Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Portland State University
Stephanie Bryson is a Professor at Portland State University. Her scholarship seeks to reduce punitive, coercive, and stigmatizing practices in the public mental health, child welfare, and disability systems. For more than two decades, she has evaluated community-based efforts to improve the effectiveness and responsiveness of mental health services in the U.S. and Canada for Latino youth (PI, REACH Foundation & Healthcare Foundation of Kansas City, 2008-2012); children on the autism spectrum (Co-PI, Centers for Medicaid Services, 2005-2009); children experiencing psychiatric hospitalization (Co-PI, Centers for Medicaid Services, 2010-2012); children with medically and behaviorally complex conditions (IHI Triple Aim Complex Care Collaborative, BC Women’s Hospital, 2015-2017); Asian boys and men (Co-PI, Movember, 2013-2016); parents of children with mental health and co-occurring intellectual disabilities who linger in foster care (Co-PI, Children’s Bureau, 2010-2015); youth experiencing coercive interventions in inpatient or residential psychiatric settings (PI, BC Children’s Hospital, 2012-2016); and child-welfare involved families in Canada (PI, BC Ministry of Children and Family Development, 2015-2016). She has received $20m in funding, produced 53 publications or reports, and has given 50+ refereed presentations. For the last 8 years, she served as Chair of the BSW Program and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Portland State University.
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