Bret Kloos
Principal Investigator: “Housing, Adaptive Functioning, and Serious Mental Illness.” NIMH, K23MH65439.
Granting period: 2002-2007
Total costs: $786,414
Description:
This program of research identifies risk and protective factors of housing environments for persons with serious mental illness (SMI) who are living in community settings. The current study is focused on persons living in supported housing affiliated with mental health centers and is being conducted across South Carolina. In particular, it investigates which elements of housing environments may: (a) prevent problems that affect functioning, (b) protect persons from adverse outcomes, and (c) promote adaptive functioning and recovery. The findings will contribute to the creation of an empirical basis to inform intervention development, program decisions, and policy.
Ron Prinz
Principal Investigator: “Population-Based System of Parenting Interventions” Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Granting period: 2003-2008
Total costs: $7,499,996
Description:
This project examines the implementation and effectiveness of a population-wide system of parenting programs aimed to reduce the prevalence of child maltreatment, to strengthen parent competence at a population level, and to reduce the prevalence of early child behavior problems. Eighteen counties have been randomly assigned to the parenting intervention system or to the control condition (usual services). Programming includes media and informational strategies, utilization of practitioners from many disciplines and family-serving settings, and reliance on interventions with a strong evidence base.
Principal Investigator: “Risk Reduction via Promotion of Youth Development” National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)/NIH.
Granting period: 2003-2008
Total costs: $4,807,517
Description:
This project is part of an ongoing preventive intervention trial that is aimed at reducing concurrent risk for early-onset conduct problems, substance abuse, and academic failure in children. The project aims to examine outcomes in late childhood and early adolescence, test the robustness of a coping-competence model into adolescence, and pursue new knowledge in developmental psychopathology with regard to internalizing problems in an understudied population. The research is intended to contribute to a better understanding and potential reduction of health disparities in minority and low-income populations.
Principal Investigator: “Media-Based Programming to Enhance Parenting” National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD)/NIH.
Granting period:2004-2008
Total costs: $1,908,366
Description:
This project focuses on a media-based strategy (i.e., television-type programming) for positively impacting parenting and child behavior in the general population. The strategy is guided by goals to use a minimally sufficient intervention in a non-stigmatizing context, working within a self-regulatory framework and building on interesting and engaging content. The intervention is based on theoretical and empirical foundations that include social learning models of parent-child interaction, social information processing, and developmental research applied to parenting in everyday contexts.
Jeffrey C. Schatz
Principal Investigator: “Anemia, brain functioning, and cognitive development in
children with sickle cell disease” March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation.
Granting period: 2002-2005
Total costs: $139,972
Description:
The cause of attention deficits found in children with SCD and normal brain MRI exams is not well understood. This study examines event-related brain potentials in children with sickle cell disease to determine if differences in sustained attention can be related to anemia severity and its potential effect on brain function.
Co-investigator: “Palmetto Richland Advocacy Program for Youth with Chronic Illness”. The Duke Endowment – Health Care Division.
Principal Investigator: Joby Robinson, Ph.D.
Co-Investigator: Barbara Carroll, M.N.,R.N.,C.P.N.P
Granting period: 2001-2004
Total costs: $437,877 (direct costs; USC subcontract $110,421)
Description:
The project involves the development, implementation, and evaluation of model psychosocial initiatives to promote better educational and career outcomes for youths with brain tumor, hemophilia, or sickle cell disease with stroke.
Bradley H. Smith
Principal Investigator: "Treatment of Middle-School Students with ADHD in Primary Care Settings.” USC intramural research award.
Granting period: 2004-2005
Total costs: $29,000
Description:
This is a pilot project to evaluate the impact of training primary care physicians to use empirically-supported and recently developed approaches to treating AD/HD, including strategies for assessing medication effectiveness and delivering parent skills training.
Principal Investigator: "Challenging Horizons After-school Program.” Richland School District I.
Granting period: 2004-2005
Total costs: $72,000
Description:
This pilot project delivers and evaluates a model after-school program for young adolescents with Attention Deficit / Hyperactivity Disorder. Academic, behavioral, and social supports are delivered with the involvement of families and educators
Suzanne Swan
Principal Investigator: “The mental health of women who use violence in intimate relationships” USC Research Foundation, Research & Productive Scholarship Program.
Granting period: 2004-2005
Total costs: $14,000
Description:
The study examines the extent to which mental health difficulties, such as PTSD, depression, anxiety, and substance use, may be predictive of women’s use of violence, with a particular emphasis on the reciprocal relationships between mental health difficulties as outcomes of victimization and predictors of violence.
M. Lee Van Horn
Principal Investigator: Effects of Classroom Practices and School Context, NICHD Grant R01 HD043400-01A1.
Granting period: 2003-2005
Costs: $100,000 (direct)
Description:
The project examines the measurement of developmentally appropriate practices (DAP) and the effects of DAP on academic achievement. This research has three aims: 1) to examine the effects of DAP on the developmental trajectory of social skills and problem behavior; 2) to study the extent to which the school context relates to teacher use of DAP; and 3) to examine the combined effects of school context and DAP on trajectories of academic achievement and social skills.
Abraham H. Wandersman
Principal Investigator: “Participatory Research of an Empowerment Evaluation System”. RAND Corporation subcontract from CDC R01CCR921459.
Granting period: 2002-2005
Costs: $125,000
Description:
The project investigates the use of “Getting To Outcomes (GTO) 2004”, a resource that is being used by the RAND Promising Practices Network (PPN) on Children, Families and Communities. PPN provides objective, evidence-based information on a wide variety of programs and practices that have been shown to be effective. Information is provided in user-friendly summaries and links to credible research concerning children and families. GTO 2004 is included in an extensive section on strengthening service delivery. The use and effectiveness of the GTO tool is being investigated to determine future directions for the science of program dissemination.
