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Publications

  1. Grills, C., Villanueva, S., Anderson, M., Corsbie-Massay, C. Smith, B., Johnson, L. & Owens, K. (2014). Effectiveness of choice theory connections (CTC): A cross sectional and comparative analysis of California female inmates. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 0306624X13520129, 1-15.
  2. Grills, C., Villaneuva, S., Subica, A., and Douglas, J. (2014). Communities creating healthy environments: Improving access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color. Preventive Medicine, 69, doi:10.1016/j.ypmed.2014.10.026, 117-119.
  3. Devall, J., Grills, C., Terry, D. (2015). Families helping families: Los Angeles, CA Kinship Navigator Program. In: Profiles of family connections projects from 2012 to 2015. Washington, DC: Child Welfare League of America, 53-65.
  4. Grills, C., Cooke, D., Douglas, J., Subica, A., & Villaneuva, S. (2015). Culture, racial socialization, and positive youth development. Journal of Black Psychology. DOI: 10.1177/0095798415578004, 1-31.
  5. Douglas, J. A., Grills, C. T., Villanueva, S., & Subica, A. M. (2016). Empowerment Praxis: Community Organizing to Redress Systemic Health Disparities. American Journal of Community Psychology, 58 (3-4), 488-498.
  6. Subica, A., Grills, C., Villaneuva, S, & Douglas, J. (2016). Community organizing for healthier communities: Environmental and policy outcomes of a national initiative. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 51(6), 916-925.
  7. Subica, A. M., Grills, C. T., Douglas, J. A., & Villanueva, S. (2016). Communities of Color Creating Healthy Environments to Combat Childhood Obesity. American Journal of Public Health, 106(1), 79–86.
  8. Subica, A., Douglas, J., Kepple, N.J., Villaneuva, S, & Grills, C. T., (2017). The geography of crime and violence surrounding tobacco shops, medical marijuana dispensaries, and off-sale alcohol outlets in a large, urban low-income community of color. Preventive Medicine, 108, 8-16.
  9. Abe, J., Grills, C., Ghavami, N., Xiong, G., Davis, C., Johnson, C. (2018). Making the invisible visible: Identifying and articulating culture in practice-based evidence. American Journal of Community Psychology, 1-14.
  10. 1Grills, C., Hill, C. D., Cooke, D., & Walker, A. (2018). California Reducing Disparities Project (CRDP) Phase 2 Statewide Evaluation: Best Practices in Community Based Participatory Practice. Prepared under California Department of Public Health contract # 15-10603. Psychology Applied Research Center. Los Angeles, CA: Loyola Marymount University.
  11. Grills, C., Nobles, W. W., Hill, C. (2018). African, Black, neither or both? Models and strategies developed and implemented by the Association of Black Psychologists. Journal of Black Psychology, 44(8), 791-826. 
  12. Cancio, R., Grills, C. T., and J. García. (2019). The Color of Justice: The Landscape of Traumatic Justice: Youth of Color in Conflict with the Law. The Alliance of National Psychological Associations for Racial and Ethnic Equity.
  13. Grills, C., Banks, J., Norrington-Sands, K., Jackson, T.R., Stevens, S.L. (2019). Black child suicide: A report. Prepared for The National CARES Mentoring Movement and the Congressional Black Caucus’ Emergency Taskforce on Black Youth Suicide and Mental Health chaired by Representative Bonnie Watson Coleman, 1-43.
  14. Young, G.N., Gamst, G., Meyers, L.S., Der-Karabetian, A., Grills, C. T. (2019). Does African American women’s racial identity mediate gendered racism on anticipated relationship threat?  Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519872300.
  15. Douglas, J. A., Subica, A.M., Franks, L., Johnson, G., Leon, C., Villanueva, S., Grills, C.T. (2020). Using participatory mapping to diagnose upstream determinants of health and prescribe downstream policy based interventions. Preventing Chronic Disease, 17(E138), 1-10. 
  16. García, J. J., Grills, C., Villanueva, S., Lane, K. A., Takada-Rooks, C., & Hill, C. D. (2020). Analyzing the Landscape: Community Organizing and Health Equity. Journal of Participatory Research Methods. Advance online publication. https://jprm.scholasticahq.com/article/13196-analyzing-the-landscape-community-organizing-and-health-equity.
  17. Grills, C., Aird, E., Frierson, P. (2020).  African psychology and the global movement for freedom from the lie of Black inferiority.  Alternation, 27(1), 170-206. 
  18. Hamilton, A. B., Brown, A., Loeb, T., Chin, D., Grills, C., Cooley-Strickland, M., ... & Wyatt, G. E. (2020). Enhancing patient and organizational readiness for cardiovascular risk reduction among Black and Latinx patients living with HIV: Study protocol. Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases. Advance online publication. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7266485/.
  19. Grills, C., Carlos Chavez, F. L., Crowder, C., De la Cruz Toledo He, E., Terry, D., & Villanueva, S. (August 2021). COVID-19 Communities of Color Needs Assessment, National Urban League, Executive Summary.