A Research Associate with the Human Services Research Institute. She conducts research in the areas of self-direction and self-determination, employment supports, peer-provided services, mental health crisis alternatives, psychiatric rehabilitation and recovery, co-occurring mental health and substance use issues, integration of physical and behavioral health, health reform, and state behavioral health system design and financing. Ms. Croft is the project director for the evaluation component of a multi-state Demonstration and Evaluation of Self-Direction in Behavioral Health.