Areas of child welfare research include foster care, adoption, reunification, placement stability, safety, child abuse and neglect recurrence, outcomes for youth aging out of foster care, and in-home family services outcomes--including intersectional influence of race, economics, and ethnicity in each of these areas.
The purpose of my scholarship is to build and disseminate knowledge about the child welfare workforce and child welfare services that attempt to infuse a family-centered approach within a largely coercive system of state control. The child welfare field is in a continual state of change, and building that evidence base requires keeping up with policy and practice changes and using the most rigorous and feasible methodologies possible in field research.
Faculty specializing in this area
Miriam Landsman, PhD, MSW
Aislinn Conrad, PhD, MSW
Carolyn Hartley, PhD
