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Nyssa Snow-Hill

  • nsnow@depaul.edu
  • Assistant Professor
  • Psychology
  • (773) 325-7190

  • ​Byrne Hall, Room 565​​​


Nyssa Snow-Hill, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Clinical Psychology (Community Track) Program, teaching graduate students evidence-based interventions for children and families. She has expertise in using implementation science to better translate research into real world practice, a topic she teaches to undergraduates. Her research primarily focuses on using community-based participatory methods to inform the development and implementation of evidence-based interventions for those experiencing homelessness and other systems-involved youth. She also seeks to better understand and improve attitudes toward those experiencing homelessness. Two of her current projects include: 1) developing an integrated substance use and traumatic stress intervention for youth experiencing homelessness; and 2) developing a technology-based intervention to help prevent eviction for individuals with substance use disorder living in housing communities. She focuses on engaging in service that improves the well-being of graduate students and of the program, including organizing events for graduate students and supporting their own service engagements.  ​​

Education
BA, Psychology, Miami University, 2011
MA, Clinical Psychology, Dayton University, 2013
PhD, Clinical-Community Psychology, University of South Carolina, 2019
Clinical Psychology Predoctoral Internship, University of Illinois at Chicago Department of Psychiatry, 2018-2019
Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of Illinois at Chicago Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science, 2019-2022

Major Areas of Interest
  • Interventions for youth experiencing homelessness
  • Understanding, measuring, and changing attitudes toward homelessness
  • Traumatic stress interventions and trauma-informed care
  • Implementation science
  • Community-based participatory research, such as Photovoice
  • Dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices

Representative Publications
Snow-Hill, N. L., & Kloos, B. (2022). Attitudes toward Homelessness Inventory: A psychometric analysis. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(7), 2892-2903. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22804

Hsu, K. J., Walden, A. L., Kendall, A. D., Snow-Hill, N. L., Emerson, E. M., & Donenberg, G. R. (2022). Comparing the Sexual and Mental Health of Justice-Involved Youth Across Gender and Sexual Orientation. Criminal Justice Review, 47(3), 354-368. doi:  https://doi.org/10.1177/07340168221078343

Snow-Hill, N.L., Donenberg, G., Feil, E.G., Smith, D. R., Floyd, B.R., & Leve, C. (2021) A technology-based training tool for a health promotion and sex education program for justice-involved youth: Development and usability study. JMIR Formative Research, 5(9), e31185. doi: 10.2196/31185 PMID: 34591028

Ghinai, I., Davis, E. S., Mayer, S., Toews, K., Huggett, T. D., Snow-Hill, N.,…Layden, J. (2020). Risk factors for SARS-CoV-2 infection in homeless shelters in Chicago, IL – March-May, 2020. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 7(11), ofaa477 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofaa477

Watson, D., Snow-Hill, N. L., Saldana, L., Walden, A., Staton, M., Kong, A., & Donenberg, G. (2020). A longitudinal mixed method approach for assessing implementation context and process factors: Comparison of three sites from a Housing First implementation strategy pilot. Implementation Research and Practice, 1, 1-13. doi: 10.1177/2633489520974974/ ID: IRP-20-0023.R2 (PMID33392509)

Watson, D. P., Brucker, K., McGuire, A., Snow-Hill, N. L., et al. (2019). Replication of an emergency department-based recovery coaching intervention and pilot testing of pragmatic trial protocols within the context of Indiana’s Opioid State Targeted Response plan. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 108, 88-94. doi: 10.1016/jsat.2019.06.002. (PMID31200985)

Reeb, R. N., Snow-Hill, N. L., Folger, S. F., Steel, A. L., Stayton, L., Hunt, C. A., O’Koon, B., & Glendening, Z. (Fall 2017). Psycho-Ecological Systems Model: A Systems Approach to Planning and Gauging the Community Impact of Engaged Scholarship. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 24(1) 6-22. doi: https://doi.org/10.3998/mjcsloa.3239521.0024.102

Snow, N. L., Becker, S. P., Raval, V. V. (2013). Measurement invariance of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale in India and the United States. Journal of Education and Developmental Psychology, 3, 147-157. doi: 10.5539/jedp.v3n1p147

Snow, N. L., & Reeb, R. N. (2013). Social stigma and homelessness. Journal of Psychological Practice, 18, 104-139.

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