Trina Shanks
Biographic Data
| ID | 3816443 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Trina Shanks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Trina |
| FAMILY NAME | Shanks |
| SIGNATURE | SHANKS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3644-889X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Poverty Reduction is Not the Whole Story: The Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Relation to Material Hardship
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts
Successful Black reparations require a policy for delivering payments, one that provides for effective identification, disbursement, asset protection, and asset growth over time. In this article, we suggest a structural solution (structured wealth accumulation of reparations payments) to a structural challenge (deeply embedded racial wealth inequality). Analyzing evidence from a longitudinal experiment, we find that Child Development Accounts (CD…
The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction
For African Americans in particular, the question of financial capability and asset building is as old as Black freedom. Through conceptual frames such as racial capitalism, historical memory, and the family stress model, this article examines the many false starts since Reconstruction in which expectations were raised, but then hopes subsequently dashed when reality produced outcomes that kept tangible economic progress just out of reach of Blac…
Applied Social Research: Aiming for Impact
Social work and the other applied social science professions aim to marshal evidence to inform beneficial social change. Notwithstanding positive intentions, effective application of research to policy and practice is not always robust in achieving impacts. To do better, we should purposefully connect research to action, including engagement with practitioners and the policy process. We extend the definition of “public impact scholarship” to incl…
Communication matters: A long-term follow-up study of child savings account program participation
Universal and Progressive Child Development Accounts: A Policy Innovation to Reduce Educational Disparity
Child Development Accounts (CDAs) aim to increase college completion rates among disadvantaged youth by helping youth see themselves as “college bound.” This article summarizes findings about the implementation and impacts of universal, progressive CDAs, with emphasis on outcomes for disadvantaged children. Data come from a large randomized experiment. CDAs positively affect ownership of college savings accounts and assets, educational expectatio…
Building and Maintaining Community Capacity
This chapter details the work of the UMSSW/TAC to connect with informal leaders and support neighborhood residents in accomplishing their goals. The TAC led or supported several strategies that directly assisted residents of the six Good Neighborhoods communities. These include the Leadership Academy (a co-designed model of individual capacity development), the Small Grants Resident Decision-Making Panel, workshops and issue forums, and staffing …
Introducing the Six Good Neighborhoods Communities: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in under-Served Neighborhoods
Each Good Neighborhoods community is unique. This chapter introduces each of the six neighborhoods in the order in which Skillman launched the community planning process: Southwest Detroit, Chadsey Condon, Brightmoor, Osborn, Cody Rouge, and Northend Central. After a short description of each neighborhood and its early history, basic facts that describe population demographics, economic indicators, housing and crime are presented. A summary of co…
Neighbourhood Poverty, Perceived Discrimination and Central Adiposity in the Usa: Independent Associations in a Repeated Measures Analysis
This study examines the independent effects of neighbourhood context (i.e. neighbourhood poverty) and exposure to perceived discrimination in shaping risk of obesity over time. Weighted three-level hierarchical linear regression models for a continuous outcome were used to assess the independent effects of neighbourhood poverty and perceived discrimination on obesity over time in a sample of 157 non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic White and Hispanic…
Assets and African Americans: Attempting to Capitalize on Hopes for Children through College Savings Accounts
Although some racial inequalities have lessened in the half-century since the passage of the first major civil rights legislation, the racial wealth gap remains and in recent years seems to be widening. Households with children are the least likely to be asset secure or have sufficient resources to enable investment in opportunities for mobility. Viewing inequality from this perspective indicates that what households are able to save and invest f…
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
Parental Self-Efficacy and Joining a Savings Program for Children’s Education
Objectives: Using baseline survey data, the study examined self-efficacy of 381 lower-income parents who had opportunities to build financial assets for their children by opening college savings accounts in a human service agency. Methods: Of the study sample, 62% of the parents decided to open accounts while 38% did not. Structural equation modeling for multiple group models was performed. Results: There were few demographic differences between …
Research on assets for children and youth: Reflections on the past and prospects for the future
Assets and child well-being in developed countries
Homeownership and parenting practices: Evidence from the community advantage panel
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
Family-Centered, Community-Based Asset Building: A Strategic Use of Individual Development Accounts
This research examines individual development account (IDA) programs as part of a broader community development strategy for low-income/low-wealth communities, particularly communities of color. Through a review of multiple literatures and detailed case studies, we explore the potential of explicitly creating a community-based, family-centered development account program as a step toward a comprehensive community asset building approach in low-in…
Effects of Photovoice: Civic Engagement Among Older Youth in Urban Communities
Youth civic engagement is critical to many community empowerment initiatives. Photovoice is a popular empowerment technique for disenfranchised groups, including youth. The technique has little published empirical support. This research assesses Photovoice as a youth mobilization project within the context of an ongoing community development initiative. It was hypothesized that Photovoice participation would (a) improve students' interest in civi…
The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development
