Carolyn Joy Dayton
Associate Professor of Social Work at Wayne State University, USAAbout the author:
I conduct research focused on early parenting processes with an emphasis on fathering in urban settings.
What I want to achieve:
I am engaged in policy initiatives aimed at revising state and local policies that keep fathers away from their children and disproportionately and negatively affect poor, urban fathers.
My previous positions:
As an Infant Mental Health Specialist, I have over two decades of experience providing clinical interventions to the families of infants and young children in a wide range of settings including home-based, center-based and hospital programs. I am a licensed practitioner of clinical social work and clinical psychology and I am endorsed as an infant mental health mentor (Level IV; MI-AIMH) in the areas of clinical practice and research.
Awards & accomplishments:
- Developed a guide of tips for fathering during the pandemic with the Metro Detroit Fatherhood Policy Initiative Group, available in English and Spanish.
- 2021 recipient of the Detroit Wayne County Fatherhood Advocate Award.
Other information:
I am Associate Director of the Infant Mental Health Training Program at the Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute for Child and Family Development at Wayne State University.