Dr. Jerica Knox is an Assistant Professor at the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) where she primarily focuses her evaluative efforts on the National Center for Safe Supportive Schools and the Maryland Community Health Resource Commission’s School-Community Partnership grants. Dr. Knox takes a strengths-based approach to understanding home and school contextual factors that promote well-being in children and adolescents. She uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the effectiveness of culturally responsive and trauma-informed approaches. Dr. Knox is from Georgetown County, South Carolina. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Experimental Psychology from the University of South Carolina and her Master of Science and PhD in School Psychology from North Carolina State University. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in school mental health at the NCSMH.