Candace Carter
Assistant Professor of Social Work and Chair of Social Work and Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice, Pre-Law, Social Work

Part of Belhaven since 2024

Contact Info

Education

  • B.S.W., Jackson State University
  • M.P.H., Jackson State University
  • Ph.D., Jackson State University
  • Post-Graduate Certificate, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Workplace, University of South Florida

Dr. Candace Carter serves as Chair of Social Work/Criminal Justice. Prior to joining Belhaven in a full-time capacity, Spring 2024, she served as an adjunct instructor in Adult and Online Studies from 2016-2021. A licensed social worker, she possesses nearly 20 years of practice experience and over 10 years of experience in the academy. As a practitioner, Dr. Carter has worked in various capacities of child abuse and neglect, including front-line work, supervision, and evaluation. She has also worked with the elderly population, the ID-DD population, and in the mental health setting. Dr. Carter enjoys research and evaluation and most recently served as an external evaluator for a project, Delta Thrive in collaboration with Delta Health Systems. Additionally, Dr. Carter recently partnered with public institutions to secure funding through Title IV-E for scholarships and training of students who have an interest in a career in child welfare, specifically with Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services (MDCPS). In her spare time, Dr. Carter enjoys spending time with her husband, Robert and her daughter, Raelyn. She also enjoys retail therapy and traveling.

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Social Work
  • Child advocacy

Teaching Focus

  • Social Work
  • Child Advocacy
  • Sociology
  • Criminal Justice

Professional Presentations

  • Workshop Presentation, Parental Knowledge and Attitudes about Sexual Health Predicting Teenage Pregnancy: An Implicit Approach, National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates, Dallas, TX, 2019
  • Workshop Presentation, Culturally Responsive Evaluation: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, American Evaluation Association, Minneapolis, MN, 2019
  • Workshop Presentation, Culturally Responsive Evaluation and the Social Work Profession, National Association of African American Studies & Affiliates, Dallas, TX, 2020

Publications

  • Lawrence, S. K., & Carter, C. N. (2016). Policing: Social Control and Race. Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping, 21(3), 34–37
  • Wilkerson, P., & Hamilton, C. (2016). “Ask a man what his main concern is when he gets into prison, and he’ll say getting out. Ask a woman……. She doesn’t say getting out, she doesn’t say anything else, and she says her children. She’s worried about her children.” -Susie, incarcerated mother. Journal of Sociology and Social Work, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.15640/jssw.v4n1a3