NCID-2022
Dorothea LaGail Ivey
Assistant Professor and Academic Advisor in Social Work, and MSW Coordinator
University of Southern Maine
Education/Degree:
1 Social Work (University of Texas at Arlington)
About
Dr. Ivey earned her PhD in social work, MSW, and MPA degrees from the University of Texas at Arlington. Her dissertation research focused on service providers funded by the National Family Caregiver Support Program that extend resources to grandparents raising grandchildren in California. Dr. Ivey's dissertation research has noted important, systematic factors that affect elderly BIPOC populations in negative ways resulting in minimal to no social support as compared to Whites. The findings of her dissertation research suggest policy changes to help increase capacity of social services for the elderly BIPOC populations, specifically for grandparents raising grandchildren. Additionally, as a newly appointed Assistant Professor and MSW Director in the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Maine, Dr. Ivey has conducted a curriculum review to help increase educational impact for students of color. Dr. Ivey is also developing strategies to recruit more students of color.
Current Work
Her scholarship and projects in progress consist of several areas of diversity specifically related to age, culture, ethnicity, and religion/spirituality across the generations. She has worked with populations across the life span from early childhood as an elementary school teacher to adults of all ages as a higher learning professional to older adults as a practitioner and researcher for grandparent caregivers. Her previous research consisted of quantitative and qualitative studies for Alzheimer's caregivers and Grandparent caregivers' well-being. Published articles were also conducted related to policies for grandparent caregivers. As a recently appointed administrator in the graduate school of social in a predominately white university, Dr. Ivey's research agenda is evolving into creating opportunities for recruitment of BIPOC students.
Research Area Keyword(s)
curriculum development, generational, grandparent caregivers, intergenerational, policy