Project Director: Rachel Gonzales-Castaneda, PhD, MPH Dr. Gonzales Castaneda is an addiction research psychologist and an Associate Professor at Azusa Pacific University. She has extensive experience in designing and evaluating prevention and treatment programs that address substance use disorders. Her expertise and research focus on prevention and disease management approaches, adolescent and young adult health, and cultural and social impacts on health status. In addition to her role as Project Director of the Faith & Spirituality Integrated SBIRT Network, she serves as a co-investigator on a large, multi-program evaluation of the youth system of care in Los Angeles County funded by the Department of Public Health, as well as an Associate Research Psychologist at UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP).
		Co-Director: Mary Rawlings, PhD, LCSW Dr. Mary Rawlings is a licensed clinical social worker and Chair of the Department of Social Work and the MSW Program Director at Azusa Pacific University. As an educator and program director, she is interested in competency-based education, assessing outcomes of social work education, and experiential learning models (i.e. service learning) that can enhance student education outcomes. Her research focuses on the development of observed structured clinical exams for evaluation of social work skills. As a licensed clinical social worker, she has more than 10 years of practice experience and is interested in women's issues and chronic and persistent mental illness.
		Co-Director: Sheryl Tyson, PhD, RN, CNS Dr. Sheryl Tyson is a psychiatric clinical nurse, a professor, the Associate Dean of Research, and the Executive Director of the Institute of Health Research at Azusa Pacific University School of Nursing (SON). She is a child and adolescent psychiatric clinical nurse specialist with extensive experience in treating children and adolescents with trauma related disorders. Her experience with substance abuse comes from having been a substance abuse educator and counselor for the Los Angeles County Drug Abuse Program Office, and from her position as a research scientist on substance abuse and suicide prevention research projects funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse, The National Institute of Nursing Research, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
		Training Director: Sherry Larkins PhD Dr. Sherry Larkins is a Research Sociologist in the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and is a Co-Director of Training for UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ICAP) and member of the Pacific Southwest Addiction Technology Transfer Center. She has extensive experience as the training director at the Lost Angeles County, Department of Mental Health (LAC-DMH) and UCLA. She has been involved in substance abuse research for over 20 years and has led multiple epidemiological and clinical research studies. Her research includes stimulant abuse, substance abuse treatment for marginalized populations, and sexual risk behaviors associated with substance use.
		Training Coordinator: Irene Valdovinos, MSW, MPH Irene Valdovinos is the evaluation coordinator on the SBIRT project and oversees the development, implementation, and management of the training materials for the SBIRT student training. She coordinates communication between all stakeholders and oversees regulatory and administrative aspects of the project.
		Faculty Preceptor Liaison for Psychology: Kathryn Ecklund, PhD Dr. Kathryn Ecklund is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and the Chair of the Department of Psychology at Azusa Pacific University. As a researcher and clinician, her interests are in the assessment and delivery of culturally sensitive mental health services for children and families. She has maintained an active clinical practice serving racial, cultural, religious, economic, gender, and sexually diverse youth, couples, and families. Since joining APU, her scholarship has focused on the inclusion of faith in the consideration of diversity dynamics, diversity identity development, and diverse relationships among Christian college students.
		Faculty Preceptor Liaison for Social Work: Jennifer Payne, PhD, LCSW Dr. Jennifer Payne is an Assistant Professor in APU’s Department of Social Work. Her research interests include developing culturally adapted community-based depression and trauma interventions and addressing minority mental health disparities. She is the Principal Investigator of the Urban Pastor's Project and the Clergy Depressive Counseling Survey, which surveyed pastors’ beliefs and treatment practices surrounding depression and mental health. Dr. Payne is also an Ordained Evangelist with the Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (PAW), and the Director of the Psychological and Social Resource Ministry. She is a trainer and consultant on mental illness issues through the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health Clergy Training Academy.
		Faculty Preceptor Liaison for Nursing: Lynda Reed, DNP, RN, FNP-C Dr. Reed is the Director of FNP and AGNP programs at Azusa Pacific University and has 30 years of experience as a nurse, nurse practitioner, and nurse educator. Her research is on wellness and integrating primary care with behavioral health for chronic disease patients to improve coping and self-management. She was the first faculty member at APU to require that students practice SBIRT on their adult patients in the outpatient primary care clinical settings. Her NP background includes endocrinology, specifically diabetology, family practice, prenatal care and women’s health in low-income community clinics.
		Evaluation Specialist: Alex (Chong) Ho Yu, PhD Dr. Yu is an Associate professor at Azusa Pacific University and has extensive training in statistical methodologies, including exploratory data analysis, data visualization, resampling, and data mining, and multimedia learning. His interests are in alternate and emerging research methods, instructional psychology and technology, philosophical aspects of research methodologies, cross-cultural comparison, and the relationship between faith and science.
		Research Associate: Janna Schirmer, BA Janna Schirmer is the project research associate who assists the team with development, implementation, and evaluation of the SBIRT training.

