Provides research, evaluation, consulting, and technical assistance services that contribute to the lifelong process of learning and improving personal performance.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Kimberly Kendziora, Ph.D.

Senior Research Analyst

Kimberly Kendziora, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Analyst at AIR with experience and expertise in child mental health. Since joining AIR in 1998, Dr. Kendziora has worked in the areas of prevention of and intensive services for children and youth at risk for poor developmental outcomes and has a deep research interest in services for children with complex, multi-system needs. In the areas of prevention and early intervention, she currently directs a study of long-term academic outcomes for children who received preschool intervention for behavioral or developmental concerns.

Since 1999, Dr. Kendziora has also been the Coordinator of K nowledge Development and Dissemination for the Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health, which serves communities receiving federal funding to build local systems of care. Other work in prevention includes leading the establishment of a database of all federally funded initiatives related to the prevention of children’s mental health problems.

Dr. Kendziora recently completed a book chapter for Kluwer/Plenum, Fostering resilience among youth in the juvenile justice system as well as a chapter for Guilford, Research on early intervention for behavior disorders. She has received advanced statistical training, and has a strong background in research and design methods. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology in 1995 from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, where she worked as a therapist for children, adults, and couples.