Professor
University of Denver
Denver, Colorado, United States
Kimberly Bender, Ph.D. is a Professor of Social Work in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver. Her area of expertise is development and adaptation of interventions to empower young people and prevent adversity. A majority of her work has narrowed in on psychosocial interventions for homeless youth. She has conducted a five-state multi-site research project with youth experiencing homelessness through shelter, drop-in, and transitional housing services to better understand risk and protective factors in this population. She serves as principle investigator on a 3-year randomized trial of a mindfulness-based cognitive intervention to prevent victimization and substance among youth residing in emergency shelter funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. More recently, she has conducted a series of participatory research projects, partnering with young people to understand their experiences of homelessness, navigation of services, experience of mutual aid, and perspectices of social capital.
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Saturday, November 12, 2022
5:30 PM – 6:00 PM