Monica Ruiz-Casares

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Professor Faculty of Community Services School of Child and Youth Care Toronto, Ontario monica.ruizcasares@torontomu.ca Office: (416) 979-5000 ext. 554826

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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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