Hoover, Sharon | University of Maryland School of Medicine

Academic Title:

Professor

Primary Appointment:

Psychiatry

Additional Title:

Co-Director, National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH) Director, NCTSN Center for Safe Supportive Schools (NCS3)

Email:

shoover@som.umaryland.edu

Location:

737 W. Lombard St.

Phone (Primary):

(443) 801-3254

Phone (Secondary):

(410) 706-0980 (Center)

Fax:

(410) 706-0984

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Education and Training

University of Sussex, England, Study Abroad Program, Psychology, School of Cultural and Community Studies, 1995

Miami University, Oxford, OH, B.A., Psychology, 1996

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, M.A., Clinical Psychology, 2000

University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD, Ph.D., Clinical Psychology, 2002

University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD, Postdoctoral Fellowship, School Mental Health, 2004

Biosketch

Sharon A. Hoover, Ph.D. is a licensed clinical psychologist and Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Co-Director of the National Center for School Mental Health (NCSMH, www.schoolmentalhealth.org), and Director of the Center for Safe Supportive Schools (NCS3, www.ncs3.org). She currently leads national efforts to support states, districts and schools in the adoption of national performance standards of comprehensive school mental health systems (www.theSHAPEsystem.com). Dr. Hoover has led and collaborated on multiple federal and state grants, with a commitment to the study and implementation of quality children’s mental health services in schools. Currently, she co-leads two large randomized trials of school mental health efforts, one focused on reducing exclusionary discipline practices by installing mental health and restorative practice approaches and one on improving school mental health services with best practices in family engagement, educator mental health literacy and modularized evidence-based clinical practices.

Creating safe, supportive and resilient schools has been a major emphasis of Dr. Hoover’s research, education and clinical work. She has worked for over two decades, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, the Centers for Disease Control, and the World Health Organization to train national, state, and local education and behavioral health leaders and professionals in multi-tiered systems of support for mental health and psychological trauma. She has trained school and community behavioral health staff and educators in districts across the United States, as well as internationally, including consultation on building safe and supportive school mental health systems in Canada, China, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, South Korea, and Ukraine. Dr. Hoover is a certified national trainer for Bounce Back, the CBITS Program - Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools – and the SSET Program – Support for Students Exposed to Trauma. As an advisor to the World Health Organization, Dr. Hoover has provided consultation and technical assistance on comprehensive school mental health in several countries, including developing and implementing a student mental health curriculum for teachers throughout the Middle East and developing and evaluating a school-based intervention to support immigrant and refugee youth in Canada and the United States.

Dr. Hoover has also also devoted considerable efforts to understanding the implementation of “collaborative” mental health care in primary care settings, including school-based health centers. As a Co-Investigator on the Center for Mental Health Services in Pediatric Primary Care at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, she developed a research portfolio examining the common factors and practice elements of mental health care that could feasibly be implemented by school-based health practitioners. She worked closely with Center leaders and the National Association of School Nurses on the development of an in-person and online training for school health providers, the Mental Health Training for Health Providers in Schools (MHTIPS), currently being implemented across the United States to improve school nurses’ and other school health providers’ capacity to address student mental health.

Research/Clinical Keywords

School Mental Health, Primary Care-Behavioral Health Integration, Trauma

Highlighted Publications

Weist, M., Hoover, S., Daly, B., Short, K., & Bruns, E. (2023). Propelling the Global Advancement of School Mental Health, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 1-14.Crooks, C. V., Hoover, S., & Smith, A. (In press). Feasibility trial of the school-based STRONG intervention to promote resilience among newcomer youth. Psychology in the Schools.

Connors, E. H., Moffa, K., Carter, T., Crocker, J., Bohnenkamp, J. H., Lever, N. A., & Hoover, S. A. (2022). Advancing mental health screening in schools: Innovative, field‐tested practices and observed trends during a 15‐month learning collaborative. Psychology in the Schools, 59(6), 1135-1157.

Hoover, S., & Bostic, J. (2021). Schools as a vital component of the child and adolescent mental health system. Psychiatric Services, 72(1), 37-48.

Hoover, S. H. (2019). Strengthening Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups (STRONG): Pilot findings from a cognitive-behavioral intervention for refugees and immigrants in schools. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(10), S364-S365.

Hoover, S.A. Policy and Practice for Trauma-Informed Schools. State Education Standard19, no. 1 (2019): 25-29.

