Jeremiah Kaplan, MSW is a master’s level social worker and a full-time Senior Research & Training Specialist at the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University. He holds additional degrees in Computer-Aided Drafting & Design and Human Services (Concentration in Family & Child Services). He holds certifications in Instructional Design & Development; Mindfulness Instruction; trauma-informed care instruction; Communities that Care; Storyline eLearning software; Adobe Creative Suite; Database Management (including LMS Administration); and Motivational Interviewing. He has over 5 years of experience with Motivational Interviewing Fidelity Coding and has expertise in the Helpful Responses Questionnaire (HRQ), the Officer Responses Questionnaire (ORQ), the Motivational Interviewing Treatment Integrity Tool (MITI, v.3 and 4.2.1), and with the development of new instruments for MI, SBIRT, and related models.
He has been a Motivational Interviewing International Network of Trainers (MINT) member since 2021 and supervised the ASU MyMI Motivational Interviewing Online Coding and Coaching Lab from 2019 - 2024. He is a certified Mental Health First Aid instructor (adult and youth) and is an Arizona ACEs Consortium certified trainer for trauma-informed care serving in the Training workgroup. His research interests include human motivation and behavior across the lifespan and within complex systems, leadership models, and adaptive intervention design and implementation. His research experience includes motivational interviewing, SBIRT, youth development, Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) programming, the implementation of evidence-based practices, Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR), workforce development and evaluation, and community prevention models. His passions include Motivational Interviewing, Mindfulness, Leadership Models, SEL, Trauma-Informed Care, Youth Development, and Gamification of Learning.
Jeremiah has been teaching in the community for over 24 years including spiritual leadership, youth development, youth leadership and identity, mindfulness, gamification of learning, music, and mindfulness. He has been teaching in the social services fields since 2015 and has held training leadership positions at ASU as well as local community agencies. He served as Commissioner for the Arizona Supreme Court’s Family Improvement Committee from 2020 until 2024 working to bring trauma-responsive approaches to Arizona’s children and families. As a second-year Ph.D. student at the College of Health Solutions at ASU, he is exploring new models of leadership to bring autonomy-supportive leadership to healthcare organizations.
I am a passionate workforce development, research, and evaluation professional comfortable in evaluation and training for small groups and large organizations across multiple industries including healthcare, nonprofit, schools and education systems, higher learning, occupational therapy, corrections, integrated care, and various others. I bring the MI Spirit into everything that I do from leadership and management to my approach to training delivery and styles.
