Ramona W Denby
Biographic Data
| ID | 137103 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramona W Denby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramona W |
| FAMILY NAME | Denby |
| SIGNATURE | DENBY R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6098-8258 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 47 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Evidence for expanding policy: The connection between community adversity and foster care entry
Shared parenting experiences in kinship care: The role of family demographics, adverse childhood experiences, birth parent involvement, and attitudes toward shared parenting
The Reimagining and Improving Student Education (Rise) Negotiated Rulemaking and Social Work: How Changes to Federal Loans Undermine the Profession, the Social Safety Net, and Access to Care
Addressing Kinship Caregivers’ Ambivalence and Internalized Stigma to Improve Acceptance of Financial Assistance for Children in Foster Care
Financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, provide essential ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. However, these programs are underutilized by relatives who step in to provide stable, permanent homes for these children, partly due to unresolved internal conflicts about accepting financial support for caring …
Child Welfare and/or Legal System Involved Pregnant/Parenting Youth Intervention: A Pretest–Posttest Study
Purpose : This pilot study examined the preliminary effectiveness of the Empowered Young Parents Program (EYPP) for child welfare and/or legal system involved pregnant, expectant, or parenting youth (PPY) in promoting health outcomes. Method: A one-group pretest–posttest ( N = 25) design was used to evaluate changes in the participants. Results : At posttest participants reported lower perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and experiences of int…
There’s so much history: Shared Parenting Dynamics in Kinship Families
Shared parenting, when adults collaborate in childrearing, is a practice of interest for children in out-of-home care. Yet, little is known about its feasibility and outcomes for kinship families who have preexisting relationships with birth parents. This article shares qualitative results from focus groups that explored participants’ experiences and attitudes toward shared parenting. The sample comprised 25 kinship caregivers and 34 child welfar…
When Kinship Caregivers Became Teachers: Role Stress and Strain from Remote Learning during Covid-19
For caregivers of school-age children, schooling at home was a significant stressor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research demonstrates the emotional burden of taking on the role of teacher while trying to balance responsibilities related to work, household, and childcare. Yet little is known about the well-being of kinship caregivers during this time, although this population is at heightened risk for role stress and strain and emotional distres…
You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care
Unique service needs exist for expectant or parenting youth with foster care histories (EPY) and their families. Informed by Critical Ecological Systems Theory (CEST), this exploratory qualitative study presents findings from an inductive content analysis of in‐depth interviews and focus groups with EPY and service providers. The study included nine in‐depth face‐to‐face interviews with service providers ( n = 5) and EPY ( n = 4) as well as five …
“They Show Us that We’re Important”: Facilitators of Service Utilization Among Expectant and Parenting Youth with Foster Care Histories
Implementing smartphone technology to support relational competence in foster youth: A service provider perspective
The field of child welfare continues to search for effective ways to mitigate risks foster youth often encounter. Research discoveries about the importance of attachments and relational competence for foster youth support greater well-being. However, little is known about the use of smartphone technology and companion software in foster care as a method in promoting relational competence. This qualitative implementation study sought to explore th…
Kinship Caregivers’ Age and Its Relationship With Stress and Strain: Risk or Protective Factor
Objective: This study compares kinship caregivers ages 65 and over and those under 65 to test the assumption that older caregivers experience greater stress and strain, which adversely affects the care they provide to their relatives’ children. Method: A sample of 747 informal and formal kinship caregivers completed mailed surveys. We used propensity score analysis to balance the two comparison groups of caregivers on multiple controlled covariat…
A University-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Workforce Shortages
The Failure of Governance in Bell, California: Big-Time Corruption in a Small Town
You can take your share of the pie just like us. We will all get fat together. Bob has an expression he likes to use on occasion. “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” So long as we are not hogs, a
Male kinship caregivers: Do they differ from their female counterparts
Am I My Brother's Keeper: Adult Siblings Raising Younger Siblings
Adult siblings raising their younger siblings is a family configuration that rarely comes to mind; yet, in the United States adult siblings are the third largest relative caregiver group. The experiences of a sample of 77 adult siblings raising 154 younger siblings are described. The findings revealed that adult sibling caregivers may have multiple unmet service needs but they have a relatively high degree of parenting ability, which is increased…
African American Children in the Child Welfare System: Requiem or Reform
The sobering statistics concerning the plight of African American children have become routine excerpts found in nearly every publication concerning the child welfare system. This article examines the laws that govern the child welfare system in this country and assesses the manner in which these laws do not rectify or prevent the poor outcomes experienced by African American children. The authors discuss a reform perspective, conceptualized in a…
The journey to adopt a child who has special needs: Parents' perspectives
Kinship liaisons: A peer-to-peer approach to supporting kinship caregivers
Why Special Populations Are Not the Target of Family Preservation Services: A Case for Program Reform
