Research & Innovation
Translational science for the places clinical research rarely reaches.
WellWoven practices translational science — the work of moving proven interventions from the lab and the clinic into the church basements, community centers, and living rooms where most people actually heal.
Our position
We're not an academic lab. We're not a service provider. We're the connective tissue between them.
Translational science is the discipline of moving discoveries across the gap between research and real life — from bench, to clinic, to community, to policy. Most evidence-based mental health interventions stall somewhere along that path. Studies finish; manuals get filed; the communities that need the work most never see it.
That gap is our mission. WellWoven works at the community end of the translational pipeline — what researchers call T3 and T4: taking interventions that already work in clinical trials and adapting them so a trained layperson can deliver them faithfully in a church basement on a Tuesday night, then measuring what happens and feeding it back to the field.
We design programs with clinicians, test them in real community contexts, evaluate honestly, and bring what we learn back into both practice and the literature — so the next cohort, in the next community, gets the better version.
How we work
Four practices that keep our programs grounded.
Translate clinical evidence into community settings
Most evidence-based interventions never leave the clinic. We adapt the underlying mechanisms — without diluting them — so a trained layperson can deliver them faithfully on a Tuesday night.
Evaluate what we build
Every cohort generates participant-reported outcomes, facilitator notes, and longitudinal follow-up. We publish what works. We're equally honest about what doesn't.
Partner with universities and field experts
We collaborate with academic researchers, licensed clinicians, and field practitioners to keep our programs grounded in current science — not last decade's.
Pilot innovative, scalable models
Cohort technology, asynchronous facilitator training, hybrid delivery, low-cost evaluation tools — we test approaches that let small organizations punch far above their weight.
Current focus areas
Where we're directing our research energy right now.
These are the questions our programs and partners keep returning to — and where we believe rigorous evaluation can move the field forward.
- Trauma-informed program design for non-clinical settings
- Christian faith-integrated mental health interventions
- Outcomes measurement for cohort-based discipleship
- Facilitator training models for volunteer leaders
- Care navigation and referral pathways
- Resilience programs for military-connected and underserved populations
Researchers & academic partners
We welcome collaborations on study design, IRB-approved evaluations, and joint publications. If your work intersects trauma-informed care, Christian faith-integrated interventions, or community resilience, let's talk.
Propose a collaborationFunders & grantmakers
Our evaluation framework is designed to produce the kind of outcomes data foundations and federal funders actually need — tied to participant wellbeing, not just attendance.
Request our evaluation framework