Resilience in Foster Alumni: Overcoming the Risk Factors for Criminal Activity
This project (and Miguel's dissertation) aims to identify assets and resources that encourage prosocial behavior in foster alumni. While there is a plethora of research demonstrating poor outcomes among the foster alumni population, there is a scarcity in the work that has been conducted to identify characteristics of the individual and the environment that help foster alumni be resilient. Furthermore, existing research has often conceptualized resilience as the avoidance of a negative outcomes. In contrast, this study focuses on youth who have engaged in positive behaviors.
Qualitative Study of ACEs and Resilience in Latinx Children and Parents
In a collaboration with Dr. Keith Martin at John Hopkins University, this project aims to expand our understanding on the immigration-related adversity experienced by members of the Latinx community, as well as identify what helps them cope with that adversity. The project explores the perspective of both children and parents in relation to immigration.
Discrimination Experiences of Latinx
This project uses an explanatory sequential design to understand the experiences of discrimination that members of the Latinx community have experienced in Southwest Ohio. Further, the project seeks to understand the impact that discrimination experiences have on mental health, as well as whether ethnic identity helps them manage such experiences.
Foster Youth's Resilience and Wellbeing
In collaboration with Dr. Sarah Beal at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, this project the associations between resilience, child welfare characteristics and perceived physical and mental health in foster youth who have recently experienced a placement change.
Enduring Adversities: Supporting Latino Adolescents
The purpose of this research project is to identify protective factors that can buffer the negative effects of adverse childhood experiences among Latino adolescents.