Ijeoma Ogbonnaya

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work (SSW)

Assistant Professor, Watts College of Public Service & Community Solutions

Assistant Professor, Office of Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

Assistant Professor, Global Center for Applied Health Research (GCAHR)

Assistant Professor, Center for Human Capital and Youth Development (CHCYD)

Mail code: 3920

Campus: Dtphx
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Long Bio

Ijeoma Nwabuzor Ogbonnaya is an assistant professor in the School of Social Work. Her research investigates how intimate partner violence (IPV) and IPV services impact health and well-being and how this impact varies across culture, race, and ethnicity. She focuses on populations most vulnerable to IPV, including child welfare system-involved families and people living with HIV. She is the recipient of fellowships through the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). She received an NIMH Diversity Supplement to study HIV-related outcomes of women living with HIV in rural Uganda who have experienced IPV. She is currently implementing a National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) funded study to develop and pilot test a savings group intervention to reduce IPV and depression among young mothers formerly in foster care (sub-project to U54MD002316). She is also conducting a feasibility study funded through ASU Watts College. This study aims to understand if using myPlan, an online risk-informed safety planning intervention, has the potential to assist child welfare caseworkers in intervening appropriately in cases involving IPV.

Education

Ph.D. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
MSW University of Pennsylvania
BA Spelman College

Curriculum Vitae (0 bytes)

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=FFzaKY0AAAAJ&hl=en

Research Interests

Intimate Partner Violence; Child Welfare; Family Violence; HIV Prevention; Racial & Ethnic Disparities

Publications

Peer-Reviewed Publications

(* Student co-author; **Community partner co-author)

Ogbonnaya, I.N. Wike, T.L., Bouchard, L.M., & Carver, A.T.* (accepted). Looks matter: Are United States schools of social work representing diversity on their websites? Social Work Research.

Jackson, K.F., Mitchell, F., Ogbonnaya, I.N., *Mackey, C., Crudup, C., *Carver, A. (accepted with minor revisions). Taking back the narrative: gendered anti-blackness in schools of social work. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work.

Ogbonnaya, I.N., Reed, L.A., Walakira, E.J., Wandera, S.O., & Wasula, L.N. (2021). National estimates and predictors of intimate partner violence among adolescents and young adults in Uganda disaggregated by age and gender. Journal of Family Violence. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-021-00334-w

Wu, Q. Ogbonnaya, I.N., Yan, Y. (2021). The patterns of in-home service use and their relationships with child out-of-home care. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10560-021-00787-4

Ogbonnaya, I. N., AbiNader, M.A., Cheng, S., M., & Jiwatram-Negron, T., Bagwell-Gray, M. Brown, M.L., Messing, J.T. (2021). Intimate partner violence, police engagement, and perceived helpfulness of the legal system: between-and-within group analyses by women’s race and ethnicity. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1086/714828

Ogbonnaya, I. N., Reed, E., Wanyenze, R., Wagman, J., Silverman, J. G., & Kiene, S.M. (2021). Perceived barriers to HIV care and viral suppression comparing newly diagnosed women living with HIV in rural Uganda with and without a history of intimate partner violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. Advanced Online Publication. https://doi.org/10.1177/08862605211028284

Ogbonnaya, I. N., Fawole, O., & Rizo, C. F. (2021). Domestic violence and sexual assault service providers’ perspectives on Nigerian immigrants' domestic violence experiences. Violence Against Women, 27(12-13), 2255-2272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801220954269

Morelli, N.M., Duong, J., Evans, M.C., Hong, K., Garcia, J., Ogbonnaya, I.N., Villodas, M.T. (2021). Intergenerational transmission of abusive parenting: Role of prospective maternal distress and family violence. Child Maltreatment, 26(2), 172-181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077559520947816

Ciro, D. & Ogbonnaya, I.N. (2021). The role of acculturation and intimate partner violence on post-traumatic stress symptoms among Hispanic youth with child welfare contact. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(21-22), 10080-10100. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260519881523

*Geyer, C. & Ogbonnaya, I. N. (2021). The relationship between maternal domestic violence and infant and toddlers’ emotional regulation: Highlighting the need for preventative services. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(3-4), 1029-1048. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260517739891

Wu, Q., Zhu, Y., Ogbonnaya, I. N., Wu, S., & Zhang, S. (2020). Parenting intervention outcomes for kinship caregivers and child: A systematic review. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106, 104524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2020.104524

Ogbonnaya, I.N., Wanyenze, R.K., Reed, E., Silverman, J.G., Kiene, S.M. (2020). Prevalence of and risk factors for intimate partner violence in the first six months following HIV diagnosis among a population-based sample in rural Uganda. AIDS and Behavior, 24, 1252–1265. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10461-019-02673-8

Ogbonnaya, I.N., Keeney, A.J., & Villodas, M.T. (2019). The role of co-occurring intimate partner violence, alcohol use, drug use, and depressive symptoms on disciplinary practices of mothers involved with child welfare. Child Abuse & Neglect, 90, 76-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.02.002

Ogbonnaya, I. N. & Keeney, A. J. (2018). A systematic review of the effectiveness of interagency and cross-system collaboration in the United States to improve child welfare outcomes. Children and Youth Services Review, 94, 225-245. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.10.008

