Director of the Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group at NYU, her research focuses on understanding how to engage and treat marginalized youth and young adults who live with mental health challenges. She has provided services in public mental health settings, including a large hospital emergency room and community-based settings. Shelly Ben-David, MSW, is a doctoral candidate at the New York University Silver School of Social Work. Her research focuses on how adolescents and young adults with serious mental health challenges, in particular those in the early stages of psychosis, make decisions about seeking mental health services.