The number of children who have been placed outside their homes of origin as a result of abuse, neglect, delinquency, emotional problems, or developmental disabilities, is astronomical and steadily increasing. Of this number, "special populations" like children of color continue to be disproportionately represented. Intensive family preservation, a program that attempts to reduce out-of-home placement rates, has not demonstrated empirically, a su…
Why Foster Parents Continue and Cease to Foster
This study addressed the following question: What factors thought likely to influence the license status of foster family homes predict to continuing and what predict to ceasing to foster? This study was conducted in eight urban counties in a large Midwestern state. Using logistic regression, a 13 variable model was developed. The factors with odds ratios that predicted greater likelihood of closed license status were: when the foster mother is w…
African Americans' foster parenting experiences: Research findings and implications for policy and practice
Why Foster Parents Continue and Cease to Foster
This study addressed the following question: What factors thought likely to influence the license status of foster family homes predict to continuing and what predict to ceasing to foster? This study was conducted in eight urban counties in a large Midwestern state. Using logistic regression, a 13 variable model was developed. The factors with odds ratios that predicted greater likelihood of closed license status were: when the foster mother is w…
African Americans' foster parenting experiences: Research findings and implications for policy and practice
Am I My Brother's Keeper: Adult Siblings Raising Younger Siblings
Adult siblings raising their younger siblings is a family configuration that rarely comes to mind; yet, in the United States adult siblings are the third largest relative caregiver group. The experiences of a sample of 77 adult siblings raising 154 younger siblings are described. The findings revealed that adult sibling caregivers may have multiple unmet service needs but they have a relatively high degree of parenting ability, which is increased…
The journey to adopt a child who has special needs: Parents' perspectives
There’s so much history: Shared Parenting Dynamics in Kinship Families
Shared parenting, when adults collaborate in childrearing, is a practice of interest for children in out-of-home care. Yet, little is known about its feasibility and outcomes for kinship families who have preexisting relationships with birth parents. This article shares qualitative results from focus groups that explored participants’ experiences and attitudes toward shared parenting. The sample comprised 25 kinship caregivers and 34 child welfar…
African American Children in the Child Welfare System: Requiem or Reform
The sobering statistics concerning the plight of African American children have become routine excerpts found in nearly every publication concerning the child welfare system. This article examines the laws that govern the child welfare system in this country and assesses the manner in which these laws do not rectify or prevent the poor outcomes experienced by African American children. The authors discuss a reform perspective, conceptualized in a…
Kinship liaisons: A peer-to-peer approach to supporting kinship caregivers
When Kinship Caregivers Became Teachers: Role Stress and Strain from Remote Learning during Covid-19
For caregivers of school-age children, schooling at home was a significant stressor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research demonstrates the emotional burden of taking on the role of teacher while trying to balance responsibilities related to work, household, and childcare. Yet little is known about the well-being of kinship caregivers during this time, although this population is at heightened risk for role stress and strain and emotional distres…
Addressing Kinship Caregivers’ Ambivalence and Internalized Stigma to Improve Acceptance of Financial Assistance for Children in Foster Care
Financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, provide essential ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. However, these programs are underutilized by relatives who step in to provide stable, permanent homes for these children, partly due to unresolved internal conflicts about accepting financial support for caring …
Kinship Caregivers’ Age and Its Relationship With Stress and Strain: Risk or Protective Factor
Objective: This study compares kinship caregivers ages 65 and over and those under 65 to test the assumption that older caregivers experience greater stress and strain, which adversely affects the care they provide to their relatives’ children. Method: A sample of 747 informal and formal kinship caregivers completed mailed surveys. We used propensity score analysis to balance the two comparison groups of caregivers on multiple controlled covariat…
Male kinship caregivers: Do they differ from their female counterparts
Why Special Populations Are Not the Target of Family Preservation Services: A Case for Program Reform
The number of children who have been placed outside their homes of origin as a result of abuse, neglect, delinquency, emotional problems, or developmental disabilities, is astronomical and steadily increasing. Of this number, "special populations" like children of color continue to be disproportionately represented. Intensive family preservation, a program that attempts to reduce out-of-home placement rates, has not demonstrated empirically, a su…
African Americans' foster parenting experiences: Research findings and implications for policy and practice
Why Foster Parents Continue and Cease to Foster
This study addressed the following question: What factors thought likely to influence the license status of foster family homes predict to continuing and what predict to ceasing to foster? This study was conducted in eight urban counties in a large Midwestern state. Using logistic regression, a 13 variable model was developed. The factors with odds ratios that predicted greater likelihood of closed license status were: when the foster mother is w…
Why Special Populations Are Not the Target of Family Preservation Services: A Case for Program Reform
The number of children who have been placed outside their homes of origin as a result of abuse, neglect, delinquency, emotional problems, or developmental disabilities, is astronomical and steadily increasing. Of this number, "special populations" like children of color continue to be disproportionately represented. Intensive family preservation, a program that attempts to reduce out-of-home placement rates, has not demonstrated empirically, a su…
