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Kim Gillette, MPH Project Manager Kim Gillette joined ASR in June 2021. She has over 20 years of experience managing nonprofit and government programs, including developing and evaluating programs, fundraising, and building collaborations to improve communities. Some of her recent ASR projects include the Kaiser Permanente East Bay Community Health Needs Assessment, San Mateo County Juvenile Probation annual programmatic evaluations, and the First 5 Solano report on Foundation Giving in Solano County and the Bay Area. ​ In her last role, as a consultant at BuildingBlox Consulting, Kim provided training to nonprofit executives and board members to effectively lead their organizations, coached leaders and provided them with tools and expertise to solve challenges, and conducted needs and feasibility assessments to help nonprofit organizations strategically plan for the future. Prior to that, she was the Director of the Daly City Youth Health Center for ten years. In this role she managed the team members and operations of a comprehensive health center for low-income youth, providing them with primary health care, behavioral health services, health education and vocation programs. She successfully led the planning and fundraising to enable the Health Center to move into a new, state-of-the-art, teen-friendly facility. ​ Kim received her Master of Public Health degree from the University of Michigan in Health Behavior Health Education and Interdepartmental Concentration in Reproductive and Women’s health and her Bachelor’s in Psychology from UC Berkeley. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, hiking, crafting, and snuggling in the hammock with her pup and a good book. < Back Gillette@appliedsurveyresearch.org

Jessica Irwin, PhD Senior Research Analyst Dr. Jessica Irwin joined ASR in 2023 as a Senior Research Analyst. She earned a Ph.D. in developmental psychology with a minor in statistics from Wayne State University, and completed postdoctoral training at the University of Rochester, UCLA, and Chapman University. Her research used a biopsychosocial theoretical framework to examine risk and resilience in the context of early life experiences. ​ Dr. Irwin has extensive training in data analysis and expertise ranging from design and implementation of research protocols and assessments, to cleaning, organizing, and analyzing data, and creating engaging visuals of the results. She also has years of experience teaching statistics, research methods, and developmental psychology courses as a university professor. In her free time, she enjoys cooking, crafting, and spending time with her fiancé and dog. She is also a passionate advocate for disability rights. ​ < Back Jessica@appliedsurveyresearch.org

View Full Report Executive Summary App & Text-Based Data Collection ASR can help you find innovative ways to reach your audience. We use online surveys such as Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey, text-based surveying such as Slicktext, and phone-based polling such as Menti-meter. Recent Homeless PIT counts have used app-based data collection techniques. ​ Highlight Project: San Francisco Homeless Count and Survey View Full Report Executive Summary < Back Additional work samples Monterey County Homeless Count and Survey View Report

View Full Report Executive Summary Participatory Research and Evaluation < Back “Nothing about us without us.” More and more, community change efforts are seeking to better incorporate the voices of residents in the planning, design and implementation of such efforts. ASR helps partners use participatory approaches wherever possible, such as neighborhood forums with My Brother’s Keeper Initiative in East Palo Alto, face-to-face intercept interviewing for Sutter County Children and Families Commission Strategic Plan, and peer-led surveying in our homeless enumerations. Contact Us for More Information

Jenna Nybank Graphic Designer Jenna joined ASR in 2019, and continues to support the team with their various internal and external visual communication needs. She earned a BFA in Graphic Design with a minor in advertising from San Jose State University. She has a diverse design background in branding, packaging, and various other facets of print-based design. Prior to working at ASR she spent years working for a well-known children’s book publisher where she designed instructional books for kids. She strives to apply her background of clear communication and visually engaging design to the work we do at ASR. Outside of work she enjoys hanging out with her family, enjoying the outdoors, and creating art when time allows. < Back Jenna@appliedsurveyresearch.org

View Full Report Executive Summary Public Safety ASR’s partnerships in the public safety arena include the City of Watsonville’s Committee on Policing and Social Equity, and multi-disciplinary family violence response teams aimed at protecting adult victims and children. ​ Project Highlight: City of Watsonville Ad Hoc Committee on Policing and Social Equity View Report < Back Additional work samples Half Moon Bay CARES Program View Summary Santa Cruz County Criminal Justice Council Report 2022 View Report Santa Cruz County Criminal Justice Council Report 2021 View Report CAFES Program, Santa Cruz County Probation Department View Report

View Full Report Executive Summary Youth Development ASR has supported many youth-serving organizations to understand the needs of youth and their families and to evaluate the programs that support them. Partnerships include county juvenile probation departments and local coalitions aimed at improving youth development. ​ Project Highlight: San Mateo County Probation Department Evaluation Report 2021-2022 View Full Report < Back Additional work samples Children & Youth Well-being Santa Cruz County Spotlight View Report San Mateo Juvenile Probation Local Action Plan View Full Report Brief Report Santa Cruz County Status on Youth Violence View Full Report Strategic Plan

