Karli Keator

Karli Keator is Director of the NCYOJ and Vice President at Policy Research Associates, Inc. (PRA) where she directs all youth behavioral health, trauma, and juvenile justice research and policy initiatives. She has extensive experience with policy and program development, as well as instrumentation, data collection, and analysis. Specific areas of interest include research and technical assistance activities that support the development of evidence-informed public policy to:

• identify and respond to the behavioral health needs typically present among young people in contact with the juvenile justice system
• reduce behavioral health care disparities among young people in contact with the juvenile justice system
• address issues related to inadequate access to and availability of child and adolescent behavioral health care

Ms. Keator received her Master of Public Health with a concentration in Social Behavior and Community Health from the University at Albany’s School of Public Health.