Audra Langley, PhD
she/her
Director, UCLA TIES for Families
Co-Director, UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families
Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences
About
Audra Langley, PhD, is a professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine's Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences. Dr. Langley is the endowed director of UCLA TIES for Families, an innovative interdisciplinary program for children in foster care, kinship care, or adopted through foster care (from birth to 25) and their families in Los Angeles County. She is also co-director of the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families, which unites a multidisciplinary network across UCLA and throughout Los Angeles County to safely reduce the need for foster care while supporting equitable reform in child welfare systems.
Dr. Langley’s body of community participatory partnered research seeks to center racial equity in reimagining child welfare and wellbeing, as well as increasing access to culturally-responsive, trauma and healing-informed mental health and wellbeing interventions for children. She is the author of five evidence-based interventions, including Bounce Back: Elementary School Intervention for Childhood Trauma, Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET), and ADAPT Adoption Specific Therapy.