Catriona Wilkey
Director of Youth Well-Being
Catriona Wilkey, MSW, MPH has nine years of research and evaluation experience. Caty has designed and led pilot, feasibility, and evaluation studies as well as randomized controlled trials. Caty has expertise in mixed methods research and evaluation with skills in qualitative research, including facilitation of focus groups, interviews, case reviews, and observations, and coding and theming of qualitative data. She also has expertise in quantitative research, such as survey and sampling design, development of analysis plans, outcomes monitoring, and oversight of analysis.
Caty has provided subject matter expertise and technical assistance for state and community clients, including action-based evaluation, continuous quality improvement, health equity planning, meeting facilitation, and program and organizational sustainability. She is passionate about interpreting and communicating research and evaluation findings to a wide array of audiences, including consumers, providers, community stakeholders, funders, and academic audiences. She is interested in using community-based participatory research methods and equity-driven data analyses to empower communities to address social problems.
Currently, Caty is Principal Investigator of the SPARC: Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities initiative. As part of SPARC, she is exploring racial inequities in homelessness and housing systems in multiple communities across the country and leveraging findings to provide training and technical assistance in racial equity. She is Senior Research Methodologist for Project Amp, where she is implementing a randomized controlled trial to test the effectiveness of an innovative, peer-delivered brief intervention to adolescents at risk for substance use. She also manages the research on Phase II of a study which tests the effectiveness of a new training tool designed to bring scalable first episode psychosis training to providers across the country.
In prior positions as Research Associate at Hornby Zeller Associates and Senior Coordinator at Boston University’s Center for Addictions Research and Services, she was lead evaluator of multiple federally funded public sector initiatives in substance abuse prevention and treatment, public health, child and family services, and prevention infrastructure. These initiatives include SAMHSA-funded State Adolescent Treatment-Enhancement and Dissemination, Recovery Oriented Systems of Care, Targeted Capacity Expansion-HIV, Offender Re-entry Program, and Strategic Prevention Framework State Incentive Grant grants. She also has experience evaluating Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grants and Administration for Children and Families projects.
Caty has Master’s degrees in Social Work and Public Health from Boston University and a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology from the University of New Hampshire. She brings a “public health social work” perspective by applying a social/racial justice lens and translating findings to community practice. Caty’s research interests include adolescent substance use prevention, racial equity, social determinants of health, and maternal, child, and family health.
Contact Caty at cwilkey@c4innovates.com.
Examples of Catriona’s Work
- Evaluation
- Research
- Project Amp
- Equity and Homelessness
- SPARC: Supporting Partnerships for Anti-Racist Communities
- Coordinated Entry Systems Racial Equity Analysis of Assessment Data
- Brief Intervention for Adolescents At Risk of Substance Use: Outcomes from a Pilot Study
- A framework for integrating young peers in recovery into adolescent substance use prevention and early intervention by C4's Kristen Paquette, Laura Pannella Winn, Catriona Wilkey, and Kathleen Ferreira as well as Laura Rose W. Donegan was published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in December 2019.
- Enhancing adolescent SBIRT with a peer-delivered intervention: An implementation study by C4's Kristen Paquette, Laura Pannella Winn, Catriona Wilkey, and Kathleen Ferreira as well as Laura Rose W. Donegan was published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in August 2019.
- Integrating Addiction and Mental Health Treatment within a National Addiction Treatment System: Using Multiple Statistical Methods to Analyze Client and Interviewer Assessment of Co-Occurring Mental Health Problems by C4's Catriona Wilkey as well as Lena Lundgren, Deborah Chassler, Mikael Sandlund, Bengt-Ake Armelius, Kerstin Armelius, and Jan Brännström in Journal of Nordic Studies in March 2014.
- Addiction Training in Social Work Schools: A Nationwide Analysis by C4's Catriona Wilkey as well as Lena Lundgren and Maryann Amodeo in Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions in May 2013.
- Mental Health, Substance Use, and Criminal Justice Characteristics of Males with a History of Abuse in a Swedish National Sample by C4's Catriona Wilkey as well as Lena Lundgren, Jan Brännström, Deborah Chassler, Lisa Sullivan, and Annika Nordstrom in Journal of Dual Diagnosis in 2013.