Smart Project

Training & Technical Assistance Core (TACore)

PIs Eric Bruns, PhD
Research Team Casey Chandler, BA / Kelly Whitaker, PhD, MPA / Kelcey Schmitz, MSEd / Rayann Silva, MEd / Jennifer A. Cohen, MNPL / Clynita Grafenreed, PhD / Elsa Ferguson, BA / Mari Meador, MEd / Kendra Wolf, MEd / Rachel Barrett, LCSW / Megan Lickhalter, BA / Keith Hullenaar, PhD / Bethlehem Kebede, BS
Team Name TAC
Project Status Recruiting

(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.