Overview
There are several affiliated projects collaborating with the CICM to incorporate research projects through multiple universities and a variety of fields of study. Below are the currently listed projects:
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Social Workers Advancing through Grounded Education (SAGE)
The SAGE program recruits, trains, and financially supports Brown School students in completing a portion of their practicum in Indian Country. Manasseh Begay and the Buder Center support students in serving Native communities through Native-led programming and research.
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ACHIEVE Training Prorgram
The ACHIEVE Training Program is a one-year training appointment for early-career researchers interested in applying dissemination & implementation (D&I) and data science methodologies in global health. Melissa Jonson-Reid is a mentor for ACHIEVE, supporting the researchers’ professional development as they carry out research projects in low and middle-income countries.
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Grandi Byen
Grandi Byen is an NICHD-sponsored project based in Haiti that addresses the issue of stunted growth and development through collaboration between the Haitian public health ministry, a local hospital, US medical schools, and researchers from the Brown School — including Trish Kohl and Lora Iannotti. The research looks into the biological and psychosocial mechanisms of stunted growth, as well as feasible solutions. The intervention taps available resources with high impact potential – willing parents vested in their child’s development, affordable animal source foods for high-quality nutrition, and WASH behaviors to mitigate urban infection risks.
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Estimating the Impact of SNAP, WIC, and UI in the Primary Prevention of Multiple Forms of Family Violence: A Causal and Computational Approach
Derek Brown is the Primary Investigator for a new study, funded through the CDC, that will rigorously evaluate the impacts of three important, yet under-studied economic assistance programs—the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Unemployment Insurance (UI)—on the primary prevention of child abuse and neglect (CAN) and intimate partner violence (IPV) during the 2001-2020 period.
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Child Welfare Responses during and post COVID-19 in Missouri: Trends in Administrative Data and Perspectives from Agencies and Families
Supported by a two-year grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Liwei Zhang (PI) and Trish Kohl (mentor) will work together on exploring child welfare responses during and post COVID-19 in Missouri particularly among marginalized communities using a mixed-methods design. Findings will help policymakers and practitioners determine how to effectively deliver services to at-risk families and prevent child maltreatment in the post-COVID era and plan for future crises or disasters. Findings will also help identify the best approaches for diverse communities, particularly those marginalized by poverty, race/ethnicity, and rural/urban status.
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Children and Youth Collaborative Network
The Collaborative Youth and Child Network (CYCN) is designed to catalyze research by facilitating connection and collaboration among those at WashU who have the same end goal: to improve the health and wellbeing of children and youth. The CYCN hosts Spark Meetings and a Conference, and offers modest financial support for a research assistant or to purchase a dataset. CYCN is supported by a Here and Next Seed Grant Award from the Office of the Washington University Provost.