Kevin M Miller
Biographic Data
| ID | 3792012 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kevin M Miller |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kevin M |
| FAMILY NAME | Miller |
| SIGNATURE | MILLER K M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola University Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4123-5378 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
A bond as strong as a lock and chain”
Youth of color experiencing low-income in the United States face multiple human rights violations: overpolicing, community violence, racial discrimination, and insufficient voice in the programs and policies that impact their current and future lives. To accomplish transitional justice, participatory processes are needed that elicit youths' cultural strengths and wisdom about themselves, their social conditions, services they find helpful, and wh…
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Toward a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work
This paper proposes a theory of resistance as crucial for an emancipatory social work. Using five stories as case study illustrations, the paper explores the nature of resistance and social change. The concepts, principles, and assumptions comprising a theory of resistance for social work are derived from the examples and existing research. The paper discusses how individual acts of resistance are necessary for fostering transformational change a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
We got to stand up and speak”
The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors of Color Residing in Low Income, Urban Communities
The current study seeks to understand the potential benefits of culturally matched cross-age peer mentoring for Black and Latinx adolescent mentors residing in low-income, urban communities. Data for the study were derived from a 4-year longitudinal project examining the effectiveness of community-based cross-age mentoring. Data from the current sample ( N = 249, 60.6% female, M = 16.72 years) were analyzed using HLM. Findings indicated that the …
They’re Not Closing This School, We Won’t Let Them
Gun Exposure Among Black American Youth Residing in Low-Income Urban Environments
Objective: The current study examined the extent of gun exposure, referring to the mere presence of guns in youth's lives, in a sample of Black American adolescents residing in low-income urban neighborhoods. The relationship of gun exposure to internalizing and externalizing outcomes was also explored. Method: Data were collected from a sample of 185 Black American eighth-grade students ( M = 13.58 years old, 59% female). Results: Just under hal…
Resilience in Urban African American Adolescents
Exposure to violence (ETV) poses a serious threat to adolescents’ safety and well-being; however, some adolescents who grow up in such toxic environments are able to thrive due to a combination of internal and external characteristics. The current study examines the role of cohesion across contexts (i.e., family, school, and community) as moderating the relation between ETV and positive internal outcomes characteristic of resilient youth (i.e., e…
Maternal Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Involvement
The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being was used to examine a sample of 1,735 children ages five to 15 years with child welfare involvement. This study analyzed the extent that maternal criminal justice involvement (MCJI) and other maternal and environmental risks increase the potential for children's internalizing and externalizing problems. MCJI was associated with maternal substance abuse, exposure to violence, and community adv…
Apollo Lairbenos
Motor Cruising
Resilience in Urban African American Adolescents
Exposure to violence (ETV) poses a serious threat to adolescents’ safety and well-being; however, some adolescents who grow up in such toxic environments are able to thrive due to a combination of internal and external characteristics. The current study examines the role of cohesion across contexts (i.e., family, school, and community) as moderating the relation between ETV and positive internal outcomes characteristic of resilient youth (i.e., e…
Maternal Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Involvement
The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being was used to examine a sample of 1,735 children ages five to 15 years with child welfare involvement. This study analyzed the extent that maternal criminal justice involvement (MCJI) and other maternal and environmental risks increase the potential for children's internalizing and externalizing problems. MCJI was associated with maternal substance abuse, exposure to violence, and community adv…
Apollo Lairbenos
The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors of Color Residing in Low Income, Urban Communities
The current study seeks to understand the potential benefits of culturally matched cross-age peer mentoring for Black and Latinx adolescent mentors residing in low-income, urban communities. Data for the study were derived from a 4-year longitudinal project examining the effectiveness of community-based cross-age mentoring. Data from the current sample ( N = 249, 60.6% female, M = 16.72 years) were analyzed using HLM. Findings indicated that the …
They’re Not Closing This School, We Won’t Let Them
