Victim Researcher Profile
STATE
Kansas
INSTITUTION
University of Kansas, School of Social Welfare
TITLE
Ph.D. MSW/LCSW Associate Professor
EDUCATION
PhD
DISCIPLINE
Social Welfare
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
More than 20 years
BIO
I have two decades of experience working in the area of parental substance abuse and child maltreatment. During this time, I have evaluated and implemented evidence based interventions across three US states, acquiring a broad range of knowledge about the process of planning, designing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining programs in the field among very diverse populations (urban, rural, frontier, various cultures, ethnicities). This knowledge has placed me in a position to understand the multiple and complex risk and protective factors for children in the child welfare system, and to design programs and services in a way that is responsive to the consumer, the state service systems and places me in a unique position to always strive to examine equity from multiple perspectives. My robust record of research and commitment to advancing knowledge around this population is sustained, innovative, and goal driven. Each of the projects I have worked on has required a multidisciplinary collaboration, responsiveness to timelines, frequent and transparent communication and processes, and a grounding in realistic and rigorous research practices.
VICTIMIZATION FOCUS
Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Drug-Related Victimization
SPECIAL POPULATIONS
Child victims
RESEARCH EXPERTISE
Community-based participatory research, Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial
VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Data collection, Descriptive studies, Needs assessment, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quantitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Randomized controlled trial, Training and/or technical assistance
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