She has served as a National Research/Doctoral Fellow for the Administration for Children and Families (USDHHS-Children’s Bureau) in the area of substance abuse in child welfare, as well as serving as Principal or Co-Principal Investigator for three externally funded programs, all in the area of community responsiveness to substance abuse and child welfare. Currently, this work involves serving as a co-evaluator for seven family drug court implementations in two states and overseeing the implementation of statewide universal screening for substance use disorders among child welfare-involved families. Her interests also include provision of targeted evidence-based parenting programs within the child welfare setting and utilization of mixed methods research.