Joan R. Rycraft, PhD
About
Joan R. Rycraft, PhD, is a social work scholar whose research and professional work center on child welfare practice, with particular attention to workforce retention, racial and ethnic disproportionality in child welfare systems, and culturally competent services for immigrant Latino children and families.
Her published work, appearing in journals including Social Work, Child Welfare, and Evaluation and Program Planning, examines a range of systemic and practice-level issues. Her studies address the factors that contribute to disproportionate representation of children of color in the child welfare system, drawing on perspectives from legal, community, and agency stakeholders. Other research has focused on adapting systems of care for Latino families, retaining public child welfare caseworkers, the application of data mining in child welfare settings, and the ethical challenges facing military social workers deployed in combat zones.
Credentials
Publications
- Factors contributing to disproportionality in the child welfare system: views from the legal community.
- Ethical challenges of military social workers serving in a combat zone.
- Adapting systems of care for child welfare practice with immigrant Latino children and families.
- Culturally competent systems of care with Latino children and families.
- Deconstructing disproportionality: views from multiple community stakeholders.
- Data mining in child welfare.
- The party isn't over: the agency role in the retention of public child welfare caseworkers.
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