The Heller School Faculty and Staff

Scientist

lanspery@brandeis.edu Heller 373 781-736-3739

Expertise

Youth and communities: college access for low-income youth, positive youth development within a context of asset-based community development; Aging: intergenerational programs, supportive housing

Scholarship

  • Mobilizing Communities to Deliver Promises (2004) (co-author). Final report, America’s Promise Communities of Promise evaluation. Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  • Every Child Holds the Answer (2002) (co-author). Evaluation report for the RI Children’s Crusade. Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  • An Exploration of How Engaged Institutions of Higher Education Help Vulnerable Youth Learn and Achieve (2002) (co-author). Report prepared for the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.
  • “Congregate Housing” and “Aging in Place” (2002). Entries in the Encyclopedia of Aging.
  • Youth Credit Union Programs: A New Branch of Community Youth Development (1998). Report for the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, New York NY. Center for Youth and Communities, Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
  • Evaluating Service Coordination in Ohio (1998). An Ohio Long-Term Care Research Report, Scripps Gerontology Center, Miami University, Oxford OH.
  • Staying Put: Adapting the Places Instead of the People (1997)(co-editor). Amityville NY: Baywood Publishing.
  • A How-To Guide: Coordinating Services in Senior Housing (1997). U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
  • Can we tap the power of NORCs? (With James J. Callahan, Jr.). Perspective on Aging, January-March 1997.
  • Briefs on linking housing and services for the American Association of Homes and Services for the Aging.
  • Numerous papers, reports, and presentations on service coordination, supportive housing, and NORCs prepared for AARP, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging, the National Resource and Policy Center on Housing and Long-term Care, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and Generations.
Susan Lanspery

Profile

Susan Lanspery has conducted evaluations, managed research and demonstration programs, and provided technical assistance for more than twenty years. Current projects include co-managing the evaluations of the GE Foundation’s College Bound program, the International Youth Foundation’s Make A Connection program, and the Cooke Foundation’s Community College Transfer Initiative.

Since 2000, she has managed the retrospective evaluation of the Rhode Island Children’s Crusade (statewide college access program); the qualitative component of a national study for America’s Promise; a retrospective study for the Annie E. Casey Foundation on the long-term dividends of comprehensive community initiatives; and an evaluation of an Illinois intergenerational program. She has examined school-to-career programs for out-of-school youth; studied skill-building youth initiatives in community development credit unions; researched how higher education helps vulnerable youth learn, achieve, and prepare for careers; co-developed recommendations for a foundation about institutions youth development policy; and co-developed a sourcebook on policy work for community-building organizations.

Before joining CYC, Dr. Lanspery conducted research, produced reports, and provided technical assistance for national, state, and local organizations on linking services with all types of housing - including subsidized multi-family, cooperative, single-family, and accessory housing as well as “naturally occurring retirement communities” - for older people and people with disabilities.

Degrees

The Heller School for Social
Policy and Management
Brandeis University
Ph.D.

University of Oregon
B.A.