Rodney Harris

R o d n e y E. H a r r i s , P h D, LCMHC (NC), LPC (VA) N C C, A C S, BCC, BC -TMH, CBSPC

Dr. Rodney Harris is an intervention scientist who divides his time between research, training and consulting within the greater Raleigh, NC area. Currently, he directs the Virtual Clinic Training Center; one of the first telehealth graduate community health training clinics in the nation. More recently, he has served extensively in community mental health, managing several grants and designing community programs. He is the Co-Founder of Village of C.A.R.E., a community-based education organization, and an Associate Professor at The Chicago School Counselor Education (PHD online).

Dr. Harris utilizes Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) to improve health disparities and design intervention, prevention, and postvention programs in black and brown communities (with a focus and emphasis on suicide and trauma). This successful model has utilized the barbershop, religious entities, skating parks, centers for the unsheltered, and community centers as intervention points. Dr. Harris is also a member of the Suicide Prevention Institute (SPI) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where his research team designs interventions to address the alarming increase in suicide in black and brown youth.

Additional research interests include: community-based interventions, black and brown youth suicide patterns/trends, and critical incident stress debriefings.