Bohnenkamp, J., Schaeffer, C., Siegal, R., Beason, T., Smith-Millman, M., & Hoover, S. (2021). Impact of a school-based, multi-tiered emotional and behavioral health crisis intervention on school safety and discipline. Prevention Science, 1-12.

Hoover, S., & Bostic, J. (2021). Best practices and considerations for student mental health screening in schools. Journal of Adolescent Health, 28, 225-226.

Connors, E., Smith-Millman, M., Bohnenkamp, J., Carter, T., Lever, N., & Hoover, S. (2020). Can we move the need on school mental health quality through systematic quality improvement collaboratives? School Mental Health, 12, 478-492.

Hoover, S. A. (2018). When we know better, we don’t always do better: Facilitating the research to practice and policy gap in school mental health. School Mental Health, 1-9.

Lawson, G.M., McKenzie, M.E., Becker, K.D., Selby, L., & Hoover, S. (2018). The core components of evidence-based social emotional learning programs. Prevention Science, 1-11.

Hoover, S. A., Sapere, H., Lang, J. M., Nadeem, E., Dean, K. L., & Vona, P. (2018). Statewide implementation of an evidence-based trauma intervention in schools. School Psychology Quarterly, 33(1), 44.

Fazel, M., Hoagwood, K., Stephan, S., & Ford, T. (2014). Mental health interventions in schools in high-income countries. The Lancet Psychiatry, 1(5), 377-387.

Additional Publication Citations

Bruns, E., Lee, K., Davis, C., Pullmann, M., Ludwig, K., Sander, M., Holm-Hansen, C., Hoover, S., McCauley, E. (2023). Effectiveness of a brief engagement, problem-solving, and triage strategy for high school students: Results of a randomized study. Prevention Science. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-022-01463-4

Rabayda, C. C., & Hoover, S. (2023). Youth eating disorders soared during COVID‐19: Schools can help. Journal of School Health, 93(1), 88-91.

Semchuk, J. C., McCullough, S. L., Lever, N. A., Gotham, H. J., Gonzalez, J. E., & Hoover, S. A. (2022). Educator-Informed Development of a Mental Health Literacy Course for School Staff: Classroom Well-Being Information and Strategies for Educators (Classroom WISE). IJERPH, 20(1), 1-15.Prout, J. T., Moffa, K., Bohnenkamp, J., Cunningham, D. L., Robinson, P. J., & Hoover, S. (2022). Application of a Model of Workforce Resilience to the Education Workforce: Expanding Opportunities for Support. School Mental Health, 1-14.

Hamoda H.M., Hoover S., Bostic J., Rahman A., & Saeed K. (2022) Development of a World Health Organization mental health in schools programme in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. East Mediterr Health J., 28(3), 225–232.

Bohnenkamp, J. H., Hartley, S. N., Splett, J. W., Halliday, C., Collins, D., Hoover, S., & Weist, M. D. (2022). Promoting school safety through multi-tiered systems of support for student mental health. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 1-9.

Bohnenkamp, J. H., Hoover, S. A., & McCullough, S. N. (2022). Impact of an Online Course to Improve School Nurses’ Mental Health Competencies. The Journal of School Nursing, 10598405221119518.

Connors, E. H., Lyon, A. R., Garcia, K., Sichel, C. E., Hoover, S., Weist, M. D., & Tebes, J. K. (2022). Implementation strategies to promote measurement-based care in schools: evidence from mental health experts across the USA. Implementation science communications, 3(1), 1-17.

Bohnenkamp, J. H., Patel, C., Connors, E., Orenstein, S., Ereshefsky, S., Lever, N., & Hoover, S. (2022). Evaluating Strategies to Promote Effective, Multidisciplinary Team Collaboration in School Mental Health. Journal of Applied School Psychology, 1-21.

Reaves, S., Bohnenkamp, J., Mayworm A., Sullivan, M., Connors, E., Lever, N., Kelly, M., Bruns, E., & Hoover, S. (2022). Associations Between School Mental Health Team Membership and Impact on Service Provision. School Mental Health, 1-13.

Reaves, S., Hartley, S. N., Clarke, B., Hoover, S., & Lever, N. (2021). The Need for Performance Standards in Preschools: Stealing Shamelessly from Comprehensive School Mental Health Literature. Perspectives, 6(2).

Camacho, D. A., Hoover, S. A., & Rosete, H. S. (2021). Burnout in urban teachers: The predictive role of supports and situational responses. Psychology in the Schools, 58(9), 1816-1831.

Hoover, S., & Bostic, J. (2021). Best practices and considerations for student mental health screening in schools. Journal of Adolescent Health, 28, 225-226.

