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Dr. Julia Mendez

Associate Professor, Clinical Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1999 Eberhart 287 Phone: 336-256-0036 Email: jlmendez@uncg.edu

Dr. Mendez has research and teaching interests related to the impact of poverty on the development of young children, parent involvement in children’s education, risk and resilience, and clinical interventions for ethnic minority children and families. In 2001, she received a five-year federal grant to develop and test a preventive intervention designed to promote home-school connection and parent-child interactive learning for children attending Head Start programs. Her current research, also funded by the Department of Health and Human Services, is a three-year project examining parent involvement and barriers to school readiness for children from English Language Learner families.

Selected publications:

Mendez, J.L., Carpenter, J., LaForett, D. & Cohen, J. (in press). Parental engagement and barriers to participation in a community-based preventive intervention. American Journal of Community Psychology.

Waanders, C., Mendez, J.L, & Downer, J. (2007). Neighborhood, teacher and parent characteristics as predictors of parent involvement in preschool children’s education. Journal of School Psychology, 45(6), 619-636.

Mendez, J.L. (2005). Conceptualizing sociocultural factors within clinical and research contexts. Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice, 12(4), 1-4.

Snell-Johns, J., Mendez, J.L., & Smith, B. (2004). Evidence-based solutions: A social ecological view of family therapy and underserved populations. Journal of Family Psychology, 18(1), 19-35.

Mendez, J.L., Fantuzzo, J., & Cicchetti, D. (2002). Profiles of social competence among low-income African American preschool children. Child Development, 73(4), 1085-1100.