African American Children in the Child Welfare System: Requiem or Reform
The sobering statistics concerning the plight of African American children have become routine excerpts found in nearly every publication concerning the child welfare system. This article examines the laws that govern the child welfare system in this country and assesses the manner in which these laws do not rectify or prevent the poor outcomes experienced by African American children. The authors discuss a reform perspective, conceptualized in a…
The journey to adopt a child who has special needs: Parents' perspectives
Kinship liaisons: A peer-to-peer approach to supporting kinship caregivers
Am I My Brother's Keeper: Adult Siblings Raising Younger Siblings
Adult siblings raising their younger siblings is a family configuration that rarely comes to mind; yet, in the United States adult siblings are the third largest relative caregiver group. The experiences of a sample of 77 adult siblings raising 154 younger siblings are described. The findings revealed that adult sibling caregivers may have multiple unmet service needs but they have a relatively high degree of parenting ability, which is increased…
Male kinship caregivers: Do they differ from their female counterparts
The Failure of Governance in Bell, California: Big-Time Corruption in a Small Town
You can take your share of the pie just like us. We will all get fat together. Bob has an expression he likes to use on occasion. “Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered.” So long as we are not hogs, a
A University-Based Transdisciplinary Approach to Mental Health Workforce Shortages
Implementing smartphone technology to support relational competence in foster youth: A service provider perspective
The field of child welfare continues to search for effective ways to mitigate risks foster youth often encounter. Research discoveries about the importance of attachments and relational competence for foster youth support greater well-being. However, little is known about the use of smartphone technology and companion software in foster care as a method in promoting relational competence. This qualitative implementation study sought to explore th…
Kinship Caregivers’ Age and Its Relationship With Stress and Strain: Risk or Protective Factor
Objective: This study compares kinship caregivers ages 65 and over and those under 65 to test the assumption that older caregivers experience greater stress and strain, which adversely affects the care they provide to their relatives’ children. Method: A sample of 747 informal and formal kinship caregivers completed mailed surveys. We used propensity score analysis to balance the two comparison groups of caregivers on multiple controlled covariat…
“They Show Us that We’re Important”: Facilitators of Service Utilization Among Expectant and Parenting Youth with Foster Care Histories
When Kinship Caregivers Became Teachers: Role Stress and Strain from Remote Learning during Covid-19
For caregivers of school-age children, schooling at home was a significant stressor during the COVID-19 pandemic. Research demonstrates the emotional burden of taking on the role of teacher while trying to balance responsibilities related to work, household, and childcare. Yet little is known about the well-being of kinship caregivers during this time, although this population is at heightened risk for role stress and strain and emotional distres…
You have to go hunting for information’: Barriers to service utilization among expectant and parenting youth with experience in foster care
Unique service needs exist for expectant or parenting youth with foster care histories (EPY) and their families. Informed by Critical Ecological Systems Theory (CEST), this exploratory qualitative study presents findings from an inductive content analysis of in‐depth interviews and focus groups with EPY and service providers. The study included nine in‐depth face‐to‐face interviews with service providers ( n = 5) and EPY ( n = 4) as well as five …
There’s so much history: Shared Parenting Dynamics in Kinship Families
Shared parenting, when adults collaborate in childrearing, is a practice of interest for children in out-of-home care. Yet, little is known about its feasibility and outcomes for kinship families who have preexisting relationships with birth parents. This article shares qualitative results from focus groups that explored participants’ experiences and attitudes toward shared parenting. The sample comprised 25 kinship caregivers and 34 child welfar…
Addressing Kinship Caregivers’ Ambivalence and Internalized Stigma to Improve Acceptance of Financial Assistance for Children in Foster Care
Financial assistance programs, such as the Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program, provide essential ongoing support for the care of children when reunification with their biological parents or adoption by other families is not feasible. However, these programs are underutilized by relatives who step in to provide stable, permanent homes for these children, partly due to unresolved internal conflicts about accepting financial support for caring …
Child Welfare and/or Legal System Involved Pregnant/Parenting Youth Intervention: A Pretest–Posttest Study
Purpose : This pilot study examined the preliminary effectiveness of the Empowered Young Parents Program (EYPP) for child welfare and/or legal system involved pregnant, expectant, or parenting youth (PPY) in promoting health outcomes. Method: A one-group pretest–posttest ( N = 25) design was used to evaluate changes in the participants. Results : At posttest participants reported lower perceived stress, depressive symptoms, and experiences of int…
Evidence for expanding policy: The connection between community adversity and foster care entry
Shared parenting experiences in kinship care: The role of family demographics, adverse childhood experiences, birth parent involvement, and attitudes toward shared parenting
The Reimagining and Improving Student Education (Rise) Negotiated Rulemaking and Social Work: How Changes to Federal Loans Undermine the Profession, the Social Safety Net, and Access to Care
Child Welfare and Adoption (16 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Foster care (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (9 works) · Nursing (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Kinship (7 works)