Aurora P. Jackson, a professor of social welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has been named to the Academic Advisory Board of the Arizona Department of Economic Security.
Jackson joins a group of board members who will assist in the transformaton of the Arizona safety net, advising the agency in an effort to overhaul the system of benefits, good and services that serves nearly 2 million people in the state.
Jackson's research examines the interrelationships among work, welfare, maternal psychological well-being, parenting in the home environment and child outcomes in families headed by low-income, single-parent mothers with young children. Her research on current and former welfare recipients has been funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the William T. Grant Foundation, the National Center on Minority Health Disparities and a visiting scholarship at the Russell Sage Foundation.
