Experts Meeting: Home and Engaged Fatherhood
Paper: Beyond Gaining Cred: Advancing Social Work Practice to Strengthen Fatherhood Engagement-Family, Community and Gender Perspectives

Waldo E. Johnson, Jr., Ph.D. is Professor at the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice and serves as Vice Provost for Diversity + Inclusion of the University of Chicago. He examines life course social roles of urban Black males focused on masculinity and health status effects on father involvement among urban nonresident Black fathers. His current research examines the relationship between food insecurity among Chicago nonresident Black fathers and their involvement with their children. He edited Social Work with African American Males: Health, Mental Health and Social Policy (Oxford, 2010). His research affiliations include the Institute for Social Research and the Scholars Network on Masculinity among Black Males, both at the University of Michigan. He is a research consultant to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families Framing Responsible Fatherhood group, the Urban Institute and Mathematica Policy Research. Johnson served as a research advisor to Temple University’s Fatherhood Research Network. Johnson is an elected Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.