TERRI TOBIN, Ph.D. Associate Director of Research Terri Tobin, Ph.D., serves as Associate Director of Research at AHP and brings expertise in quantitative and qualitative methods and analysis, program evaluation, survey design, the collection and reporting of GPRA and other outcome and performance data, secondary data analysis of large state and national data bases, database design and management, project management, and preparing and presenting written reports. Dr. Tobin serves as lead evaluator for two CSAT/CMHS-funded Treatment for Homeless programs that provide integrated clinical case management and trauma services to women experiencing homelessness and for two adolescent projects: a CSAT-sponsored program for effective adolescent substance abuse treatment; and a CSAP-funded substance abuse prevention program serving Rhode Island youth. Collecting data and reporting on progress for all 50 states and many territories, Dr. Tobin also served as evaluation director for The New Freedom Initiative: State Coalitions to Promote Community-Based Care (NFI/Olmstead) project, funded by CMHS. Additionally, as the evaluator for the State of Alaska’s Co-Occurring State Incentive Grant (COSIG), and manager and analyst for the evaluation of the Alternatives Pilot Program for the State of California, Dr. Tobin is also experienced in working with particular state systems to specify, collect, and report on performance and outcome measures. Dr. Tobin also was a site project manager and analyst for the CMHS Supported Housing Initiative and the CSAT Co-occurring Disorders Initiative.
As a Ph.D. in gerontology, Dr. Tobin’s work also focuses on research and public policy issues concerning the aged population and their families. She is the Principal Investigator on a HRSA Grant for Policy-Oriented Rural Health Services Research that focuses on the preventive care practices of a national sample of rural elderly and serves as the analyst for a NIJ-funded study concerning elder abuse. She also co-authored Dementia and Wandering Behavior: Concern for the Lost Elder (2002), which received the 2002 Book of the Year Award from the Journal of Nursing.
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