Judy Havlicek
Biographic Data
| ID | 5940393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Judy Havlicek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Judy |
| FAMILY NAME | Havlicek |
| SIGNATURE | HAVLÍČEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8728-4840 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Transition-Age Youth Special Interest Group
This paper provides an overview of the history and current activities of a group of researchers focused on the experiences of young people who “age out” of foster care in the United States. These transition-age youth (TAY) often have intersecting marginalized identities, as youth of color, queer youth, and youth with disabilities are disproportionately represented in care. Members of the Transition-Age Youth Special Interest Group (TAY-SIG) condu…
Navigating Relationships With Birth Family After Aging Out of Foster Care
As young people age out of foster care, many seek out their birth parents and extended families, but little is known about how these connections are navigated given past separations. Drawing from data previously collected from young people who aged out of foster care in a metropolitan area of one Western state ( n = 57), this study analyzed the responses from 53 young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 who answered two open-ended questions abou…
Hurt, loss, joy, and forgiveness
Don’t Give Up”
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care
Using mixed methods, this study examined vocational rehabilitation (VR) access for foster youth with disabilities through child welfare agencies in Illinois. First, one agency completed a process mapping exercise to document VR referral practices. Second, agencies (N = 26) across the state completed surveys about knowledge and use of VR. Only 50% of agencies assessed employment needs at intake, and although 71% of agencies were familiar with the …
Service coordination for transition-age foster youth with disabilities
Systematic review of birth parent–foster youth relationships before and after aging out of foster care
External Review Board
Youth participation in foster youth advisory boards
The Illinois State Foster Youth Advisory Board as a Counterspace for Well-Being through Identity Work
Foster youth advisory boards (YABs) are well known for their advocacy mission. Less is known about other benefits that may come from participation. This constructivist grounded theory study seeks to expand the conceptual understanding of one aspect of adolescent development and well-being—meaning-making around identity—among 33 current and former elected officers of the Illinois state foster youth advisory board. The findings suggest that the YAB…
Human trafficking of children in Illinois
Barriers and facilitators of the transition to adulthood for foster youth with autism spectrum disorder
Web survey of foster youth advisory boards in the United States
Cultivating youth voice through participation in a Foster youth advisory board
Re-entry among former foster youth in early adulthood
Pathways to Residential Care
This study aims to develop greater understanding of the preplacement experiences of adolescents who enter residential care through the child welfare system by identifying a discrete set of modal placement histories as indicated by the occurrence of one or more adverse placement events. To this end, we analyze the placement experiences of a sample of 2,542 adolescents entering residential care under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Child…
Foster Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The goals of this study are to identify the prevalence of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) entering out-of-home care and to focus attention on length of stay and placement stability. To achieve these goals, this study links Illinois administrative data with Medicaid records. Overall, 2.4% of the sample has a diagnosis of ASD. The median length of stay for children with ASD is 1.6 times longer than children without ASD. A latent class …
Mental health and substance use disorders among foster youth transitioning to adulthood
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Risk for arrest
This study examines a sample of foster youth at the onset of the transition to adulthood and explores how social bonds are related to the risk of arrest during adulthood. Drawing from official arrest records, event history models are used to examine the time to arrest. Because individuals may be at risk for different types of crime, competing risk regression models are used to distinguish among arrests for drug-related, nonviolent, or violent cri…
Lives in motion
Patterns of Movement in Foster Care
Placement instability remains a vexing problem for child welfare agencies across the country. This study uses child welfare administrative data to retrospectively follow the entire placement histories (birth to age 17.5) of 474 foster youth who reached the age of majority in the state of Illinois and to search for patterns in their movement through the child welfare system. Patterns are identified through optimal matching and hierarchical cluster…
Mental health and substance use disorders among foster youth transitioning to adulthood
Patterns of Movement in Foster Care
Placement instability remains a vexing problem for child welfare agencies across the country. This study uses child welfare administrative data to retrospectively follow the entire placement histories (birth to age 17.5) of 474 foster youth who reached the age of majority in the state of Illinois and to search for patterns in their movement through the child welfare system. Patterns are identified through optimal matching and hierarchical cluster…
The Illinois State Foster Youth Advisory Board as a Counterspace for Well-Being through Identity Work
Foster youth advisory boards (YABs) are well known for their advocacy mission. Less is known about other benefits that may come from participation. This constructivist grounded theory study seeks to expand the conceptual understanding of one aspect of adolescent development and well-being—meaning-making around identity—among 33 current and former elected officers of the Illinois state foster youth advisory board. The findings suggest that the YAB…
Cultivating youth voice through participation in a Foster youth advisory board
Youth participation in foster youth advisory boards
Web survey of foster youth advisory boards in the United States
