Jill Berrick

Jill Duerr Berrick is a Distinguished Professor and the Zellerbach Family Foundation Professor of Social Welfare at U.C. Berkeley.  She also holds a joint appointment as a Professor at the University of Bergen, Norway.  Berrick’s research focuses on the relationship of the state to vulnerable families, particularly those touched by the child welfare system.  She has written or co-written 11 books on topics relating to family poverty, child maltreatment, and child welfare.  Her interests target the intersection between poverty, child development, parenting, and the service systems designed to address these issues.  Her research approach typically relies upon the voices of service system consumers to identify the impacts of social problems and social service solutions on family life.
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