R. Anna Hayward is a Research Assistant Professor at the Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children. Anna is currently working with Maryland’s Department of Human Resources to evaluate their Family Centered Practice initiative and with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work’s Child Welfare Academy to evaluate pre- and in-service training provided to Maryland’s child welfare workforce.
Additional RYC projects Anna has contributed to include: - Family Informed Trauma Treatment (FITT) Center, a SAMHSA funded collaboration of the University of Maryland’s Schools of Medicine and Social Work, the VA, and the Kennedy Krieger Family Center.
- Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services Field Coordination Program: Outcomes-Based Evaluation Development
- Child Welfare Accountability: Efficiency & Effectiveness of Child Welfare Services in Maryland
- Exploring Experiences of a National Sample of Children in Foster Care (using AFCARS data)
- Replication of Family Connections with Intergenerational Families (Grandparent Family Connections)
- Evaluation of Excellence in Child Welfare Supervision Project
- Following Family Connections – Five Year Follow Up
Anna’s social work practice experience includes working with foster youth and adolescent sex offenders, recruiting and training foster parents, administrative program coordination of a childhood bereavement and intra-agency trauma program, and case-management services to homeless mentally ill women. Her previous research experience was with the University of Maryland, School of Social Work as a Research Specialist in the Ruth H. Young Center, and at the CUNY Research Foundation where she served as the study coordinator for the SAMHSA funded Women, Co-Occurring Disorders & Trauma Study. Anna earned her BA from New York University (’94), MSW from Hunter College School of Social Work (’99), and Ph.D. from the University of Maryland School of Social Work (’09).
Telephone: 410-706-7141
e-mail: ahayward@ssw.umaryland.edu
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