
Jill Locke, PhD
Jill Locke, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Co-Director of the School Mental Health Assessment Research and Training (SMART) Center, and a licensed child psychologist. To date, her research has focused on the: 1) presentation of social impairment for autistic youth; 2) identification of best practices for autistic youth; and 3) understanding of successful implementation and sustainment of evidence-based practices (EBPs) for autistic youth in public school settings. Her current research focuses on understanding EBP use to support autistic youth in inclusive settings and developing and testing implementation strategies to support the adoption, implementation, and sustainment of EBPs in public schools.
Education
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania, 2010-2012
PhD, UCLA, 2010
MA, UCLA, 2007
BA, UCLA, 2005
Department Affiliations
Scholarly Expertise
Clinical Expertise
- Systematic redesign of an autism community implementation toolkit for schools
- Preparing teachers and paraprofessionals for the successful inclusion of children with ASD (ASD PREP)
- Autism Intervention Network on Behavioral Health (AIR-B)
- Autism Community Toolkit: Systems to Measure and Adopt Research-Based Treatments- Educational Redesign (ACT SMARTER)
- Implementation Toolkit to Enhance EBP Among Marginalized Families (I-TEAM)
- Exploring mechanisms of change in a pilot trial of the RUBI Program in educational settings
- A Research Institute for Implementation Science in Education (RIISE) to address the “Last Mile” in education
- Helping Educational Leadership Mobilize Evidence (HELM): an organizational intervention to promote strategic implementation in schools
Recent Publications
(2023)
Front Psychiatry 14(): 1241892
Ahlers K, Hugh ML, Tagavi D, Eayrs C, Hernandez AM, Ho T, Locke J
(2023 Jan-Dec)
Implement Res Pract 4(): 26334895231189197
Hernandez AM, Michael O, Canning G, Joshi M, Osuna A, Locke J
(2023 Sep 7)
Sch Psychol
Corbin CM, Lyon AR, Collins VK, Ehrhart MG, Goosey R, Locke J
(2023 Jul 19)
Clin Child Psychol Psychiatry
Kang-Yi CD, Arnold KT, Tieu T, Olubiyi O, Xie M, Lawson GM, Locke J, Pisciella AE
(2023 Jan-Dec)
Implement Res Pract 4(): 26334895231154289
Tagavi DM, Ahlers K, Bravo A, McVey AJ, Locke J
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