Our lead consultant has been published in several areas and has received highly specific training outside of her academic career. Her lived experience as a queer, multicultural woman helps to support this work as well. See below to read more!
Certifications
- Motivational Interviewing: Healthy Habits Certified
- Mental Health First AID
- Common Ground/Code Red Facilitator- Anti-Defamation League
- QPR Suicide Prevention Facilitator: Suicide Prevention and Response
- Keynote Speaker on Women Empowerment in the Workplace
Publications
- Contextualizing Negative Sense of Community and Disconnect Among Urban Youth of Color: “Community… We ain’t got that”
TY – JOUR Lardier, David, Barrios, Veronica, Forenza, Brad, Herr, Kathryn, Bergeson, Carrie, Suazo, Catherine, Garcia-Reid, Pauline, Reid, Robert
PY – 2019/12/01
N2 – We explore the experiences of urban youth of color, as well as perceptions, of feeling disconnected and having an overall negative sense of community (SOC). Drawing on data from 11 focus groups, youth (N = 59) describe their communities and lived experiences. We document several themes put forward through the lens of SOC and community connection that highlight perceived lack of membership, needs fulfillment, influence, and overall emotional connection to their community. Unpacking youth’s perceptions of their community, we suggest that—in the face of such realities—community‐based organizations, such as those the youth find themselves in, aid in creating connectedness and help heal youth from the effects of social conditions experienced daily.
T1 – Contextualizing negative sense of community and disconnection among urban youth of color: “Community…We ain’t got that”
VL – 48
DO – 10.1002/jcop.22298
JO – Journal of Community Psychology
2. COVID Case Management- Colorado Department of Education
http://www.cde.state.co.us/uip/covid-case-management-team
3. Abnormal Psychology: Figure 1.3 Social Justice for Sexual Assault Healing with a DEI lense
