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PhD, Social Work, The University of Kansas
MSW, The University of Kansas
BA, History, International Relations, The American University
Rebecca Gillam is Associate Director of Home and Community-Based Services at West Virginia University Health Affairs Institute. Since joining Health Affairs, she has focused on evaluation of mental and behavioral health systems for children and youth on the Children’s Mental Health Evaluation and Systems of Care projects. Dr. Gillam specializes in utilization-focused evaluation and capacity building. She has conducted quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods evaluations to inform decision making and quality improvement in social service and public health sectors. In previous projects, she has focused on early childhood, maternal and child health, youth development, and mental and behavioral health. She has worked with nonprofit organizations, local and state agencies, and tribal communities.
Dr. Gillam has more than 20 years of experience working with state and community-based programs to improve child and family well-being. She has designed and led program development and implementation, evaluation, and public impact research at the program-, organizational-, and systems-level. She has designed, led, and trained others in program development and implementation, evaluation, and public impact research at the program-level, at the level of the organization, and systemwide, in content areas including trauma, hope and resilience, mindset, leadership, and organizational culture. She has a passion for collaboration and network building and has worked extensively with multi-agency teams to improve outcomes.
Published Works:
- Collective impact facilitators: how contextual and procedural factors influence collaboration
- The Intangibles: What It Takes for a Backbone Organization to Succeed
- How the Center for Public Partnerships and Research Navigates Complex Social Problems to Make a Collective Difference
- Lemonade for Life—A pilot study on a hope-infused, trauma-informed approach to help families understand their past and focus on the future
- Collective impact facilitators: how contextual and procedural factors influence collaboration
- Translating Evidence-Based Policy to Practice: A Multilevel Partnership Using the Interactive Systems Framework
- Exploring statistical and practical significance in evaluation results: Challenges for child and family service program evaluation