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Joseph P. Ryan, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Social Work and a Faculty Fellow with the Children and Family
Research Center at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Dr.
Ryan received an MSW from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago. Dr. Ryan's research focuses on families
entangled with the public child welfare system and at least one
other social service context (e.g. substance abuse, juvenile
justice). He is currently the principal investigator on several
longitudinal studies including Illinois Alcohol and Other Substance
Abuse (AODA) Waiver Demonstration and a study of maltreatment and
delinquency in Los Angeles County.
Contact:
jpryan@illinois.edu
Webpage:
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Rosie Gianforte, MA is the project director for the AODA
waiver demonstration. Rosie is an LCSW and a graduate from the
Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago. Rosie
has
19 years experience working in the social service field, including
the areas of school social work, partial hospitalization care, and
child welfare. For the past ten years, Rosie has worked
collaboratively with child welfare projects and substance abuse
treatment providers serving at risk DCFS involved families. Rosie is
currently serving as the Coordinator of the IV-E AODA Waiver Project
awarded to the Illinois Department of Children Family Services,
Division of Service Intervention. Email:
Rosie.Gianforte@illinois.gov
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Sam Gillespie
is the Alcohol and Other Drug (AOD) Services Administrator for the
Illinois Department of Children and Family Services in the Service
Intervention Division. He has worked for DCFS since 1998.
Prior to that he held numerous administrative, programmatic, and
research positions with the Illinois Department of Alcoholism and
Substance Abuse, since that Department's creation in 1984. He has
also worked for the Illinois Department of Human Services and the
Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.
Email:
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Jeanne C. Marsh, Ph.D. is the Dean and George Herbert Jones
Professor in the School of Social Service Administration at the
University of Chicago. Her fields of special interest include services
for women and families, substance abuse, mental health service
delivery, social program and policy evaluation, and knowledge
utilization in practice and program decision making.
Contact:
jmarsh@uchicago.edu
Webpage:
http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/faculty/j-marsh.shtml
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Sam Choi, Ph.D.
is
currently an assistant professor at the College of Social Work at
the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), Nashville
Campus. Originally from South Korea, she received her M.S.W. from
Ohio State University. After obtaining her M.S.W., she worked as
project director at Asian American Community Services, Columbus, OH
and ran two federally funded family violence projects - Asian Women
Advocacy (AWA) project and Asian American Family Employment (AFEI)
project. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign (U of I) in 2006. While at Illinois, she was
involved with the AODA project as a research assistant/data analyst.
Her dissertation, Case Management and Matched Services for
Substance Abusing Mothers With Co-Occurring Problems in Child
Welfare: A Study of Service Effectiveness With a Randomized Trial,
was a part of a large research evaluation effort of the AODA
demonstration project. She received the Doctoral Fellows Award in
2006 and Honorable Mention of Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2008
from the Society of Social Work Research for her work. Before
joining UTK, she was a postdoctoral scholar at the School of Social
Service Administration at the University of Chicago.
Email:
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Pedro Hernandez, Ph.D. is a
Research Specialist at the Children and Family Research Center at
the University of Illinois. He completed his Ph.D. in Family and
Consumer Economics (i.e., Human Resources and Family Studies) in
1996 at the University of Illinois, and last December (2006)
completed his M.S.W. degree, specializing in advocacy and policy in
social work at the same university. For the last 20 years, he has
been involved in research related to: family economics, consumer
economics, educational economics, family demographics, population
demographics, social demographics, school demographics, sociology of
education, and social stratification. He has been a NIH
Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Office of Population Research, Princeton
University, NJ, as well as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the
Center for Demography and Ecology and the Institute for Research on
Poverty at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Currently at
the Children and Family Research Center, he has been involved in an
evaluation of the Title IV-E Waiver to improve reunification and other family
permanency and safety outcomes for foster children from
drug-involved families. Email:
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Jun
Sung Hong, MSW is a first
year Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He completed his M.S.W. at
the University of Michigan. His research interests
include: externalizing disorders of youth/adolescents;
educational outcomes of at-risk youth exposed to violence at home/in
school (e.g., bullying/aggression) and mental health of adolescents
exposed to parental substance abuse. Email:
jhong23@illinois.edu
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Yu-Ling Chiu, M.S.W., M.S.S.A. is a doctoral student in the
School of Social Work at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. She received her M.S.W. from TungHai University,
Taiwan in 2001; and in 2008, she received her M.S.S.A. from the
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS) at Case Western
Reserve University (CASE). She worked as a social worker in Taiwan.
During her four-year experience in the area of child abuse and
domestic violence, she developed an interest in child welfare. In
her time as a master student at MSASS, CASE, she devoted herself to
a research project examining the “Team-Decision Making” model in the
foster care system of Cleveland. Because of her past work and
research experiences, plus her enthusiasm for child welfare, she
plans to advocate for children and youth to improve their quality of
life in the foster care system, after she finishes her PhD.
Currently she is involved in the CFRC research project, Child
Welfare Placement and Disproportionate Minority Contact in the
Juvenile Justice System as well as AODA.
Email: chiu22@illinois.edu |
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Hui Huang,
MA is a
first year Ph.D. student in the School of Social Work at the
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Hui received her bachelor
degree in social work from Xiamen University (China) in 2004. She
subsequently earned her MA in 2007 from Xiamen University. Hui has
three years of experience as an extracurricular counselor in an
elementary school. Her practice background is reflected in her
research interests. Her research interests include: Children and
Families, Crime and Violence in Schools, Mental Health of Children
and Adolescents, Discrimination and Inequality Issues, Social
Support, Cultural Diversity and Social Work Practice. Email:
hhuang33@illinois.edu
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