Fix, R. L., Schaeffer, C. M., Bohnenkamp, J. H., & Hoover, S. (2021). Understanding Disproportionate Suspension Practices for Black Students in Elementary, Middle, and High Schools. School Psychology Review, 1-13.

Connors, E., Lawson, G., Wheatley-Rowe, D., & Hoover, S. (2020). Exploration, preparation, and implementation of standardized assessment in a multi-agency school behavioral health network. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 1-18.

Smith-Millman, M., Bernstein, L., Link, N., Hoover, S., & Lever, N. (2020). Effectiveness of an Online Suicide Prevention Program for College Faculty and Students. Journal of American College Health, 66(5), 1-8.

Crooks, C. V., Smith, A. C. G., Robinson-Link, N., Orenstein, S., & Hoover, S. (2020). Psychosocial interventions in schools with newcomers: A structured conceptualization of system, design, and individual needs. Child and Youth Services Review, 112.

Crooks, C. V., Hoover, S., & Smith, A. (2020). Feasibility trial of the school-based STRONG intervention to promote resilience among newcomer youth. Psychology in the Schools.

Mayworm, A. M., Lever, N., Gloff, N., Cox, J., Willis, K., & Hoover, S. A. (2020). School-based telepsychiatry in an urban setting: efficiency and satisfaction with care. Telemedicine and e-Health, 26(4), 446-454.

Robinson-Link, N., Hoover, S. Bernstein, L., Lever, N., Maton, K., Wilcox, H. (2019). Is Gatekeeper Training Enough for Suicide Prevention? School Mental Health, 1-11.

Millman, Z. B., Wehring, H. J., Khan, A. R., Edwards, S., Hoover, S. A., & Schiffman, J. (2019). Effective medications for treating psychosis in school-aged youth. In School Psychopharmacology(pp. 99-118). Springer, Cham.

Weist, M.D., Hoover, S., Lever, N., Youngstrom, E.A., George, M., McDaniel, H., Fowler, J., Bode, A., Bradley, W.J., Taylor, L.K., Chappelle, L., & Hoagwood, K. (2019). Testing a Package of Evidence-Based Practices in School Mental Health. School Mental Health, 1-15.

Connors, E. H., Schiffman, J., Stein, K., LeDoux, S., Landsverk, J., & Hoover, S. (2019). Factors Associated with Community-Partnered School Behavioral Health Clinicians’ Adoption and Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 46(1), 91-104.

Connors, E., McKenzie, M., Robinson, P., Tager, M., Scardamalia, K., Oros, M., & Hoover, S. (2019). Adaptation of the Drug and Drug Problems Perception Questionnaire to assess healthcare provider attitudes toward adolescent substance use. Preventive Medicine Reports, 14,

Bohnenkamp, J.H., Hoover, S.A., Connors, E.H., Wissow, L., Bobo, N., & Mazyck, D. (2018). The Mental Health Training Intervention for School Nurses and Other Health Providers in Schools. The Journal of School Nursing, 1059840518785437.

Parham, B. R., Robertson, C., Lever, N., Hoover, S., Palmer, T., Lee, P., ... & Prout, J. (2018). Enhancing the Relevance and Effectiveness of a Youth Gambling Prevention Program for Urban, Minority Youth: A Pilot Study of Maryland Smart Choices. Journal of gambling studies, 1-19.

Weist, M. D., Eber, L., Horner, R., Splett, J., Putnam, R., Barrett, S., ... & Hoover, S. (2018). Improving multitiered systems of support for students with “internalizing” emotional/behavioral problems. Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions, 20(3), 172-184.

Murphy, M.J., Abel, M.R., Hoover, S., Jellinek, M., & Fazel, M. (2017). Scope, scale, and dose of the world’s largest school-based mental health programs. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 25(5), 1-11.

Connors, E. H., Stephan, S. H., Lever, N., Ereshefsky, S., Mosby, A., & Bohnenkamp, J. (2016). A national initiative to advance school mental health performance measurement in the US. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion. 9(1), 50-69. Doi: 10.1080/1754730X.2015.1123639

Kase, C., Hoover, S. A., Boyd, G., Dubenitz, J., Trivedi, P., Peterson, H., & Stein, B. (2017). Educational outcomes associated with school behavioral health interventions: A Review of the Literature. Journal of School Health, 87(7), 554-562.

