Can Child Savings Accounts Prevent Maltreatment?
Family Resource Center Prevention Evaluation
Family Resource Center Prevention Evaluation
In collaboration with In collaboration with St. Louis-based Family Resource Center, this evaluation will examine the effectiveness of integrating Parent Child Interaction Training into the community-based agency’s service offerings.
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Violence Prevention for Adolescent Girls with Prior Maltreatment – GAIN (Girls Aspiring toward Independence)
Violence Prevention for Adolescent Girls with Prior Maltreatment – GAIN (Girls Aspiring toward Independence)
This project will evaluate the impact of a CBITS-adapted program, GAIN, to prevent youth violence and intimate partner violence among girls who have experienced prior child maltreatment.
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Adapting the "Safe N' Sound" Injury Prevention Program
Adapting the “Safe N’ Sound” Injury Prevention Program
Safe N’ Sound is a computer-based program developed by our team that delivers tailored information to parents of children ages 0-4 about the specific injury prevention practices they can adopt in order to make their home and car safer for their child.
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Veterans, Trauma, and Battering Behavior
Veterans, Trauma, and Battering Behavior
Violence Surveillance Database Project
Violence Surveillance Database Project
Moving Parent Training
Moving Parent Training
Profiling Risk and Need for School-based Suicide Prevention
Profiling Risk and Need for School-based Suicide Prevention
Assessing Receptivity to and Use of Evidence-Based Treatments in Rape Crisis Centers
Assessing Receptivity to and Use of Evidence-Based Treatments in Rape Crisis Centers
Nationally, so little is known about the treatment of survivors who are victims of violence that describing and evaluating the effectiveness of current services is among the most important areas of research on violence against women.
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Understanding the Trauma Treatment Needs of Justice-Involved Women
Understanding the Trauma Treatment Needs of Justice-Involved Women
Without appropriate interventions and the supports needed, justice-involved women and their children are at risk for poor outcomes.
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Yellow Ribbon Re-integration Program
Yellow Ribbon Re-integration Program
This project evaluates the potential of the Yellow Ribbon Reintegration Program as a platform for identifying the mental health and associated reintegration service needs of soldiers and their families.
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Suicidal Behaviors Among Dominican Youth
Suicidal Behaviors Among Dominican Youth
This study sheds light on the socio-cultural factors related to suicidal behaviors among Dominican Republic youth and how they compare to their Dominican counterparts in New York City.
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Translational Research on Child Neglect Consortium
Translational Research on Child Neglect Consortium
Early Childhood Connections
Early Childhood Connections
Engaging Fathers in Positive Parenting
Engaging Fathers in Positive Parenting
Developing Empirical Childhood Injury Prevention Program Adoption Models and Dissemination Strategies
Developing Empirical Childhood Injury Prevention Program Adoption Models and Dissemination Strategies
The goal of this project is to identify factors that influence the adoption of an evidence-based injury prevention programming by children’s hospitals in the United States.
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Preventing conduct disorder among children in the child welfare system
Preventing conduct disorder among children in the child welfare system
Children within the child welfare system are at an unacceptably high risk for serious disruptive behavior problems such as conduct disorder.
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Promoting Safe Environments and Parenting Practices with Home Visitation Programs
Promoting Safe Environments and Parenting Practices with Home Visitation Programs
The purpose of this project is to adapt and integrate an evidence-based injury prevention program, Safe N’ Sound, into established home visitation models, using the home visitation agency of Nurses for Newborns as a pilot.
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Needs assessment for victims of sexual assault who have developmental disabilities
Needs assessment for victims of sexual assault who have developmental disabilities
This 12-month study will assess the incidence of sexual assault amongst individuals with developmental disabilities.
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Neural Network Model
Neural Network Model
Risk-based assessment/intervention strategies can be applied within treatment-focused child welfare systems to prevent recurrent maltreatment.
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Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program
Building Careers for Research in Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: Early Career Scholar Interdisciplinary Training Program
Child maltreatment (CM) and intimate partner violence (IPV) are serious social and public health problems that have high prevalence rates and equally high needs for interdisciplinary research.
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Stakeholders Perspectives on Improving Access to VHA's Suicide Prevention Services (IA-SPS)
Stakeholders Perspectives on Improving Access to VHA’s Suicide Prevention Services (IA-SPS)
A one-year Department of Veterans Affairs project seeks to elicit stakeholder perspectives on the barriers to Veterans accessing suicide prevention services in their local communities.
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Reducing Early Childhood Injuries at Home and in Motor Vehicles
Reducing Early Childhood Injuries at Home and in Motor Vehicles
The project focuses on reducing pediatric injuries by taking injury prevention education into the homes of young children.
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Design Options for Understanding Child Maltreatment Incidence
Design Options for Understanding Child Maltreatment Incidence
The major purpose of the project is to develop design options for a study or set of studies to improve the accurate and ongoing surveillance of the incidence of child abuse and neglect and related risk and protective factors.
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Stressful Social Networks and PTSD as Mediators of Child Abuse and Health Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Pain
Stressful Social Networks and PTSD as Mediators of Child Abuse and Health Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Pain
This study is the first large, longitudinal study of low-income individuals to determine predictors and pathways to early adult violence.
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Young Adult Violence – Modifiable Predictors and Pathways
Young Adult Violence – Modifiable Predictors and Pathways
Teen pregnancy prevention for youth in foster care
Teen pregnancy prevention for youth in foster care
This funded project provides a medical home and pregnancy prevention to youth ages 12 to 17 entering foster care in the metropolitan region.
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Enhancing Nurse Home Visiting to Address Vulnerabilities and Prevent Maltreatment
Enhancing Nurse Home Visiting to Address Vulnerabilities and Prevent Maltreatment
In collaboration with Nurses for Newborns, this study addresses issues of maternal and child well-being with significant public health relevance, specifically child abuse and injury prevention, and reducing post-partum maternal depression and stress.
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