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Meet the ASPIRE Research Team

Alliance for Suicide Prevention & Intervention through Relationship Enrichment

Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only though working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.

Harriet Lerner

ASPIRE Team Video

Learn more about the ASPIRE Team on the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences YouTube site.

What we do...

ASPIRE conducts translational, community-engaged research on intervention and prevention strategies for youth suicide and associated mental health concerns. 


Treatment Research with Youth and Families: Adapting and testing empirically-supported, family-based interventions for underserved youth.

 

Systems Research with Organizations: Implementing suicide prevention strategies within community organizations.

News Feature!

Read about ASPIRE's work in the Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences news!

Find out more

Get to know ASPIRE's Director, Dr. Jody Russon, LMFT

Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Science
Dr. Jody Russon, LMFT Curriculum Vitae 2026Virginia Tech Marriage & Family Therapy Program ProfileInterview with Virginia Tech Center for Humanities

Research Assistants & Student Collaborators

Kathleen Smith

Julianna Strati

Kathleen Smith

Duan-Ching Wu

Julianna Strati

Kathleen Smith

Julianna Strati

Julianna Strati

Julianna Strati

Rinny Newell

Emerence Morales Donnell

Julianna Strati

Sara Hassanpour

Emerence Morales Donnell

Emerence Morales Donnell

Emerence Morales Donnell

Emerence Morales Donnell

Emerence Morales Donnell

Information for Prospective Students

Dr. Russon regularly accepts new graduate and undergraduate students on ASPIRE. Interested in working with Dr. Russon? Please list your Virginia Tech email address below!

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