Stephan, S., Lever, N., Bernstein, L., Edwards, S., & Pruitt, D. (2016). Telemental health in schools. Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 26(3), 266-272. doi: 10.1089/cap.2015.0019

Stephan, S. H., Sugai, G., Lever, N., & Connors, E. (2015). Strategies for Integrating Mental Health into Schools via a Multi-tiered System of Support. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(2), 211-231.

Stephan, S.H., Paternite, C., Grimm, L., & Hurwitz, L. (2014). School mental health: The impact of state and local capacity-building training. International Journal of Education Policy & Leadership, 9(7).

Lever, N., Stephan, S., Axelrod, J., Weist, M. (2004). Accessing fee-for-service revenue in school mental health: A partnership with an outpatient MH center. Journal of School Health, 74, 91-94.

Bruns, E. J., Moore, E., Stephan, S. H., Pruitt, D., Weist, M. D. (2005). The impact of school mental health services on out-of-school suspension rates. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34(1), 23-30.

Schaffer, C., Bruns, E., Weist, M., Stephan, S., Goldstein, J.,& Simpson. (2005). Overcoming challenges to using evidence-based interventions in schools. J Youth and Adolescence, 34, 14-22.

Mills, C., Stephan, S., Moore, E., Weist, M., Daly, B., & Edwards, M. (2006). The President's New Freedom Commission: Capitalizing on opportunities to advance school-based mental health services. Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 9, 149-161.

Stephan, S., Weist, M., Kataoka, S., Adelsheim, S., & Mills, C. (2007). Transformation of children’s mental health services: The role of school mental health. Psychiatric Services, 58(10), 1330-1338.

Cunningham, D., Stephan, S., Paternite, C., Schan, S., Weist, M., Adelsheim, S., & Flaspohler, P. (2007). Stakeholders' perspectives on the recommendations of the President's New Freedom Commission on Mental Health. Psychiatric Services, 58, 1344-1347.

Burke, R. W., & Stephan, S. H. (2008). Contextual features of public schools in the United States as settings for mental health promotion. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 1(1), 52-60.

Vulin-Reynolds, M., Lever, N, Stephan, S., & Ghunney, A.(2008). School Mental Health and Foster Care: A Logical Partnership.Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 1(2), 29-40.

Weist, M. D., Lever, N., Stephan, S., Youngstrom, E., Moore, E., Harrison, B., …Stiegler, K. (2009). Formative evaluation of a framework for high quality, evidence-based services in school mental health. School Mental Health, 1(3), 196-211.

Weist, M. D., Stiegler, K. L., Stephan, S. H., Cox, J. M., & Vaughan, C. (2009). School mental health and prevention science in the Baltimore city schools. Psychology in the Schools, 47(1), 36-54.

Lever, N., Chambers, K., Stephan, S., Page, M., & Ghunney, A. (2010). National survey on expanded school mental health services. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 3(4),38-50.

Stephan, S., Hurwitz, L., Paternite, C., & Weist, M. (2010). Critical factors and strategies for advancing statewide school mental health. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 3(3), 46-58.

Stephan, S., Mulloy, M. & Brey, L. (2011). Improving collaborative mental health care by school-based primary care and mental health providers. School Mental Health, 3, 70-80.

Grady, B., Lever, N., Cunningham, D., Stephan, S. (2011). Telepsychiatry and SMH. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 20(1), 81-94.

Stephan, S., Westin, A., Lever, N., Medoff, D., Youngstrom, E., & Weist, M. (2012). Are School‑Based Clinicians' Knowledge and Use of Common Elements Correlated with Better Treatment Quality? School Mental Health, 4(1), 170-180.

Herman, K., Reinke, W., Bradshaw, C., Lochman, J., Boxmeyer, C., Powell, N., . . . Stephan, S., & Ialongo, N. (2012): Integrating the Family Check-Up and the parent Coping Power program, Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 5(3), 208-219.

Stephan, S., Brandt, N., Lever, N., Acosta-Price, O., & Connors, E. (2012). Key priorities, challenges, and opportunities to advance an integrated mental health-education research agenda. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion. 5(2), 125-138.

Westin, A.M., Barksdale, C.L., & Stephan, S.H. (2013). The effect of waiting time on youth engagement to evidence-based treatments. Community Mental Health Journal, 1-8.

Stephan, S., & Connors, E. (2013). School nurses’ perceived prevalence and competence to address student mental health problems. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 6(30), 174-188.

Harburger, D., Stephan, S., & Kaye, S. (2013). Children's behavioral health system transformation: One state's context and strategies for sustained change. Journal of Behavioral Health Services and Research, 40(4), 404-415.

