My research focuses on the well-being and experiences of youth in the child welfare system. Specifically, my research emphasizes how different placements and variations in system involvement impact emotional and behavioral well-being and their expectations for their future. I have published work on children's emotional and behavioral well-being within an out-of-home care population and mood disorders and offending behavior within a juvenile justice population. My research aims to understand the interplay of child maltreatment and involvement in the child welfare system with multiple domains of well-being through adolescence into early adulthood. My dissertation utilizes a mixed methods approach incorporating nationally representative quantitative data and primary data collection using a participatory method with Oklahoma youth. Moving forward, I intend to focus on utilizing the life course perspective to examine how child abuse and neglect impact multiple domains of well-being.