Megan Feely, PhD, MSCI, MSW is an Assistant Professor in the University of Connecticut School of Social Work. Dr. Feely’s work focuses on understanding child maltreatment to inform the primary and secondary prevention of maltreatment and works with state agencies to conduct research and disseminate and implement research findings. She has a specific focus on understanding the maltreatment prevention possibilities of community-based programs and policies and programs to promote economic stability for families to prevent child maltreatment. She also studies the decision-making tools and processes that are applied in child welfare systems. In the School of Social Work, she teaches courses on program planning, development, and evaluation and macro social work practice. She was a Doris Duke Fellow for the Promotion of Child Well-Being and is a fellow in the Child Well-Being Research Network. She is originally from St. Louis, Missouri where she began her work in child welfare. She now lives in Connecticut as a half-time-single-mother of two children.