THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY: WE NEED A BETTER READ ON PROBLEM-SOLVING CAPACITY |
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| Authors: | MARTHA R. BURT |
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| Affiliation: | Dr. Martha R. Burt is a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C. She has over 25 years of experience with policy and evaluation research in a wide variety of areas. Much of her work has had a youth focus, including work in the area of teenage pregnancy and parenting, attention to issues of runaway and homeless youth, and recent work on rationales for investing in youth for the National Research Council/Institute of Medicine, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Pan American Health Organization, and Center for Population Options. In 1998 she published Building Supportive Communities for At-Risk Adolescents: It Takes More than Services;through APA Books (with G. Resnick and E. Novick), which examined integrated services programs and their ability to meet the needs of high-risk youth. As Director of the Urban Institute's Social Services Research Program Dr. Burt has had the opportunity to work in many arenas. She has directed major projects on homelessness, including analysis of two national surveys and writing three books;and violence against women, including rape attitudes, recovery from rape, rape victim services, sexual harassment and, most recently, a national evaluation of projects funded under the Violence Against Women Act. She has also been involved in research and policy analysis concerning welfare reform, programs for the severely mentally ill, hunger and social service needs of the elderly, and child welfare issues. She is the author of numerous articles and reports, and several previous books including Over the Edge: The Growth of Homelessness in the 1980s and Private Crisis, Public Cost: Policy Perspectives on Teenage Childbearing (with K. Moore). Dr. Burt received her Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. |
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