Henrika McCoy MSW, MJ, PhD

Dr. McCoy is an Assistant Professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She holds an MSW from the University of Pennsylvania, an MJ from Loyola University Chicago, and a PhD from the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. McCoy’s research focuses on the intersection of mental health and juvenile delinquency, particularly for African American males. She was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections program for a 25-month study titled “A Strategy for Promoting the Mental Health of and Decreasing the Negative Trajectories for Juvenile Offenders” in the amount of $75,000. She has recently been funded as a Faculty Fellow for the 2013-2014 academic year by the University of Illinois at Chicago, Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy to continue her Robert Wood Johnson research.