Plan annual career fair to connect criminal justice undergraduate and graduate students with organizations and agencies in the field. Participating agencies recruit for part-time jobs, internships, and full-time jobs across the full spectrum of the c...

Contributed to a special issue of the journal The Muslim World on Islam, development, and humanitarianism. This will have a wide readership within academic and the policy/NGO community. Co-editors were Abbas Barzegar, national director of research an...

Provided feedback on the differential predictions of the National Institute of Justice's risk assessment, the Prisoner Assessment Tool Targeting Estimated Risk and Needs (PATTERN). Specifically, provided feedback on the psychometric properties of the...

Evaluation of "Getting It Right," a mentoring program for parolees involving a partnership between the Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries the Michigan Dept. of Corrections. The project is funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance.

Training of the bargaining teams in interest-based negotiation and end-to-end facilitation of bargaining to successful completion of a new collective bargaining agreement.

Completed an interview with Fox 47 News on risk for eating disorders and common misconceptions about illness, recovery, and treatment. Titled "Dying to be Perfect," the segment featured a mom who shared her son's battle with anorexia to help debunk s...

Implementation and evaluation of a comprehensive school safety initiative in 20 schools across Genesee County, Michigan.

Co-coordinate an annual Homicide Investigation Training School with the Michigan State Police Training Academy. This is an annual state-certified training available to sworn law enforcement professionals only. Each year, between 30 and 40 local law e...

Provided human resources training to new chief judge and court administrators/probate registers through the Michigan Judicial Institute. This program provided participants with important information needed to enhance the employee experience, comply w...

Gave an interview for an article by Voice of America.

The goal of the Child Welfare Improvement Task Force is to support the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) in bringing about change and to improve the safe, fair, and equitable treatment of all Michigan’s children and families....

A four-day course to provide instruction on forensic anthropology, forensic entomology, human osteology, skeletal analyses, and excavation, including a field excavation.

Served as a member of a steering committee for the webinar series for K-12 teachers organized by the Michigan Department of Education. Also offered two segments of the webinar.

Trained over 500 staff across Michigan to better respond to online sexual misconduct.

This was a pilot effectiveness trial examining the potential benefit of training Part C early-intervention providers to use an evidence-based parent-mediated curriculum with children with autism.

Carole Gibbons and her team interviewed youth service workers and youth with experiences with community violence in Lansing. To build relationships and further collaboration, constructed a project logic model to disseminate results to those we interv...

Analysis of access to transportation and its impact on low-income communities in Detroit with a focus on access to food, employment, and health services.

There are valid and growing concerns about accuracy, fairness, transparency, and communication in the use of risk and needs assessment. Risk and needs assessment results are not used enough to inform case decisions and management. Criminal justice ag...

The social work continuing education program provides relevant and accessible professional development and training guided by the school’s social justice and positive change mission to social workers and human services professionals across the stat...

Each year the social work continuing education program provides relevant and accessible professional development and training guided by the social justice and positive change mission of our school to social workers and human services professionals ac...

Served on expert consensus panel and provided evidence synthesis leading to public-facing report published by SAMHSA on the dangers of conversion therapy for LGBTQ youth and appropriate alternative interventions.

Gave a public talk to bring greater awareness to the needs of older LGBTQIA+ adults in the area of health, well-being, and body image.

With support from the Michigan Health Endowment Fund, the Virtual Table project provided one-to-one weekly training in Information and Communication Technologies to isolated older adults in Otsego County, Michigan. Peer tutors provided the training f...