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Dominique Montgomery
Assistant Professor
University of Nevada, Reno
Education/Degree:
1 Social Welfare Social Welfare (University of California Los Angeles)
About
Dominique Mikell Montgomery is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Nevada, Reno. Dominique Mikell Montgomery’s agenda as a researcher and an educator is deeply informed by her experiences as a member of and supporter of communities surviving and thriving despite state-sanctioned oppression in the wake of slavery and colonization. All her scholarly work attempts to push forward the social work discipline in terms of its content knowledge on the experiences and resistance of those impacted by state interventions such as child welfare interventions and housing interventions and its epistemological frameworks regarding what constitutes knowledge and methods for knowledge generation. A significant portion of her work focuses on working with young people impacted by interventions to build knowledge and create social change based on their priorities and passions.
Current Work
Much of Dr. Montgomery’s current scholarship is focused on building knowledge on how youth aging out of foster care experience wellness. Each year in the United States, tens of thousands of teenagers and young adults are impacted by the child welfare system. However, minimal scholarship has addressed this population’s perspectives and desires. This gap in research is concerning because studies have shown that when compared to same-age peers who are not in foster care, older youth transitioning out of care generally fare worse. Dr. Montgomery is working on several projects in this area, including a study on the higher education experiences of system-impacted young people with (dis) abilities and a study on the experiences of system-impacted young people while participating in an aftercare program. Dr. Montgomery aims to use the results of this research to improve the quality of resources available to young people and ensure that their desires and rights are respected.
Research Area Keyword(s)
child welfare, abolition, Participatory Action Resarch, Transition Aged Youth