Link: http://www.calbaptist.edu/

About: California Baptist University (CBU) offers academic programs that foster the intellectual, physical, social and spiritual development of each student, with the purpose of sending out students into the world who are academically prepared, biblically rooted, globally minded, and equipped to serve. These values make California Baptist University an invaluable partner in this project and we are grateful for the opportunity to work with CBU’s undergraduate nursing department and its undergraduate and graduate psychology departments in our training endeavor.

Mission Statement: California Baptist University believes each person has been created for a purpose. CBU helps students understand and engage this purpose by providing a Christ-centered educational experience that integrates academics with spiritual and social development opportunities. Graduates are challenged to become individuals whose skills, integrity and sense of purpose glorify God and distinguish them in the workplace and in the world.
 

Link: http://www.cui.edu/en-us/ 

About: Concordia Univesrity Irvine (CUI) is a traditionally Lutheran institution comprised of a thoughtful and caring Christian community that seeks to live out the theology of "Grace Alone. Faith Alone." CUI’s dedication to preparing students for their vocations provides the perfect partnership for our project as we endeavor to equip students in the CUI undergraduate nursing program to provide culturally competent care to all of their patients.

Mission Statement: Concordia University Irvine, guided by the Great Commission of Christ Jesus and the Lutheran Confessions, empowers students through the liberal arts and professional studies for lives of learning, service and leadership.

Link: http://www.fresno.edu/

About: Fresno Pacific University promotes academic excellence, innovative programming and spiritual vitality among its students. The University upholds the Christ-centered values of community, service to others, academic and professional excellence, student-focused education, and innovative and responsive thinkers. The Faith & Spirituality Integrated Network is excited to be partnering with Fresno Pacific University’s undergraduate social work department and graduate psychology department as we seek to bring SBIRT practice and culturally competent care to a broader community of allied health professionals.

Mission Statement: Fresno Pacific University develops students for leadership and service through excellence in Christian higher education.

 

Link: http://dmh.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dmh

About: The Department of Mental Health in Los Angeles County (LAC DMH) is the largest county-operated mental health department in the United States and oversees more than 85 sites throughout LA County. LAC DMH provides mental health services, including assessments, case management, crisis intervention, medication support, peer support, and other rehabilitative services. Special emphasis is placed on addressing co-occurring mental health disorders as well as addiction. The department works with stakeholders and community partners to provide clinically competent, culturally sensitive, and linguistically appropriate mental health services to clients in the least restrictive settings. 
The Clergy Advisory Committee: DMH recognizes the role that spirituality can play in a client’s mental health recovery and is therefore partnered with leaders of the faith community in Los Angeles County. These clergy leaders represent various faith communities, mental health consumers, and family members who collaborate with the DMH staff to provide culturally competent care. 
The Student Professional Development Program: DMH holds a training partnership with accredited professional schools that place students in a variety of clinical and administrative settings to give students an opportunity to learn about professional practice and receive a wide variety of trainings through DMH. 

Mission Statement: Enriching lives through partnership designed to strengthen the community’s capacity to support recovery and resiliency is our Mission. DMH works with its stakeholders and community partners to provide clinically competent, culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate mental health services to our clients in the least restrictive manner possible. We tailor our services and support to help clients and families achieve their personal goals, increase their ability to achieve independence and develop skills to support their leading the most constructive and satisfying life possible.

Link: http://www.uclaisap.org/html/overview.html 

About: The UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) conducts research, provides research training and clinical training, and arranges treatment for substance use disorders (SUDs) in coordination with the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and in affiliation with community-based treatment providers. ISAP efforts range from clinical trials of innovative behavioral therapies and pharmacotherapies to epidemiological studies.

Mission Statement: The UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs (ISAP) works to: 1) develop and evaluate new approaches for the treatment of substance use disorders; 2) move empirically supported treatments into mainstream application through dissemination of research findings and practice improvement efforts; 3) advance the empirical understanding of substance use disorders and support efforts to ameliorate related problems through clinical training provided to physicians, counselors, and other healthcare workers; 4) investigate the epidemiology, neurobiology, health and social consequences, treatment, and prevention of substance use disorders.