CHECK Research Team
The CHECK Research Team focuses on how maltreatment and interactions with healthcare and child welfare systems impact child, adolescent, and young adult health and wellbeing. We explore factors that influence health and psychosocial outcomes and how we can deliver more effective care and interventions to help young people achieve their full potential.
Our team uses child welfare administrative data linked with electronic health records to understand the health needs of youth in the child welfare system. Our team also conducts prospective, longitudinal studies with maltreated youth, youth in protective custody, and their caregivers.
Through our work, we have investigated how to support young people preparing for emancipation to better engage with the healthcare system; studied the link between maltreatment, mental health, and the emergence of pain and other health conditions; and investigated the onset of health behaviors among teens in custody as well as how to effectively prevent poor health and wellbeing outcomes.
