Juan Araque
Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work
Dr. Araque is an expert in leadership, education, community development, diversity, violence prevention and positive youth development.
Juan Araque
Clinical Associate Professor of Social Work
Dr. Araque is an expert in leadership, education, community development, diversity, violence prevention and positive youth development.
Biography
Dr. Araque has worked more than 20 years in the fields of leadership and management, education, community development, diversity, violence prevention and positive youth development. His interests include the research and design of public, private and non-profit system structures to support positive child and adolescent development, and robust child-adult-community relationship building. Dr. Araque is the lead author (along with Dr. Eugenia Weiss) of the book entitled: Leadership with Impact: Preparing Health and Human Service Professionals in the Age of Innovation and Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2019). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/leadership-with-impact-9780190932428?cc=us&lang=en& As executive director for the University of Southern California TRiO Programs, he oversaw the college access programs, which help motivate and support low-income and first-generation minority students through the academic pipeline from middle school to college. Prior to joining USC, Araque oversaw funding allocation, programming implementation and advocacy efforts for Orange County United Way. He has served on multiple boards, including the Orange County Business Council's Latino Educational Attainment Initiative; the Orange County Department of Education's Institutional Review Board; Jewish-Latino Roundtable; Orange County Workforce Investment Board, Health Funders Partnership of Orange County; and Orange County Emergency Food and Shelter Program. Additionally, he served for five years as a board member of the California Governor's Child Abduction Prevention Task Force (Amber Alert) and the California School/Law Enforcement Partnership. Araque led the implementation of the nationally recognized Youth Development Framework School-Based Pilot Program. He has authored numerous reports and program evaluations in community resources and gaps, positive youth development, parent involvement, academic achievement, need assessments and community resource mapping.
Education
University of Southern California
PhD 2005
California State University
MA 1998
California State Polytechnic University
BA 1995
Area of Expertise
- Leadership, management and social policy in the public and not-for-profit sectors
- Amber Alert
- Adolescent Development
- Violence Prevention
- Youth Development
- Inter-organizational Relationships
- Organizational Development
- Youth Development and Resiliency
- Parent Engagement
- Child Development
- Child-Adult-Community Relationship Building
Industry Experience
- Research
- Education/Learning
Affiliations
- Council on Social Work Education (CSWE)
- Society of Social Work and Research (SSWR)
- Network of Social Work Management (NSWM)
Accomplishments
US Congressional Recognition
Certificate of Recognition
Corporate Champion Award
Program of the Year Award
Estrella Education Award
Articles & Publications
Research Focus
Leadership capacity to the ORN managers throughout the US. Evaluation support to the TRI LB Initiative Leadership capacity support to the community college district executives Executive leadership capacity support to the NLBHA fellows across the US
Research Grants
2015-2016
Child Development and Children Services Research
Cluster 2013-2015 2011-2012
Languages
- Spanish
- English