Senior Leadership

Amy Salomon, Ph.D.

Senior Director, Center for Research and Evaluation

Amy Salomon has more than 20 years of experience in applied research, human service program development, and technical assistance. She has been Director of Evaluation Studies at AHP since 2002, and she is currently Director of the Center for Research and Evaluation. In these roles, Dr. Salomon oversees all staff working in the research and evaluation sector and is responsible for the day-to-day oversight for all AHP research and evaluation activities. The primary focus of her work has been on critical social issues, including family homelessness, substance abuse and co-occurring disorders, extreme poverty in women and children, public welfare, and interpersonal violence.

Dr. Salomon is currently leading the cross-site process evaluation for the Jail Diversion and Trauma Recovery Program, funded through the Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS). She is also a co-investigator on the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s (CSAT) national evaluation of its Adolescent and Family Treatment Program grantees, with lead responsibility for the case study component. She led the evaluation of a CSAT-funded Targeted Capacity Expansion Grant increasing trauma-informed substance abuse services to women victims of domestic violence living in rural Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She also served as lead evaluator, in collaboration with ICF International, on the Department of Health and Human Service’s national assessment of programs addressing international and domestic human trafficking.

Prior to coming to AHP, Dr. Salomon was Executive Director of the National Center on Family Homelessness (formerly the Better Homes Fund). She directed the Center’s National Institute of Mental Health-funded longitudinal study on family homelessness, considered one of the nation’s most comprehensive studies to date on risk factors for family homelessness. Using these data, Dr. Salomon led a National Institute of Justice-funded study on The Etiology, Course, and Consequences of Intimate Partner Violence against Extremely Poor Women. Her areas of expertise include research and evaluation design and management; site visit methodology and protocol development; process and outcome measurement; and qualitative methods.

asalomon@ahpnet.com