John Fluke
Contact:
Scholar-in-Residence
PhD, Union Graduate School
Associate Director for Systems Research and Evaluation
Department of Pediatrics
Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse & Neglect
University of Colorado School of Medicine
The Gary Pavilion at Children's Hospital Colorado
13123 E 16th Ave., B390
Aurora, CO 80045
(303) 864-5300
E-mail: John.Fluke@du.edu
Areas of interest:
- child welfare
- children's mental health
- human service delivery systems
- outcomes measurement for children and family services
- systems of care
Dr. John Fluke has more than 30 years of experience in social service delivery system research in child welfare and mental health services for children. He is nationally recognized as a researcher specializing in assessing and analyzing decision-making. From 2007 to 2012, he served as director of the Child Protection Research Center at the American Humane Association.
Dr. Fluke is also known for his innovative and informative evaluation work in the areas of child welfare administrative data analysis, workload and costing, and performance and outcome measurement for children and family services. As a research manager, he has directed research and evaluation projects focused on maltreatment surveillance data, children?s mental health, child protective service risk and safety assessment, expedited permanency, guardianship, family group decision-making, trauma services, adoption and screening. He also conducts national child maltreatment data collection and analysis, and has worked with data collection programs in Canada, Saudi Arabia and the U.S., as well as for UNICEF.
The author or co-author of numerous scholarly publications, Dr. Fluke has presented papers at both national and international meetings and conferences. He is co-chair of the Working Group on Child Maltreatment Data Collection for ISPCAN.
