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Clark M Peters

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STATE

Missouri

INSTITUTION

University of Missouri

TITLE

Associate Professor

EDUCATION

JD, PhD

DISCIPLINE

Social Policy

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE

More than 20 years

BIO

Clark Peters, PhD, MSW, JD, is an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Social Work and Truman School of Public Affairs, focusing his work primarily on adolescents in state care and juvenile justice. He is also is a Policy Fellow at the Institute of Public Policy, holds a courtesy appointment at the University of Missouri School of Law, and is a Faculty Director of Youth Development at the Center for Social Development at Washington University is St. Louis. As a Skadden Fellow and staff attorney at the Youth Law Center in San Francisco, he represented youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems in civil rights actions. He has presented, taught, and written on issues of juvenile justice, foster care, and child welfare in the US and abroad. His current research work focuses on youths in foster care, asset building, and youth engagement, and appears in Social Work, the Missouri Law Review, Journal of Public Child Welfare, and the Children and Youth Services Review. He currently serves as chair of the University of Missouri Faculty Council on University Policy.

VICTIMIZATION FOCUS

Child Abuse and Sexual Abuse, Domestic and Family Violence

SPECIAL POPULATIONS

Child victims

RESEARCH EXPERTISE

Community-based participatory research, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Quasi-experimental studies, Training and/or technical assistance

VICTIM RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Data collection, Descriptive studies, Program evaluation, Qualitative studies, Training and/or technical assistance