VISION for UMB Center for Violence Prevention
Join us at 2:15 p.m. Oct. 4 for a town hall to meet a candidate being considered as executive director for the UMB Center for Violence Prevention. This event is open only to UMB faculty, staff, and students.
Who: Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD, MS
Research associate professor and director of the Prevention of Adolescent Risks Initiative
University of Maryland School of Social Work
Date: Oct. 4, 2022
Time: 2:15-3 p.m.
Location: University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Second floor, Room 202
Space is limited.
Register to attend virtually (password: CVP2022)
About the Candidate
Nadine Finigan-Carr, PhD, MS, is a prevention research scientist focused on the application of behavioral and social science perspectives to research contemporary health problems, especially those that disproportionately affect people of color.
Her scholarship is grounded in theories and methods found primarily in the field of health behavior change among individuals and the environments that support or impede chronic disease prevention or management, injury, and violence. Dr. Finigan-Carr is a research associate professor and the assistant director of the Ruth Young Center for Families and Children at the University of Maryland School of Social Work, where she leads the Prevention of Adolescent Risks Initiative.
She is the principal investigator of research projects at both the state and federal levels designed to intervene with system-involved youth — those in foster care or the juvenile justice system. These youth have a double vulnerability — adolescence, a critical stage marked by increased risk for negative social and behavioral outcomes including aggression and sexual risk behaviors, and being removed from their families of origin. Dr. Finigan-Carr is the author of Linking Health and Education for African American Students’ Success (Routledge Press). She was the guest editor for the Journal of Negro Education’s 2015 special issue on “Out-of-School Time and African American Students: Understanding the Health, Environmental, and Social Determinants of Academic Success.”
Dr. Finigan-Carr earned her PhD from Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health (JHSPH). She also served as a JHSPH Diversity and Health Disparities Predoctoral Fellow. She earned her MS in applied psychology, counseling from the University of Baltimore.
About the Center for Violence Prevention
Amid a national conversation about gun violence, the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center (Shock Trauma) at the University of Maryland Medical Center are collaborating to create the UMB Center for Violence Prevention, which will draw upon the resources and expertise from both anchor institutions to help reduce and respond to violence in Baltimore City and beyond.
The initiative seeks to address violence prevention and intervention efforts through a combined effort of Shock Trauma and the University of Maryland schools of medicine and social work, and the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Funded by a $2 million gift from Betsy Sherman and the Sherman Family Foundation, the center will bridge numerous research and clinical programs already in place at UMB that address gun violence. With an interdisciplinary approach, the center will collaborate and partner across communities, academic institutions, nonprofit organizations, governmental bodies, corporations, and philanthropic organizations to advocate for informed policies and interventions toward violence prevention and creating social justice for all. This is achieved through collaborations and community-based partnerships to conduct research, develop creative and impactful education, and advocate for policies that strengthen our communities to prevent violence and trauma.