Shamra Boel-Studt
Shamra Boel-Studt’s expertise centers on residential and out-of-home care for high-acuity, system-involved youth, with a focus on quality, effectiveness, and evidence-based practice. Her work examines how child-serving systems and policy environments shape behavioral health access, placement decisions, and outcomes. She specializes in the development and theory-driven evaluation of quality standards and uses applied, mixed-methods approaches, with an emphasis on lived experience, to drive system improvement and practice innovation.