Christy Doyle

Christy Doyle is a senior research associate at the Georgia Health Policy Center. She is a licensed clinical social worker, and brings expertise in planning, implementing, and evaluating mental health and substance use treatment and prevention programs. She has worked extensively in programmatic areas regarding high-risk children and adolescents, identification and treatment of complex trauma, diversion strategies and programs for justice-involved youth, utilization of multitiered systems of support in residential treatment settings, and utilization of risk-need-responsivity principals in the use of effect treatment of justice-involved youth. She also brings experience in policy development and review, systems mapping, and systems of care.

She supports a variety of projects at the center, including evaluation of the assisted outpatient treatment program, support for the evaluation of the statewide opioid response grant for youth services, the evaluation of the state pilot of the development and piloting of procedures for certification of Certified Community Behavioral Health Centers, as well as support for the Behavioral Health Reform and Innovation Commission.

She has presented at multiple regional and national conferences related to child, adolescent, and transition-age mental health care and to the special mental health needs of justice-involved adolescents. Her work has been published in Child Maltreatment and in Corrections Today. She has also provided subject matter expertise in webinars offered by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators, the National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health, and in a video interview for the U.S. Department of Education’s Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports.