Rachel Ouellette

Education

B.S., Psychology, Yale University

Research Interests

Rachel is a doctoral student in the Clinical Science Ph.D. program at FIU working with Dr. Stacy Frazier. She is largely interested in improving outcomes for at-risk children who may have difficulty accessing adequate supports and resources. She is interested in doing this by working with community partners to build supports directly into children's natural environments, with a focus on the dissemination and implementation process of building evidence-based practices into community settings in a feasible, sustainable, and generalizable way.

Awards

Minority Fellowship Program (MFP) Psychology Summer Institute (PSI) Fellow, APA, 2020 
 
Peter and Malina James & Dr. Louis P. James Legacy Scholarship, APF/COGDOP, 2019   
 
F31 NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Individual National Research Service Award, NICHD, 2019-2021
 
Psychology Graduate Student Seed Fund Award, FIU, 2018-2019 and 2019-2020
 
Presidential Fellowship, Florida International University, 2016-2019

Publications

Azad, G. F., & Ouellette, R. R. (2015). Classroom Aides. In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Intellectual and Developmental Disorders. In Press.

Baller, J. B., Barry, C.L., Shea, K., Walker, M.M., Ouellette, R., & Mandell, D. S. (2015). Assessing Early Implementation of State Autism Insurance Mandates. Autism. In press.

Kratz, H. E., Locke, J., Piotrowski, Z., Ouellette, R.R., Xie, M., Stahmer, A.C., & Mandell, D. S. (2014). All Together Now: Measuring Staff Cohesion in Special Education Classrooms. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment.

Presentations

Ouellette, R., Wideman, R., & Mandell, D. S. (2015). Teacher fidelity and emotional exhaustion: The protective value of fidelity in evidence-based practices. Poster presented at the 9th World Congress on the Promotion of Mental Health, Columbia, South Carolina.