Donna Harrington is professor and director of the doctoral program. After earning her Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology in 1990 from UMBC, she spent five years in the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, doing research on child abuse and neglect. She joined the School of Social Work faculty in 1995. Since joining the School of Social Work, she has taught the doctoral statistics and research practicum courses, has chaired 14 completed dissertations, and has served on more than 30 dissertation committees. In 2005, Dr. Harrington received the University of Maryland Dr. Patricia M. Sokolove Outstanding Mentor Award from the UMB Graduate Student Association. She has been the P.I. for several grants and contracts that have funded graduate research assistantships and supported dissertation research, including two Children’s Bureau University Fellowship grants that supported six dissertation projects. She has also mentored students applying for their own dissertation funding including two Hartford Doctoral fellows and one Maternal and Child Health Bureau fellow. In addition, she has mentored two students on pre-dissertation awards. Dr. Harrington has also been the P.I. of two contracts to evaluate Maryland’s Title IV-E Waiver Child Welfare Demonstration projects in Assisted Guardianship (GAP) and Managed Care. Both projects included outcome, process, and cost-effectiveness studies. The Final Reports were submitted to the Maryland Department of Human Resources in October 2003 for GAP and in June 2005 for Managed Care. | 
