SAE welcomes the distinguished Dr. Julianne Rush-Manchester as our Director of Performance Improvement & Sustainability.
“The application of usable knowledge requires that teams assess, align and optimize new, emergent behavioral norms within attached systems. Otherwise, the vision of performance improvement deflates into an unrealized concept.”
Julianne Rush-Manchester, PhD, LSSBB
Dr. Manchester is a professionally trained evaluator and process improvement expert with a PhD from the Ohio State University in Quantitative Research, Evaluation and Measurement in Education (earned 2007). Her master’s degrees are in Industrial/ Organizational Psychology and Educational Policy and Leadership. She is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. She is the lead author of peer-reviewed publications in Military Medicine, Evaluation and Program Planning, and Performance Improvement.
She has held leadership roles as a Principal Investigator, Program Manager, and Evaluation Scientist on federal (DHHS-HRSA; DoD-DHA; OMH) and state (Ohio) agreements (ODH; ODE; OMHAS; OCMH).
She has trained educators, health professionals, medical faculty, and the prevention workforce on building their processes and capacity to improve effectiveness demonstrations in health and behavioral health settings. She has held leadership roles as a Principal Investigator, Program Manager, and Evaluation Scientist on federal (DHHS-HRSA; DoD-DHA; OMH) and state (Ohio) agreements (ODH; ODE; OMHAS; OCMH).
As a facilitator of evaluation knowledge for clients, colleagues, and stakeholders, she strengthens prevention policy, provides capacity support to workforce development programs (e.g., employee assistance, substance abuse, risk reduction, suicide prevention, retail food protection) through logic modeling and strategy development, creates needs assessments and analyzes gaps and redundancies in support of the prevention workforce, and facilitates discussions on suicide prevention planning resources with stakeholders.
She has real world, applied experience spanning over 21 years in program management, evaluation, and research in public health (environmental health, retail food protection, health disparities, suicide prevention, alcohol and drug prevention, coalition building), health (traumatic brain injury, psychological health, delirium, dementia, diabetes, depression, palliative care), K-12 (school safety), and criminal justice sectors. She is an active member of the American Evaluation Association (AEA) (2006 to present), the Maryland Writers’ Association, and The Virginia Writers Club.
📄Access Dr. Manchester’s Issue Brief #1: Community Resource Teams – Bridging The Gap Between Public Health and Behavioral Health
Access Dr. Manchester’s Issue Brief #2: Improving Community Based Behavioral Health Initiatives Through Participatory Implementation And Evaluation.
Access Dr. Manchester’s Issue Brief #3: Participatory Logic Modeling for Integrated Behavioral Health Outcomes Demonstrations
Access Dr. Manchester in conversation with Dr. Bohs for SAE’s October 27, 2022 Provider Learning Collaborative Conducting and Utilizing Community Health Needs Assessments in your CCBHC | The link to this audio/video recording is accessible via SAE’s mailing list for anyone not originally registered to participate.
