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Faculty member Corey Shdaimah and Margo Candelaria, Jenny Afkinich (PhD ’20), and Yan (Stella) Zhu, formerly of the Institute for Innovation and Implementation, published an article in the Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice.  

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Faculty member Corey Shdaimah and Margo Candelaria, Jenny Afkinich (PhD ’20), and Yan (Stella) Zhu, formerly of the Institute for Innovation and Implementation, published an article in the Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice.  

The article, "Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: Innovation and Adaptation in Services for Expectant and Parenting Youth in Baltimore," explores perspectives on COVID-19’s impact on access to services for expectant and parenting youth (EPY).

Qualitative interviews were conducted with service providers and two parents and findings centered on tree themes:

1. Creativity and adaptation: pride regarding ability to devise necessary modifications.

2. New and ongoing networks: inter-agency collaboration, provider-parent relationships, and parent networks offered material and social support.

3. Communication: varied strategies helped maintain and initiate EPY engagement. In under-resourced environments where providers and EPY must be creative due to scarcity, COVID-19 required that respondents draw on existing networks and strategies to cope with new challenges.

The full citation, with a link to the article which is available open access, is:

Candelaria, Margo; Shdaimah, Corey; Afkinich, Jenny; and Zhu, Yan (Stella) (2024) "Meeting the Challenge of COVID-19: Innovation and Adaptation in Services for Expectant and Parenting Youth in Baltimore," Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice: Vol. 10: Iss. 2, Article 3. https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/jhstrp/vol10/iss2/3