Ogbonnaya, I. N., **Walsh, C. R., & **Martin, J. (2018). Using the California evidence-based clearinghouse for child welfare as a tool for teaching evidence-based practice. Journal of Social Work Education, 54, S31-S40. https://doi.org/10.1080/10437797.2018.1434434

Ogbonnaya, I. N. & Kohl, P. L. (2018). Profiles of child-welfare involved women identified by caseworker as having a domestic violence problem: Then and now. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(18), 2802-2825. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260516632352

Macy, R. J., Martin, S. L. Ogbonnaya, I. N., & Rizo, C.F. (2018). What do domestic violence and sexual assault service providers need to know about survivors to deliver services? Violence Against Women, 24(1), 28-44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801216671222

Harper, B., Ogbonnaya, I. N., & *McCollough, K. (2018). The effect of intimate partner violence on the psychosocial development of toddlers. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 33(16), 2512-2536. https://doi.org/10.1177/088626051662828

*Finno-Velasquez, M. & Ogbonnaya, I. N. (2017). National estimates of intimate partner violence and service receipt among Latinas with child welfare contact. Journal of Family Violence, 32, 669-682. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-017-9912-9

Ogbonnaya, I. N., *Finno-Velasquez, M., & Kohl, P.L. (2015). Domestic violence and immigration status among Latina mothers in the child welfare system: Findings from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-being II (NSCAW II). Child Abuse and Neglect, 39, 197-206. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2014.10.009

Ogbonnaya, I. N. (2015). Effect of race on the out-of-home placement among children with caregivers who reported domestic violence. Journal of Family Violence, 30, 243-254. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10896-014-9664-8

Macy, R .J., Ogbonnaya, I. N., & Martin, S. L. (2015). Providers’ perspectives about helpful information for evaluating domestic violence and sexual assault services: A practice note. Violence Against Women, 21(3), 416-429. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801214568030

Ogbonnaya, I. N. & Guo, S. (2013). Effect of domestic violence on the risk of out-of-home placement: a propensity score analysis. Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research, 4(3), 198-213. https://doi.org/10.5243/jsswr.2013.14

Ogbonnaya, I. N. & Pohle, C. (2013). Case outcomes of child welfare-involved families affected by domestic violence: A review of the literature. Children and Youth Services Review, 35(9), 1400-1407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2013.05.014

Ogbonnaya, I. N., Macy, R. J., Kupper, L. L., Martin, S. L & Bledsoe, S. E. (2013). Intimate partner violence and depressive symptoms before pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after infant delivery: An exploratory study. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 28(10), 2112-2133. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260512471080

Nurius, P. S., Macy, R. J., & Nwabuzor, I., Holt, V. L., (2011). Intimate partner survivors’ help-seeking and protection efforts: A person-oriented analysis. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 26(3), 539-566. https://doi.org/10.1177/088626051036342

Research Activity

Ongoing

Principal Investigator, Development of a Savings Group Intervention to Reduce Depression and Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Mothers Formerly in Foster Care, NIH/NIMHD U54 Specialized Center of Excellence on Minority Health and Health Disparities grant (U54MD002316, Dr. Flavio F. Marsiglia, PI)

Principal Investigator, (Co-PI: Dr. Jill Messing), Implementing myPlan: An Examination of a Risk-Informed Domestic Violence Intervention in Child Welfare Agencies, ASU Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Seed Grant Funding Initiative

Completed

Principal Investigator/ Mentee, Diversity Supplement to Parent R01 (5R01MH106391-04, Drs. Susan Kiene & Rhoda Wanyenze, PI). This diversity supplement facilitated: (1) understanding the impact of IPV on women’s physical health and health care utilization, specifically related to HIV; (2) identifying targets for intervention that may decrease African women’s risk for IPV and improve HIV-related outcomes; and (3) building global health partnerships with researchers throughout sub-Saharan Africa to enhance HIV-related outcomes of women victimized by IPV, NIH/NIMH, #3R01MH106391-04S1

Principal Investigator (Co-PI: Dr. Kristin Ferguson-Colvin), Inter-agency Pregnancy and Parenting Assistance Grant Program to increase service use among pregnant or parenting individuals 12-24 years of age (residing in Maricopa County, AZ) who are currently or were formerly involved with the child welfare and/or juvenile justice system, Arizona Office of the Governor: Office of Youth, Faith and Family (GOYFF), DHHS: Administration for Children and Families (ACF), #ISA-PAF-19-070118-01

Principal Investigator, Faculty International Program Development Grant, Office of International Programs (OIP) Travel Grant, San Diego State University

Courses

2023 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SWU 303	Micro Human Behav Social Envir

2022 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SWU 320	Research Methods in Social Wk
SWG 501	Human Behavior & Social Env I

2022 Spring

Course Number	Course Title
SWG 502	Macro Human Behav Soc Environ

2021 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SWG 501	Micro Human Behav Soc Environ
SWG 501	Micro Human Behav Soc Environ

2020 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SWU 320	Research Methods in Social Wk
SWG 501	Micro Human Behav Soc Environ

2019 Fall

Course Number	Course Title
SWG 501	Micro Human Behav Soc Environ