Amy Dworsky is a Senior Researcher at Chapin Hall. Her research interests include youth aging out of foster care, homeless youth, pregnant and parenting foster youth, and teenage pregnancy prevention.

Dr. Dworsky is a Co-Investigator for the Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth, a longitudinal study of young people making the transition from foster care to adulthood in Iowa, Wisconsin and Illinois. She has been the Principal Investigator for several studies including an evaluation of campus support programs which help foster youth attend and graduate from college, an evaluation of an employment training and job placement program for foster youth in Cook County, and a comprehensive review of policies and programs designed to support youth transitioning out of foster care across the 50 states and the District of Columbia. She was also Principal Investigator of a study examining the school enrollment and performance of homeless children in the Chicago Public Schools and has done research on the children of incarcerated mothers and on pregnant and parenting foster youth. She is currently a member of the Illinois Department of Children and Family workgroup on pregnancy prevention and has been involved in work related to the National Youth in Transition Database.

She received her Ph.D. in social welfare from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.