Justine Hanson
Senior Associate
Justine Hanson, PhD, is a sociocultural anthropologist with expertise in understanding needs of diverse groups, multiple stakeholders, and vulnerable populations. She is committed to ensuring policies, programs, and products are deeply informed by the voices, needs, and values of those they are intended to serve.
Justine has over 20 years of experience conducting qualitative and ethnographic needs assessments, evaluations, and research projects dedicated to informing and improving programs and services for vulnerable populations. Through this work, she has supported a range of stakeholders, including individuals, families, and LGBT youth experiencing homelessness; peer support workers; women in recovery from opioid use disorder; housing and human service providers; refugee resettlement service providers; federal government project officers; small farmers in Peru; and stakeholders in economic development in Nicaragua.
Justine oversees multiple projects to advance recovery-oriented, peer-led approaches to behavioral health care at C4 Innovations, including annual analyses of the national landscape for recovery support services. She leads SAMHSA’s BRSS TACS Policy Academy which has supported recovery-oriented behavioral health system transformation initiatives in over 35 states, territories, and tribes. She directs evaluation, learning, and quality assurance activities for BRSS TACS. She also serves as Senior Writer/Editor and manages C4's editorial team, ensuring quality assurance of proposals, publications, and reports.
From 2009 to 2012, she managed national initiatives to build capacity of homeless service agencies and staff through SAMHSA’s Homeless and Housing Resource Network. In addition, she oversaw content development, marketing, and partnerships for the award-winning Homelessness Resource Center website. She has led development of training and technical assistance products and activities, including an interactive cost analysis calculator for homeless services agencies; online learning tools and issue briefs on culturally responsive approaches to care; an issue brief on cultural adaptations of trauma-informed care; and webinars, videos, and issues briefs on a range of behavioral health and recovery topics.
Justine has a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine.
Examples of Justine's Work
- Behavioral Health and Recovery
- Integrating Peer Workers
- Peer-Delivered Recovery Support Services for Addictions in the United States: A Systematic Review by C4's Justine Hanson, Ellen Bassuk, R. Neil Greene, and Molly Richard as well as Alexandre Laudet was published in the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment in April 2016.
- Addressing the Needs of LGBTQ Youth who are Homeless by C4's Justine Hanson, Laura Pannella Winn, and Megan Edson Grandin as well as Rachael R. Kenney and Sylvia K. Fisher was published in Improving Emotional and Behavioral Outcomes for LGBT Youth: A Guide for Professionals in 2012.
- 2010 New Media Awards: Website Awards-Homelessness Resource Center
- Recovery and Homeless Services: New Directions for the Field by C4's Justine Hanson, Laura Gillis, and Gloria Dickerson was published in Open Health Services and Policy Journal in 2010.
- The Future of Homeless Services: An Introduction by C4's Justine Hanson, Jeff Olivet, Kristen Paquette, and Ellen Bassuk was published in Open Health Services and Policy Journal in 2010.
- Coaxing Capital, Re-inventing the Nation: Promoting Foreign Investment in Neoliberal Nicaragua by C4’s Justine Hanson was published by University of California, Irvine in 2007.