drug Court/ Reclaiming Futures Evaluation
Principal Investigator (PI)
2013
$709.4K
News
- UA Research Institute Addresses Human Trafficking Across Region
2017
- UA, ADOT to Focus on Women in Transportation Industry
2017
- UA Establishes Transportation Research Institute
2016
- UA Wins Grant to Nurture Digital Activism in Youth
2013
- UA-Led iTEAM Project Benefits Youth, Young Adults
2013
- Reframing Teen Pregnancy
2013
- UA Receives $1.6M to Support Poor Working Mothers
2012
- Grant Funds STEM Program for American Indian, Hispanic Youth
2012
- UA Hosts Winter Commencement on Dec. 15
2012
- SIROW Leading Major National Evaluation of Juvenile Court Programs
2012
- UA Professors Honored for Teaching, Mentorship and Outreach
2012
- New Exhibit Celebrates Women of the UA
2011
- The Lives of U.S. Children and Immigrant Families
2010
- Faculty Members Awarded Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Grants
2010
- SIROW Leading Project to Support LGBTQ Youth
2010
- SIROW Researcher to Speak at Congressional Briefing
2009
- SIROW Earns National Honor for its Diversity, Inclusion
2009
- SIROW Collaborating on Two New Projects to Aid Adolescents
2009
- New Project Intends to Empower Impoverished Women
2009
- Institute Receives $1.2M to Study Challenges Faced by Girls in Recovery
2008
- UA Women's Studies Department to Offer Doctoral Degree
2007
- UA Institute gets $2.5 Million to Support Women
2007
- Women's Health: An Interdisciplinary Research Conference
2006
- Underrepresented Minority Students Win National Research Honors
2006
- UA Receives Designation as National Center of Excellence in Women's Health
2003
- Year in Review 2002: Social and Behavioral Sciences
2002
- Year in Review 2002: Research
2002
- Grants to Aid UA Researchers in Curbing Diseases Among Hispanic Women/Youth
2002
- UA Researchers Win Federal Grant to Study AIDS Prevention in South Tucson
2002
- Three Faculty Collaborate on American Public Health Association Presentation
2001
Publications (28)
Recent
- Well-being of justice-involved youth in Arizona. Making Action Possible in Southern Arizona
2020
- The value of justice-involved youth: Accountability through technology-driven policies and practices
2020
- Socioenvironmental risk factors for adolescent marijuana use in a United States - Mexico border community
2020
- Improvements in self-acceptance for LGBTQ+ and straight allied youth and young adults enrolled in an affirming, system-of-care program
2020
- Socioenvironmental risk factors for adolescent Substance Use in a U.S.-Mexico Border Community
2019
- How the U.S.-Mexico Border Influences Adolescent Substance Use: Youth Participatory Action Research Using Photovoice
2019
- Novel socioenvironmental risk factors for adolescent marijuana use in a U.S.-Mexico border community: Results from the BASUS study.
2019
- Youth participatory action research for youth substance use prevention: A systematic review
2019
- Economic Evaluation of the Juvenile Drug Court Reclaiming Futures Model
2018
- Improving student learning outcomes through community-based learning The Poverty Workshop.
2018
- Youth participatory action research for adolescent substance use prevention: A systematic review
2018
- Adolescent substance use on the U.S.-Mexico Border: Findings from youth participatory action research using photovoice.
2018
- Improvements in Self-Acceptance and Affiliated Factors over Time among LGBTQ and Straight Allied Youth Enrolled in an Affirming System-of-Care Service Coordination Program
2017
- Evaluating the Impact of Adding the Reclaiming Futures System Change Approach to Juvenile Drug Courts
2017
- Intimate attachments and migrant deportability: Lessons from undocumented mothers seeking benefits for citizen children
2017
- The concurrent evolution and intertwined nature of juvenile drug courts and Reclaiming Futures approaches to juvenile justice reform.
2016
- iTEAM: Outcomes of an affirming system of care serving LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness
2016
- History of juvenile justice in the United States: The need for ongoing research.
2016
- Motivating Young Native American Students to Pursue STEM Learning through a Culturally Relevant Program
2016
- Intergenerational trauma among substance using Native American, Latina, and Caucasian mothers living in southwestern United States
2015
- Fractured mothering: The impact of U.S. and Arizona immigration policies on Mexican immigrant mothers with U.S. and non-U.S. citizen children
2015
- “I was the one who opened my legs”: The troupes and consequences of blaming pregnant and mothering teens
2014
- Preventing pregnancy or supporting students?: learning from the stories of young mothers
2014
- Examination of the role of therapeutic alliance, treatment dose, and treatment completion in the effectiveness of The Seven Challenges
2013
- Informing sexuality education though youth generated anonymous questions
2013
- Chasing sexual orientation: a comparison of commonly used single-indicator measures of sexual orientation
2013
- Outcomes of a trauma-informed Arizona family drug court
2012
- Meeting the substance abuse treatment needs of lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women: Implications from research to practice
2012