Becker, K.D., Brandt, N.E., Stephan, S.H., & Chorpita, B. (2013). Improvements in clinical and educational outcomes: How do our best treatments measure up? Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), 5-23.

Cunningham, D. L., Connors, E. H., Lever, N., & Stephan, S. H. (2013). Providers' Perspectives: Utilizing Telepsychiatry in Schools. Telemedicine and e-Health, 19(10), 794-799.

Stephan, S. H., Connors, E. H., Arora, P., & Brey, L. (2013). A learning collaborative approach to training school-based health providers in evidence-based mental health treatment. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(12), 1970-1978.

Chow, W. Y., Mettrick, J. E., Stephan, S. H., & Von Waldner, C. A. (2014). Youth in group home care: Youth characteristics and predictors of later functioning. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 41(4), 503-519.

Schiele, B. E., Weist, M. D., Youngstrom, E. A., Stephan, S. H., & Lever, N. A. (2014). Counseling self-efficacy, quality of services and knowledge of evidence-based practices in school mental health. The Professional Counselor, 4(5), 467-480.

Weist, M. D., Youngstrom, E. A., Stephan, S., Lever, N., Fowler, J., Taylor, L., ... & Hoagwood, K. (2014). Challenges and ideas from a research program on high-quality, evidence-based practice in school mental health. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, 43(2), 244-255.

Stein, K. F., Connors, E. H., Chambers, K. L., Thomas, C. L., & Stephan, S. H. (2014). Youth, Caregiver, and Staff Perspectives on an Initiative to Promote Success of Emerging Adults with Emotional and Behavioral Disabilities. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research, 1-15.

Becker, K. D., Brandt, N. E., Stephan, S. H., & Chorpita, B. F. (2014). A review of educational outcomes in the children's mental health treatment literature. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 7(1), 5-23.

Connors, E. H., Arora, P., Curtis, L., & Stephan, S. H. (2015). Evidence-based assessment in school mental health. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 22(1), 60-73.

Benningfield, M. M., Riggs, P., & Stephan, S. H. (2015). The role of schools in substance use prevention and intervention. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(2), 291-303.

Schiffman, J., Stephan, S., Hong, L. E., & Reeves, G. (2015). School-based Approaches to Reducing the Duration of Untreated Psychosis. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(2), 335-351.

Weiss, C. L., Blizzard, A. M., Vaughan, C., Sydnor-Diggs, T., Edwards, S., & Stephan, S. H. (2015). Supporting the Transition from Inpatient Hospitalization to School. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 24(2), 371-383.

Bohnenkamp, J. H., Stephan, S. H., & Bobo, N. (2015). Supporting student mental health: The role of the school nurse in coordinated school mental health care. Psychology in the Schools, 52(7), 714-727.

Reeves, G. M., Wehring, H. J., Connors, K. M., Bussell, K., Schiffman, J., Medoff, D. R., ... & dosReis, S. (2015). The Family Value of Information, Community Support, and Experience Study: Rationale, Design, and Methods of a" Family-Centered" Research Study. The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 203(12), 896-900.

Kim, R. E., Becker, K. D., Stephan, S. H., Hakimian, S., Apocada, D., Escudero, P. V., & Chorpita, B. F. (2015). Connecting students to mental health care: pilot findings from an engagement program for school nurses. Advances in School Mental Health Promotion, 8(2), 87-103.

Arora, P. G., Stephan, S. H., Becker, K. D., & Wissow, L. (2016). Psychosocial interventions for use in pediatric primary care: An examination of providers’ perspectives. Families, Systems, & Health, 34(4), 414.

Blizzard, A. M., Glos, L. J., Stephan, S. H., Medoff, D., & Slade, E. P. (2016). Impacts of a Medicaid wraparound model demonstration program on youth specialty mental health services use. The Journal of Behavioral Health Services & Research,1-13. doi:10.1007/s11414-016-9520-0

Bode, A. A., George, M. W., Weist, M. D., Stephan, S. H., Lever, N., & Youngstrom, E. A. (2016). The impact of parent empowerment in children’s mental health services on parenting stress. Journal of Child And Family Studies, 25(10), 3044-3055. doi:10.1007/s10826-016-0462-1

Blizzard, A. M., Weiss, C. L., Wideman, R., & Stephan, S. H. (2016). Caregiver perspectives during the post inpatient hospital transition: A mixed methods approach. Child & Youth Care Forum, 45(5), 759-780. doi:10.1007/s10566-016-9358-x

Murphy, M.J., Abel, M.R., Hoover, S., Jellinek, M., & Fazel, M. (in press). Scope, scale, and dose of the world’s largest school-based mental health programs. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 25(5), 1-11.

