Craig Lecroy
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Tucson Campus 340 N. Commerce Park Loop Suite 250 Tucson, AZ 85745-2700
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Mail code: 3920Campus: Dtphx
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Craig Winston LeCroy is the Communitas Professor of Social Work, Tucson campus, School of Social Work at Arizona State University. He also holds an appointments at the University of Arizona in the John & Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, Family Studies and Human Development division and is a faculty member with the Arizona LEND program at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, the Zellerbach Visiting Professor at the University of California–Berkeley, and a senior Fulbright specialist.
Professor LeCroy has focused his research in the areas of home visitation services, social competence in adolesence, and evidence based practice for social work. In home visitation, he has conducted randomized trials of the Healthy Families America program of home visitation, serves on the research to practice committee of Prevent Child Abuse America, and has developed a widely used outcome instrument, The Healthy Families Parenting Inventory. LeCroy's work in social competence with youth spans efforts toward implementation of evidence based practice models (see, "Handbook of Evidence-based Practice Manuals with Children and Adolescents"), juvenile justice with youth, and the development of a primary prevention program for early adolescent females (See, "Empowering Adolescent Girls"). He is currently developing and evaluating new programs for sexual risk reduction with adolecent females and males. He continues to conduct research on issues related to mental illness and conducted an in-depth study of how parents manage their children's mental illness (see "Parenting Mentally Ill Children") and collected a series of first-person accounts of people with mental illness. LeCroy is the author of 14 books andmore than 100 articles and book chapters. He was elected fellow status by the American Psychological Association in 2016 and elected fellow status by the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare in 2017.
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison 1983
- M.S.W. Western Michigan University 1980
- B.S.W. San Jose State University 1978
