Keunhye Park

Keunhye  Park
  • Assistant Professor - Tenure

EDUCATION

  • PhD, University of Chicago
  • MSW, University of Michigan
  • BSEd, University of Michigan

EXPERTISE

  • Child welfare’s interactions with multiple systems
  • Child welfare-juvenile justice interaction
  • Child maltreatment and child welfare services and policy
  • Educational experiences for vulnerable youth
  • Adolescent development and the transition to adulthood

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

  • Transition-Age Youth Research and Evaluation Hub (TAY-Hub). California Child Welfare Indicators Project. School of Social Welfare. University of California, Berkeley.
  • Eliminating Misrepresentation Between Races Allowing Cultural Equity (EMBRACE): Kent County Child Welfare Race Equity Project. Funded by Michigan Department of Health and Human Services; Michigan Public Health Institute. 2020-2024.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Park, K., Courtney, M. E., & Okpych, N. J. (In press). Trends in social support during the transition to adulthood for youths who spent time in residential care in California. In Attar-Schwartz. S. & Magalhães, E. (Eds), Is someone there for you? Social support of young people in and after residential care. Routledge.
  • Park, K., Eastman, A. L., Gomez, A., Courtney, M. E. (In press). Risks of incarceration: Impact of social support networks during the transition to adulthood. Social Work Research. 
  • Hammond, I., Park, K., Eastman, A., & Courtney, M.E. (2024). Residential mobility for young adults in extended foster care. Child Abuse & Neglect, 156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2024.107002 
  • Eastman, A. L., Park, K., Herz, D.C., Diekhising, C., McCroskey, J. & Guo, L. (2024). Contact with foster care and the juvenile delinquency court: A prospective examination from birth through age 18. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1–14. doi: 10.1007/s10560-024-00964-1.
  • Park, K., Munson, M., Courtney, M., & Blair, K. (2023). Behavioral health and legal system involvement among transition-age youth in foster care: A longitudinal analysis of youth in California. Journal of Public Child Welfare. doi: 10.1080/15548732.2023.2279226.
  • Nadon, M., Park, K., Lee, J., & Wright, M. (2023). Who makes the call? Examining the relationship between child maltreatment referral sources and case outcomes in the United States, 2008-2018. Child Abuse & Neglect, 145. doi: 10.1016/j.chiabu.2023.106404.
  • Lee, J., Yoon, S., Park, K., Radney, A., Shipe, S., Pace, G. (2023). Father-mother co-involvement in child maltreatment: Associations of prior perpetration, substance use, inadequate housing, and intimate partner violence with different maltreatment types [Special Issue: Child Abuse and Neglect]. Children, 10(4), 1-20. doi: 10.3390/children10040707.
  • Park, K., Victor, B., Perron, B., & Ryan, J., Braun, B. (2022). Persistent racial disproportionality in investigated and substantiated child maltreatment reports: Trend analysis before and during the COVID-19 pandemic (2019-2020). Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1–20.
  • Park, K. & Courtney, M. E. (2022). Mitigating risks of incarceration among transition-age foster youth: Considering domains of social bonds. [Special Issue: Reimagining Supports for Youth Involved with Public Systems in the Transition to Adulthood]. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 40(4), 473–486.
  • Park, K. (2022). Is juvenile justice system involvement context-dependent?: The differential experiences of older foster youth in the context of extended foster care. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 1–18.
  • Heath, R. & Park, K., Millwar. S. (2021). Opportunities for positive youth development: The organized activity participation and educational outcomes of adolescents in adoptive, foster,  and kinship care. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 40, 623–642.
  • Huang, H., Williams, A., Park, K., & Ryan, J. (2021). Early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic and investigations of child maltreatment: An empirical study of administrative data. American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children Advisor, 33(2), 26–35.

OTHER

  • Research Sequence Committee, MSU School of Social Work
  • Reviewer, Children and Youth Services Review
  • Reviewer, Journal of Public Child Welfare
  • Member, International Research Network on Transition to Adulthood from Care (INTRAC)
  • Member, Society for Social Work and Research
  • Member, Council on Social Work Education
  • Member, American Educational Research Association
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Mental Health and Social Behaviour

CURRICULUM VITAE

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