National SafeCare® Training and Research Center

Training Specialists

Kionne A. Feaster, M.S., BCBA
Kionne A. Feaster received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and Communications and Rhetoric Studies from Oglethorpe University in 2006.  Her academic interests extend from urban leadership and community issues to in-home academic programming for children with autism.  In 2008, she earned a Master of Behavior Analysis and Therapy from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.  During her tenure there, her interest and research focus was spread over delivering evidenced-based behavioral interventions to families indicated on child abuse and neglect through Project 12-Ways, establishing coherency of foster and biological home child management, and studying the effects of addictions on family reunification.  In September of 2008, she joined the National SafeCare® Training and Research Center as a Training Specialist where she educates and trains Georgia human services professionals to implement the SafeCare ® Parenting Curriculum.  Kionne is a Board Certified Behavior Analyst.  Kionne A. Feaster is a proud wife and mother of one, Neriah Jenae.

Courtney R. Jones
Courtney is a Training Specialist with the National SafeCare® Center for Training and Research (NSTRC). She has extensive training in the SafeCare Model. Courtney trains professionals, locally and nationally, from a multitude of backgrounds on the SafeCare Model and provides comprehensive on-going consultation and support to sites implementing SafeCare. She also contributes to the revision of the SafeCare curriculum and training protocols.

In 2003, Courtney received a Bachelor  of Science in Natural Science with an Environmental Science concentration from Spelman College. She spent the following year studying the impact of non-governmental organizations on the lives of street and working children in Jamaica and Brazil as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow. Courtney served as the Data Management research assistant on the Accountable Communities: Healthy Together, a community-based participatory research planning grant funded by the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities. Currently, she is completing her Master of Public Health at Georgia State University.

Ericka M. Lewis, MSW
Ericka Lewis attended the University of West Georgia, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanistic Psychology in 2005. During her undergraduate years, Ericka’s academic research focused on youth development and mental health.  Ericka’s desire to become a contributing member of the human services profession led her to enroll as a graduate student in Georgia State University’s School of Social Work, where she received an MSW degree in 2008. During her tenure at GSU, Ericka had the opportunity to strengthen her skills in program research, development, and evaluation. As a Training Specialist for National Safe Care® Training and Research Center, Ericka is passionate about educating human service professionals in Safe Care’s empirically-based Parenting Program.

Tia M. McGill, MPH
Tia M. McGill received her Bachelor or Arts in Psychology from Spelman College in 2005.  During her tenure there, her academic and research focus was concentrated in the area of mental health and its impact on the community.  In 2007, she was conferred a Master of Public Health in Behavioral Science and Health Promotion from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health where she focused on population based interventions aimed at decreasing racial and ethnic health disparities.  In January of 2008, she joined the National SafeCare® Training and Research Center as a Training Specialist where she works to effectively educate and train health and human services professionals to implement the evidence based SafeCare Parenting Program curriculum.  Tia McGill has served as an author on one peer-reviewed published article in the journal, Addictive Behaviors and has been notably honored for her work at the Morehouse School of Medicine/Tuskegee University/University of Alabama at Birmingham Partnership Cancer Research Training Program Research Symposium.