Sue-Ming Yang and Charlotte Gill recognized for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial

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Associate Professors Sue-Ming Yang and Charlotte Gill, along with doctoral students Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Cait Kanewske, are the recipients of the American Society of Criminology's Division of Experimental Criminology 2024 Award for Outstanding Experimental Field Trial. Yang and Gill partnered with the Roanoke County Police Department to evaluate a police-clinician co-responder program to improve police response to community members experiencing a mental health crisis. Their paper, "A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: A randomized controlled trial,” which was published in the Journal of Experimental Criminology, finds that while a co-response team is promising for assisting individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, achieving long-term effectiveness requires identifying strategies that reduce treatment attrition and enhance subsequent outcomes.

Photo from left to right (affiliation at the time of photo): Yi-Fang Lu (George Mason University), Benjamin Dunlea (Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare), Captain Andrew Pulley (Roanoke Police Department), Assistant Chief James Chapman (Roanoke County Police Department), Mary Mowbray (Blue Ridge Behavioral Healthcare), Sue-Ming Yang (George Mason University). Photo credit: I-Ching Jen.