Cathleen E. Willging

Describes cultivating healing by implementing restorative practices for youth: Protocol for a cluster randomized trial.

Examines the return of women prisoners to underserved rural communities and the perspectives of their closest social supporters through semi-structured interviews and focus groups. Challenges discourses of personal responsibility that detract from the structural violence and injustice shaping their experiences and considers policy implications and strategies to reduce recidivism.

Analyzes transcripts via open and focused coding techniques to identify the commonality, diversity, and complexity of implementation challenges, approaches to overcoming those challenges, and the importance of system-level contextual factors in ensuring successful implementation.

Illustrates how “boredom” and “troublemaking” represent manifestations of social position, political economic realities, and assessments of possible futures for rural youth in southwestern New Mexico.

Details the involvement of Native Americans in state-initiated behavioral health reform efforts and the subsequent impacts on services and stakeholders.

Describes lessons learned from five years of research on a major systems-change initiative in New Mexico.

This quantitative examination sheds light on how leadership, organizational climate, and finances affected turnover intentions and voluntary turnover within behavioral health agencies during the early stages of a statewide system change.