Meet the BCC Team

 MINT Trainer

Dr. Salome Nicole Cockern (Nikki) is a pediatric psychologist and assistant professor at Wayne State University, with extensive experience implementing health behavior change interventions for adolescents and young adults. She is the psychologist and lifeline in the adolescent HIV clinic in Detroit, MI, and has provided clinical supervision for several research projects including Healthy Choices

targeting youth living with HIV, We Test, and the Young Men’s Health Project targeting risk behaviors and PrEP (HIV prevention medication) initiation in young men who have sex with men. She has been a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) since 2004 and uses MI in clinical practice with youth in the areas of adherence, substance use, mental illness, partner violence, coping and risk reduction. In addition to supervising intervention staff on several clinical research trials, she actively trains staff in various community and state agencies, as well as train and supervise residents and

other medical professionals and community health workers in MI.

MINT Trainer

Dr. Sharonne Herbert is a board-certified clinical child and adolescent psychologist and the supervisor of the Mental Health Emergency Services team at Children’s Hospital of Orange County in Orange California that evaluates children and adolescents who present to the emergency department for mental health concerns. She is passionate about working with parents of children with disruptive behaviors and children with anxiety, obsessive compulsive disorder and tic disorders. She is a member of Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and provides trainings for teachers, medical providers, and clinicians in the local community as well in the western region of the United States.

MINT Trainer

Sandra has practiced motivational interviewing for over 10 years. She is a Registered Nurse with over 30 years of experience and holds a Doctor of Nursing Practice. In addition to her nursing and motivational interviewing practice, Sandra served as a missionary for four years in Belize.  Sandra is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT) and has provided Motivational Interviewing training and consulting for primary care and behavioral health staff, healthcare leaders, and academic coaches. Sandra is currently an Assistant Professor in Healthcare Administration.

MINT Trainer

Joy Lovelet Crawford is member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers and co-founder at Eve for Life in Jamaica. A Registered General Nurse by training, Joy’s work experience spans 30 years of HIV program development, HIV voluntary counseling and testing master trainer, clinical supervisor for pastoral counseling students, and management of primary health services. She has a particular passion for adolescent sexual health and reproductive justice. Joy has partnered with academic centers to bring Motivational Interviewing to Jamaica and is the only Caribbean MINT trainer.

MINT Trainer

Elaine McGlaughlin, MPH is an international development practitioner who first learned about MI in 2016 while translating and adapting BCC materials for a training for HIV clinic providers in the Dominican Republic. Elaine’s work in Central America focuses on behavior change communications, violence prevention, and sexual and reproductive health access for vulnerable groups. She became a MINT member in 2018 and continues studying with the BCC team while providing coding and training services in Spanish and English.