Kristin Ferguson
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Phone: 602-496-0088
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Mail code: 3920Campus: Dtphx
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Kristin Ferguson is a professor at the Arizona State University's School of Social Work and director of the Arizona Housing Analytics Collaborative (AzHAC), a tri-university collaborative among Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and University of Arizona. In partnership with community leaders and stakeholders, AzHAC is doing extensive work in data analytics, predictive modeling, and qualitative inquiry around homelessness and housing to inform decision-making and care coordination.
Dr. Ferguson's research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of vocational interventions for homeless and opportunity youth that integrate employment and clinical services, including supported employment and social enterprises. Over the past two decades, she has focused her research primarily in two areas:
1) design, implementation and evaluation of supported employment and social enterprise interventions for homeless youth combined with assessment of intervention feasibility, effectiveness, and implementation; and
2) rigorous evaluation across seven U.S. cities to examine the environmental and psychosocial conditions affecting youth homelessness and unemployment.
- Ph.D. International Comparative Social Welfare Policy and Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington (Arlington, TX) and Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico)
- M.S.W. Interpersonal Practice; minor: Community Organization, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI)
- B.A. Psychology; minor: Spanish, University of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA)
AzHAC is a tri-university collaborative among Arizona’s three public universities: Arizona State University, the University of Arizona, and Northern Arizona University that uses data collection, analysis, and dissemination to support policy and practice communities in preventing and intervening in homelessness across the state. With funding from the Garcia Family Foundation and Amazon Web Services’ Health Equity Initiative, this initiative uses data analytics, predictive modeling, and qualitative inquiry to inform decision-making and care coordination.
AzHAC’s work has multiple aims:
1. Identify and geographically map the incidence and prevalence of homelessness among children, youth and adults at the city, county and state levels, with particular focus on underrepresented and underserved populations;
2. Identify the health and psychosocial characteristics most likely to produce homelessness and
result in successful exits from homelessness, including identifying characteristics and costs
associated with high utilizers of HMIS services;
3. Identify which programs/interventions are most effective in producing positive outcomes for
individuals experiencing homelessness;
4. Build and test a predictive model to identify risk factors to prevent homelessness as well as
interventions to reduce homelessness;
5. Build a social determinants of health (SDOH) housing assessment tool to identify characteristics and services among communities that effectively keep their residents housed; and
6. Prioritize analytical work around homelessness for DWEL (SOW under development), AHCCCS (H2O), and ADOH.
Courses
2025 Spring
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SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
2024 Fall
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SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
2024 Spring
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SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
SWU 181 | Econ: Social Issue Perspective |
2023 Fall
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SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
2023 Spring
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SWG 585 | Macro Social Work Practice |
2022 Fall
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SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
2021 Fall
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SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
SWG 682 | Community Participation Strats |
2021 Spring
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SWG 682 | Community Participation Strats |
2020 Fall
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SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
2020 Spring
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SWG 682 | Community Participation Strats |
2019 Fall
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SWG 531 | Social Policy and Services |
Editorial Board Reviewer, Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Guest Reviewer, Journal of Research on Adolescence
Guest Reviewer, Journal of Primary Prevention
Guest Reviewer, Nonprofit Management and Leadership
Guest Reviewer, Journal of Juvenile Justice
Guest Reviewer, Youth & Society
Chair, Policy, Administration, and Community Practice (PAC) Curriculum Committee, ASU School of Social Work
Member, Doctoral Committee, ASU School of Social Work
Faculty Affiliate, Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center (SIRC), ASU School of Social Work