ReSHAPING
THE LATEST RESEARCH IN ONE PLACE.
Being an adolescent is complicated enough. What if you are in foster care? Sexually active? Pregnant? A parent? The ReSHAPING network of scholars is finding out more and improving these experiences.
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ReSHAPING (Research on Sexual Health and Adolescent Parenting in Out-of-Home Environments Group) is an international network of scholars in social work, public health, public policy, and psychology dedicated to collaborative research on understanding needs and improving outcomes related to sexual health and parenting for youth who are homeless, trafficked, or in out-of-home environments, whether in child welfare, juvenile justice, or other systems.
Through this website and social media, we disseminate our individual and joint work. We also provide information about trainings, other research and reports for those interested in this topic. Our hope is to provide a repository that is useful to researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.
Our Members


Elizabeth Aparicio
University of Maryland, College Park


Amy Dworsky
Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago


Monica Faulkner
Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin


Nadine Finigan-Carr
University of Maryland, Baltimore
School of Social Work


Claudette Grinnell-Davis
Anne and Henry Zarrow School of Social Work
University of Oklahoma, Tulsa


Grace Hubel
College of Charleston


Bryn King
Social Work, University of Toronto
Children’s Data Network, University of Southern California


Andrea Lane Eastman
University of Southern California


Kristen Ethier
Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice at the University of Chicago


Katie Massey Combs
University of Colorado Boulder


Lisa Schelbe
Florida State University
College of Social Work


Svetlana Shpiegel
Montclair State University
Department of Social Work and Child Advocacy


Rhoda Smith
Springfield College