Awards and Affiliations

2005 Faculty Award, National Assembly on School-based Health Care

2006 Merit of Appreciation Award for Dedicated Service at Western High School, Future Educators of America

2004 – 2008 Loan Repayment for Health Disparities Research, National Institutes of Health

2011 Recognition Award for “Meeting the Mental Health Needs of School-Age Children,” School Social Workers in Maryland

2012 Citation of Merit for “Outstanding Volunteer Service,” Howard County Public School System

2014 – present Editor in Chief, Advances in School Mental Health Promotion

2014 – present Editorial Board, School Mental Health

2014 – present Advisor on School Mental Health, World Health Organization

2015 – present Advisory Board Member, Maryland Assembly on School-based Health Care

2016 – present Maryland Multi-Tiered Systems of Support Workgroup

2016 – present School Climate Transformation Grant Technical Workgroup Member, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Schools

2016 Paula U. Hamburger Award, Awarded annually by the Mental Health Association of Maryland to “Honor a Champion for Children”

2017 Honorary Faculty Member, Henan University, China

2018 Betty Huse Foundation Award, Child and Adolescent Research Award in the Department of Psychiatry

2019 American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) Sidney Berman Award for the School-Based Study and Treatment of Learning Disorders and Mental Illness, Awarded to one individual annually

2020 UMB Champion of Excellence Award – awarded to individuals who “exemplify extraordinary accomplishment and represent excellence at the University”

2023 Healthcare Hero Community Outreach Award, Awarded by the Maryland Daily Record to select organizations and individuals “who have made an impact on the quality of health care within our state”

Grants and Contracts

Active Grants

1/1/18 – 8/31/23 (PI, 15%)

“Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network for School-Based Health Services”

Cooperative Agreement with Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

5/31/20 – 5/30/25 (PI, 35%)

“National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category II Center: Center for Safe Supportive Schools (CS3)”

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services,

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

9/30/20 – 8/30/25 (UMB PI, 15%, PI Renee Neely Maryland State Department of Education)

“Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (AWARE)”

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services\

10/1/21 – 9/30/26 (UMB PI, 5%, Greta Columbi, American Institutes of Research)

“National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) Technical Assistance Center (TA Center)”

US Department of Education

4/1/22 - 8/31/22 (Co-I, 10%, PI Tiffany Beason)

Building Healing Behavioral Health Systems

Maryland Department of Health, Behavioral Health Administration

8/15/22 – 8/14/23 (UMB PI, 5%, PI Mark McGovern, Stanford University)

“Mental Health Technology Transfer Network National Coordinating Office”

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

6/1/22 - 5/31/27 (Co-I, 10%, PI Jill Bohnenkamp)

National Initiative to Advance Health Equity in K-12 Education by Preventing Chronic Disease and Promoting Healthy Behaviors: Priority 2: Emotional Well-Being

Centers for Disease Control

8/1/21 – 7/31/24 (Co-PI, 20%, PI, Jill Bohnenkamp)

"Maryland School Mental Health Regional Response Program”

Maryland State Department of Education

11/1/22 – 12/31/23 (PI, 10%)

Maryland Coordinated Community Support Partnerships

Maryland Community Health Resource Commission

1/1/18 – 12/31/22 (Co-PI, 10%, PI Cindy Schaeffer)

“Evaluating Promising School Staff and Resource Officer Approaches for Reducing Harsh Discipline, Suspensions, and Arrests”

National Institute of Justice

8/1/22 – 7/31/23 (PI, 2%)

“Baltimore County Public Schools Supportive and Nurturing Learning Environments”

Baltimore County Public Schools

3/1/19 – 12/31/23 (UMB PI, 10%, PI – Mark Weist, University of South Carolina)

“Patient-Centered Enhancements in School Behavioral Health: A Randomized Trial”

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute

10/01/19 – 09/30/24 (UMB PI, 2%, PI Natalee Johnson, Maryland Behavioral Health Administration)

“Healthy Transitions”

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Links of Interest

http://www.schoolmentalhealth.org/

https://theshapesystem.com/

https://www.ncs3.org/

Sharon A. Hoover, PhD

Education and Training

Biosketch

Research/Clinical Keywords

Highlighted Publications