Monica Ruiz-Casares
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
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
Theme: Democracy, justice and governance
Theme: Health and wellbeing
Bio/Research
I am a Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and in the School of Social Work; and Associate Member of the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and the Center for Research on Children and Families at McGill Univers...
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Bio/Research
I am a Professor in the School of Child & Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and in the School of Social Work; and Associate Member of the Department of Equity, Ethics, and Policy and the Center for Research on Children and Families at McGill University. For a decade, I was Staff Investigator at the Sherpa University Institute in Montreal, where I evaluated health and social services for migrant and refugee families and other culturally diverse populations. I was born in Spain and have lived and/or worked in all continents (except Antarctica!). A lawyer by training (ICADE, Spain), I obtained an MSc in Program Planning and Evaluation and a PhD in Policy Analysis and Management / Human Services Studies from Cornell University, a MA in International Development from The George Washington University, and Postdoctoral Fellowships in Social and Cultural Child Psychiatry at McGill University. I lead mixed-methods studies on child wellbeing/mental health and protection cross-culturally, mainly in contexts of parent-child separation in low- and middle-income countries. I am also interested in ethical and methodological issues involved in research with and by young people. I am 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. I have worked in policy and program evaluation of human services internationally for more than 25 years.
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