Dr. Cathlene Hardy-HansenIndiana Secondary Transition Resource Center
Dr. Cathlene Hardy Hansen directs the Indiana Secondary Transition Resource Center, a project of the Center on Community Living and Careers at Indiana Institute on Disability and Community, and is Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health.
Cathlene is committed to building healthy, inclusive, socially just communities who enjoy accessing a greater quality of life. Her work promotes social health strategies, such as appreciative inquiry and community based participatory action in research, teaching and practice. These specific strategies empower participants to have transformative life experiences, becoming personal wellbeing experts and advocates for others, where programmatic research can actually become the intervention for participants and policymakers. |