| Title: | Associate Professor |
| Dept: | Social Work |
| Office: | RT 1438 |
| Phone: | 216-687-4571 |
| Email: | C.C.COLLINS44@csuohio.edu |
| Address: | 2121 Euclid Ave. RT 1438, Cleveland, OH 44115 |
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Ph.D., Social Work, The University of Alabama, 2005
M.S.W., Social Work, The University of Alabama, 2005 M.A., Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, 1999 B.A., Psychology, University of California Riverside, 1995 | ||||||||
| Brief Bio: | ||
| Dr. Collins earned her M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Alabama in 2005. She holds a Master of Arts in psychology from the University of California Santa Barbara (1999), and a Bachelor of Arts in psychology from the University of California Riverside (1995). Her practice experience has been in the areas of violence against women, institutional children's services, social service administration, HIV/AIDS services and prevention, social work research and program evaluation, social policy, program planning, management and administration in human service organizations. | ||
| Research Interests: | ||
| Dr. Collins has been involved in research in a number of areas, including substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, interpersonal violence and sexual assault, perceptions of discrimination, health disparities, the experiences of urban children and adolescents living in housing projects, families experiencing housing instability, families experiencing foreclosure, refugee health, university/community partnerships and community-engaged research, infant mortality and low birthweight in African American families, and the impact of paid sick leave. Dr. Collins' dissertation used theory and methods from cognitive anthropology to examine human service professionals' cultural models of domestic violence. | ||
| Teaching Areas: | ||
| Research Methods, Social Policy, Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Health Disparities, Health Policy and Practice, The Political Economy of Health, Evidence-Based Practice, Evaluation of Clinical Practice | ||
| Professional Affiliations: | ||
| Council on Social Work Education
Society for Social Work and Research Society for Applied Anthropology American Public Health Associaton | ||
| University Service: | ||
| CSU Institutional Review Board
CSU College of Health Dean Search Committee CSU University Petitions Committee CSU College of Arts and Sciences Academic Standards Committee CSU School of Social Work Assessment Committee CSU School of Social Work Curriculum Committee CSU School of Social Work Awards Committee CSU School of Social Work Hiring Committee | ||
| Professional Service: | ||
| American Journal of Orthopsychiatry (Board Member)
Ethnography Child Welfare Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry Families in Society Field Methods Housing Studies Human Organization Journal of Family Violence Journal of Mixed Methods Research BMC Health 2011-2013 Faculty Partner, Partners in Evaluation, Education, and Research (PEER), Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods, School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University 2006 Session Chair, 52nd Annual Program Meeting of the Council on Social Work Education, Chicago, IL Abstract Reviewer, The Policy Conference, American Evaluation Association (Empowerment and Participatory and Qualitative TIGs) Grant Proposal Reviewer, Great Lakes Regional Prevention Council of the Ohio Children's Trust Fund (OCTF), Cleveland, OH. | ||
| Community Service: | ||
| Consultant, Pregnant with Possibilities Resource Center
Consultant, Birthing Beautiful Communities Center for Reducing Health Disparities Community Partnership Committee Center for Reducing Health Disparities Community Review Board | ||