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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 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 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

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

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

Javari Fairclough, PhD Senior Data Analyst Dr. Javari Fairclough earned his Ph.D. in human development and family Sciences at Texas Tech University (TTU). He was trained as an applied quantitative research methodologist and has his roots in Psychology. He also holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in general experimental psychology from California State University, Northridge (CSUN). Dr. Fairclough’s research interests center on positive youth development and the complex interplay between the family unit, peers, and problem behaviors (e.g., youth aggression, delinquency, and substance use) among at-risk youth. Through novel and comprehensive analytic methods, and the examination of various social, psychological, and environmental influences, he strived to pinpoint the dynamic factors that are associated with increases in the probability of engagement in negative behaviors during his time at TTU. He is passionate about protective factors (e.g., parental monitoring) that can mitigate risk and promote positive developmental outcomes for at-risk individuals. This includes an exploration of resilience factors, coping mechanisms, and supportive resources that can serve as influential buffers against problem behaviors. In his free time, he enjoys cooking Jamaican food, learning new programming tools and languages to solve complex statistical problems, trying new restaurants with my wife and lifting free weights at the gym. < Back Javari@appliedsurveyresearch.org

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

View Full Report Executive Summary Community Report Cards < Back Community Report Cards are needs assessments that have an evaluative function. These report cards help us understand and distill what the data are saying, and invite collaborators to take action. Highlight Project: Silicon Valley Latino Community Report Card

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 Surveys < Back “Survey” is our middle name! ASR excels at creating surveys, assessments and scales. Prior to creating any tool, we determine if a suitable tool already exists. If not, ASR can create one, such as our Kindergarten Observation Form (developed 2001), which has now been used to assess the kindergarten readiness of hundreds of thousands of children across California and the United States. ASR can also help you utilize online surveys such as Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey, text-based surveying such as Slicktext, and phone-based polling such as Mentimeter.

Susan Brutschy President 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. < Our Team Susan@appliedsurveyresearch.org

Kim Carpenter, PhD Project Director Joining ASR in 2010, Dr. Carpenter brings over 20 years of knowledge and experience in the child development and early intervention fields. Her graduate and post-doctoral work focused on the social and emotional development of young children and their families, including the impacts of maternal depression and child maltreatment. Since 2010, Dr. Carpenter has led mixed-methods community-based evaluations, surveys, and needs assessments at ASR in areas including early child development, school readiness, child mental health, parent/family support, and youth development. Recently completed projects include: Youth needs assessments and local action plans in San Mateo and Ventura counties, Kaiser Permanente Community Health Needs Assessments in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, and program evaluations for Educare California at Silicon Valley, First 5 Contra Costa, and Santa Clara County Dependency and Collaborative Courts. Dr. Carpenter’s published works include a study in the Journal Child Maltreatment in 2008 on the impact of child neglect on development entitled ‘Emotion Knowledge in Young Neglected Children’, as well as conference presentations over the past 20 years at meetings of the Society for Research in Child Development, the International Conference on Infant Studies, and the Association for Psychological Science. In addition to her work at ASR, Dr. Carpenter enjoys hiking, kayaking/SUP, snowboarding, and creating stained-glass art. She holds PhD and MS degrees in Developmental Psychology from Vanderbilt University, and a BA degree in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. < Back Kim@appliedsurveyresearch.org