Awarded 2024 Article of the Year by the Journal of Public Child Welfare. This honor is awarded to one out of all articles published in the journal in 2024. A five-member editorial committe bases their choice on scientific merit and the potential to change thinking in child welfare.

P O R T F O L I O

Client Projects

Melanie Yu, ABD, Rutgers University School of Social Work. Used NVivo to triangulate analysis qualitatively for a study exploring refugee conceptualizations of reciprocity (n=55).

Dr. Iris Cardenas at University of Maryland, Baltimore. (Project 1) Co-developed an interpretive phenomenological study design to explore the role of culture among Latina intimate partner violence survivors’ recovery. Provided Research Assistants with hands-on analytical training.

(Project 2) Co-analyzing focus group and interview data using a rapid qualitative analysis approach for a program evaluation of an intimate partner violence mediation screening tool.

Rise Above Foundation.Worked with Director of Community Engagement and Impact to apply an equity-based perspective on how to measure program impact with underrepresented populations.

Professional Development

Student, Evergreen Data Visualization Academy

Member, Mixed Methods International Research Association (MMIRA)

Member, American Evaluation Association (AEA)

Member, Child Wellbeing Research Network (CWRN)

Member, Society for Social Work Research

Vice President, Belmont Hills Library Board

Reviewer, Journal of Public Child Welfare

Invited Speaker: Structural Oppression: Implications for Social Work (MSW Course) University of Maryland, Baltimore

Guest Lecturer: Social Policy (MSW Course), Rutgers University, School of Social Work

Publications

Golden Guzman, K. & Ast. R. A (2025). Centering community and mediating online survey threats: Case studies from social work research. Social Work Research. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svaf011

Usher, K., Morehouse, E., Bertrand, J., Newburg-Rinn, S., & Golden Guzman, K. (2024). Foster Parents’ Need for Greater Information Sharing when Caring for Children with Prenatal Substance Exposure within Child Welfare. Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Williams-Butler, A., Cunningham, S., Gandarilla Ocampo, M., Golden Guzman, K., & Mendez, A. (2024). Understanding the expansion of social control and helping professionals as unwilling agents of the state: The passing of the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act in the United States. Journal of Social Policy.

Golden Guzman, K., Zhang, L. & Simmel, C. (2024) Examining the roles of ethnic density and rurality onmaltreatment referral and substantiation rates among Latine children and youth: A county-level analysis. Journal of Public Child Welfare.

Williams-Butler, A., Golden, K.E., Mendez, A., Stevens, B. (2020). Intersectionality and child welfare policy: Implications for Black women, children, and families. Child Welfare, 98(4).

Hokanson, K., Golden, KE., Singer, E., & Berzin, M. (2019). “Not independent enough.” Exploring the tensionbetween independence and interdependence among emerging adult former foster youth. Child Welfare, 97(5).

Carney, M.J., Golden, K.E., Weissler, J.M., Lanni, M.A., Bauder, A.R., Cakouros, B., Eriquez, F., Broach, R., Barg, F.K., Shapira, M.M., and Fischer, J.P. (2018). Patient-reported outcomes following ventral hernia repair: Designing a qualitative assessment tool.The Patient – Patient-Centered Outcomes Research, 11(2).

Stelson E., Carr B., Golden K.E., Martin N., Richmond T., Delgado M., Holena D. (2016). Perceptions ofFamily Participation in Intensive Care Unit Rounds and Telemedicine: A Qualitative Assessment. American Journal of Critical Care Medicine. Volume 25 (5).

What people are saying

“I would highly encourage any academic, regardless of their career stage, to seek out the chance to collaborate with Dr. Golden Guzman. She consistently provided timely responses and thoughtful feedback; her communication was both efficient and remarkably well-organized. Her qualitative research skills are exceptional and she has an impressive ability to contribute meaningfully to projects, even those outside her immediate areas of topical expertise. She offers insights that are both broad in scope and nuanced in detail. On a theoretical level, she challenged my thinking in ways I deeply needed, especially at a time when I felt stuck in my dissertation. I cannot speak highly enough of her mentorship and contributions.”


— Melanie Yu, Rutgers University

Visual Products

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Latine ethnic density, rurality, and maltreatment rates, Academic Poster, 2023

Factors that help adolescents connect to placement neighborhoods, Infographic, 2023

Data integrity and false responders, Academic Poster, 2024

Child behavior and working alliance, Academic Poster, 2019

Evaluation & Technical Reports

Co-authored Defining Rurality with Dr. Leah Buchard for ZERO TO THREE. This brief provides guidance for states and sites on how to define and measure rurality more accurately (April 2025).

Guide to participatory, community-engaged evaluation: Moving from principles to practice. This visual guide provides guidance for discretionary grant recipient teams aiming to use collaborative methods in their practice with community groups (December 2024). Written by a team from James Bell Associates (JBA), this publication was archived or removed from the official ACF website following Executive Order 14151 abolishing equity-related content.

Creating useful and usable evaluation findings: A relationship-driven approach to evaluation reporting. This brief offered reflective questions predicated on the relationship between evaluator and community of study. These questions were designed to encourage evaluators to design evaluations to be useful to these communities. (October 2024). Written by a team from James Bell Associates (JBA), this publication was archived or removed from the official ACF website following Executive Order 14151 abolishing equity-related content.

Partnerships for success: New Jersey chartbooks of substance abuse related indicators. This report includes social indicators at county, municipality, and state levels that associate with substance use in New Jersey to guide substance abuse prevention efforts. Authors: Peterson, N. A., Powell, K. G., Kaur, H., Jin, H., Wei, Y., Golden Guzman, K., & Wang, Y. for the New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health & Addiction Services, Trenton, NJ.