Faculty News
Professors Sara Goodkind and Jeffrey Shook have received funding from the National Institute of Justice for their project, Caring Connections for Youth: Evaluation of a Countywide Pre-arrest Diversion Initiative to Reduce Racial/Ethnic Disparities, in collaboration with Gwen’s Girls and its Black Girls Equity Alliance.
Associate Professor Catherine Greeno and Assistant Professor Nev Jones received a Priming Grant from the Pitt Momentum Funds for their project, Unpacking Racial Disparities in the Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment of Youth and Young Adults in Allegheny County. Associate Professor James Huguley is on a team headed by Shannon Wanless of Pitt’s School of Education that received a Momentum Funds Scaling Grant for their project, Linking University-Community Initiatives to Promote a Child’s Thriving Pipeline Across Early Developmental Stages.
Leah Jacobs has a new National Institute of Justice-funded project: Can Law Enforcement Training Address Racial and Ethnic Disproportionality? An Experimental Evaluation of Effective Youth Interactions.
Nev Jones, Mental Health America, and the Judge David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health received an Engagement Award for a joint project on the campus mental health crisis from the Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Awards program, an initiative of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Jones also is the coprincipal investigator, with Bevin Croft of the Human Services Research Institute, of a recently awarded $1 million contract from the State of New York to evaluate the implementation and impact of assisted outpatient treatment in New York.
Assistant Professor Deborah Moon has received a new investigator career development award from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct her study, titled Connected through Coaching for Flourishing Families, in collaboration with researchers at Ohio State and Case Western Reserve universities.
Research Associate Professor Marlo Perry is the evaluation lead on a new Administration on Children, Youth and Families Children’s Bureau grant led by the University of California, Los Angeles, to establish, by cooperative agreement, a quality improvement center on workforce analytics.