Dr. D'Andrade received her M.S.W. and Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. Her research interests focus on practices and policies affecting the public child welfare system. She currently teaches courses on research methods and design, and social welfare policy in the MSW program at San Jose State University.
Refereed Publications
The differential effects of concurrent planning practice elements on reunification and adoption, Research on Social Work Practice (2009)
Objective: The child welfare practice of concurrent planning attempts to shorten children's stays in foster...
Reasonable efforts? Implementation of the reunification exception provisions of ASFA (with J D. Berrick, C Young, and L Frame), Child Welfare (2008)
The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) of 1997 includes provisions to deny reunification services...
Risk and safety assessment in child welfare: Instrument comparisons (with M Austin and A Benton), Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work (2008)
The assessment of risk is a critical part of child welfare agency practice. This review...
Understanding and addressing racial/ethnic disproportionality (with K Lemon and M Austin), Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work (2008)
Racial/ethnic disproportionality in the child welfare system is a complicated social problem that is receiving...
Understanding and measuring child welfare outcomes (with K Lemon and M Austin), Journal of Evidence Based Practice (2008)
The new "Children's and Family Services Reviews" (CFSR) process focuses on the effectiveness of services...
Book Chapters
Exploring the effects of California’s shortened reunification timeframes for children under three, Innovations in Child and Family Policy (2010)
Innovations in Child and Family Policy tackles many of the common problems and challenges that...