An intervention in your pocket. BrotherlyACT is an app and web-based program that provides short life-skills videos, coping and mental health support, and practical safety planning tools for adolescents and young adults living in high-violence, under-resourced communities. The goal is to offer help before a crisis, not only after one. You can download the app through the App Store or Google Play. The current version requires an access code, so please email me and I will send one. 

FatherlyACT (in development) is a trauma-informed father–child dyadic program to strengthen relationships and reduce the intergenerational impacts of domestic violence on children and families. It focuses on supporting fathers in building safe, consistent, and emotionally responsive connections with their children. More details are forthcoming, but the work is actively underway. 

Technology and Adolescent Mental Health Internship (TAMI) Program

I'm especially proud of our TAMI internship at Rush and with the EMERGE Innova+ions Lab. TAMI is a youth research training program, now in its third year, that has engaged more than 90 high school students across eight Chicagoland schools. Students learn how research works, contribute to ongoing projects, and help shape questions that matter to their communities. The program has already led to two youth co-authored publications - one and two - both open access, and reflects a model of genuinely youth-engaged scholarship.