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Barbara Lee
Ph.D. student (University of Toronto)M.S.W. (University of Toronto)
B.S.W. (University of Victoria)
B.A. (Queen’s University)
Barbara Lee is a doctoral student in the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work and Collaborative Graduate Program in Ethnic and Pluralism, University of Toronto. She received her Master’s of Social Work and Collaborative Graduate Program in Ethnic and Pluralism from the University of Toronto. She also has a Bachelor of Social Work specializing in Child Welfare from the University of Victoria, and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Queen's University.
Barbara Lee has direct practice experience as a youth worker for new immigrant adolescents, child and youth care counselor in residential group home settings, and over five years as a frontline child protection worker. Barbara Lee continues to be employed as a child protection worker, providing specialized services for adolescents and their families. She is also involved on several research projects examining the incidents of child maltreatment, the validation of child protection decision-making tools, the training of child welfare workers, and a program evaluation of the co-occurrence of domestic violence and child maltreatment intervention.
Barbara Lee’s area of interests includes policy, practices, experiences, and needs of immigrants and various ethno-cultural communities within the Canadian child welfare system. Barbara Lee’s doctoral research will be the first longitudinal study to examine Asian children and families in the Canadian child welfare system.