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Leadership

  • Jessica Barber, Ph.D. is the Associate Director of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) national Measurement Based Care in Mental Health Initiative. Drawing from her many years’ experience in training psychologists and medical professionals, her current area of particular focus in the Initiative is on developing educational tools and resources to facilitate implementation of MBC across the VHA enterprise. A licensed clinical psychologist, Dr. Barber’s specialty is Clinical Health Psychology. She is an Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University, Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, and remains actively involved in training at Yale University and VA Connecticut Healthcare System. She received her Ph.D. 2008 in Clinical Psychology, Clinical Health Psychology Emphasis from Yeshiva University, the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology.
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry; Director of Training, YSM Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology, Psychiatry

    Dr. Amber W. Childs is a licensed clinical psychologist and associate professor of psychiatry in the Yale School of Medicine, and is a member of the medical staff at Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital (YNHPH). Childs is the co-founder and director of the Getting Racism Out of our Work (GROW) Initiative, co-founder of the Yale Measurement-Based Care Collaborative and founder of M-Select, a comprehensive digital mental health solution for youth at YSM. Childs successfully commercialized M-Select in 2024, at BeMe Health, where she served as Chief Clinical Officer from 2023-2024. Additional YSM leadership roles have included Director of Training for the Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Co-Director of the Division of Quality and Innovation within YNHPH. Childs is deeply involved in antiracism and DEI efforts...
  • Associate Professor of Psychiatry

    Dr. Connors received her Ph.D. in Clinical Child and Community Psychology from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She is an Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Psychology) and in the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Connors directs School Mental Health Implementation Consultation and Research at The Consultation Center at Yale, which seeks to promote equitable access to high quality mental health promotion, prevention, early intervention, and treatment services and supports in K-12 schools. Dr. Connors and her team apply participatory research methods and principles of implementation science to improve the quality of mental health services for underserved and minoritized children, adolescents and their families in schools, community clinics and primary care settings. Dr. Connors' current research includes developing and testing 1...
  • Professor of Psychiatry; Associate Director, VA Northeast Program Evaluation Center (NEPEC), Department of Veterans Affairs, VA Central Office

    Sandy Resnick is Director of the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) national Measurement Based Care in Mental Health Initiative. She also conducts program evaluation of VHA specialty care and develops quality improvement strategies to enhance VHA mental health care. An expert in evidence-based practices for individuals with psychiatric disabilities, Dr. Resnick is committed to data literacy and helping others understand how to use data to support and improve patient-centered mental health care at all levels of mental health systems. A licensed clinical psychologist, she is a co-founder of the Yale Measurement-Based Care Collaborative.