At any given time, dozens of research projects are underway in the College of Social Work. Research projects range from million dollar grant funded projects conducted by teams of faculty to honors and masters thesis research projects conducted by Social Work students. Read below about some of the funded studies underway in the College of Social Work right now:
Keith Warren: Awarded an R-21 grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to conduct critically needed research on interpersonal processes in corrections-based therapeutic communities (TC) with the goal of helping TC clinicians improve client outcomes. Warren's study is based on a partnership between Ohio State University researchers, including co-investigators Ciriyam Jayaprakash (Physics) and Craig Volden (Political Science), and five Ohio corrections-based TCs.
Keith Warren: Co-principal investigator of one of the university’s newly created Innovation Groups, "Complexity in Human, Natural, and Engineered Systems."
The group is a collaboration of more than 20 faculty and eight colleges including Dr. David Woods (PI), College of Engineering; and co-PIs Virginia A. Folcik, Internal Medicine, OSUMC; Ian Hamilton, Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Mathematics, BMPS; and Mark Moritz, Anthropology, SBS. The group will receive $20,000 per year for a three-year period and is part of what will be a multi-year, $16.7 million investment by the university in research that tackles global issues.
Keith Anderson: Awarded a $100,000 research grant by the John A. Hartford Foundation, a national organization dedicated to improving health care for older Americans. With the Hartford funds, Anderson will examine the experiences of family caregivers to Holocaust survivors. Results from the study will contribute to our knowledge of how to best support family caregivers for older adults who have endured past trauma. Anderson is partnering with Jewish Family Service organizations from the Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, Ohio metropolitan areas.
Dawn Anderson-Butcher: Awarded a $43,000 grant from The Pearson Foundation to conduct research within their Mobile Learning Institute (MLI), a program focused on promoting youth development/engagement through the use of mobile and digital technologies in classrooms nationwide. In partnership with key MLI staff and leaders, Anderson-Butcher will explore student, teacher, and system-wide outcomes associated with program participation.
Dawn Anderson-Butcher: Awarded a grant from Mansfield City Schools to assist with the design and implementation of their district-wide system of learning supports designed to reduce barriers to learning and support school climate efforts. Specific priorities will focus on distilling “turnaround” strategies across four high priority schools in the district.
Dawn Anderson-Butcher: Awarded a grant from the Ohio Department of Education to develop capacities in school districts and county councils across Ohio, especially in relation to their adoption, implementation, and evaluation of the Family and Civic Engagement priorities outlined in House Bill 1, with Al Neff, College of Education and Human Ecology.
Dawn Anderson-Butcher: Awarded a $475,000 grant by the Ohio Department of Education (ODE). Anderson-Butcher will provide organizational capacity-building supports, professional development, coaching, and consultative assistance to 25 school-family-community partnerships selected through ODE and the Ohio Family and Children First Council (OFCF) Family and Community Engagement Initiative. Lessons learned from these partnerships through the research agenda will contribute to our knowledge of expanded district and school improvement efforts that maximize important family and community resources on behalf of students, families, and their communities. Anderson-Butcher is partnering with the Center for Learning Excellence at The Ohio State University in these efforts.
Tom Gregoire: Awarded $272,043 and serves as Principal Investigator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) funded evaluation of the evidence-based Assertive Adolescent Family Treatment. This project is an evaluation of evidence-based community intervention for substance abusing adolescents currently being implemented in two Columbus area treatment programs.
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Audrey Begun: Principal Investigator on a $104,000 contract with the Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Boards, funded by the Office of Criminal Justice Services. Co-investigators:
Theresa Early and
Keith Warren. Project RISE—Reentry Inventory of Service Engagement—is designed to examine alcohol and drug, mental health, health, and housing needs of men and women preparing for community reentry from jail, prison, and community-based correctional facilities; determine the nature and extent of discrepancies between needs and services accessed; and determine what barriers might contribute to such discrepancies. The study covers counties in central and southern Ohio.
Keith Anderson: Awarded a $100,000 research grant by the John A. Hartford Foundation, a national organization dedicated to improving health care for older Americans. With the Hartford funds, Anderson will examine the experiences of family caregivers to Holocaust survivors. Results from the study will contribute to our knowledge of how to best support family caregivers for older adults who have endured past trauma. Anderson is partnering with Jewish Family Service organizations from the Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus, Ohio metropolitan areas.
Tamara Davis: Awarded a $60,000 grant from the Institute for Human Services to continue
their evaluation of the Ohio Title IV-E University Partnership Child Welfare Education Program.
This statewide program prepares social work students for employment in public child welfare. A
participatory evaluation model is being used with the seven participating public universities and
other key stakeholders to examine whether the program is meeting its intended goals. Results provide
ongoing feedback for continued program improvement.
Theresa Early: Awarded $25,000 from the College of Social Work Dean’s Seed Grant and the Criminal Justice Research Center at The Ohio State University to conduct a multi-stage interdisciplinary assessment of battered women’s service needs and agency programming. The collaborative project includes co-investigators from nursing and women’s studies and a community partner, Choices, a local agency serving women experiencing intimate partner violence and their children.
Holly Dabelko-Schoeny and
Keith Anderson: Awarded an $18,000 subcontract from the National Adult Day Services Association through a grant from the MetLife Mature Market Institute to conduct a national study of adult day services programs. The first national study of its kind in the last eight years, Dabelko-Schoeny and Anderson will examine the priorities, practices, and expected outcomes of adult day programs. Adult day programs provide health, social, and nutritional services for individuals with functional limitations in a congregate setting. Results from this study will be used by consumers, providers, researchers, and policymakers to make service decisions and to develop programming and policies that support adult day services.
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