email: kauffmannl@reachoflouisville.com

Lisa Kauffmann is an Evaluation Researcher at REACH. In addition to managing the Kentucky Incentives for Prevention (KIP) survey, she is responsible for coordinating research activities of various evaluation projects, designing evaluation instruments, maintaining communication with evaluation sites, and acquiring and managing all research records. Lisa’s responsibilities extend to prevention projects across the state, including: multiple adolescent prevention curriculums in Eastern Kentucky, the underage tobacco sales prevention (Synar) initiative, and several Kentucky Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse related projects. While earning Bachelor’s degrees in psychology and English at Bellarmine University, Lisa studied Intercultural Communications and completed her minor thesis at Växjö University in Växjö, Sweden.  She has recently completed her Master’s course work in sociology at the University of Louisville, where she focused on social explanations of psychological distress, bereavement, and identity formation as related to grief experience and mental health.  Her professional interests include community-based mental health services, grief education and support programs, and providing culturally-competent and age-appropriate services to young people. As the sister of a child with developmental disabilities, Lisa is proud to work with a group of individuals intensely committed to REACH’s person-centered mission.