Deborah Moon

Developing, adapting, implementing, and evaluating interventions designed to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and promote mental health among marginalized families in under-resourced communities. Informed by Implementation Science and Health and Human Services Research, she is particularly interested in using stakeholder-engaged approaches to identify effective strategies to implement and sustain such interventions in community organizations that are traditionally underutilized in the promotion of mental health, including primary healthcare facilities, Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs), schools, churches, and libraries, etc.

[2026] Moon, D.J., Lee, H*, Faruque, J.A.*, & McGuire, E. A. (2026). Measuring Participant Responsiveness (PR) in Behavioral Health Interventions: An Expanded Model of Fidelity and Program Implementation. Global Implementation Research & Applications. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43477-026-00222-9 [2025] Moon, D. J., Jeon, J.*, Cruce, A.*, Lee, H.*, Ma, R.*, & Case, B. W. (2025). Measuring flourishing for transitional youth aging out of foster care in the United States: Factor structure and invariance of the flourishing index. SSM - Mental Health, 8, 100518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100518 [2025] Moon, D. J., Lee, H.*, & Jeon, J.* (2025). Household Challenges and Youth Flourishing: Mediating Effects of Parental Aggravation and Physical Health. Families in Society: The Journal of Co