Dr. Ruiz-Casares is Professor at the School of Child & Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Member of the School of Social Work and the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy at Â鶹AV. Dr. Ruiz-Casares has been awarded Fellowships by the National Science Foundation, the American Association of University Women, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Cornell University, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec-Santé. She is also a former Richard H. Tomlinson Scholar. Her research program focuses on the wellbeing and protection of orphan, separated, and unsupervised children across cultures; children’s rights and participation; and policy and program evaluation of human services, particularly among ethno-culturally diverse communities. She leads mixed-methods studies on child wellbeing and protection cross-culturally, mainly in contexts of parent-child separation including child-headed households, children home alone, in monasteries, or in other alternative care arrangements. She is particularly interested in ethical and methodological issues involved in global mental health and protection research with and by children. Her research is inspired by action research principles. She has been a co-investigator on several research projects and networks funded through the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Fonds de Recherche du Québec on access to health and social services by migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking families; children rights to participation and protection; and knowledge mobilization. She is Co-Chair of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI), a Credentialed Evaluator with the Canadian Evaluation Society, member-at-large of the Board of Directors of the American Evaluation Association, and member of the Standing Committee of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP) and the Â鶹AV Global Mental Health Program.
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Current projects include
- Who Minds the Children? Clarifying the Role of Public Policies and Socio-Ecological Factors in Non-Adult Child Supervision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- International Survey of Children’s Wellbeing (ISCWeB) in Namibia
- Cultural Adaptation of the
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- International Survey of Children’s Wellbeing (ISCWeB) in Namibia
Recently completed projects include
- Geographies of Care: Professionals, Caregivers, and Children’s Views of (In)adequate Supervision Across Cultures (, )
- Parenting for the promotion of adolescent mental health (,)
- Mental health and social adjustment of children without parental care in culturally diverse populations
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