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Christina Christopoulos

Research Scholar

Christina Christopoulos started her career at Duke in 1987 and in 1990 she became the coordinator of the Fast Track program, a longitudinal, multi-site prevention/intervention program aiming at reducing antisocial behavior. Since 2002 she has been the senior evaluation researcher of the Durham Family Initiative (DFI), a prevention/intervention program designed to reduce child maltreatment in the Durham Community. As DFI's senior evaluation researcher, she consulted in all aspects of evaluation, helping design studies, develop assessment tools, and coordinate and supervise data collections.

In collaboration with the DFI research team, Christopoulos assisted in the evaluation of the Multiple Response System (MRS), a family-centered response system to child protection that was introduced by the North Carolina Division of Social Services in 10 pilot counties in June 2002. The report titled "Multiple Response System (MRS) Evaluation Report to the North Carolina Division of Social Services (NCDSS)" was presented to the North Carolina General Assembly on April 1, 2004.

Christopoulos also consulted on the Evaluation of Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care, a five-year grant designed to develop an evaluation process to determine whether community-based, interagency Systems of Care (SOC) can effectively achieve positive outcomes for children and families involved with child welfare agencies and their partner agencies.

In 2008 she became the principal investigator for two contracts to evaluate the HillRAP intervention in the Durham and Davie county Public Schools. HillRAP is an intensive remediation program for students with specific learning disabilities and/or attention deficit disorder. It was first designed and implemented at the Hill Center, a private school in Durham, North Carolina, and was subsequently revised for use in the public schools as a Tier 3 intervention in the Response to Intervention continuum.

Christopoulos is currently the evaluator of the Alamance Alliance for Children and Families, a six-year cooperative agreement awarded by SAMHSA to the Alamance County Department of Social Services. The program’s goal is to create a System of Care infrastructure to help families with children birth through five with serious social-emotional difficulties.

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - 1988
• Post-doctorate Duke University, Durham, NC - 1987
• M.A. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA - 1984
• B.A. University of Athens, Athens, GREECE - 1980

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. Christopoulos, C., Rosanbalm, K., & Rabiner, D. "Evaluation of the HillRAP Intervention in Davie County Middle Schools: Final Report."  2011


2. Christopoulos, C., Rosanbalm, K., & Rabiner, D. "Evaluation of the HillRAP Intervention in Durham County Schools: Final Report."  2011


3. Rosanbalm, K., & Christopoulos, C. "Incredible Years: Expected Effects and Recommendations for Monitoring Outcomes.."  2011


4. Rosanbalm, K. D., Dodge, K. A., Murphy, R., O’Donnell, K., Christopoulos, C., Williams, S., Appleyard, K., & Daro, D. (2010). Evaluation of a collaborative community-based child maltreatment prevention initiative. Protecting Children, 25(4), 8-23.


5. Christopoulos, C., Rosanbalm, K., & Rabiner, D. "Evaluation of the HillRAP Intervention in Durham County Schools: Results from Year 1."  2010

Recent Presentations

1. Multiple Response system (MRS) Evaluation, Presented at the Annual Executive Commitee Meeting of the North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services, Ashville, NC, May 2004
2. MRS Evaluation, Presented at the Annual Executive Committee Meeting of the North Carolina Association of County Directors of Social Services, Raleigh, NC, March 2007

1. Outcomes for the HillRAP Program in the Durham Public Schools, April 19, 2011

1. Family Factors Predicting Participation in a Universal Postnatal Nurse Home Visiting Program, Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, March 2011
2. Nurse Implementation of a High-Inference Screeening Tool for Child Maltreatment Risk in a Community Intervention, Paper presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Montreal, Canada, March 2011