This study examines the influence of wealth relative to income across several child development outcomes using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The wealth measures include net worth and specific asset holdings. The child outcome measures include two cognitive achievement scores and one behavior problem score. Analyses use OLS regression to test whether wealth has explanatory power distinct from income. Results show that wealth is a s…
Neighborhood research from a spatially oriented strengths perspective
Research investigating neighborhood effects on children and families has been largely deficit and individual‐focused, investigated structural variables, and has typically produced equivocal findings and small effect sizes. We suggest an approach focused on community strengths and resources that stresses the role of measures of social interaction variables and the utilization of analytic strategies that model the spatial and nested nature of conte…
The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development
This study examines the influence of wealth relative to income across several child development outcomes using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The wealth measures include net worth and specific asset holdings. The child outcome measures include two cognitive achievement scores and one behavior problem score. Analyses use OLS regression to test whether wealth has explanatory power distinct from income. Results show that wealth is a s…
Assets and child well-being in developed countries
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
Effects of Photovoice: Civic Engagement Among Older Youth in Urban Communities
Youth civic engagement is critical to many community empowerment initiatives. Photovoice is a popular empowerment technique for disenfranchised groups, including youth. The technique has little published empirical support. This research assesses Photovoice as a youth mobilization project within the context of an ongoing community development initiative. It was hypothesized that Photovoice participation would (a) improve students' interest in civi…
Neighborhood research from a spatially oriented strengths perspective
Research investigating neighborhood effects on children and families has been largely deficit and individual‐focused, investigated structural variables, and has typically produced equivocal findings and small effect sizes. We suggest an approach focused on community strengths and resources that stresses the role of measures of social interaction variables and the utilization of analytic strategies that model the spatial and nested nature of conte…
Universal and Progressive Child Development Accounts: A Policy Innovation to Reduce Educational Disparity
Child Development Accounts (CDAs) aim to increase college completion rates among disadvantaged youth by helping youth see themselves as “college bound.” This article summarizes findings about the implementation and impacts of universal, progressive CDAs, with emphasis on outcomes for disadvantaged children. Data come from a large randomized experiment. CDAs positively affect ownership of college savings accounts and assets, educational expectatio…
Assets and African Americans: Attempting to Capitalize on Hopes for Children through College Savings Accounts
Although some racial inequalities have lessened in the half-century since the passage of the first major civil rights legislation, the racial wealth gap remains and in recent years seems to be widening. Households with children are the least likely to be asset secure or have sufficient resources to enable investment in opportunities for mobility. Viewing inequality from this perspective indicates that what households are able to save and invest f…
Family-Centered, Community-Based Asset Building: A Strategic Use of Individual Development Accounts
This research examines individual development account (IDA) programs as part of a broader community development strategy for low-income/low-wealth communities, particularly communities of color. Through a review of multiple literatures and detailed case studies, we explore the potential of explicitly creating a community-based, family-centered development account program as a step toward a comprehensive community asset building approach in low-in…
Applied Social Research: Aiming for Impact
Social work and the other applied social science professions aim to marshal evidence to inform beneficial social change. Notwithstanding positive intentions, effective application of research to policy and practice is not always robust in achieving impacts. To do better, we should purposefully connect research to action, including engagement with practitioners and the policy process. We extend the definition of “public impact scholarship” to incl…
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
Parental Self-Efficacy and Joining a Savings Program for Children’s Education
Objectives: Using baseline survey data, the study examined self-efficacy of 381 lower-income parents who had opportunities to build financial assets for their children by opening college savings accounts in a human service agency. Methods: Of the study sample, 62% of the parents decided to open accounts while 38% did not. Structural equation modeling for multiple group models was performed. Results: There were few demographic differences between …
Research on assets for children and youth: Reflections on the past and prospects for the future
Homeownership and parenting practices: Evidence from the community advantage panel
The Impacts of Household Wealth on Child Development
This study examines the influence of wealth relative to income across several child development outcomes using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. The wealth measures include net worth and specific asset holdings. The child outcome measures include two cognitive achievement scores and one behavior problem score. Analyses use OLS regression to test whether wealth has explanatory power distinct from income. Results show that wealth is a s…
Neighborhood research from a spatially oriented strengths perspective
Research investigating neighborhood effects on children and families has been largely deficit and individual‐focused, investigated structural variables, and has typically produced equivocal findings and small effect sizes. We suggest an approach focused on community strengths and resources that stresses the role of measures of social interaction variables and the utilization of analytic strategies that model the spatial and nested nature of conte…
Effects of Photovoice: Civic Engagement Among Older Youth in Urban Communities
Youth civic engagement is critical to many community empowerment initiatives. Photovoice is a popular empowerment technique for disenfranchised groups, including youth. The technique has little published empirical support. This research assesses Photovoice as a youth mobilization project within the context of an ongoing community development initiative. It was hypothesized that Photovoice participation would (a) improve students' interest in civi…
Parental Self-Efficacy and Joining a Savings Program for Children’s Education
