Monica Ruiz-Casares
Associate Professor
Faculty of Community Services
School of Child and Youth Care
Toronto, Ontario
monica.ruizcasares@torontomu.ca
Office:
(416) 979-5000 ext. 554826
Expert In
Ethics in research with young people
Health and well-being
International child wellbeing and protection
Justice, equity and society
Migrant, refugee, asylum seeking families
Orphaned, separated and unaccompanied children
Program planning and evaluation
Social and cultural mental health
Supervisory neglect
Bio/Research
Monica Ruiz-Casares is an associate professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University, an adjunct professor of psychiatry and an associate member of the Centre for Research on Children and Families and the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill Universit...
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Bio/Research
Monica Ruiz-Casares is an associate professor in the School of Child and Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University, an adjunct professor of psychiatry and an associate member of the Centre for Research on Children and Families and the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University. For a decade, she was a staff investigator at the Sherpa University Institute in Montreal, where she evaluated health and social services for migrant and refugee families and other culturally diverse populations. Ruiz-Casares was born in Spain and has lived and/or worked on all continents (except Antarctica). A lawyer by training (ICADE, Spain), she obtained an MSc in Program Planning and Evaluation and a PhD in Policy Analysis and Management/Human Services Studies from Cornell University, an MA in International Development from George Washington University, and postdoctoral fellowships in Social and Cultural Child Psychiatry at McGill University.
She leads mixed-methods studies on child well-being/mental health and protection cross-culturally, mainly in contexts of parent-child separation in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in ethical and methodological issues involved in research with and by young people. She is a member of the board of directors of the American Evaluation Association, co-chair of the International Society for Child Indicators, and a credentialed evaluator with the Canadian Evaluation Society and has worked in policy and program evaluation of human services internationally for more than 25 years.
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She leads mixed-methods studies on child well-being/mental health and protection cross-culturally, mainly in contexts of parent-child separation in low- and middle-income countries. She is also interested in ethical and methodological issues involved in research with and by young people. She is a member of the board of directors of the American Evaluation Association, co-chair of the International Society for Child Indicators, and a credentialed evaluator with the Canadian Evaluation Society and has worked in policy and program evaluation of human services internationally for more than 25 years.
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