Genevieve Graaf
Biographic Data
| ID | 190287 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Genevieve Graaf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Genevieve |
| FAMILY NAME | Graaf |
| SIGNATURE | GRAAF G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Arlington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3767-5939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Adequate Care Coordination is Associated with Reduced Unmet Mental Health Needs for Children
Children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN), especially those with mental health needs, often receive services from multiple service sectors, including schools. Thus, care coordination may play a critical role in access to mental health care for these children. This cross-sectional study used multivariable logistic regression with pooled data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (2020–2023), focusing on a subsample of children with ca…
States’ Use of Medicaid Waivers for Children with Behavioral Health Needs is Associated with Lower Rates of Voluntary Child Welfare Placements
Improving Access to Mental Health Care among Children who Receive Subspecialist Care
A formidable scholar, friend, and mentor
In September of 2025, the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley—where Dr. Lonnie Snowden was a faculty member for two decades—organized a research symposium to reflect his life's work and to honor his outsized influence on the field of mental health disparities research and on the lives and careers of many mental health policy and services scholars. The symposium, and the events surrounding it, revealed a profound tru…
Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Unmet Health Care Needs among Children in the United States
Although studies have investigated and found an association between adverse childhood experiences and poor health and mental health outcomes, there is a dearth of studies investigating the association between adverse childhood experiences and unmet health care needs among children. The objective of this study is to examine the association between adverse childhood experiences and unmet health care needs after adjusting for predisposing, enabling,…
Unincorporation in counties as a political determinant of health
Local government policies and practices shape the context of the places that can alter a population's life chances through socioeconomic factors, built environments, and healthcare access. County governments, one of the most ubiquitous U.S. political structures, impact health outcomes within their jurisdiction through multiple policy levers and pathways. By identifying which political determinants within counties are associated with variation in …
Piloting a Measure of Segregation at the Census Tract Level
This study considers residential segregation as a critical driver of racial/ethnic health disparities and introduces a proxy measure of segregation that estimates the degree of segregation at the census tract level with a metric capturing the overrepresentation of a racialized/ethnic group in a census tract in relation to that group's representation at the city level. Using Dallas, Texas as a pilot city, the measure is used to investigate mean li…
Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
This project documents the service outcomes that caregivers value most. A diverse group of caregivers, representing six regions of the United States, participated in two rounds of virtual one-hour focus groups. In round 1, participants identified what they hoped to gain from using behavioral health services for themselves, their families, and their child and discussed what made services a positive experience for them. They then reported their top…
Orienting social work to incorporate place-based principles
Social work has long history with practice in diverse places. Indigenous social work traditions have long been grounded in place and land. There has been little attention to the role of place in Western and Northern social work practices. Place-based theories attend to the fundamental role of place in social work practice and provide principles that social workers can use to recognize place in their practice. There has been little practical guida…
(C) Medicaid Waivers for Children With Severe Emotional Disturbance
Several states have invested in 1915(c) Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) Medicaid policies to improve outcomes and reduce costs for children and youth with significant behavioral health needs, or Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED). However, little is known about these programs and the children they serve. Through a retrospective cross-sectional analysis, this study aimed to understand if the program was successfully reaching its target pop…
Parents' perspectives in accessing psychiatric residential treatment for children and youth
Subsidized Marketplace Purchases Reduced Racial Disparities in Private Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
Reconsidering the role of place in health and welfare services
Places—the meaningful locations of daily life—have been central to the wellbeing of humans since they first formed social groups, providing a stable base for individuals, families, and communities. In the United States and Canada, as elsewhere, place also plays a foundational role in the provision of critical social and health services and resources. Yet the globally destabilizing events of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically challenged the c…
Covid-19, Social Determinants Past, Present, and Future, and African Americans’ Health
Predictors of Unmet Family Support Service Needs in Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Medicaid Waivers for Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbance
Medicaid Waiver Adoption for Youth With Complex Behavioral Health Care Needs
