faculty
Hyunil Kim
Assistant Professor
Contact
(217) 300-8122 hyunil@illinois.eduSchool of Social Work
1010 W. Nevada St.
Urbana, IL
Office 2049
Resources
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Child WelfareWhat I Do
My research is informed by my field experience as a child protective services (CPS) caseworker for in-home and foster care cases. My work focuses on developing the best possible evidence to help improve the safety and welfare of children and directly enhance our ability to address child abuse and neglect (CAN). For this, I have worked with a range of national and regional administrative/archival data to understand risk and protective factors of child maltreatment and CPS involvements.
Education
- M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work – Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis
- B.S. in Social Welfare – Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea
Research
Hyunil’s work focuses on developing the best possible evidence to help improve the safety and welfare of children and directly enhance our ability to address child abuse and neglect.
Selected Publications
- Kim, H. & Kim, H. (Accepted). County-Level Relationships between Foreign-Born Residents, Latinos, Immigration Enforcement, and Child Maltreatment Report Rates in the United States, 2015−2018. Journal of Interpersonal Violence.
- Kim, H., Song, E.-J., & Windsor, L. (Accepted). Longitudinal Changes in the County-Level Relationship between Opioid Prescriptions and Child Maltreatment Reports, United States, 2009-2018. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.
- Drake, B., Jones, D., Kim, H., Gyourko, J., Garcia, A., Barth, R. P., Font, S. A., Putnam-Hornstein, E., Berrick, J. D., Greeson, J. K. P., Cook, V., Kohl, P. L., & Jonson-Reid, M. (2023). Racial/ethnic differences in child protective services reporting, substantiation and placement, with comparison to non-CPS risks and outcomes: 2005–2019. Child Maltreatment, 107755952311673. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595231167320
- Jones, D., Kim, H., Jonson-Reid, M., & Drake, B. (2022). Testing a QuantCrit-informed approach to the empirical study of race/ethnicity and child maltreatment. Child Maltreatment, 107755952211300. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595221130076
- Kim, H., Flowers, N., & Song, E.-J. (2022). Community home visiting services and child maltreatment report rates, Illinois zip codes, 2011–2018. Child Abuse & Neglect, 134, 105884. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105884
- Kim, H., Chiang, C.-J., Song, E.-J., & Windsor, L. (2022). Do county mental health, physical health, and care provider availability predict child maltreatment report rates? Child Abuse & Neglect, 134, 105880. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2022.105880
- Kim, H., Gundersen, C., & Windsor, L. (2022). Community food insecurity predicts child maltreatment report rates across Illinois zip codes, 2011–2018. Annals of Epidemiology, 73, 30–37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2022.06.002
- Kim, H., Song, E.-J., & Windsor, L. (2022). Evidence-based home visiting provisions and child maltreatment report rates: County-level analysis of US national data from 2016 to 2018. Child Maltreatment, 107755952211075. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595221107533
- Kim, H., Gundersen, C., & Windsor, L. (2022). Community food insecurity and child maltreatment reports: County-level analysis of U.S. national data from 2009 to 2018. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 088626052210801. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605221080148
- Drake, B., Fluke, J. D., Kim, H., Orsi, R., & Stubblefield, J. L. (2022). What proportion of foster care children do not have child protective services reports? A preliminary look. Child Maltreatment, 27(4), 596–604. https://doi.org/10.1177/10775595211033855
- Kim, H., & Maguire-Jack, K. (2021). Longitudinal changes in child maltreatment reports. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 91(5), 635–646. https://doi.org/10.1037/ort0000565
- Maguire-Jack, K. & Kim, H. (2021). Rural differences in child maltreatment reports, reporters, and service responses. Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105792
- Kim, H., Drake, B., & Jonson-Reid, M. (2020). Neighborhood contexts and child maltreatment reports among families receiving AFDC/TANF: a longitudinal and multilevel study. Child Maltreatment, https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559520969886
- Kim, H., Drake, B., & Jonson-Reid, M. (2020). Longitudinal Understanding of Child Maltreatment Report Risks. Child Abuse & Neglect, 104(April), 104467. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104467
- Kim, H., Jonson-Reid, M., Kohl, P., Chiang, C., Drake, B., Brown, D., McBride, T., & Guo, S. (2020). Latent Class Analysis Risk Profiles: An Effective Method to Predict a First Re-Report of Maltreatment? Evaluation and Program Planning, 101792. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2020.101792
- Drake, B., Jonson-Reid, M., Kim, H., Chiang, C., & Davalishvili, D. (2020). Disproportionate need as a factor explaining racial disproportionality in the CW system. In A. J. Dettlaff (Ed.), Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in the Child Welfare System (pp. 159–176). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54314-3
- Kim, H. (2019). To Prevent Child Maltreatment, Home Visiting Programs Are One Part of a Complete Response. American Journal of Public Health, 109(5), 653–655. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2019.305043
- Kim, H., & Drake, B. (2019). Cumulative Prevalence of Onset and Recurrence of Child Maltreatment Reports. Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 58(12), 1175–1183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaac.2019.02.015
- Jonson-Reid, M., Chiang, C., Kohl, P., Drake, B., Brown, D., Guo, S., Kim, H., & McBride, T. (2019). Repeat reports among cases reported for child neglect: A scoping review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 92(March), 43–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.03.013
- Proctor, E., Hooley, C., Morse, A., McCrary, S., Kim, H., & Kohl, P. L. (2019). Intermediary/purveyor organizations for evidence-based interventions in the US child mental health: characteristics and implementation strategies. Implementation Science, 14(1), 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13012-018-0845-3
- Chiang, C., Jonson-Reid, M., Kim, H., Drake, B., Kohl, P., Pons, L., Constantino, J., & Auslander, W. (2018). Service engagement and retention: Lessons from the early childhood connections program. Children and Youth Services Review. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.028
- Kim, H. & Drake, B. (2018). Child maltreatment risk as a function of poverty and race/ethnicity in the United States. International Journal of Epidemiology. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyx280
- Kim, H. & Drake, B. (2018). An examination of class-based visibility bias in national child maltreatment reporting. Children and Youth Services Review, 85, 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.12.019
- Drake, B., Jonson-Reid, M., & Kim, H. (2017). Surveillance bias in child maltreatment: A tempest in a teapot. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 14(9), 917, http://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph14090971
- Jonson-Reid, M., Drake, B., Kohl, P., Guo, S., Brown, D., McBride, T., Kim, H., & Lewis, E. (2017). What do we really know about usual care child protective services? Children and Youth Services Review, 82, 222-229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2017.09.019
- Kim, H., Wildeman, C., Jonson-Reid, M., & Drake, B. (2017). Lifetime prevalence of investigating child maltreatment among US children. American Journal of Public Health, 107(2), 274–280. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2016.303545
- Kim, H., & Drake, B. (2017). Duration in poverty-related programs and number of child maltreatment reports. Child Maltreatment, 22(1), 14–23. http://doi.org/10.1177/1077559516679512
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Hyunil Kim Named Recipient of Mentored Research Scientist Development Award
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