selected publications

• academic article

  • Testing the Factor Structure of the Brief Sense of Community Scale among Black Girls and the Relationship with Ethnic Identity, Empowerment and Social Support..  Children and youth services review.  127:-. 2021
  • Measuring Youth Empowerment: An Item Response Theory Analysis of the Sociopolitical Control Scale for Youth..  American journal of community psychology.  :-. 2021
  • Ethnic Identity as a Moderator Between HIV Knowledge, Viral Hepatitis Knowledge, and Psychological Antecedents Among Racial-Ethnic Minority Youth Living in an Urban Community..  Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities.  :-. 2021
  • The brief sense of community scale: Testing dimensionality and measurement invariance by gender among Hispanic/Latinx youth..  Journal of community psychology.  :-. 2021
  • A Spatial Analysis of Alcohol Outlet Density Type, Abandoned Properties, and Police Calls on Aggravated Assault Rates in a Northeastern U.S. City..  Substance use & misuse.  56:1527-1535. 2021
  • Increasing HIV/AIDS knowledge among urban ethnic minority youth: Findings from a community-based prevention intervention program..  Journal of HIV/AIDS & social services.  20:76-96. 2021
  • A Spatial Analysis of Alcohol Outlet Density and Abandoned Properties on Violent Crime in Paterson New Jersey..  Journal of community health.  45:534-541. 2020
  • Contextualizing negative sense of community and disconnection among urban youth of color: "Community…We ain't got that"..  Journal of community psychology.  48:834-848. 2020
  • Increasing Viral Hepatitis Knowledge Among Urban Ethnic Minority Youth: Findings from a Community Based Prevention Intervention..  Journal of community health.  45:269-277. 2020
  • Understanding the Influence of Sexual Risk Taking, Ethnic Identity, and Family and Peer Support on School Importance Among Hispanic Adolescents..  Education and urban society.  52:1011-1038. 2020
  • Exposure to gangs in low-income urban communities and substance use among Hispanic youth..  Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse.  19:190-207. 2020
  • The Cognitive Empowerment Scale: Multigroup Confirmatory Factor Analysis Among Youth of Color..  Child & adolescent social work journal : C & A.  37:179-193. 2020
  • Validation of the Abbreviated Socio-Political Control Scale for Youth (SPCS-Y) Among Urban Girls of Color..  Child & adolescent social work journal : C & A.  37:83-95. 2020
  • A latent class analysis of cognitive empowerment and ethnic identity: An examination of heterogeneity between profile groups on dimensions of emotional psychological empowerment and social justice orientation among urban youth of color..  Journal of community psychology.  47:1530-1547. 2019
  • A study of psychological sense of community as a mediator between supportive social systems, school belongingness, and outcome behaviors among urban high school students of color..  Journal of community psychology.  47:1131-1150. 2019
  • Communitarianism and youth empowerment: Motivation for participation in a community-based substance abuse prevention coalition..  Journal of community psychology.  47:49-62. 2019
  • Community coalitions as spaces for collective voice, action, and the sharing of resources..  Journal of community psychology.  47:21-33. 2019
  • "It All Starts With the Parents": A Qualitative Study on Protective Factors for Drug-Use Prevention Among Black and Hispanic Girls..  Affilia.  34:199-218. 2019
  • Sexual negotiation skills and risky behavior on sexual partnerships, HIV knowledge, and risk perception among urban youth of color: A latent class analysis..  Journal of HIV/AIDS & social services.  18:248-264. 2019
  • The moderating effect of neighborhood sense of community on predictors of substance use among Hispanic urban youth..  Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse.  17:434-459. 2018
  • Validation of an abbreviated Sociopolitical Control Scale for Youth among a sample of underresourced urban youth of color..  Journal of community psychology.  46:996-1009. 2018
  • Validation of the Brief Sense of Community Scale among youth of color from an underserved urban community..  Journal of community psychology.  46:1062-1074. 2018
  • Suicidal ideation among suburban adolescents: The influence of school bullying and other mediating risk factors..  Journal of child and adolescent mental health.  28:213-231. 2016