Profile

Dr. Collins has practice experience in the areas of violence against women, institutional children's services, social service administration, HIV/AIDS services and prevention, social work research and program evaluation, social policy, program planning, management and administration in human service organizations. Collins has been involved in research in a number of areas, including substance abuse, child abuse and neglect, interpersonal violence and sexual assault, perceptions of discrimination, health disparities, the experiences of urban children and adolescents living in housing projects, families experiencing housing instability, families experiencing foreclosure, refugee health, university/community partnerships and community-engaged research, infant mortality and low birthweight in African American families and the impact of paid sick leave. Collins' dissertation used theory and methods from cognitive anthropology to examine human service professionals' cultural models of domestic violence.