Faculty profile
Travonne Edwards
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Latest papers
When services are no longer voluntary: Exploring child protection workers experiences with Black families and (in)voluntary services.
Child abuse & neglect · 2026 · first author
Understanding youth and young adult cannabis use in Canada post-legalization: a scoping review on a public health issue.
Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2024
Police Violence Experienced by Black Gay and Bisexual Men: The Effects on HIV Care Engagement and Medication Adherence.
AIDS and behavior · 2024
Latest funding
- $73,093
Repairing the Narratives of Physical Discipline and Abuse: (Re)constructing Tropes of Black Parenting to Reduce Racial Disparities in Ontario's Child Welfare System
SSHRC · 2026 · Principal investigator
- $40,046
Visualizing Our Individual and Collective Experiences (VOICE): Black Youth Perspectives in Child Welfare
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $477,527
Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
9 publications.
When services are no longer voluntary: Exploring child protection workers experiences with Black families and (in)voluntary services.
Edwards T, Clarke MK, Boatswain-Kyte A, King B
Understanding youth and young adult cannabis use in Canada post-legalization: a scoping review on a public health issue.
Kourgiantakis T, Vicknarajah R, Logan J, Edwards T, Lee E, Craig S, Kaura A, Williams CC, Marshall S
Police Violence Experienced by Black Gay and Bisexual Men: The Effects on HIV Care Engagement and Medication Adherence.
Quinn KG, Walsh JL, Johnson A, Edwards T, Takahashi L, Dakin A, Bouacha N, Voisin D
The Inherent Violence of Anti-Black Racism and its Effects on HIV Care for Black Sexually Minoritized Men.
Quinn KG, Walsh JL, DiFranceisco W, Edwards T, Takahashi L, Johnson A, Dakin A, Bouacha N, Voisin DR
Understanding the impact of police brutality on Black sexually minoritized men.
Quinn KG, Edwards T, Johnson A, Takahashi L, Dakin A, Bouacha N, Voisin D
The absence of language: A critical race discourse analysis of Ontario's child welfare legislation and the impacts on Black families.
Edwards T, McManamna N, King B
COVID-19, Retention in HIV Care, and Access to Ancillary Services for Young Black Men Living with HIV in Chicago.
Voisin DR, Edwards T, Takahashi LM, Valadez-Tapia S, Shah H, Oselett C, Bouacha N, Dakin A, Quinn K
Cannabis use among youth in Canada: a scoping review protocol.
Kourgiantakis T, Edwards T, Lee E, Logan J, Vicknarajah R, Craig SL, Simon-Tucker M, Williams CC
Exploring research on the coping strategies of black survivors of homicide victims: a scoping review protocol.
Edwards T, Sharpe T, Bonomo A, Massaquoi N
Repairing the Narratives of Physical Discipline and Abuse: (Re)constructing Tropes of Black Parenting to Reduce Racial Disparities in Ontario's Child Welfare System
Principal investigators: Edwards, Travonne
Visualizing Our Individual and Collective Experiences (VOICE): Black Youth Perspectives in Child Welfare
Principal investigators: Boatswain-Kyte, Alicia
Keywords: Black youth; Child Welfare; Disproportionality; Participatory Action Research
Towards Transformative Systems Change: Targeting the Child Welfare Policies and Practices that Generate and Sustain Disparities for Racialized Populations
Principal investigators: King, Bryn
Parenting Under Threat: Exploring Black Families' Experiences with Ontario's Child Welfare System
Principal investigators: Edwards, Travonne
Keywords: Black families; Black youth; Child welfare; Child protection; Ontario; Canada
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Notisha Massaquoi and Alicia Boatswain-Kyte: 2 shared papers
- Toula Kourgiantakis and Travonne Edwards: 2 shared papers
- Notisha Massaquoi and Tanya Sharpe: 1 shared paper
- Notisha Massaquoi and Travonne Edwards: 1 shared paper
- Tanya Sharpe and Travonne Edwards: 1 shared paper
- Alicia Boatswain-Kyte and Travonne Edwards: 1 shared paper
- Children, Family
- Social Policy, Planning and Social Prevention
- Health and Society
- Other
Co-authors at Toronto Metropolitan University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
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