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Lisa
Crabtree is responsible for coordinating survey activities, acquiring and managing all survey records, and providing technical assistance to participating school districts. She is available to answer any questions related to survey participation and/or administration. |
Daniel Sanders Jr, PhD. is in charge of survey data analysis and KIP results generation. He currently lives and works in China. |
Daniel Sanders III creates the comparison graphs sent to each district. |
Patrick Smith assists in data management and analysis for the KIP survey. |
Amanda Kilmeris
responsible for working with KIP coordinators to arrange for shipment
of completed KIP surveys and ensuring that all shipments are received
and entered on schedule. She also assists with tracking district
level information, report preparation, and other related activities.
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Brittany
Inge
assists with the management of administrative paperwork related to
the KIP survey, mail distribution, and final report preparation. |
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Lisa Crabtree
Evaluation Researcher & Sociologist
email:
crabtreel@reachoflouisville.com
Lisa Crabtree,
M.A. is an Evaluation Researcher at REACH. In addition to managing
the biennial Kentucky Incentives for Prevention (KIP) survey, she is
responsible for planning and conducting 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 projects across
the state, including: multiple Drug Free Communities (DFC) grant
initiatives, community needs and resource assessments, health
indicator and improvement evaluations, 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 coursework in sociology at the
University of Louisville, where she focused on social explanations of
distress and inequity; bereavement; and, identity formation as
related to grief experience and mental health. Her graduate thesis,
entitled “The Changing Discourse of Death: A Study of the Evolution
of the Contemporary Funeral Industry”,
utilized a combined quantitative content and qualitative textual
analysis approach to explore articles randomly selected from the
funeral industry trade journal
Mortuary Management.
Lisa’s professional interests include sustainability initiatives, the
development and evaluation of community-based resources, citizen-led
change movements, and the provision of culturally-competent and
age-appropriate services to all 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.
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Daniel H. Sanders, Jr., PhD.
Senior Evaluation Researcher & Statistician
email: sandersd@reachoflouisville.com
Daniel Sanders, Jr. (father of Daniel Sanders III, REACHís Information Manager) serves REACH as Senior Evaluation Researcher. He currently spends most of his time working on the KIP and Synar evaluation projects. These are state wide substance prevention initiatives funded by a grant from the Division of Substance Abuse. Dr. Sanders has been involved in the planning and implementation, and analyzing the resulting data using a variety of statistical tools (including factor analysis and multivariate regression). From these analyses it is possible to extract useful information for future prevention efforts.
After earning a Ph.D. at U. of L., Dr. Sanders taught courses there at the undergraduate level in statistics, research methods, economics, and urban sociology. He also taught courses in the Master of Public Administration program. Earlier, he majored in philosophy at Princeton, earned a Master of Divinity degree, did social work here in Louisville, and then served as a diplomat in Ouagadougou and Zagreb. He was named Cherokee Park volunteer of the year for 2001.
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Daniel H. Sanders, III
Evaluation Researcher and Applications Developer
email: sandersD2@reachoflouisville.com
He works with the creation of software to record, organize, synthesize, and retrieve project-related data, and consults on aspects of data storage and management.
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Patrick Smith, AICP
Community Planner & Evaluation Researcher
email: smithp@reachoflouisville.com
Patrick C. Smith, MUP is a planner and evaluation researcher at REACH of Louisville. Patrick specializes in spatial and statistical analysis, human services planning and evaluation, assessments of accessibility to services, and issues in community development. He is an honors graduate of the University of Louisville's Master of Urban Planning program and graduated with honors with a Bachelor's degree in Geography from the University of Kentucky. While pursuing these degrees he interned with the Kentucky Geological Survey, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, and the American Planning Association. Before coming to REACH, Patrick assisted professors in research projects dealing with access to public parks, access to public transit, emergency response planning, and mobile disaster communications. Currently, Patrick is interested in projects or programs that seek to integrate social services, health services, and community development.
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Amanda Kilmer
Research Associate
email: kilmera@reachoflouisville.com
Amanda Kilmer is a Research Associate at REACH. Amanda's duties include assisting REACH's research evaluation team through data analysis, document preparation, library research and literature reviews. She is also responsible for overseeing REACH's library archives. Amanda graduated with honors from Northern Kentucky University, with a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies. Her core area of academic focus was English, with a particular emphasis on business writing. Amanda served as student editor for Word, NKU's Department of Literature and Language newsletter. She also carried areas of concentration in Psychology, Women's Studies and History. Amanda plans to continue her education, pursuing studies that promote her professional interest in the areas of writing and information management / library science. Amanda recently relocated to Louisville, with her husband Patrick and son Morgan, from her home town of Ft. Thomas, Kentucky. Prior to joining the REACH team, Amanda had several years of experience working in financial planning, personnel management, information management and data archiving. |
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Brittany Parks
Research Associate
email:
ingeb@reachoflouisville.com
Brittany Parks is a Research Assistant at Reach of Louisville. Brittany’s duties include assisting the research team with data entry and helping to set up the REACH library. Brittany is currently working towards her Bachelor’s degree in Education and plans on working as a school counselor.
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