Jill Duerr Berrick, professor of social welfare

Jill Duerr Berrick is a professor of social welfare and co-director of UC Berkeley’s Center for Child and Youth Policy. She is also co-founder of the Cal Independent Scholars Network, a program to support UC Berkeley students who have been in foster care. She is author of the book “Take me home: Protecting America's vulnerable children and families (Oxford University Press, 2008). Her expertise is in child poverty, welfare and foster care, and her research focuses mainly on issues concerning vulnerable children and families, particularly those served by social service programs. Her publications include “Neighborhood-based foster care: A critical examination of location-based placement criteria” (Social Service Review 2006) and “Faces of poverty: Portraits of women and children on welfare” (Oxford University Press, 1995). She holds a BA from UC, Santa Cruz and an MSW from UC Berkeley.