Katharine Briar‐Lawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 5941785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katharine Briar‐Lawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katharine |
| FAMILY NAME | Briar‐Lawson |
| SIGNATURE | LAWSON K B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University at Albany, State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-1334-8249 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Addressing the “Broken” System of Child Welfare
Three claims in Jessica Pryce’s Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services inform this article. These are (a) the system of surveillance and punishment of the poor, especially Indigenous and families of color, must be replaced with support to families, (b) casework practice is transactional and performative, and (c) neglect should not be conflated with poverty. We review briefly the history of CAPTA and ICWA arguing that ICWA’s “active effort…
The Soar Model as an Effective Mechanism for University–Community Partnerships to End Homelessness
University social work programs can play a critical role in helping communities to expand local capacity in efforts to end homelessness. The Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI) Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR) program is an evidence-based model that social work programs are advancing through university–community partnerships. SOAR seeks to prevent and end homelessness through increased access to Supple…
Investing in the Child Welfare Workforce
Responding to David Stoesz’s invited article criticizing the Children’s Bureau and the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI), the author’s inaccurate assertions are challenged, and new information is provided about the significant work underway to support the child welfare workforce. The Children’s Bureau has made historic investments in workforce capacity building, which bring multiple universities, public, and tribal child welfare …
Building the Social Work Workforce
This article depicts a journey over the decades to address some of the needs of children and families in the child welfare system. Recounting a few key milestones and challenges in the past 40 years, it is argued that workforce development is one key to improved outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families. Major events and several turning points are chronicled. Emerging workforce needs in aging are also cited as lessons learned …
Child Welfare, the Media, and Capacity Building
Public child welfare systems and practices have been scrutinized, if not criticized, by the media. In response a "circle the wagons" orientation to the media may ensue. This article lays out more strategic ways in which media engagement with community initiatives may help to advance the public's understanding of child welfare and child safety. An array of suggestions is offered for ways to build an agenda with the media, suggesting the potential …
A Qualitative Examination of Power between Child Welfare Workers and Parents
This qualitative study examines the distribution of power in the working relationship between child welfare workers and parents mandated to services due to child abuse and/or neglect. In child welfare settings, the relationship between workers and parents is complicated by institutional power structures governing rules and regulations for practice. Paradoxically, workers are expected to share power with families through the implementation of empo…
Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work
Journal Article Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work Get access Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD Winn Professor and associate dean for research Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Address correspondence to Jeffrey M. Jenson, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, 2148 South High Street, Denver, CO 80208; email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: …
Advancing Administrative Supports for Research Development
Research administrative supports must parallel and reinforce faculty initiatives in research grant procurement. This article features several types of developments that draw on presentations at the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work meetings. Key changes in social work programs are addressed, including the growing research portfolio, the growing number of centers and institutes, and National Institutes of Health…
An Introduction to This Special Issue of Papers Presented at the International Symposium on Practice Research
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Capacity Building for Integrated Family-Centered Practice
The profession of social work has made distinctive and important contributions to individual, family, and community social welfare, because it has avoided the excessive reductionism found in other helping professions. Unlike these other helping professions, social work has addressed economic and occupational needs of individuals, families, and their communities in a unique way. As a new century dawns, it is appropriate to look back and reflect an…
A Qualitative Examination of Power between Child Welfare Workers and Parents
This qualitative study examines the distribution of power in the working relationship between child welfare workers and parents mandated to services due to child abuse and/or neglect. In child welfare settings, the relationship between workers and parents is complicated by institutional power structures governing rules and regulations for practice. Paradoxically, workers are expected to share power with families through the implementation of empo…
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Capacity Building for Integrated Family-Centered Practice
The profession of social work has made distinctive and important contributions to individual, family, and community social welfare, because it has avoided the excessive reductionism found in other helping professions. Unlike these other helping professions, social work has addressed economic and occupational needs of individuals, families, and their communities in a unique way. As a new century dawns, it is appropriate to look back and reflect an…
Child Welfare, the Media, and Capacity Building