Many states have enacted Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers, which waive or expand Medicaid means tests to increase access to community-based public mental health services for youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). This study sought to understand key factors in State Mental Health Authorities and Medicaid Agency decision-making in adopting Medicaid waivers for youth with SED. Using purposive sampling to collect da…
The “Undeserving Poor,” Racial Bias, and Medicaid Coverage of African Americans
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased coverage especially for the “undeserving poor”—nondisabled, nonelderly adults, who disproportionately are African American. However, African Americans benefited comparably less than other groups from Medicaid expansion because they disproportionately reside in states that rejected Medicaid expansion. Psychological and other social science research establishes that disapproval of providing “we…
Medicaid waivers and public sector mental health service penetration rates for youth
To assist families of youth with serious emotional disturbance in financing youth's comprehensive care, some states have sought and received Medicaid waivers. Medicaid waivers waive or relax the Medicaid means test for eligibility to provide insurance coverage to nonpoor families for expensive, otherwise out-of-reach treatment for youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). Waivers promote treatment access for the most troubled youth, and the…
The role of Medicaid home and community-based service policies in organizing and financing care for children with severe emotional disturbance
Learning Practice-Based Research Methods
The literature on teaching research methods to social work students identifies many challenges, such as dealing with the tensions related to producing research relevant to practice, access to data to teach practice-based research, and limited student interest in learning research methods. This is an exploratory study of the learning experiences of ten MSW students involved in a yearlong research methods course that utilized research data in a res…
The “Undeserving Poor,” Racial Bias, and Medicaid Coverage of African Americans
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased coverage especially for the “undeserving poor”—nondisabled, nonelderly adults, who disproportionately are African American. However, African Americans benefited comparably less than other groups from Medicaid expansion because they disproportionately reside in states that rejected Medicaid expansion. Psychological and other social science research establishes that disapproval of providing “we…
Medicaid Waiver Adoption for Youth With Complex Behavioral Health Care Needs
Many states have enacted Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers, which waive or expand Medicaid means tests to increase access to community-based public mental health services for youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). This study sought to understand key factors in State Mental Health Authorities and Medicaid Agency decision-making in adopting Medicaid waivers for youth with SED. Using purposive sampling to collect da…
The role of Medicaid home and community-based service policies in organizing and financing care for children with severe emotional disturbance
Learning Practice-Based Research Methods
The literature on teaching research methods to social work students identifies many challenges, such as dealing with the tensions related to producing research relevant to practice, access to data to teach practice-based research, and limited student interest in learning research methods. This is an exploratory study of the learning experiences of ten MSW students involved in a yearlong research methods course that utilized research data in a res…
Learning Practice-Based Research Methods
The literature on teaching research methods to social work students identifies many challenges, such as dealing with the tensions related to producing research relevant to practice, access to data to teach practice-based research, and limited student interest in learning research methods. This is an exploratory study of the learning experiences of ten MSW students involved in a yearlong research methods course that utilized research data in a res…
The role of Medicaid home and community-based service policies in organizing and financing care for children with severe emotional disturbance
Medicaid waivers and public sector mental health service penetration rates for youth
To assist families of youth with serious emotional disturbance in financing youth's comprehensive care, some states have sought and received Medicaid waivers. Medicaid waivers waive or relax the Medicaid means test for eligibility to provide insurance coverage to nonpoor families for expensive, otherwise out-of-reach treatment for youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). Waivers promote treatment access for the most troubled youth, and the…
The “Undeserving Poor,” Racial Bias, and Medicaid Coverage of African Americans
The Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion increased coverage especially for the “undeserving poor”—nondisabled, nonelderly adults, who disproportionately are African American. However, African Americans benefited comparably less than other groups from Medicaid expansion because they disproportionately reside in states that rejected Medicaid expansion. Psychological and other social science research establishes that disapproval of providing “we…
Medicaid Waiver Adoption for Youth With Complex Behavioral Health Care Needs
Many states have enacted Home- and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Medicaid waivers, which waive or expand Medicaid means tests to increase access to community-based public mental health services for youth with Serious Emotional Disturbance (SED). This study sought to understand key factors in State Mental Health Authorities and Medicaid Agency decision-making in adopting Medicaid waivers for youth with SED. Using purposive sampling to collect da…
