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Education

B.A. (History), University of California Santa Cruz, 1983; MSW (Social Welfare), University of California Berkeley, 1987; Ph.D. (Social Welfare), University of California Berkeley, 1990.

Research Interests:

Child and family poverty; child abuse and neglect, foster care, kinship care, and child welfare services; family policy.

Selected Publications:

Berrick, J. D., & Gilbert N. (Eds.) (2008). Raising children: Emerging needs, modern risks, and social responses. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berrick, J. D. (in press). Take me home: Protecting America's vulnerable children and families. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berrick, J. D. (2006). Neighborhood-based foster care: A critical examination of location-based placement criteria. Social Service Review, 80(4), 569-583.

Berrick, J. D., & Fuller, B. (Eds.). (2005). Good parents or good workers? How policy shapes families’ daily lives. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan.

Berrick, J. D., Needell, B., Barth, R. P., & Jonson-Reid, M. (1998). The tender years: Toward developmentally-sensitive child welfare services for very young children. New York: Oxford University Press.

Berrick, J. D. (1995). Faces of poverty: Portraits of women and children on welfare. New York: Oxford University Press.

Jill Duerr Berrick on Foster Care Research:

The U.S. foster care system has undergone profound changes over the past decade. Caseload growth, increases in the number of very young children entering care, and problematic behaviors among some children characterize the shifting foster care population. Changes among out-of-home care clients have been accompanied by a rapid transformation in the service delivery system. Kinship care has absorbed much of the growth in foster care. Specialized or treatment foster care has found increasing favor in some states and new paradigms of service delivery have been developed that include alterations in public finance for foster care, privatization, and managed care. When systems of care undergo fundamental changes such as these, it is important to understand the outcomes for clients. Although child welfare researchers are making significant contributions toward developing an understanding of foster care outcomes, the primary clients of this system, children, have been given few opportunities to contribute to the literature.

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