Megan Lickhalter (she/her) has a BA in Psychology and a minor in Nutrition from the University of Washington. Megan joins the SMART Center with prior experience working in the Seattle arts and culture sector, as well as in clinical mental health. She is passionate about understanding and implementing mental health interventions for young people, and is excited to contribute to the SMART Center’s efforts to do so. In her free time, Megan enjoys baking, making pottery, crocheting, and hanging out with her goldendoodle, Mila.
(Training & Technical Assistance) As a key component of this mission, UW SMART has developed strategies and related infrastructure for providing training and technical assistance to state and local education agencies as well as individual school districts. The SMART Center’s “TACore” provides: 1) Training and consultation/coaching focused on developing workforce capacity (among school staff and community partners) to deliver research-based strategies, policies, and practice models relevant to the education context, 2) Technical assistance focused on building evidence-based, multi-tiered systems of school-based behavioral health, using collaborative decision-making processes guided by local data as well as research evidence, and 3) Program evaluation focused on collecting and analyzing existing (e.g., administrative datasets) and novel (e.g., surveys, focus groups) quantitative and qualitative data to determine the impact of new or existing programs, practices, and policies.