Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Group

michelle.munson@nyu.edu | (212) 992-9731
Dr. Munson is a Professor at NYU Silver. She has professional interests in mental health services research and intervention development and testing, and her work centers on adolescents and young adults. Dr. Munson’s research seeks to understand how society’s structural conditions and social relationships, through both verbal and non-verbal communication, shape young adults’ decisions to seek (or not seek) professional mental health services. Her research and scholarship also seeks to develop, refine, adapt, and test engagement and treatment interventions for adolescents and young adults with serious mental health conditions.

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jj76@nyu.edu | (212) 998-5906
Dr. James Jaccard is a professor of social work with a long history of collaborating with social work and public health to help resolve significant behavioral health challenges among youth and young adults within complex organizations and low-resourced communities. He is an expert in attitude change, decision-making and communication strategies, among others.

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km162@nyu.edu 
Kiara Moore, PhD, LCSW is an Assistant Professor at New York University Silver School of Social Work. . Dr. Moore's areas of specialization are mental health services and marginalized youth during the transition to adulthood. Dr. Moore's work examines major barriers to treatment, such as access, stigma, and health decision-making among youth of color, youth from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, and LGBTQ youth. Her research aims to develop an in-depth understanding of the complicated processes by which young people's identities shape their participation in mental health care and to apply those insights to improving service use through a culturally-responsive intervention.

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arc482@nyu.edu | 212-992-6658
Andrea Cole, PhD, LCSW is Research Scientist with the Youth and Young Adult Mental Health Research Group. Andrea completed her PhD at NYU Silver School of Social Work in 2017. Her research interests include youth and young adult trauma, exposure to community violence, intervention research, and implementation science.

melissa.bessaha@stonybrook.edu
Melissa Bessaha is an Assistant Professor of social work at the SUNY Stony Brook University School of Social Welfare. Her research centers on mental health and wellbeing during the transition to adulthood. Her research aims to inform culturally responsive interventions and policies that promote mental health and higher education equity among underserved and immigrant youth and young adults.

luis.ramirez@nyu.edu | 212-998-4783
Luis Ramirez is a PhD student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. He joined Dr. Munson's Staying Healthy Feeling Good project in 2015 as a research assistant. His areas of interest include LGBTQ issues, sex work, and the mental health consequences of stigma and oppression.

rs3432@nyu.edu
Rei Shimizu is a doctoral student at NYU Silver School of Social Work. She has a clinical background in trauma-focused therapy for survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in the United States and Japan. Her research interest is in health behaviors, specifically focusing on decision making related to food preferences and eating behavior and its intersections with trauma for low-income women.

ahr324@nyu.edu
Aaron Rodwin, LMSW, is Research Assistant with interests in the development and treatment of serious mental health conditions among Young Adults. An MSW graduate of NYU Silver School of Social Work, Aaron is interested in the use of innovative intervention strategies that harness the power of music and the creative arts in a therapeutic capacity as a culturally responsive vehicle to foster engagement, empowerment, and well-being in clinical practice. Aaron is also involved with research at Columbia University-NYS Psychiatric Institute and is a Therapist at Douglas Psychotherapy Services.

rcreary@iclinic.net
Redell Creary is a Peer Support Specialist at the Institute for Community Living. He is also an artist and cartoonist. And he has enjoyed working with NYU to develop the position of Recovery Role Model Mentor for transition-age youth and young adults

lmh2212@columbia.edu
Lindsay Hylek has BA in Psychology and Anthropology from Colby College and is currently pursing a MSW at Columbia University. She is also an Integrated Trauma Studies Program candidate at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy. Prior to joining YYAMH-G, she was a Research Assistant in Colby's Personality Lab, MGH's Depression Clinical and Research Program, and OHSU's Translational Research of Adolescent Change Lab. She is particularly interested in 1. the impact of developmental trauma on the transition to adulthood and 2. holistic approaches to youth and young adult mental health treatment, including the use of expressive therapies, yoga and meditation, and ecotherapy.

kp1984@nyu.edu
Kristin Pleines, LCSW, DSW has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults impacted by trauma, particularly domestic violence. She completed her DSW at NYU Silver School of Social Work in 2019. Kristin is interested in enhancing mental health services for high-need populations. She is especially interested in trauma-informed care as well as trauma-informed supervision of clinicians and staff.

kp1984@nyu.edu
Kristin Pleines, LCSW, DSW has extensive experience working with children, adolescents, and adults impacted by trauma, particularly domestic violence. She completed her DSW at NYU Silver School of Social Work in 2019. Kristin is interested in enhancing mental health services for high-need populations. She is especially interested in trauma-informed care as well as trauma-informed supervision of clinicians and staff.

aa6179@nyu.edu
Angel Amaro is a second-year MSW candidate at the Columbia University School of Social Work (CUSSW).  He is currently part of the Dialectical Behavioral Therapy program at CUSSW and will intern at The Children’s Village in Dobbs Ferry reunifying foster care youth with their families.  Angel worked extensively with individuals whom were homeless and diagnosed with mental illness and is interested in working with Latinos with Serious Mental Illness.

kamilyah.cooper@nyu.edu
Kamilyah Cooper, LCSW is an alumna of NYU Silver School of Social Work. For over a decade she has worked with young people of color who have severe and persistent mental health diagnoses. Her previous experience has been centered on combining her two passions: destigmazting mental health diagnoses in marginalized communities and working with young people of color who have experienced trauma.

mlv269@nyu.edu
Melissa Villodas, LMSW is currently a PhD student at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Melissa is an alumna of NYU’s Silver School of Social Work and a former YYAMH-G member. She has clinical experience working with individuals with mood disorders in foster care and integrated health care settings. Her research interests include youth and young adult identity formation and its effect on mental health wellness during the transition to adulthood. Additionally, she is interested in policy improvement for marginalized youth and young adults in urban communities of color.

xm515@nyu.edu
Xiuyun (Sharon) Miao, BSW, is an MSW candidate at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She is a member of Phi Alpha National Honor Society for Social Work - Pi Pi Chapter. She will start her second-year field placement as a social work intern at Mental Health Bridge Program at Charles B. Wang Community Health Center. Her research focuses on children and adolescent’s mental health, in particular, cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) treatment for youth.

sbd268@nyu.edu
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