Dr. Ruiz-Casares is Professor at the School of Child & Youth Care at Toronto Metropolitan University and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Member of the School of Social Work and the Department of Equity, Ethics and Policy at 涩里番. Her research program focuses on the wellbeing and protection of orphan, separated, and unsupervised children across cultures; children鈥檚 rights and participation; and policy and program evaluation of human services. She leads mixed-methods studies on child wellbeing and protection cross-culturally, mainly in contexts of parent-child separation including child-headed households, children home alone, in monasteries, or in other alternative care arrangements. She is particularly interested in ethical and methodological issues involved in global mental health and protection research with and by children. Her research is inspired by action research principles. She is Co-Chair of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI), a Credentialed Evaluator with the Canadian Evaluation Society, and member of the Standing Committee of the International and Canadian Child Rights Partnership (ICCRP).聽
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monica.ruizcasares [at] mcgill.ca (Email)
Current projects include
- Who Minds the Children? Clarifying the Role of Public Policies and Socio-Ecological Factors in Non-Adult Child Supervision in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
- International Survey of Children鈥檚 Wellbeing (ISCWeB) in Namibia
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- International Survey of Children鈥檚 Wellbeing (ISCWeB) in Namibia
Completed projects include
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- Geographies of Care: Professionals, Caregivers, and Children鈥檚 Views of (In)adequate Supervision Across Cultures (, )
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- Parenting for the promotion of adolescent mental health (,)
- Practices
- Mental health and social adjustment of children without parental care in culturally diverse populations