NCID-3093
Laura Voith
Associate Professor
Case Western Reserve University
Education/Degree:
1 Social Welfare Social Welfare Social Welfare Social Welfare (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
About
Laura A. Voith, MSW, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Social Work and a center affiliate of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. She established the Healing, Empowerment, Antiviolence Research Team (HEART) that actively conducts applied and translational social work research to empower families and communities to live free of violence and shift the tide towards healthy relationships. The HEART focuses on how the risk of violent victimization and perpetration in adolescence and adulthood stems from physiological, psychological, sociological and cultural adaptations resulting from experiences of trauma, adversity and resilience in childhood. Dr. Voith believes that research is only useful if it can break out of the academy and is only relevant if it centers the lived experience of the people being researched.
Current Work
Dr. Voith scholarship aims to address violence against girls and women by focusing on boys and men's developmental experiences from a healing perspective. She serves as a Leadership Team Member of the the DELTA AHEAD Impact grant with the State of Ohio that supports the prevention of violence against women through program and policy, particularly engaging men; the Principal Investigator of a 5-year randomized control trial aiming to enhance relational health among low-income, predominantly Black fathers with histories of incarceration funded by the Administration for Children and Families and a NIH-funded study to explore resilience and post-traumatic growth among violence-exposed Black youth; the site Co-Principal Investigator of a 14-university partnership that trains social work students to implement evidence-based domestic violence intervention and support healthy relationships funded through AmeriCorp and the Center for Disease Control; and her team developed the Trauma-Informed Socially Just Research Framework that aims to humanize the act of research.
Research Area Keyword(s)
Mixed methods, Violence, trauma, resilience