A5014585036- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Social Work Education and Practice
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Intimate Partner and Family Violence
- Sex work and related issues
- Homicide, Infanticide, and Child Abuse
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Community Health and Development
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Helicobacter pylori-related gastroenterology studies
- Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
- Youth Education and Societal Dynamics
- Mycobacterium research and diagnosis
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Quinazolinone synthesis and applications
- Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics
University of Hartford
2016-2023
University of Connecticut
2016-2023
UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels
2022
University of Maryland, Baltimore
2022
Bowie State University
2022
Washington University in St. Louis
2015
Mental Health Services
1997
FrontLine Service
1997
Contemporary child welfare policies in the United States are well-suited for prevention of abuse but fail to account relationship between family financial hardship and neglect, that is, lack safe consistent care. We argue rates neglect have been stagnant because two failures: (1) recognition as a causal mechanism (2) federal policy purposefully omits alleviation solution occurrence neglect. Because U.S. antipoverty programs operate independently one another, our siloed structure misses...
We use high-frequency mobile phone movement data and quick-release administrative from Georgia to examine how time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic is related child maltreatment referrals. Findings show that referrals plummeted by 58% relative previous years, driven fewer education personnel. After this initial decline, however, each 15 minutes was associated with an increase in of material neglect 3.5% supervisory 1%. Our results describe children have fared wave pandemic, long-term...
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has led to extreme social isolation, precarious employment and job loss, working from home while tending children, limited access public services. confluence of these factors likely affects child health well-being. We combine early release maltreatment reports in Indiana with unique newly available mobile phone movement data better understand the relationship between staying at intensively during maltreatment. Our findings indicate that prolonged stays promoted...
The Structured Decision-Making Model's risk assessment (RA) is a prominent feature of front-end child protection work. Examining how two different states have set policy to implement the RA, we analyze their distinct choices and unintended consequences. We propose that variation in implementation originates not from individual workers but nested sources. First, RA embeds an implicit epistemological conflict between actuarially based clinical decision making, with very little guidance on...
In the United States, childcare subsidies are available to low-income working parents assist with cost of childcare. The provided as block grants states, which allows for a great deal flexibility in specific policies guiding their distribution. Prior research has found protective link between and child maltreatment, but variations have been much less explored. current study used longitudinal administrative welfare data from 10 years (2009-2019) linked state regarding income eligibility...
The policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic led a sudden and unprecedented increase in amount of time parents children spent at home. We use real-time, novel mobile phone movement data quick-release administrative on child maltreatment referrals examine how home is related allegations maltreatment. Findings show that plummeted by approximately 55% following emergency declaration relative 2018 2019 trends during same period. However, was associated with more referrals, particularly...
Behavioral parent training programs, such as Pathways Triple P (Level 5 of the support and system, hereafter referred to Pathways), have been shown improve child behavior. However, has not tested with a welfare services (CWS) population. A mixed-methods, randomized control trial was conducted examine its effectiveness CWS-involved families. The sample included parents investigated for maltreatment whose remained in home following investigation. Parents were into treatment (n = 57) or...
Economic support programs for low-income families may play an important role in preventing child abuse and neglect. In the United States, childcare subsidies are provided to who meet certain requirements offset high cost of childcare. States have flexibility setting many policies related provision subsidies, which results a great deal variation how operate between states. One policy dimension on states vary is number employment hours required receive subsidies. A small body work has begun...
Latent class analysis was used to identify subgroups of incarcerated women differentiated by experiences child abuse and intimate partner violence victimization. The subscales the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire Abuse Behavior Inventory were as indicators. Data drawn from a probability sample 217 housed in two state-level prisons North Carolina. Four classes extracted—Low Victimization, Child Abuse, Lifetime Physical Psychological Sexual Abuse; then related current sentence length, holding...
Evidence-based behavioral parent training (BPT) programs are the most effective way to address children’s behavior disorders and participant engagement is essential achieving positive treatment outcomes. However, there limited understanding of factors that contribute engagement, particularly for at-risk families. This qualitative study explored affecting attitudinal among child welfare–involved parents participating in Pathways Triple P ( n = 47). Data were collected through semistructured...
This article demonstrates how structural social work theory and critical consciousness development can be used to help facilitate a transition from deficit model approach an inequities perspective in child welfare system that was working improve the identification of services for domestic minor sex trafficked youth (DMST). The response Connecticut’s issue DMST is provided as example systems could apply population involved at risk exploitation. Structural helps illustrate neo-liberalist...