A5057229443- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Gender Roles and Identity Studies
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Reproductive Health and Technologies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Education Discipline and Inequality
- Workplace Health and Well-being
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Crime Patterns and Interventions
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Work-Family Balance Challenges
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
University of Pittsburgh
2015-2025
Howard University
2017
Pittsburg State University
2006
University of Michigan
2004-2005
At least one third of youth involved with juvenile justice experienced child maltreatment. Child welfare samples thus provide a means to examine how services moderate the relationship between maltreatment and delinquency, producing information essential for tailoring disrupt this link. This article contributes understandings which are likely become by examining its relationships experiences mental health substance abuse service receipt, particular attention racial gender differences. In...
Girls in the juvenile justice system have high rates of past sexual abuse. To better understand relationship between abuse and involvement, we analyzed survey interviews with 169 young women involved or at risk involvement justice, comparing girls who experienced those did not. experiencing had more negative mental health, school, substance use, risky behavior, delinquency outcomes. These findings highlight a need for interventions to assist efforts prevent improve child welfare social...
Journal Article Social Justice for Crossover Youth: The Intersection of the Child Welfare and Juvenile Systems Get access Karen M. Kolivoski, Kolivoski 1Karen PhD, MSW, is assistant professor, School Work, Howard University, 601 Place NW, Washington, DC 20059; e-mail: karen.kolivoski@howard.edu. Sara Goodkind, associate professor Jeffrey J. Shook, JD, doctoral program director, University Pittsburgh. Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Goodkind Shook...
Although research on youth aging out of the child welfare system has increased, there been limited focus how their experiences vary. In particular, is a need to examine patterns in involvement these other systems, which indicate constellations challenges facing young people as they transition care and into adulthood. Using administrative data from large birth cohort individuals born between 1985 1994 whose families have involved system, this article presents an analysis mental health,...
Social workers engage with marginalized groups in society. However, many social are of privileged and have not personally experienced exclusions. This study explored work graduate students' evaluation an assignment designed to encourage critical self-reflection as part a required diversity course. The approaches using cultural humility lens, which seeks remove historical, unidimensional teaching about diverse populations. Data were collected from 47 MSW students enrolled at urban, Midwestern...
Black girls in the U.S. experience high levels of discrimination and adversity. Resilience is a term used within social work, psychology, health professions to indicate positive adaptation adversity, trauma, or stress. This article examines traditional alternative models resilience through analyses quantitative qualitative data from an evaluation year-long empowerment program for 33 (mean age = 14.97 years). Based on critical consciousness theory feminism, this was designed empower...
This article reviews the literature on gender-specific services for girls in juvenile justice system. Drawing feminist theorizing, it offers four critiques: (a) that increasing involvement of system is taken as a real indicator greater crime and delinquency; (b) an essentialized notion gender used; (c) problem located individual, to exclusion solutions focus system/structural changes; (d) girls’ victimization obscures agency perpetuates continued punishment behaviors are more acceptable...
Youth who experience out-of-home placement in the child welfare system are more likely to have justice involvement. However, research has yet fully address underlying heterogeneity of trajectories and trajectory groups regarding substantial involvement within this population. Using administrative data from a sample 794 children youth large, urban county Pennsylvania, longitudinal study seeks identify their predictors as related juvenile detention, placement, jail Five were identified labeled...
Most of the extant social work research on biracial children and families has focused experiences transracially adopted black or their white parents Afro-Caribbean/white mothers in United Kingdom. This study adds to body knowledge by using focus group interviews analyzed through a feminist lens understand diverse women parenting biological black/white children. The findings suggest that having locates them liminal space between whiteness blackness. Many face racism from communities, which...
This article examines the effects of living arrangements on well-being mothers with a serious mental illness. Analyses data from National Institute Mental Health-funded study an urban, primarily African American sample 379 illness revealed few differences in parenting or social functioning between their children and spouse partner those only. However, extended family had significantly better outcomes than women other two arrangements. Structural equation modeling analyses indicated that...
Abstract Research is increasingly focusing on how young people interpret their experiences with the legal system and whether this shapes attitudes beliefs about system. This study adds to extant literature by examining relationship between perceptions of procedural justice toward law for a sample youth ( N = 227) in residential placements. Specifically, it focuses youths’ defense attorneys shape Results demonstrate that who feel they were treated more fairly viewed police courts as...
Journal Article Study of delinquent, diverted, and high-risk adolescent girls: Implications for mental health intervention Get access Mary C. Ruffolo, PhD, PhD associate professor School Social Work, University Michigan, 1080 South University, #2726, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1106; e-mail: mruffolo@umich.edu Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Rosemary Sarri, Arbor Sara Goodkind, MSW doctoral candidate in social work sociology Work Research, Volume 28, Issue 4,...
ABSTRACT This article presents findings from a photovoice project designed to identify service needs of older-adult African American methadone clients, as well their current barriers and supports for abstinence. The involved 10 participants (aged 53 63 years old) recruited maintenance program in large Northeastern U.S. city. Thematic analysis techniques were used analyze participants' narratives pictures. Transportation emerged significant challenge accessing services, caregiving was...