Objectives: Using baseline survey data, the study examined self-efficacy of 381 lower-income parents who had opportunities to build financial assets for their children by opening college savings accounts in a human service agency. Methods: Of the study sample, 62% of the parents decided to open accounts while 38% did not. Structural equation modeling for multiple group models was performed. Results: There were few demographic differences between …
Research on assets for children and youth: Reflections on the past and prospects for the future
Assets and child well-being in developed countries
Homeownership and parenting practices: Evidence from the community advantage panel
New Approaches to Old Problems: Market‐Based Strategies for Poverty Alleviation
The landscape of social welfare policy and practice is marked by new approaches that use business and market mechanisms to combat poverty. This article reviews four such antipoverty strategies: microenterprise, individual development accounts, social enterprise, and bottom‐of‐the‐pyramid (or base‐of‐the‐pyramid) schemes. The study provides a synthesis of the empirical research on the effectiveness of these approaches to date. It examines the effe…
Family-Centered, Community-Based Asset Building: A Strategic Use of Individual Development Accounts
This research examines individual development account (IDA) programs as part of a broader community development strategy for low-income/low-wealth communities, particularly communities of color. Through a review of multiple literatures and detailed case studies, we explore the potential of explicitly creating a community-based, family-centered development account program as a step toward a comprehensive community asset building approach in low-in…
Embedded Foundations: Advancing Community Change and Empowerment
The work of select foundations is gradually expanding beyond conventional program funding to an "embedded funding" approach, in which funders dig in and dig deeper to foster community. In this article, we describe general characteristics of the embedded funding approach, how it differs from conventional efforts, delineate several key methods involved, and explain the relevance of the approach within the context of the challenges facing some neigh…
Assets and African Americans: Attempting to Capitalize on Hopes for Children through College Savings Accounts
Although some racial inequalities have lessened in the half-century since the passage of the first major civil rights legislation, the racial wealth gap remains and in recent years seems to be widening. Households with children are the least likely to be asset secure or have sufficient resources to enable investment in opportunities for mobility. Viewing inequality from this perspective indicates that what households are able to save and invest f…
Neighbourhood Poverty, Perceived Discrimination and Central Adiposity in the Usa: Independent Associations in a Repeated Measures Analysis
This study examines the independent effects of neighbourhood context (i.e. neighbourhood poverty) and exposure to perceived discrimination in shaping risk of obesity over time. Weighted three-level hierarchical linear regression models for a continuous outcome were used to assess the independent effects of neighbourhood poverty and perceived discrimination on obesity over time in a sample of 157 non-Hispanic Black, non-Hispanic White and Hispanic…
Building and Maintaining Community Capacity
This chapter details the work of the UMSSW/TAC to connect with informal leaders and support neighborhood residents in accomplishing their goals. The TAC led or supported several strategies that directly assisted residents of the six Good Neighborhoods communities. These include the Leadership Academy (a co-designed model of individual capacity development), the Small Grants Resident Decision-Making Panel, workshops and issue forums, and staffing …
Introducing the Six Good Neighborhoods Communities: Partnering to Improve Life Outcomes for Youth and Families in under-Served Neighborhoods
Each Good Neighborhoods community is unique. This chapter introduces each of the six neighborhoods in the order in which Skillman launched the community planning process: Southwest Detroit, Chadsey Condon, Brightmoor, Osborn, Cody Rouge, and Northend Central. After a short description of each neighborhood and its early history, basic facts that describe population demographics, economic indicators, housing and crime are presented. A summary of co…
Universal and Progressive Child Development Accounts: A Policy Innovation to Reduce Educational Disparity
Child Development Accounts (CDAs) aim to increase college completion rates among disadvantaged youth by helping youth see themselves as “college bound.” This article summarizes findings about the implementation and impacts of universal, progressive CDAs, with emphasis on outcomes for disadvantaged children. Data come from a large randomized experiment. CDAs positively affect ownership of college savings accounts and assets, educational expectatio…
Applied Social Research: Aiming for Impact
Social work and the other applied social science professions aim to marshal evidence to inform beneficial social change. Notwithstanding positive intentions, effective application of research to policy and practice is not always robust in achieving impacts. To do better, we should purposefully connect research to action, including engagement with practitioners and the policy process. We extend the definition of “public impact scholarship” to incl…
Communication matters: A long-term follow-up study of child savings account program participation
The Long Afterlife of Slavery in Asset Stripping, Historical Memory, and Family Burden: Toward a Third Reconstruction
For African Americans in particular, the question of financial capability and asset building is as old as Black freedom. Through conceptual frames such as racial capitalism, historical memory, and the family stress model, this article examines the many false starts since Reconstruction in which expectations were raised, but then hopes subsequently dashed when reality produced outcomes that kept tangible economic progress just out of reach of Blac…
Poverty Reduction is Not the Whole Story: The Covid-19 Pandemic Response in Relation to Material Hardship
A Policy Platform to Deliver Black Reparations: Building on Evidence from Child Development Accounts
Successful Black reparations require a policy for delivering payments, one that provides for effective identification, disbursement, asset protection, and asset growth over time. In this article, we suggest a structural solution (structured wealth accumulation of reparations payments) to a structural challenge (deeply embedded racial wealth inequality). Analyzing evidence from a longitudinal experiment, we find that Child Development Accounts (CD…
Political science (14 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Psychology (13 works) · Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (7 works) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Public relations (6 works)