Covid-19, Social Determinants Past, Present, and Future, and African Americans’ Health
Predictors of Unmet Family Support Service Needs in Families of Children with Special Health Care Needs
Medicaid Waivers for Youth with Severe Emotional Disturbance
Reconsidering the role of place in health and welfare services
Places—the meaningful locations of daily life—have been central to the wellbeing of humans since they first formed social groups, providing a stable base for individuals, families, and communities. In the United States and Canada, as elsewhere, place also plays a foundational role in the provision of critical social and health services and resources. Yet the globally destabilizing events of the COVID-19 pandemic have dramatically challenged the c…
Orienting social work to incorporate place-based principles
Social work has long history with practice in diverse places. Indigenous social work traditions have long been grounded in place and land. There has been little attention to the role of place in Western and Northern social work practices. Place-based theories attend to the fundamental role of place in social work practice and provide principles that social workers can use to recognize place in their practice. There has been little practical guida…
(C) Medicaid Waivers for Children With Severe Emotional Disturbance
Several states have invested in 1915(c) Home and Community Based Service (HCBS) Medicaid policies to improve outcomes and reduce costs for children and youth with significant behavioral health needs, or Severe Emotional Disturbance (SED). However, little is known about these programs and the children they serve. Through a retrospective cross-sectional analysis, this study aimed to understand if the program was successfully reaching its target pop…
Parents' perspectives in accessing psychiatric residential treatment for children and youth
Subsidized Marketplace Purchases Reduced Racial Disparities in Private Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act
Association between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Unmet Health Care Needs among Children in the United States
Although studies have investigated and found an association between adverse childhood experiences and poor health and mental health outcomes, there is a dearth of studies investigating the association between adverse childhood experiences and unmet health care needs among children. The objective of this study is to examine the association between adverse childhood experiences and unmet health care needs after adjusting for predisposing, enabling,…
Unincorporation in counties as a political determinant of health
Local government policies and practices shape the context of the places that can alter a population's life chances through socioeconomic factors, built environments, and healthcare access. County governments, one of the most ubiquitous U.S. political structures, impact health outcomes within their jurisdiction through multiple policy levers and pathways. By identifying which political determinants within counties are associated with variation in …
Piloting a Measure of Segregation at the Census Tract Level
This study considers residential segregation as a critical driver of racial/ethnic health disparities and introduces a proxy measure of segregation that estimates the degree of segregation at the census tract level with a metric capturing the overrepresentation of a racialized/ethnic group in a census tract in relation to that group's representation at the city level. Using Dallas, Texas as a pilot city, the measure is used to investigate mean li…
Behavioral Health Services Outcomes That Matter Most to Caregivers of Children, Youth, and Young Adults with Mental Health Needs
This project documents the service outcomes that caregivers value most. A diverse group of caregivers, representing six regions of the United States, participated in two rounds of virtual one-hour focus groups. In round 1, participants identified what they hoped to gain from using behavioral health services for themselves, their families, and their child and discussed what made services a positive experience for them. They then reported their top…
States’ Use of Medicaid Waivers for Children with Behavioral Health Needs is Associated with Lower Rates of Voluntary Child Welfare Placements
Improving Access to Mental Health Care among Children who Receive Subspecialist Care
A formidable scholar, friend, and mentor
In September of 2025, the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley—where Dr. Lonnie Snowden was a faculty member for two decades—organized a research symposium to reflect his life's work and to honor his outsized influence on the field of mental health disparities research and on the lives and careers of many mental health policy and services scholars. The symposium, and the events surrounding it, revealed a profound tru…
Adequate Care Coordination is Associated with Reduced Unmet Mental Health Needs for Children
Children with special healthcare needs (CSHCN), especially those with mental health needs, often receive services from multiple service sectors, including schools. Thus, care coordination may play a critical role in access to mental health care for these children. This cross-sectional study used multivariable logistic regression with pooled data from the National Survey of Children’s Health (2020–2023), focusing on a subsample of children with ca…
Medicine (18 works) · Health care (14 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (10 works) · Mental health (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Environmental health (8 works) · Nursing (8 works) · Public health (8 works) · Business (7 works)