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Dr. Kim has served as one of the Evaluation & Technical Assistance Managers for BAI since 1993. He provides consultation services to governmental and non-governmental organizations in the areas of applied research and program evaluation with specialty in cultural issues. Dr. Kim's formal experience began in 1986 while associated with Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii. Other significant employment positions include serving as a clinical psychologist and the Adult Service Coordinator with the Coastal Asian-Pacific Mental Health Services, Program Director with Child and Family Service, Honolulu, Hawaii and researcher at the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles. During this period, he completed several studies in the areas of substance abuse reduction, guilt and shame in Asian families and recruitment and retention of minorities in the psychology/counseling field. His experience includes customer satisfaction survey research, leadership training outcome study, cancer prevention and early intervention evaluation, evaluation of substance abuse treatment program, and evaluation of numerous high-risk youth (e.g., substance abuse, gang, delinquency) prevention programs. Dr. Kim works closely with Dr. Cervantes in assisting agencies obtain funding by identifying funding sources and assisting in grant writing.

Dr. Kim received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology with a specialty in multicultural community psychology proficiency and his bachelors in psychology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii. He has published and presented manuscripts to numerous journals including the Journal of Creative Sociology, Transcultural Psychiatric Research Review, The California Psychologist and the Journal of Personality and Individual Differences. He is a member of key professional associations including the American Evaluators Association (AEA), the Asian-American Psychological Association (AAPA), American Psychological Association (APA) and the Society for the Psychological Study of Ethnic Minority Issues (Division 45, APA.