Brenda A. Tully, PhD
Research Director
Brenda A. Tully joined the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families as a Research Fellow after earning her PhD in Social Welfare at UCLA in September 2022. Twenty years of social work practice with children, youth, and families on the edge of, or in the child welfare system inform Brenda's research. Brenda plays a lead role in the UCLA Pritzker Center's research and evaluation which are rooted in collaboration and movement toward racial equity. She leads research teams focused on domestic violence and child welfare, an intervention to reduce racial disproportionality in substantiations following child welfare investigations, and facilitators and barriers to uptake of housing choice vouchers for young people transitioning out of foster care from the perspectives of young adults, property managers, and housing navigators.
These applied research projects aim to produce practical recommendations for systems change to streamline service provision in the community, reduce racial disproportionality and disparities, and support family and young adult stability.