All Current Research Projects

Below is a list of current projects for this research category. Click on the title for a summary project description. You may sort the table by Title, Researcher or Year Completed by clicking on the headers, or filter category results by All projects or Completed only.

Title	Researcher	End Date
Access to Recovery (ATR): A Drug Court Initiative	Richard Spence
Acculturation and Adolescent Drug Prevention	Lori K. Holleran Steiker
Addiction Research Institute	Richard Spence
Assessment Project for EveryChild, Inc	Holly Bell, Laura Lein
Assessment of Teen Parent Support Programs: Medical-Social Services Collaborative and Community-Based Case Management Models	Carol M. Lewis, Ruth G. McRoy
Center for Excellence in Drug Epidemiology	Jane Maxwell
Children's Partnership	David W. Springer
City of Austin Police Department Cadet Training	Michael L. Lauderdale
Co-Occurring State Incentive Grant (COSIG)	Richard Spence
Comparative Study of the Urban Poor: Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas/Texas	Laura Lein
DWI Offender Education Program	Richard Spence
Development of Planning/Evaluation Tools for Cultural Competence/Relevance for Chemical Dependence Treatment Programs Serving African Americans and Mexican Americans and Their Families	Clayton T. Shorkey
Drug Attitudes and Behaviors in Trailer Parks on the US/Mexico Border	Richard Spence
Evaluating Group Intervention on Juvenile Justice Clients' Understanding of Parental Incarceration	Darlene Grant, Tanya Voss
Evaluation of Enterprising Girl Scouts Beyond Bars	Darlene Grant
Evaluation of the Exceptional Care Pilot Project	A. James Schwab
Feedback for Quality Improvement (FQI)	Richard Spence
Geriatric Social Work Initiative	Shirley M. Haulotte, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy
Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center	Richard Spence
How Does Motivational Interviewing Work? Mechanisms of Action in Project CHOICES	Mary Marden Velasquez, Kirk von Sternberg
Innovative Programs, Practices, and Strategies in African-American Communities That Promote Mental Health and Well-Being	King Davis
Institute for Grief, Loss, and Family Survival	Barbara L. Jones, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy
Kids Count Project	Laura Lein
Life Care Institute	Roberta R. Greene
Low-Wage Employment and Family Involvement Among Low-Income Non-Custodial Fathers	Laura Lein
MSSW Student Unit at TYC	Jane A. Kretzschmar, Barbara W. White
Methods to Study Ethnicity and Faith-Based Treatment	Clayton T. Shorkey, Richard Spence
Mexican American Child Health: Birth to Early Childhood	Yolanda C. Padilla
Minnesota Texas Adoption Research	Ruth G. McRoy
Practicum Partnership Program	Roberta R. Greene
Project Mother-Daughter Talk	Dorie J. Gilbert
Protective Services Training Institute of Texas	A. James Schwab
Quality of Services Study	A. James Schwab
Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral for Treatment (SBIRT / InSight)	Mary Marden Velasquez, Kirk von Sternberg
Screening, Brief Intervention, Referral and Treatment (SBIRT)	Richard Spence
Smoking Relapse Prevention Among Postpartum Women	Mary Marden Velasquez, Kirk von Sternberg
Social Risk Factors Associated with Substance Abuse Among Gay and Lesbian Youth	Yolanda C. Padilla
Social Work Component: Gulf Coast Addiction Technology Transfer Center	Clayton T. Shorkey
Strengthening Access and Retention in Treatment (STAR)	Richard Spence
Study of Services to Clients with Dual Diagnoses of Severe Mental Illness and Chemical Abuse or Dependence	Diana M. DiNitto
Substance Abuse Research Development Program for Underserved Populations	Clayton T. Shorkey
Survey of Organizational Excellence	Michael L. Lauderdale, Barbara W. White
Texas Comptroller's Survey	Michael L. Lauderdale, David W. Springer
Texas Demonstration to Maintain Independence and Employment (DMIE)	Richard Spence
The Exploration of Assimilation and Ethnic Identity by Graduate Level Social Work Students: A Qualitative Analysis	Dawnovise N. Fowler
The Greenleaf Project	Noël Bridget Busch-Armendariz
The Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault	Noël Bridget Busch-Armendariz
The Parallel Strengths and Weaknesses of the Civil Society and the State: The Example of Katrina Survivors	Laura Lein, Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, Calvin L. Streeter
The Texas Market Rate Child Care Survey	Laura Lein
Title IV-E Child Welfare Education Collaboration	Jane A. Kretzschmar, A. James Schwab
Urban Change - Ethnographic Study in Los Angeles	Yolanda C. Padilla
Voices of Struggle: Understanding and Memorializing the Fight Against Texas Proposition #2	Barbara L. Jones, Tanya Voss
Welfare Reform, Children and Families: A Three-City Study	Laura Lein
Family-Based Substance Use Treatment for Runaway Youth	Sanna J. Thompson	2008
A Transtheoretical Model Group Therapy For Cocaine	Mary Marden Velasquez, Kirk von Sternberg	2007
Adoptive and Foster Couples Retreat and Support Network Program (Healthy Marriage)	Ruth G. McRoy	2007
Assessment of Services, Costs, and Outcomes for Katrina Evacuees	Laura Lein	2007
Austin Learning Academy's Adolescent Family Life Care: A Program Evaluation	Carol M. Lewis	2007
Autonomy in the Face of Depression in Nursing Homes: What Do Nursing Home Residents and Staff Have to Say about the Residents' Depression and Intervention Needs?	Namkee G. Choi, Roberta R. Greene	2007
Co-occurring Social Service Delivery Needs of Women who have Experienced Intimate Partner Violence: Substance Use, Mental Illness and Risk for HIV/AIDS infection	Michele A Rountree	2007
Evaluation of Disaster Response Program for Lutheran Social Services	Laura Lein	2007
Evaluation of Disaster Response Program for Catholic Charities, USA	Laura Lein	2007
HIV/AIDS Prevention Intervention for Women Who Have Experienced Intimate Partner Abuse	Elizabeth C. Pomeroy, Michele A Rountree	2007
Human Trafficking Coalition Project Evaluation	Noël Bridget Busch-Armendariz, Rowena Fong	2007
Parent-Child Connectedness and Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention: Supplemental Program Evaluation	Carol M. Lewis	2007
Risk and Maintenance Factors for Bulimic Pathology	David W. Springer	2007
Study of Texas Nursing Homes	Roberta R. Greene	2007
The Collaboration to AdoptUsKids	Ruth G. McRoy	2007
The Georgia-Texas Improving Brief Intervention Project	Mary Marden Velasquez	2007
The New Parent Outreach Project (NPOP)	Laura Lein	2007
The Social Work Research Development Program for Underserved Populations (Research Program on Drug Abuse Interventions, R24-DA013579)	Richard Spence	2007
UTMB-UT Austin Collaboration: Translating Evidence-Based Behavioral Interventions into Community Practice	Mary Marden Velasquez, Kirk von Sternberg	2007
What is Your Caregiver IQ? Facts and Questions for Exploration	Roberta R. Greene	2007

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