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The U.S. child welfare system investigates roughly 4 million families each year for alleged child maltreatment. Despite its expansive reach, this policy system has been t [...]
2024-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Nearly 100,000 deaths every year in the United States are now wholly or in part attributed to opioid overdose. Innumerable people have died from the indirect effects of o [...]
2023-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Students who are overage for their grade, generally due to being retained at one or more grade levels in school, are at increased risk for lower educational attainment. I [...]
2022-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Based on Lin’s theory of inequality in social capital and segmented assimilation theory, this study examines whether Asian Americans across different generations have e [...]
2022-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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One in five adolescents in the United States have a mental health (MH) disorder, yet less than half receive any MH care. Given the potential lifelong effects of MH proble [...]
2022-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Disparities in college attainment among racially and economically marginalized students have persisted for more than forty years despite concurrent gains in college acces [...]
2022-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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This dissertation is about one of the most despised activities that health and human service professionals are obligated to do: maintaining documentary standards. Documen [...]
2022-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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There is an extensive body of child welfare research on Black fathers whose children are removed from their care and placed into the foster care system. However, little r [...]
2022-06 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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This study takes an asset-based approach to understanding the academic experiences of African-American boys in their freshman year of high school in Chicago Public School [...]
2022-03 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Data-driven decision making is a policy trend that purports to make funding decisions fair and effective by evaluating programs based on objective performance criteria. D [...]
2021-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Several socioecological factors have been studied as determinants of mental health disparities among Black Americans. However, while recogzing the unique challenges of mo [...]
2021-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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In this study, I analyzed standardized test score data from the Stanford Education Data Archive version 2.1, which also includes population data on educational contexts a [...]
2021-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Nonprofit hospitals are required to provide “community benefits” in exchange for their tax exemption and they have been required to report on these benefits to the In [...]
2021-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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In this mixed methods dissertation, I examine how definitions of family shape decisions to apply for the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), which family members to include [...]
2021-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Pregnant and parenting youth in foster care and their children experience a variety of adverse outcomes related to education, employment, placement stability, and child m [...]
2021-06 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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This dissertation hypothesizes that school feeder patterns are a hidden mechanism of pervasive inequalities in four-year college completion rates for marginalized student [...]
2020-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Early life experiences strongly shape developmental trajectories in a wide range of domains, such as mental, emotional and behavioral health, education, and employment. C [...]
2020-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Asian Americans are commonly defined by two seemingly opposite racial stereotypes. On the one hand, they are cast as perpetual foreigners, and so not fully accepted as Am [...]
2020-06 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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This constructivist grounded theory dissertation study investigates Chicago Black gay men’s perceptions and experiences of the city of Chicago’s LGBTQ health infrastr [...]
2019-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Mental health courts (MHCs) operate at the nexus of legal, medical, and welfare borders, often articulating themselves as rehabilitative alternatives to incarceration by [...]
2019-12 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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War, political terror and forced migration impairs social functioning and erodes social relationships. Displacement magnifies vulnerability by separating people from fami [...]
2019-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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The United States refugee resettlement program has been among the largest in the world, welcoming over 3 million refugees since 1975. The past decade has seen an increase [...]
2019-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Probation is the leading form of correctional control in the United States however relatively little is known about the impact of probation on individual behavior, effect [...]
2019-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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While a large body of research has established a clear association between structural conditions of urban youths’ residential neighborhoods and their involvement in del [...]
2019-08 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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Despite more than 30 years of research and a growing list of evidence-based prevention strategies, high rates of risk behavior such as aggression and substance use contin [...]
2016-06 |
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice Dissertations |
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