Reiko Boyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 3936003 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reiko Boyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reiko |
| FAMILY NAME | Boyd |
| SIGNATURE | BOYD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0507-3471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
System Failures and the Realities of “Reform”
How exactly is the child welfare system failing children? Abolitionist perspectives have centered the failures and harms inherent to and reproduced by the system. Despite voicing disagreement with abolition as a path forward, advocates/proponents of reform have not done the painstaking work of analyzing failures of the system itself. We begin to address this gap by examining the persistent phenomenon of critical thinking errors in child welfare, …
Structural Competence in Social Work
This article reviews the concept of structural competence as a powerful analytic tool to advance social work education and improve social work pedagogy, practice, and research. Structural competence offers a promising avenue for improving approaches to understanding and addressing the root causes of the social, economic, and health disparities affecting social work clients and historically marginalized communities. A tailored social work definiti…
Is my work racist? Critical thinking and critical discourse in social work research
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
Refocusing Intersectionality in Social Work Education
In this article, we argue that those in social work education should refocus how they conceptualize and teach intersectionality to produce more effective social work practitioners. We emphasize that social work should shift from educating students to evaluate diverse clients as the accumulation of individual identities operating in isolation (e.g., race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) to recognizing how these identities intersect to inf…
Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference
Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to effectively reduce racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. However, previous studies have noted ongoing challenges to promoting cultural responsiveness in FTC. This study analysed caseworkers’ survey data (n = 736) to explore the role of racial matching between caseworkers and children as an effective practice to strengthen the high fidelity of FT…
Racial disparities in assignment to alternative response
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Adult Health
Objective: This study investigates the associations between positive childhood experiences and adult well-being, examining the moderating role of childhood social support in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adult health outcomes. Method: Data were from the 2015 Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. The sample included 4,849 individuals ages ≥18 years who were asked about their ACEs, childhoo…
It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care. Ending this harm will only be achieved when the forcible surveillance and separation of children from their parents is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of intervention. This paper describes the upEND movement, a collaborative movement aimed at abol…
Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System
Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have been most significantly impacted by this racial disproportionality. Racial disproportionality in child welfare exists because of influences that are both external to child welfare systems and part of the child welfare system. We summarize the causes of racial disproportionality, arguing that internal and external causes of disproportional involvement origin…
Foster care outcomes and experiences of infants removed due to substance abuse
This exploratory study used administrative data from the 2015 foster care file of the Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System to examine the experiences and outcomes of infants who had substance abuse indicated as their reason for removal. Logistic regression was used to explore the relationship between removal for substance abuse and race/ethnicity, placement setting, case plan goal, and discharge manner. T-tests were used to compare infants g…
Financial well-being in family-based foster care
African American disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
Psychological Theories and Low-Wage Work
Low-wage work is a modern social problem, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The field of psychology is a critical starting point for examining the relationship between low-wage work and mental health. This literature review aims to identify psychological theories related to low-wage work. Psychological theories related to work and employment are explored, as is emerging research on the necessity of a paradigm shift fro…
It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care. Ending this harm will only be achieved when the forcible surveillance and separation of children from their parents is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of intervention. This paper describes the upEND movement, a collaborative movement aimed at abol…
Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System
Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have been most significantly impacted by this racial disproportionality. Racial disproportionality in child welfare exists because of influences that are both external to child welfare systems and part of the child welfare system. We summarize the causes of racial disproportionality, arguing that internal and external causes of disproportional involvement origin…
African American disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
Foster care outcomes and experiences of infants removed due to substance abuse
This exploratory study used administrative data from the 2015 foster care file of the Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System to examine the experiences and outcomes of infants who had substance abuse indicated as their reason for removal. Logistic regression was used to explore the relationship between removal for substance abuse and race/ethnicity, placement setting, case plan goal, and discharge manner. T-tests were used to compare infants g…
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Financial well-being in family-based foster care
Psychological Theories and Low-Wage Work
