Artful Transformations Program

Research and Evaluations Coordinator

With USES since 2004

In your time at USES, what has been your greatest personal achievement?

Getting the program’s data in a usable format that makes sense for staff, funders, and collaterals. 

On a day-to-day basis, who or what inspires you?

We’ve positioned ourselves as a training program—we’re not just staff who are getting paid to do a specific job—we’re really working towards training future therapist and counselors; that’s one part of it.  The other part is seeing the growth in the girls—their growth individually as people and their growth as artists—and not just while they’re here, but their overall growth in the community, at home, and at school.

What is USES to you?

USES has become more than just a parent organization to ATP, it’s become the home for the program.  There’s the home, the place where you reside, but then there’s the home for the nurturing and the comfort. The participants see this place as someplace they can come to that is really safe.  It’s a home in the haven sense.