Gretchen Thomas teaches Program Evaluation at Columbia University to graduate students in the schools of Social Work, Public Health, and International and Public Affairs. She received a MS from Columbia and a BA from The Catholic University of America. Miss Thomas is currently a PhD candidate at CUSSW.

Her experience with data analysis includes working with SPSS, SAS, SUDAAN, as well as statistical analysis packages from Bell Labs, Lucient Technologies. She has worked as a research assistant at Columbia, New York, and Fordham Universities during her doctoral studies. Additionally, she worked as a research intern, funded by the CDC, through the Columbia Center for Youth Violence Prevention at Columbia’s Mailman School of Public Health in collaboration with the 4Rs Study, Educators for Social Responsibility (ESR Metro), and New York City public schools. Her current dissertation research focuses on typologies of juvenile sex offenders in community treatment.

Miss Thomas has 6 years of clinical experience. Most recently, she was the provider of mental health assessment and treatment services for male, female, adolescent, and adult sex offenders in Brooklyn, the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island in collaboration with the New York City Department of Probation and Criminal Court. Through the Counseling and Psychotherapy Center, Inc., she administered pre and post conviction assessments as well as court mandated individual and group treatment. She was formerly the senior treatment clinician for the SAFE Program, a juvenile sex offender community treatment and research program at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic in Pittsburgh, PA. Other clinical experiences include her work as a school crisis clinician in the Philadelphia area, as well as her work as a medical social worker at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC where she provided counseling services to HIV+ adolescents and their families.

Last updated December 03, 2007.