Professor
Loyola University of Chicago
Katherine Tyson McCrea, Ph.D., Professor, earned a B.A. and M.Div. from Yale University, a M.A. and Ph.D. from University of Chicago, and a doctorate honoris causa from Vytautas Magnus University. A Master Teacher for the Council on Social Work Education, she was awarded Graduate Faculty Member of the Year by Loyola University Chicago for outstanding teaching, mentorship and research. Since 2006 she has been Principal Investigator for the Empowering Counseling Program Participatory Science Initiative (ECP-PSI), which has educated 60 masters and doctoral social workers, served 1000 youth, and produced numerous dissertations, journal articles, and presentations. Her research uses translational science to 1) study interventions with potential to scale to build opportunity in under-resourced communities and 2) build capacity in community partner organizations serving persons with disabilities and high-burden urban communities experiencing racialized inequalities. She focuses on eliciting client feedback using participatory action and mixed methods to optimize social services and policies with youth and persons with disabilities who experience marginalizations. The ECP-PSI also educates social work interns to be practitioner-researchers using participatory and translational science methods, and serves as an incubator for student research.
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