Amy Dworsky is a senior researcher at Chapin Hall. Her research interests include youth aging out of foster care, the educational trajectories of homeless children, pregnant and parenting foster youth, and the service needs of low-income families in Chicago. Dr. Dworsky is the principal investigator for two studies. One is an evaluation of the Guardian Scholars Program, which provides former foster youth in California and Washington State with scholarships and a variety of support services to help them attend and graduate from participating public colleges and universities. The second study examines the school enrollment and performance of homeless children in the Chicago Public Schools. In addition, she is directing several projects including a longitudinal study of young adults transitioning out of foster care in three Midwestern states and a collaborative effort involving a number of city and state agencies that provide services to low-income families in Chicago. Dr. Dworsky has also done research on pregnant and parenting foster youth in Illinois and on foster care placement among children of incarcerated mothers. She received a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.