{"id":1660,"date":"2014-12-10T16:41:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1660"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:31:25","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T15:31:25","slug":"mary-collins","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/mary-collins\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Collins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dean Collins is interested in child welfare policy, the transition to adulthood for vulnerable youth, compassion in social policy, and the evaluation of social services. She is currently teaching courses including <em>Social Welfare Policy and Programs in Children<\/em> and <em>Social Program Analysis and Evaluation<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Dean Collins is co-leading a research project along with <a title=\"Astraea Augsberger\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/profile\/astraea-augsberger\/\">Astraea Augsberger<\/a> studying the role and efficacy of Youth Councils in Mayors Offices around the country, sponsored by the IOC.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/profile\/mary-elizabeth-collins\/\">View School of Social Work Profile<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8981,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15563,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1660\/revisions\/15563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ioc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}