Human trafficking of children in Illinois
Barriers and facilitators of the transition to adulthood for foster youth with autism spectrum disorder
Pathways to Residential Care
This study aims to develop greater understanding of the preplacement experiences of adolescents who enter residential care through the child welfare system by identifying a discrete set of modal placement histories as indicated by the occurrence of one or more adverse placement events. To this end, we analyze the placement experiences of a sample of 2,542 adolescents entering residential care under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Child…
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Foster Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The goals of this study are to identify the prevalence of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) entering out-of-home care and to focus attention on length of stay and placement stability. To achieve these goals, this study links Illinois administrative data with Medicaid records. Overall, 2.4% of the sample has a diagnosis of ASD. The median length of stay for children with ASD is 1.6 times longer than children without ASD. A latent class …
Systematic review of birth parent–foster youth relationships before and after aging out of foster care
Patterns of Movement in Foster Care
Placement instability remains a vexing problem for child welfare agencies across the country. This study uses child welfare administrative data to retrospectively follow the entire placement histories (birth to age 17.5) of 474 foster youth who reached the age of majority in the state of Illinois and to search for patterns in their movement through the child welfare system. Patterns are identified through optimal matching and hierarchical cluster…
Lives in motion
Conceptualizing the step-down for foster youth approaching adulthood
Risk for arrest
This study examines a sample of foster youth at the onset of the transition to adulthood and explores how social bonds are related to the risk of arrest during adulthood. Drawing from official arrest records, event history models are used to examine the time to arrest. Because individuals may be at risk for different types of crime, competing risk regression models are used to distinguish among arrests for drug-related, nonviolent, or violent cri…
Foster Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The goals of this study are to identify the prevalence of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) entering out-of-home care and to focus attention on length of stay and placement stability. To achieve these goals, this study links Illinois administrative data with Medicaid records. Overall, 2.4% of the sample has a diagnosis of ASD. The median length of stay for children with ASD is 1.6 times longer than children without ASD. A latent class …
Mental health and substance use disorders among foster youth transitioning to adulthood
Re-entry among former foster youth in early adulthood
Pathways to Residential Care
This study aims to develop greater understanding of the preplacement experiences of adolescents who enter residential care through the child welfare system by identifying a discrete set of modal placement histories as indicated by the occurrence of one or more adverse placement events. To this end, we analyze the placement experiences of a sample of 2,542 adolescents entering residential care under the auspices of the Illinois Department of Child…
Human trafficking of children in Illinois
Barriers and facilitators of the transition to adulthood for foster youth with autism spectrum disorder
Web survey of foster youth advisory boards in the United States
Cultivating youth voice through participation in a Foster youth advisory board
Youth participation in foster youth advisory boards
The Illinois State Foster Youth Advisory Board as a Counterspace for Well-Being through Identity Work
Foster youth advisory boards (YABs) are well known for their advocacy mission. Less is known about other benefits that may come from participation. This constructivist grounded theory study seeks to expand the conceptual understanding of one aspect of adolescent development and well-being—meaning-making around identity—among 33 current and former elected officers of the Illinois state foster youth advisory board. The findings suggest that the YAB…
External Review Board
Systematic review of birth parent–foster youth relationships before and after aging out of foster care
Service coordination for transition-age foster youth with disabilities
Understanding vocational rehabilitation service access among adolescents and young adults in foster care
Using mixed methods, this study examined vocational rehabilitation (VR) access for foster youth with disabilities through child welfare agencies in Illinois. First, one agency completed a process mapping exercise to document VR referral practices. Second, agencies (N = 26) across the state completed surveys about knowledge and use of VR. Only 50% of agencies assessed employment needs at intake, and although 71% of agencies were familiar with the …
Don’t Give Up”
Hurt, loss, joy, and forgiveness
The Transition-Age Youth Special Interest Group
This paper provides an overview of the history and current activities of a group of researchers focused on the experiences of young people who “age out” of foster care in the United States. These transition-age youth (TAY) often have intersecting marginalized identities, as youth of color, queer youth, and youth with disabilities are disproportionately represented in care. Members of the Transition-Age Youth Special Interest Group (TAY-SIG) condu…
Navigating Relationships With Birth Family After Aging Out of Foster Care
As young people age out of foster care, many seek out their birth parents and extended families, but little is known about how these connections are navigated given past separations. Drawing from data previously collected from young people who aged out of foster care in a metropolitan area of one Western state ( n = 57), this study analyzed the responses from 53 young adults between the ages of 18 and 22 who answered two open-ended questions abou…
Child Welfare and Adoption (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Foster care (15 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Nursing (11 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Welfare (10 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works)