Rebecca Orsi-Hunt, PhD

Associate Research Professor, Pediatrics-Child Abuse and Neglect/Kempe

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Graduate Schools
  • MS, Colorado State University (2007)
  • PhD, Colorado State University (2011)
Undergraduate School
  • AB, University of Michigan (MI) (1993)
Department
Pediatrics-Child Abuse and Neglect/Kempe

Professional Titles

  • Associate Research Professor

Publications

  • Yuma P, Orsi R, Dunn JA, Kenyon V, Tulanowski E, Stallones L. Traumatic injury and access to care in rural areas: leveraging linked data and geographic information systems for planning and advocacy. Rural Remote Health. 2019 Sep;19(3):5089. PubMed PMID: 31510753
  • Brown SM, Orsi R, Chen PCB. Child, Family, and Case Characteristics Associated With Reentry Into Out-of-Home Care Among Children and Youth Involved With Child Protection Services. Child Maltreat. 2019 Aug 20;:1077559519869395. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31431072
  • Brown SM, Bender K, Orsi R, McCrae JS, Phillips JD, Rienks S. Adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to complex health profiles among child welfare-involved children: A classification and regression tree analysis. Health Serv Res. 2019 Aug;54(4):902-911. PubMed PMID: 31074505
  • Brown SM, Bender K, Orsi R, McCrae JS, Phillips JD, Rienks S. Correction to "Adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to complex health profiles among child welfare-involved families: A classification and regression tree analysis". Health Serv Res. 2020 Feb;55(1):146. PubMed PMID: 31981233
  • Yuma P, Orsi R, Dunn JA, Kenyon V, Tulanowski E, Stallones L. Traumatic injury and access to care in rural areas: leveraging linked data and geographic information systems for planning and advocacy. Rural Remote Health. 2019 Sep;19(3):5089. PubMed PMID: 31510753
  • Brown SM, Orsi R, Chen PCB. Child, Family, and Case Characteristics Associated With Reentry Into Out-of-Home Care Among Children and Youth Involved With Child Protection Services. Child Maltreat. 2020 May;25(2):162-171. PubMed PMID: 31431072
  • Brown SM, Bender K, Orsi R, McCrae JS, Phillips JD, Rienks S. Adverse childhood experiences and their relationship to complex health profiles among child welfare-involved children: A classification and regression tree analysis. Health Serv Res. 2019 Aug;54(4):902-911. PubMed PMID: 31074505
  • Yoder J, Orsi R, Brown SM, Halac T. Timely integration of protective factors: Impacts on children’s health and behavioral outcomes among families investigated for maltreatment. J Child Fam Stud. 2020 Aug;29(8):2091-2103.
  • Drake B, Fluke JD, Kim H, Orsi R, Stubblefield JL. What Proportion of Foster Care Children Do Not Have Child Protective Services Reports? A Preliminary Look. Child Maltreat. 2021 Jul 25;:10775595211033855. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 34308682
  • Brown SM, Orsi R, Chen PCB, Everson CL, Fluke J. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Protection System Referrals and Responses in Colorado, USA. Child Maltreat. 2021 Apr 26;:10775595211012476. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33896229
  • Orsi R, Boissy L, Yuma P, Palmer F, Torres-Molinar S. Child welfare in non-metro and rural communities: Experiences of child-serving professionals addressing substance use. Child Fam Soc Work, 2021; 26(4), 696-707
  • Barrett K, Polly-Almanza A, Orsi, R. The Challenges and Resources of Adoptive Parents of Children with Trauma Histories: A Mixed Methods Study. Adopt Q. [Epub ahead of print]
  • Brown SM, Yoder J, Orsi R, Tarcha N. Intergenerational continuity of risk: Examining pathways from parental mental health to children's behavioral health problems among families investigated for maltreatment. J Soc Social Work Res.
  • Winokur M, Orsi R, Chen P. Alessi L. Keeping youth in the community through an intensive case management and Family Partnerships model. J Public Child Welf.
  • Yuma, P., Orsi, R., & Alves Pena, A. (2022). Mental Health and Child Maltreatment across Rural – Urban and Economic Continua with Implications for Post-Pandemic Human Services. Journal of Community Psychology, 50(3), 1773-1786. doi: 10.1002/jcop.22752
  • Ma, M., Orsi, R. & Brooks-Russell, A. (2022 advance on-line publication). Is Household Unemployment Associated with Increased Verbal and Physical Child Abuse During the COVID Pandemic? Child Maltreatment. doi: 10.1177/2F10775595221088217
  • Hollinshead, D. & Orsi, R. (in-press). Developing an Ecological Model of Turnover Intent: Associations among Child Welfare Caseworkers’ Characteristics, Lived Experience, Professional Attitudes, Agency Culture and Proclivity to Leave. International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice.
  • Kaferly, J., Orsi, R., Alishahi, M., Hosokawa, P., Sevick, C., Mathieu, S, & Gritz, R. M. (in press). Primary Care and Behavioral Health Services Use Differ Among Medicaid-Eligible Children by Initial Foster Care Entry Status. International Journal on Child Maltreatment: Research, Policy and Practice.
  • Orsi-Hunt R, Clemens EV, Thibodeau H, Belcher C. Young Adults with Lived Foster Care Experience Who Later Experience Houselessness: an Exploratory Latent Class Analysis. Int J Child Maltreat. 2023 Apr 26;:1-25. PubMed PMID: 37360287
  • Orsi-Hunt, R., Harrison, C., Rockwell, K. & Barbee, A. (2023 advance on-line publication). Addressing secondary traumatic stress in the child welfare workforce: Results from a cluster-randomized control trial of Resilience Alliance. Children and Youth Services Review, 151, 107044. doi: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107044
  • Lindberg DM, Peterson RA, Orsi-Hunt R, Chen PCB, Kille B, Rademacher JG, Hensen C, Listman D, Ong TC. Routine Emergency Department Screening to Decrease Subsequent Physical Abuse. Ann Emerg Med. 2024 Jun 18. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 38888534
  • Jones D, Orsi-Hunt R, Kim H, Jonson-Reid M, Drake B. Life-course trajectories of children through the U. S foster care system. Child Abuse Negl. 2024 Jul;153:106837. PubMed PMID: 38788495
  • Kerns SEU, Maddox SJ, Berhanu RE, Allan H, Wilson RA, Chiesa A, Orsi-Hunt R, McCarthy LP, Henry LJ, Smith CO. An Equity-Focused Assessment of Evidence-Based Parenting Intervention Research. Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev. 2024 Jun;27(2):279-299. PubMed PMID: 38753099
  • Kaferly J, Orsi-Hunt R, Hosokawa P, Sevick C, Creel LM, Mathieu S, Mark Gritz R. Health Differs by Foster Care Eligibility: A Nine-Year Retrospective Observational Study Among Medicaid-Enrolled Children. Acad Pediatr. 2024 Sep-Oct;24(7):1092-1100. PubMed PMID: 38142889
  • Orsi-Hunt R, Clemens EV, Thibodeau H, Belcher C. Young Adults with Lived Foster Care Experience Who Later Experience Houselessness: an Exploratory Latent Class Analysis. Int J Child Maltreat. 2023 Apr 26;:1-25. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 37360287
  • Ma M, Orsi R, Brooks-Russell A. Is Household Unemployment Associated With Increased Verbal and Physical Child Abuse During the COVID Pandemic?. Child Maltreat. 2023 Feb;28(1):7-12. PubMed PMID: 35445620


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