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Amy Green

Vice President of Research, The Trevor Project
Chapter Member: Los Angeles Unified SSN
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Green's research focuses on understanding and promoting resilience among LGBTQ youth, examining the social context of suicide risk, and utilizing implementation science to increase the positive impact of programs, policies, and practices to reduce disparities for LGBTQ youth. Overarching theme's in Green's writings include youth risk and resilience, mental heath services, LGBTQ youth, and positive youth development. 

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Contributions

How Restorative Approaches to Student Discipline Can Help Dismantle the School to Prison Pipeline

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Publications

"Cultivating Healing by Implementing Restorative Practices for Youth: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Trial" (with Cathleen E. Willging, Kim Zamarin, Layla M. Dehaiman, and Patricia Ruiloba). International Journal of Educational Research 93 (2019): 168-176.

Details a study that uses a cluster randomized controlled trial of 12 culturally-diverse U.S. middle schools to examine whether using restorative practices with a multi-faceted implementation strategy (a) reduces negative outcomes, including expulsions, suspensions, truancy, and bullying and (b) improves positive outcomes related to grade-point-average, sense of safety, and teacher support.

"Factors Impacting Implementation of Evidence-Based Strategies to Create Safe and Supportive Schools for Sexual and Gender Minority Students" (with Cathleen E. Willging, Mary M. Ramos, Daniel Shattuck, and Lara Gunderson). Journal of Adolescent Health 63, no. 5 (2018): 643-648.

Draws on implementation science to assess contextual challenges to implementation of strategies to create safe and supportive environments for LGBTQ youth.

"Organizational Stress as Moderator of Relationship between Mental Health Provider Adaptability and Organizational Commitment" (with Christopher R. Dishop and Gregory A. Aarons). Psychiatric Services 67, no. 10 (2016): 1103-1108.

Examines the relationships between organizational stress, provider adaptability, and organizational commitment.

"Job Perceptions Following Statewide Evidence-Based Treatment Implementation" (with Guy Cafri and Gregory Aarons). Journal of Children's Services 11, no. 4 (2016): 345-355.

Provides empirical quantitative data regarding job attitudes and job autonomy perceptions over time following evidence-based treatment (EBT) implementation. Indicates that concerns regarding the impact of EBT implementation on provider job perceptions should be minimized.

"The Role of Collaborations in Sustaining an Evidence-Based Intervention to Reduce Child Neglect" (with Elise Trott, Cathleen E. Willging, Natalie K. Finn, Mark G. Ehrhart, and Gregory A. Aarons). Child Abuse & Neglect 53 (2016): 4-16.

Combines descriptive quantitative survey data with qualitative interview and focus group findings to examine the role of collaboration within the context of public-private partnerships in child welfare systems.

"Dissemination and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices for Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Systematic Review" (with Douglas K. Novins, Rupinder K. Legha, and Gregory A. Aarons). Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 52, no. 10 (2013): 1009-1025.

Aims to identify key findings from empirical studies examining the dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices for child and adolescent mental health.