GINA VINCENT

Gina Vincent, Ph.D. is Co-Director of the Law & Psychiatry Program and Associate Professor at the Implementation Science & Practice Advances Research Center (iSPARC) at the University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School (UMASS). She also is President of the National Youth Screening and Assessment Partners (NYSAP), a technical assistance center for assisting juvenile justice agencies with the selection and implementation of risk assessment, risk-need responsivity, and behavioral health screening tools. She is the author of the Risk Assessment in Juvenile Probation: A Guidebook for Implementation manual. She has assisted over 40 county or state juvenile justice agencies in their implementation of risk assessment instruments for decision-making and case planning. Additionally, she has received funding from NIMH, NIDA, the MacArthur Foundation, OJJDP, and NIJ for studies relevant to risk for reoffending, mental health concerns, and substance use disorders among youth involved in the juvenile justice system. This includes studying the implementation, impact on youth and the system, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness of the use of risk/need assessment and risk-need responsivity. She has over 75 publications in the areas of risk assessment, implementing risk needs assessment in juvenile justice, adolescent substance abuse, callous-unemotional traits, and mental health symptoms.