Social Welfare Research & Policy Briefs

Policy and research briefs highlight research findings and their policy and practice implications.

Briefs allow the School of Social Welfare to share new research and scholarship with a variety of audiences.

Find more public scholarship from the KU School of Social Welfare.

Policy and Research Briefs from School of Social Welfare Researchers

• Research Brief: Leveraging SED Waiver to Support Families (November 2023)
• Research Brief: Path to Reducing Recidivism: Facilitating Parole Among Eligible Inmates with Mental Illness (October 2023)
• Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment (EPSDT): The Promise of Medicaid’s Children’s Health Benefit versus the Reality of Implementation in Kansas (August 2026)
• “Why Black men?”: Exploring social work constructions of Black men, to improve practice and advance justice (August 2026)
• Partners in Survival: African immigrants’ utilization of informal supports for addressing needs in Intimate Partner Violence (August 2026)