Gun Exposure Among Black American Youth Residing in Low-Income Urban Environments
Objective: The current study examined the extent of gun exposure, referring to the mere presence of guns in youth's lives, in a sample of Black American adolescents residing in low-income urban neighborhoods. The relationship of gun exposure to internalizing and externalizing outcomes was also explored. Method: Data were collected from a sample of 185 Black American eighth-grade students ( M = 13.58 years old, 59% female). Results: Just under hal…
Motor Cruising
Apollo Lairbenos
Maternal Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Involvement
The National Survey on Child and Adolescent Well-Being was used to examine a sample of 1,735 children ages five to 15 years with child welfare involvement. This study analyzed the extent that maternal criminal justice involvement (MCJI) and other maternal and environmental risks increase the potential for children's internalizing and externalizing problems. MCJI was associated with maternal substance abuse, exposure to violence, and community adv…
Resilience in Urban African American Adolescents
Exposure to violence (ETV) poses a serious threat to adolescents’ safety and well-being; however, some adolescents who grow up in such toxic environments are able to thrive due to a combination of internal and external characteristics. The current study examines the role of cohesion across contexts (i.e., family, school, and community) as moderating the relation between ETV and positive internal outcomes characteristic of resilient youth (i.e., e…
Gun Exposure Among Black American Youth Residing in Low-Income Urban Environments
Objective: The current study examined the extent of gun exposure, referring to the mere presence of guns in youth's lives, in a sample of Black American adolescents residing in low-income urban neighborhoods. The relationship of gun exposure to internalizing and externalizing outcomes was also explored. Method: Data were collected from a sample of 185 Black American eighth-grade students ( M = 13.58 years old, 59% female). Results: Just under hal…
They’re Not Closing This School, We Won’t Let Them
The Effects of Cross-Age Peer Mentoring on Adolescent Mentors of Color Residing in Low Income, Urban Communities
The current study seeks to understand the potential benefits of culturally matched cross-age peer mentoring for Black and Latinx adolescent mentors residing in low-income, urban communities. Data for the study were derived from a 4-year longitudinal project examining the effectiveness of community-based cross-age mentoring. Data from the current sample ( N = 249, 60.6% female, M = 16.72 years) were analyzed using HLM. Findings indicated that the …
We got to stand up and speak”
Street-Based Social Work Praxis
Street-based social work responds to the “social disaster” of U.S. youth of color experiencing poverty who fall through the cracks of existing social safety nets. Drawing from 17 years of feedback from youth clients about street-based service provision in university–community partnerships, the flexible street-based model uses several trauma-focused, strengths-based, and humanistic modalities to provide youth with a positive childhood experience a…
Toward a Theory of Resistance for an Emancipatory Social Work
This paper proposes a theory of resistance as crucial for an emancipatory social work. Using five stories as case study illustrations, the paper explores the nature of resistance and social change. The concepts, principles, and assumptions comprising a theory of resistance for social work are derived from the examples and existing research. The paper discusses how individual acts of resistance are necessary for fostering transformational change a…
We are not all gangbangers
Centering youth voices in a participatory cross-age mentoring program in urban high-poverty communities, this paper addresses three problems in knowledge about youth of color experiencing low-income: 1) Misrepresenting youth as disproportionately violence-prone, 2) minimizing stressors youth experience, and 3) ignoring youths' goals. Those knowledge problems can be framed as a contemporary form of DuBois' construct of "scientific racism." To coun…
‘Mentors need mentors’
This study investigates instructor activities that 158 adolescent mentors of community children found meaningful in the context of their under-resourced urban communities. Theoretical frameworks draw from trauma theory, self-psychology, and community cultural wealth. Data include field notes, peer-to-peer programme evaluation interviews, exit interviews, focus groups, and notes from clinical seminars for instructors. Mentors found instructor supp…
A bond as strong as a lock and chain”
Youth of color experiencing low-income in the United States face multiple human rights violations: overpolicing, community violence, racial discrimination, and insufficient voice in the programs and policies that impact their current and future lives. To accomplish transitional justice, participatory processes are needed that elicit youths' cultural strengths and wisdom about themselves, their social conditions, services they find helpful, and wh…
Sociology (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Youth Development and Social Support (5 works) · Developmental psychology (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Poverty (4 works) · Criminology (3 works)