Researchers' Profiles

Stacy Calhoun, Ph.D.

Stacy Calhoun, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Stacy Calhoun, Ph.D., is a researcher at the UCLA Integrated Substance Abuse Programs and the Greater Southern California Node of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Clinical Trials Network (CTN) with over 19 years of experience in behavioral health and criminal justice research. Her work is largely centered around integrated systems of care, especially in school and criminal justice settings. She recently led an evaluation of an integrated physical and behavioral health screening program for high school students and a qualitative study with school stakeholders across California to identify barriers and facilitators to implementing integrated models of care in K-12 schools to address trauma, substance use, mental health, physical health problems, and other issues such as gang involvement and delinquency in general. Building on this work, she received funding from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to conduct a randomized controlled trial of a gang prevention program that has been incorporated into a school-based clinic that provides integrated services for students. She is also the principal investigator of several state- and county-funded projects evaluating rehabilitative programming, services, and practices in criminal justice settings. As part of her efforts to disseminate research findings to a larger audience, she serves as the literature editor for the Sex Offender Law Report and the Juvenile Justice Update to highlight current findings from the literature for a practitioner audience.

  • University of California, Los Angeles, B.A., Anthropology, 1997
  • Case Western Reserve University, M.A., Medical Anthropology, 2000
  • University of California, Irvine, Ph.D., Criminology, Law & Society, 2016
  • University of California, Los Angeles, NIDA T32 Postdoctoral Fellowship, Addiction Health Services Research, 2016-2018
  • Mindfulness in correctional settings
  • Mental illness and substance use disorders among justice-involved individuals
  • Trauma-informed programming
  • Reentry and diversion programs
  • Integrated models of physical/behavioral health care for youth
  1. Farabee, D., Knight, K., Garner, B., & Calhoun, S. (2007). The Inmate Pre-Release Assessment (IPASS) for re-entry planning. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 34(9), 1188-1197.
  2. Calhoun, S., Messina, N., Cartier, J. & Torres, S. (2010). Implementing gender responsive treatment for women in prison: Client and staff perspectives. Federal Probation 74(3), 27-33.
  3. Messina, N., Calhoun, S., & Warda, U. (2012). Gender-responsive drug court treatment: A randomized controlled trial. Criminal Justice & Behavior, 39(12), 1539-1558.
  4. Messina, N., Calhoun, S., & Braithwaite, J. (2014). Trauma-informed treatment decreases PTSD among women offenders. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 15(1), 6-23.
  5. Calhoun, S., Conner, E., Miller, M., & Messina, N. (2015). Improving the outcomes of children affected by parental substance abuse: A review of randomized controlled trials. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 6(1), 15-24.
  6. Calhoun, S. & Epson, M. (2016). Integrating substance use disorder treatment with general mental health treatment in jail settings can improve mental health, treat drug use, and produce better criminal justice outcomes. UC Criminal Justice & Health Consortium, 1(5), 1-4.
  7. Farabee, D., Calhoun, S., & Veliz, R. (2016) An Experimental Comparison of Telepsychiatry and Conventional Psychiatry for Mentally Ill Parolees. Psychiatric Services, 67(5), 562-565.
  8. Farabee, D., Hawken, A., Calhoun, S., Veliz, R., Grossman, J., & Zhang, Y. (2016) Tracking and locating itinerant subjects with a rechargeable incentive card: Results from a randomized control trial. Substance Use and Misuse, 51(5), 658-663.
  9. Messina, N., Braithwaite, J., Calhoun, S., & Kubiak, S. (2016) Examination of a Violence Prevention Program for Female Offenders. Violence and Gender, 3(3), 143-149.
  10. Calhoun, S. (2018). "That's just the tip of it because it goes deeper than that": The role of mental illness in offending onset and subsequent offending behavior. Criminal Justice Policy Review, 29(4), 341-364.
  11. Calhoun, S. (2018) The clinician–patient working alliance: Is it a significant predictor of psychiatric medication adherence in a sample of recently released parolees? The Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology 29(5), 782-793.