Low-wage work is a modern social problem, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The field of psychology is a critical starting point for examining the relationship between low-wage work and mental health. This literature review aims to identify psychological theories related to low-wage work. Psychological theories related to work and employment are explored, as is emerging research on the necessity of a paradigm shift fro…
Is my work racist? Critical thinking and critical discourse in social work research
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
Racial disparities in assignment to alternative response
African American disproportionality and disparity in child welfare
Psychological Theories and Low-Wage Work
Low-wage work is a modern social problem, affecting millions of individuals, families, and communities. The field of psychology is a critical starting point for examining the relationship between low-wage work and mental health. This literature review aims to identify psychological theories related to low-wage work. Psychological theories related to work and employment are explored, as is emerging research on the necessity of a paradigm shift fro…
Financial well-being in family-based foster care
Foster care outcomes and experiences of infants removed due to substance abuse
This exploratory study used administrative data from the 2015 foster care file of the Adoption and Foster Care Reporting System to examine the experiences and outcomes of infants who had substance abuse indicated as their reason for removal. Logistic regression was used to explore the relationship between removal for substance abuse and race/ethnicity, placement setting, case plan goal, and discharge manner. T-tests were used to compare infants g…
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Positive Childhood Experiences, and Adult Health
Objective: This study investigates the associations between positive childhood experiences and adult well-being, examining the moderating role of childhood social support in the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and adult health outcomes. Method: Data were from the 2015 Wisconsin Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. The sample included 4,849 individuals ages ≥18 years who were asked about their ACEs, childhoo…
It is not a broken system, it is a system that needs to be broken
The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care. Ending this harm will only be achieved when the forcible surveillance and separation of children from their parents is no longer viewed as an acceptable form of intervention. This paper describes the upEND movement, a collaborative movement aimed at abol…
Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System
Children of color are overrepresented in the child welfare system, and Black children have been most significantly impacted by this racial disproportionality. Racial disproportionality in child welfare exists because of influences that are both external to child welfare systems and part of the child welfare system. We summarize the causes of racial disproportionality, arguing that internal and external causes of disproportional involvement origin…
Racial disparities in assignment to alternative response
Refocusing Intersectionality in Social Work Education
In this article, we argue that those in social work education should refocus how they conceptualize and teach intersectionality to produce more effective social work practitioners. We emphasize that social work should shift from educating students to evaluate diverse clients as the accumulation of individual identities operating in isolation (e.g., race or ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation) to recognizing how these identities intersect to inf…
Model Fidelity and Child Well-Being in Family Team Conference
Family Team Conference (FTC) has been suggested as a promising practice model to effectively reduce racial disproportionality and disparities in child welfare. However, previous studies have noted ongoing challenges to promoting cultural responsiveness in FTC. This study analysed caseworkers’ survey data (n = 736) to explore the role of racial matching between caseworkers and children as an effective practice to strengthen the high fidelity of FT…
Is my work racist? Critical thinking and critical discourse in social work research
Parenting Strengths and Distress among Black Mothers Reported to the Child Welfare System
This study explores whether positive and negative aspects of social networks influence parenting strengths and distress. Our sample is drawn from the Getting Access to Income Now (GAIN) study, a randomized controlled trial designed to evaluate a child maltreatment prevention program in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Using prerandomization baseline survey data on the subgroup of respondents who identify as Black or African American mothers (N=402), …
Multidimensional Aspects of Social Networks
This study examines the social network characteristics of 670 mothers reported to and investigated by the child protection system (CPS) in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin in 2016. Specifically, having a recurrent CPS investigation within one year of an index investigation that did not result in an ongoing CPS case is assessed as a function of positive social network ties, negative social network ties, and perceived neighborhood support. Few studies h…
System Failures and the Realities of “Reform”
How exactly is the child welfare system failing children? Abolitionist perspectives have centered the failures and harms inherent to and reproduced by the system. Despite voicing disagreement with abolition as a path forward, advocates/proponents of reform have not done the painstaking work of analyzing failures of the system itself. We begin to address this gap by examining the persistent phenomenon of critical thinking errors in child welfare, …
Structural Competence in Social Work
This article reviews the concept of structural competence as a powerful analytic tool to advance social work education and improve social work pedagogy, practice, and research. Structural competence offers a promising avenue for improving approaches to understanding and addressing the root causes of the social, economic, and health disparities affecting social work clients and historically marginalized communities. A tailored social work definiti…
Psychology (15 works) · Political science (11 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Welfare (8 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (6 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)