Public child welfare systems and practices have been scrutinized, if not criticized, by the media. In response a "circle the wagons" orientation to the media may ensue. This article lays out more strategic ways in which media engagement with community initiatives may help to advance the public's understanding of child welfare and child safety. An array of suggestions is offered for ways to build an agenda with the media, suggesting the potential …
Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work
Journal Article Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work Get access Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD Winn Professor and associate dean for research Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Address correspondence to Jeffrey M. Jenson, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, 2148 South High Street, Denver, CO 80208; email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: …
Capacity Building for Integrated Family-Centered Practice
The profession of social work has made distinctive and important contributions to individual, family, and community social welfare, because it has avoided the excessive reductionism found in other helping professions. Unlike these other helping professions, social work has addressed economic and occupational needs of individuals, families, and their communities in a unique way. As a new century dawns, it is appropriate to look back and reflect an…
Child Welfare Design Teams
Workforce turnover in public child welfare is a national problem. Individual, supervisory, and organizational factors, individually and in combination, account for some of the turnover. Complex, comprehensive interventions are needed to address these several factors and their interactions. A research and development team is field testing one such intervention. The three-component intervention encompasses management consultations, capacity buildin…
Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work
Journal Article Advances and Challenges in Developing Research Capacity in Social Work Get access Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD Winn Professor and associate dean for research Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver Address correspondence to Jeffrey M. Jenson, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, 2148 South High Street, Denver, CO 80208; email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: …
Advancing Administrative Supports for Research Development
Research administrative supports must parallel and reinforce faculty initiatives in research grant procurement. This article features several types of developments that draw on presentations at the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work meetings. Key changes in social work programs are addressed, including the growing research portfolio, the growing number of centers and institutes, and National Institutes of Health…
An Introduction to This Special Issue of Papers Presented at the International Symposium on Practice Research
A Qualitative Examination of Power between Child Welfare Workers and Parents
This qualitative study examines the distribution of power in the working relationship between child welfare workers and parents mandated to services due to child abuse and/or neglect. In child welfare settings, the relationship between workers and parents is complicated by institutional power structures governing rules and regulations for practice. Paradoxically, workers are expected to share power with families through the implementation of empo…
Child Welfare, the Media, and Capacity Building
Public child welfare systems and practices have been scrutinized, if not criticized, by the media. In response a "circle the wagons" orientation to the media may ensue. This article lays out more strategic ways in which media engagement with community initiatives may help to advance the public's understanding of child welfare and child safety. An array of suggestions is offered for ways to build an agenda with the media, suggesting the potential …
Building the Social Work Workforce
This article depicts a journey over the decades to address some of the needs of children and families in the child welfare system. Recounting a few key milestones and challenges in the past 40 years, it is argued that workforce development is one key to improved outcomes for abused and neglected children and their families. Major events and several turning points are chronicled. Emerging workforce needs in aging are also cited as lessons learned …
Investing in the Child Welfare Workforce
Responding to David Stoesz’s invited article criticizing the Children’s Bureau and the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute (NCWWI), the author’s inaccurate assertions are challenged, and new information is provided about the significant work underway to support the child welfare workforce. The Children’s Bureau has made historic investments in workforce capacity building, which bring multiple universities, public, and tribal child welfare …
The Soar Model as an Effective Mechanism for University–Community Partnerships to End Homelessness
University social work programs can play a critical role in helping communities to expand local capacity in efforts to end homelessness. The Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance (SSI/SSDI) Outreach, Access and Recovery (SOAR) program is an evidence-based model that social work programs are advancing through university–community partnerships. SOAR seeks to prevent and end homelessness through increased access to Supple…
Addressing the “Broken” System of Child Welfare
Three claims in Jessica Pryce’s Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services inform this article. These are (a) the system of surveillance and punishment of the poor, especially Indigenous and families of color, must be replaced with support to families, (b) casework practice is transactional and performative, and (c) neglect should not be conflated with poverty. We review briefly the history of CAPTA and ICWA arguing that ICWA’s “active effort…
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Social Work (9 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (7 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Welfare (6 works) · Economic growth (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (5 works)