The Children & Family Research Center
School of Social Work, University of Illinois
1010 W. Nevada, Suite 2080
347-731-6065
Dr. Stacey Shipe received her bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Washington and her Masters of Social Work from New York University. She later pursued a Masters in Evidence-based Social Work at the University of Oxford where she focused on intergenerational trauma in refugee populations. Dr. Shipe finished out her graduate studies with her PhD in Social Work at the University of Maryland. She recently completed a NIH-funded T32 fellowship at Penn State University in the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Dr. Shipe is joining the staff at the Children and Family Research Center at the School of Social Work as a research specialist.
Dr. Shipe’s interests are twofold – her first area focuses on the overall functioning of child welfare organizations. This area centers specifically on organizational functioning (i.e., culture and climate) and how institutional policies combined with caseworker decision making influence family outcomes. Her second area is related but broader in that she focuses on specific users of child serving systems. More specifically, she is interested in further understanding the lived experiences of single fathers and how they manage child serving systems (i.e., child welfare, welfare, healthcare, education, and juvenile justice). In addition to this work, Dr. Shipe also conducts cost analyses on primary prevention efforts. Her most recent experience focused on the costs of a school-based child sexual abuse prevention program.
At the CFRC, Dr. Shipe works on multiple evaluation projects including Illinois DCFS Monitoring Reports of the B.H. Consent Decree and the Illinois Child Endangerment Risk Assessment Protocol reports. She also continues her work with single fathers by determining which risk factors are predictive of child welfare entry. Additionally, Dr. Shipe is conducting county-wide studies in Pennsylvania that focus on the relationship between child welfare decision making and economic and racial/ethnic disparities along the child welfare continuum.