Laricia Longworth-Reed

Research Specialist

Laricia Longworth-Reed joined the Butler Institute for Families in the summer of 2008.

Laricia graduated from the University of Louisville with a Bachelors of Science in Psychological and Brain Sciences. Her employment over the last five years in research positions represents a variety of fields including child welfare, neurodevelopmental sciences, anatomical science and neurobiology and psychoacoustics. She has collaborated on many projects focused on the development and well-being of children and youth. Her current work involves data collection and management, quantitative and qualitative data analysis, report writing and marketing for the institute’s training and research projects including the Wisconsin training evaluation; Jefferson County’s TANF-Child Welfare Collaboration program evaluation; and the Colorado Coalition for Adoptive Families evaluation of post-adoptive services.

She is a skilled data manager focused on maintaining data integrity and security, utilizing Access, Excel and other statistical software packages.