Nicole Eisenberg

Nicole has been at SDRG since 2010. She has contributed to or led numerous projects aimed at promoting wellbeing and/or preventing behavioral health problems among children, youth, and young adults. With expertise in prevention science, program evaluation, and international collaborations, her research has focused on understanding and measuring risk and protective factors and developmental outcomes in children and youth, extending the reach of preventive interventions and adapting them to new contexts, and the use of qualitative and mixed-methods research.

Nicole is Co-Director of the Northwest Prevention Technology Transfer Center (PTTC), which provides training and technical assistance for the prevention workforce in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington through a grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). She is also an Affiliate of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology.

At The Center for Communities That Care, she oversees international projects and provides Spanish language training for the Guiding Good Choices parenting program. She also works collaboratively with communities to help them collect and use survey data for prevention planning.

Education:

• MA and PhD, social research methods, education, University of California Los Angeles
• BA and clinical license in psychology, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

Professional Interests:

• Positive youth development
• Prevention of behavioral health problems
• Community, school, and family-based preventive interventions
• Prevention program dissemination, implementation, and evaluation
• Prevention science approaches to increasing health equity
• Data utilization for prevention planning
• Measurement of risk and protective factors
• International collaborations

Key Publications:

• Eisenberg, N., Lovett, K., Skinner, M. L., Oesterle, S., Morales, L. S., Martinez, G., Briney, J. S., & Guttmannova, K. (2025). A window into the lives of rural Latinx young adults: A qualitative study of adult roles and transitions. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(8), e70057.
• Morrison, K. M., Eisenberg, N., Lyons, V. H., Sterling, S. A., Beck, A., Braciszewski, J. M., Beaulieu, D., Boggs, J., Briney, J. S., Danzo, S., Haggerty, K. P., Jessen, A., Kline-Simon, A., Loree, A. M., Morse, E., Scheuer, H., Wang, X., & Kuklinski, M. R. (2025). Implementation fidelity of a virtual adaptation of the Guiding Good Choices Program. Journal of Community Psychology, 53(5), e70020.
• Sterling, S. A., Kline-Simon, A., Metz, V. E., Eisenberg, N., Grijalva, C., Iturralde, E., Charvat-Aguilar, N., Berrios, G., Braciszewski, J., Beck, A., Boggs, J., & Kuklinski, M. (2024). Pilot implementation of Guiando Buenas Decisiones, an evidence-based parenting program for Spanish-speaking families, in pediatric primary care in a large, U.S. health system: A qualitative interview study. Journal of Prevention, 45(6), 901-918.
• Danzo, S., Kuklinski, M. R., Sterling, S. A., Beck, A., Braciszewski, J. M., Boggs, J., Briney, J. S., Charvat-Aguilar, N., Eisenberg, N., Kaffl, A., Kline-Simon, A., Loree, A. M., Lyons, V. H., Morse, E. F., Morrison, K. M., Negusse, R., & Scheuer, H. (2024). Anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation among early adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Adolescence, 96(6), 1379-1387.
• Eisenberg, N., Brown, E. C., Pérez-Gómez, A., Mejía-Trujillo, J., Paredes-Aguilar, M., Cardozo-Macias, F., Fundación San Carlos de Maipo, & Guttmannova, K. (2021). Community utilization of risk and protective factor data for prevention planning in Chile and Colombia. Health Promotion International, 36(2), 417-429.
• Jones, T. M., Eisenberg, N., Kosterman, R., Lee, J. O., Bailey, J. A., & Haggerty, K. P. (2020). Parents’ perceptions of adolescent exposure to marijuana following legalization in Washington State. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 11(1), 21-38.
• Fleming, C. M., Eisenberg, N., Catalano, R. F., Kosterman, R., Cambron, C., Hawkins, J. D., Hobbs, T., Berman, I., Fleming, T., & Watrous, J. (2019). Optimizing assessment of risk and protection for diverse adolescent outcomes: Do risk and protective factors for delinquency and substance use also predict risky sexual behavior? Prevention Science, 20(5), 788-799.
• Eisenberg, N., Jones, T. M., Kosterman, R., Bailey, J. A., Lee, J. O., & Haggerty, K. P. (2019). Parenting practices in the context of legal marijuana: Voices from Seattle parents. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 28(2), 587-598.
• Kosterman, R., Bailey, J. A., Guttmannova, K., Jones, T. M., Eisenberg, N., Hill, K. G., & Hawkins, J. D. (2016). Marijuana legalization and parents’ attitudes, use, and parenting in Washington State. Journal of Adolescent Health, 59(4), 450-456.
• Pérez-Gómez, A., Mejía-Trujillo, J., Brown, E. C., & Eisenberg, N. (2016). Adaptation and implementation of a science-based prevention system in Colombia: Challenges and achievements. Journal of Community Psychology, 44(4), 538-545.

Favorite quotes:

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.”
— Benjamin Franklin

“Mejor prevenir que lamentar.”

— Spanish proverb