Title: Health and social outcomes of young adults who experienced foster care
Date: Friday, October 18, 2019
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Location: NUR 4.180 | School of Nursing | 1710 Red River St., Austin, Texas
Light lunch (sandwich tray) will be provided. Bring your own beverage.
Speaker: Monica Faulkner, PhD
Research Associate Professor
Steve Hicks School of Social Work
Research Area: Child welfare, teen pregnancy/parenthood, women’s health, child care, Latino families, immigration, child and family policy, advanced statistics: hierarchal linear modeling.
Dr. Monica Faulkner is a research associate professor at the Steve Hicks School of Social Work and the director and co-founder of the Texas Institute for Child & Family Wellbeing. She holds bachelor degrees in government and social work from The University of Texas at Austin and a Master of Social Work from the University of Houston. She received her PhD in Social Work from The University of Texas at Austin in 2010. Dr. Faulkner uses her research expertise to build evidence for interventions and policies that improve the lives of marginalized populations of youth and families. She specializes in program evaluations related to child maltreatment prevention, foster care, and adolescent sexual health. She has also conducted original research related to Latino undocumented parents, permanency of foster youth, and educational outcomes of foster youth.
Contact: Call us at (512) 471-9910 or email us at CHPR@mail.nur.utexas.edu.
Event Sponsored by St. David’s CHPR | Co-sponsored by TCRSS