Kimberly Corneille, MA Senior Research Analyst I Kimberly Corneille joined ASR in September 2023. She has over 20 years of experience working in education, mostly serving at-promise youth. Some of her recent ASR projects include the Resource Link project, as well as facilitating decision-making processes with Santa Clara County’s Office of Education’s Universal PreKindergarten Program. ​ Prior to her role at ASR, she was a Senior Community Organizer and the Foster Youth Services Coordinator for the Santa Cruz County Office of Education, overseeing countywide foster youth data and providing technical assistance on foster youth education-related best practices to 11 school districts. During her tenure there, she was also the FosterEd Project Lead, the Chair of the Santa Cruz County Foster Youth Services Executive Advisory Council, a Trauma Informed Practices for Schools (TIPS) trainer, and a certified Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) coach. She is a student of Radical Transformational Leadership and uses her values to guide her work with children, youth, families, schools and organizations. Kimberly also has several years of experience teaching in the classroom. ​ Kimberly received her Masters in Teaching and Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from UC Santa Cruz and her Bachelor’s in Human Development from UC San Diego. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, yoga, working with rescue horses, seeing live music, traveling, reading, and spending time with her partner and dog < Back Corneille@appliedsurveyresearch.org

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Claire Miller, PhD Senior Research Analyst II Dr. Miller has 15 years of research experience within the areas of social sciences, experimental research design, advanced quantitative research methodology, and learning analytics. In addition, she has extensive experience working with large data sets, designing data visualization dashboards in Tableau, and writing reports for publication. Dr. Miller has expertise in basic inferential statistics, including parametric and nonparametric analytic methods, as well as advanced quantitative methodologies, such as structural equation models (path analysis, factor analysis, multivariate analysis, latent growth curve models) and generalized linear mixed models (hierarchical models). Her work has been presented at multiple national conferences, including the American Educational Research Association and American Psychological Association, and has been published in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Miller has over 10 years of experience teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses, including educational psychology, classroom assessment, research methods, and advanced statistical methods (e.g., multiple regression). In her spare time, Dr. Miller enjoys traveling and paddleboarding. < Back claire@appliedsurveyresearch.org

View Full Report Executive Summary Process & Outcome Evaluations Process-oriented evaluations look at how well an effort is being implemented, usually for the formative purposes of making improvements. Outcome-oriented evaluations look at the summative impact of an effort on participants. Most of ASR’s evaluations include both process and outcome components so we can help you get a holistic view of how your efforts are helping create positive change. ​ Highlight Project: First 5 Sacramento Evaluation Report < Back View Full Report Additional work samples F5 Santa Clara F5 Tehama View Full Report Exec Summary View Full Report Exec Summary F5 Siskiyou View Full Report Exec Summary CAFES Program, Santa Cruz County Probation Department View Report

Laura Johnsen Research and Administrative Assistant Susan Brutschy co-founded Applied Survey Research in 1981 with Sociology Professor Dane Archer of the University of California, Santa Cruz. She has been President of ASR since 1989, leading hundreds of evaluations, assessments, and strategic planning processes in community quality of life, early childhood development, domestic violence, child abuse and maltreatment, early literacy, K-12 education, and homelessness. ​ Ms. Brutschy has expanded ASR's work to national and international prominence. In 2006, ASR won the prestigious Community Service Award from the Association for Applied and Clinical Sociology (AACS). They noted that ASR won the honor "for its outstanding work in applying its data collection, analysis, reporting, and management skills to addressing homelessness and other social problems." In 2007, ASR and the United Way of Santa Cruz County won a national award from the Brookings Institution for having the best indicator project in the nation, the Santa Cruz County Community Assessment Project (CAP) . Over the last decade, Ms. Brutschy has pioneered an outcomes framework for ASR's work in community assessments, evaluations, and strategic planning processes. This framework, known as Results Based Accountability (RBA), was created by Mark Friedman of the Fiscal Policies Institute. The framework’s goal is to begin with the outcomes that a community would like to achieve. Once a community agrees on those outcomes, Ms. Brutschy and ASR staff use RBA to develop the best methods to achieve those ends. ​ She has successfully led many projects using RBA, including the previously mentioned Santa Cruz County CAP, which functions as a community report card with over 135 indicators; First 5 Santa Cruz County to benefit children ages 0-5 in low income communities of color; and Kindergarten Readiness Assessments in Alameda, Santa Clara, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties. Ms. Brutschy believes that data should not sit in binders collecting dust, but rather that it should become a catalyst for community change. She has helped many communities in California, Arizona, and Alaska to achieve improvements in health, domestic violence, child abuse and maltreatment, early childhood literacy, drug and alcohol abuse, and school safety. ​ She graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with highest honors in Sociology, and received awards for her research in designing and implementing quantitative assessments of community opinion for the Social Research Unit. In addition to her work at ASR, Ms. Brutschy enjoys reading about the history of ancient Egypt, international travel, and camping with her husband and four adult children. < Back LauraJ@appliedsurveyresearch.org