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Carrie J. Furrer, Ph.D.

Research Associate

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Carrie Furrer, Research Associate at NPC Research, has been working on behalf of children and their families for over 14 years. Her experience includes program evaluation related to early childhood prevention and intervention, youth development and mentoring, family support, child care, drug and alcohol abuse prevention, child welfare, and family drug courts; research on adolescent motivation and health behaviors; and child and family counseling.

Dr. Furrer has served as the project director and data analyst for both local and national evaluations of programs serving at-risk families with young children. Evaluations she has worked on include ASPIRE, Oregon’s primary postsecondary education access program; Oregon Healthy Teens Survey; Friends of the Children, a mentorship program serving children and adolescents; Juvenile Crime Prevention in Oregon; Tobacco Prevention and Education Programs in Oregon; Early Head Start; Family Treatment Drug Court, a four-site evaluation of drug courts for parents with substance abuse issues who are involved in the child welfare system; the Adoption and Safe Families Act in Oregon; and various child care improvement projects.

Dr. Furrer has expertise in quantitative methods and has written and presented on childhood motivation, academic achievement, and adolescent health behaviors.
Dr. Furrer is a member of the American Evaluation Association, the Society for Research on Adolescence, and the Society for Research in Child Development. In her previous role as a child and family counselor, she worked with homeless and substance abusing youth, and families involved in the child welfare system. Dr. Furrer earned a Ph.D. in Systems Science: Applied Developmental Psychology from Portland State University, with an emphasis on applied research methods and quantitative data analysis.

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