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Jill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
I am engaged in research that examines state policies regarding the imposition of child support payments for parents whose children are in foster care. An obscure federal policy allows states to charge parents when their children are placed in foster care. My work focuses on examining these policies across states...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The U.S. is the only country in the world that has not signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The position of children in this country is therefore ambiguous and contested. Examining news stories that pertain to children and families over the past five years, this study...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
Transgender children are disproportionately overrepresented in the United States child welfare system and experience many unique challenges during their child welfare experiences. The state of California began collecting data on transgender children in the child welfare system in 2019, but before this data can be analyzed, social workers' use of...
Social SciencesJill Berrick - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
In California, child protective services (CPS) investigators are required by law to evaluate reports of maltreatment in screened-in calls from the hotline and remove children from caregivers (and/or parents) who demonstrate evidence or significant risk of harm towards the child. In certain cases, caregivers may appeal on a...
Social SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
The purpose of this study is to describe lessons learned by health and human service organizations in integrating housing support and health care for Medicaid beneficiaries experiencing homelessness or at-risk of homelessness. Data are drawn from the statewide evaluation of California’s Medi-Cal Whole Person Care Pilot Program (WPC...
Social SciencesEmmeline Chuang - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
Ashby Village is a community-based nonprofit in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties that provides a range of support services and programs focused on helping older-adults “age in place” in the community. The organization is part of the National Village Movement, and is grassroots, member-driven, and self-governing...
Social SciencesMark Courtney - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: On Campus
About Us: The Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub; https://ccwip.berkeley.edu/TAY/) is a dynamic research collaborative located within the California Child Welfare Indicators Project at the University of California, Berkeley. The TAY-Hub is dedicated to advancing knowledge and improving the lives of transition-age youth...
Social SciencesAnu Manchikanti Gomez - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Misinformation (factually incorrect information) and disinformation (misinformation that is spread intentionally) about contraception and abortion are serious and worsening threats to sexual and reproductive health (SRH). The spread and impact of misinformation has been exacerbated by social media. TikTok specifically is widely used by young people and has been identified...
Social Sciences Biological & Health SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
My research focuses on enhancing Latinx child and family wellbeing, particularly among immigrant families at risk of immigration enforcement and public child welfare involvement. Specifically, my work expands our understanding of the impact that immigration policies have on the psychosocial wellbeing and trajectories of Latinx immigrant transitional age youth (TAY...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
U.S. immigration policies have become increasingly restrictive, exacerbating fears among Latinx immigrant youth and families at risk of deportation and forced family separation. Legal activity related to immigration policy and practice increased during the pandemic and provided the Trump administration with a pretext for tightening already stringent immigration policies. The...
Social SciencesKristina Lovato - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs
Aa majority of the data on Latino family and youth outcomes in the past few decades has, with minor exceptions, provided an undifferentiated analysis of Latino populations that often fail to account for historical incorporation and additional crucial identities such as race, ethnicity, phenotype, socioeconomic status, and generation in the...
Social SciencesAngie Perone - Professor , Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: to be negotiated Location: Off Campus
This project will involve two different mini-projects: (1) HOMES Survey:(LGBTQ+/SGL) Housing, Health, and Services for Older Adults. HOMES is a community-based participatory research (CBPR) project with LGBTQ+ / same-gender-loving older adults. It uses survey data from LGBTQ+ older adults and information from community partners from...
Biological & Health Sciences Social SciencesLaurent Reyes - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
As the nation ages it will also become more ethnoracially diverse. Primarily, the share of older Hispanics is projected to double, from 16 percent to 28 percent in the next 30 years. However, Latinx adults reach later life with more functional limitations and fewer resources to face long-term care...
Social SciencesValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
A statewide effort was launched in 2020 to respond to pandemic-accelerated social and emotional needs of young people in schools. This project aims to build capacity at County Offices of Education around California to become regional hubs to support the delivery of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) in schools...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Behavioral health problems like depression, substance misuse, academic disengagement, and anxiety are common in young people, but many of these problems are preventable! Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research isn’t easily accessed...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & PsychologyValerie Shapiro - Professor, Social Welfare
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
Research has demonstrated how social and emotional learning (SEL) in schools can greatly improve the wellbeing and achievement of young people, but this research doesn’t always involve the youth themselves. This project will train and support undergraduate students to partner with K-12 students across the state of California who...
Social Sciences Education, Cognition & Psychology