LIFE SKILL OUTCOMES - Key Persons

Brad Richardson

Job Titles:
  • Center, Director
  • Research Scientist / Engineer & Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Iowa School of Social Work
Dr. Richardson is Research Scientist/Engineer & Adjunct Associate Professor at The University of Iowa School of Social Work and Research Director for the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice. Dr. Richardson areas of expertise include research methods and statistics, social psychology, social network analysis, outcome measurement and evidence based case management tools. His work with the Life Skills Progression began 20 years ago conducting the first reliability study of the LSP with Linda Wollesen in 1999. More recently he has conducted research using the LSP to examine disparities in home visitation programs, health literacy and risk and resiliency patterns using the LSP scales as outcome indicators.

Everette Mason

Job Titles:
  • Technical Consultant, Technical Support
Everette Mason, B.A., is an Information Technology professional with over 30 years of experience. Everette's degree is from University of Richmond, Richmond, VA in Information Systems.

Linda Wollesen

Linda Wollesen's career has focused on supervision and management in maternal child public health nursing & collaborative community services to low income and ethnically diverse families. She has worked in Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz & Monterey Counties in a variety of clinical settings including home visitation & health case management services to children and infants with special needs. She helped pioneered foster care nursing in California and supervised a home visitation research replication site with the Nurse Family Partnership Program (NFP). She is a trained Parents as Teachers Supervisor, and has been on the board of directors of an Early Head Start for which she acted as Infant Mental Health Advisor and a Healthy Families America program. She is the author of the Life Skill Progression (LSP), a utilization focused evaluation tool designed for use by home visitation services. For this work she was awarded a 2000-2002 Zero to Three Fellowship. The Life Skill Progression Handbook (Wollesen and Peifer) was published by the Brookes Publishing Co, Inc in 2006. The LSP is currently the only available tool to measure a parent's functional health literacy. (AHRQ-Innovations 2010).