Elizabeth Snyder-Fickler

Elizabeth Snyder-Fickler
Research Scientist

Liz Snyder-Fickler is trained as a research psychologist, with a concentration in cognitive development. Her work focuses on conducting rigorous community-based research and evaluation. With a concentration on vulnerable children and families and the systems that serve them, her research broadly spans the areas of child welfare, early childhood and elementary education, and children's mental health. Research interests include design, implementation and analysis of interventions, and the use of actionable data to improve practice and policy within these human service settings. She has led several federally and locally funded evaluations, including:

Child Welfare

Establishing a Definition of Child Well-Being and Developing a Program-Specific Intervention and Evaluation Plan to Measure Outcomes (Children's Home Society of North Carolina)
Evaluation of the Durham Integrated Domestic Violence Response System
Evaluation of a comprehensive family assessment process to improve child welfare outcomes in Alamance County, N.C.
The evaluation of a system of care infrastructure grant awarded by the Children's Bureau to the North Carolina Division of Social Services. Implemented within Alamance, Bladen, and Mecklenburg counties, the evaluation examined whether an interagency System of Care (SOC) could achieve positive outcomes for children and families involved with child protective services.

Children's Mental Health

Reducing the Need for Out-of-home Placements: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Examine the Effects of Family Centered Treatment on Well-Being Outcomes and Public Dollar Costs

BECOMING, a SAMHSA-funded System of Care Child Mental Health Initiative serving transition-age youth (16-21) with mental health challenges in Durham, North Carolina.

Early Childhood and Elementary Education

The evaluation of the East Durham Children’s Initiative
Evaluation of the East Durham Learning Collaborative
Impacts of the Book Babies Home Visiting Program on Early Literacy and School Readiness: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Durham and Winston-Salem, NC

Dr. Snyder-Fickler has also served as a consultant for grantees of the Oak Foundation Learning Differences program within the areas of capacity building and evaluation. Her work on this project focused on providing technical assistance to grantees to enhance their infrastructure and ensure they have the data needed to perform a strong evaluation.

Prior to coming to the Center, Liz was a post-doctoral fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During that time her research and training experiences involved both the Carolina Interdisciplinary Large-Scale Policy Research Training and the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study.

Current Research Interests

Program Evaluation
Education
Child Maltreatment
Children's Mental Health

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Research Scientist, Center for Child and Family Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy

Contact Information

2024 W Main St, Rm C220, Durham, NC 27710
liz.snyder@duke.edu +1 919 668 3288

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