Recently Funded Projects | Recent Center Presentations
Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Coordination
The Center has received a 3-year subcontract from the North Carolina Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse services to assist the Division in the implementation of their grant from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to develop a statewide infrastructure on substance abuse treatment coordination to strengthen its capacity to serve youth in need of substance abuse treatment and their families. The project will build on existing collaborative efforts among families and youth and various state public and private agencies to infuse system of care principles and evidenced based practices into the training of providers and service delivery.
Community Outreach Partnership Center (COPC) Evaluation
The Center received a 1-year subcontract from Winston-Salem State University’s Center for Community Safety to design and facilitate evaluation activities for their Community Outreach Partnership Center(s), funded by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. Kamarrie Davis Gooding, Research Associate/Evaluation Manager at the Center will oversee the design, implementation, and reporting of evaluation findings. Evaluation activities include an assessment of community engagement interests, strategies, and outcomes as demonstrated by the COPC faculty at Winston-Salem State University. This evaluation project emphasizes the extent to which the university and target communities are able to identify, carryout, and sustain mutually beneficial activities and interests.
HOPE VI Evaluation of the High Point Housing Authority
The Center has received a 1-year renewable contract from the High Point Housing Authority to evaluation their federally funded HOPE VI project from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. This evaluation project examines the impact and quality of relocation services provided to HOPE VI residents over the course of a neighborhood revitalization project.
Kamarrie Davis Gooding, Research Associate/Evaluation Manager at the Center will serve as Principal Investigator, supervising data collection, analysis and reporting.
Building Stronger Neighborhoods Coalition Impact Evaluation
The Center has received funding from the Building Stronger Neighborhoods Coalition, a coalition of local foundations in Guilford County dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods through community development work and small grants programs, to conduct an evaluation of BSN impact in the City of Greensboro. Kamarrie Davis Gooding, Research Associate/Evaluation Manager at the Center worked collaboratively with the coalition to design a participatory evaluation plan whose findings will be used to guide the coalition’s future actions in community development work.
Supporting the Social Emotional Development of Young Children
The Center received a 2-year grant from the Moses Cone Wesley Long Community Health Foundation to (1) increase access to quality, culturally responsive services that support the social emotional development of infants and young children, particularly increasing outreach to immigrant and refugee families; (2) provide training to health care providers on social emotional warning signs in young children and resources in the county; and (3) facilitate the provision of parent mentors to families interested in this kind of support.
Guilford County Health Literacy Assessment Project
The Center has been involved in the development of a community health literacy advocacy group, spearheaded by Reading Connections and including multiple collaborators. Jen Kimbrough worked with Reading Connections to develop proposals to the Weaver Foundation and the Community Health Improvement Fund, both of which were subsequently funded. The Center received a subcontract from these funds to lead a community needs assessment around health literacy in the county. The results of this assessment will be used to inform future work of the collaborative.
The Guilford School Readiness Collaborative
Dr. Chris Payne serves as the facilitator for a recently funded Weaver Foundation planning grant, The Guilford School Readiness Collaborative. This project creates a multidisciplinary collaborative with partners from UNCG, NC A&T, GTCC, Guilford Child Development, Guilford County Schools, and the Guilford Education Alliance to address critical issues and future directions in the area of school readiness.
Center faculty and staff recently presented at the 19th Annual Research Conference on Children's Mental Health. Papers and topical discussions included:
- Family-level protective factors associated with adolescent aggression
- Factors associated with both mental health and juvenile justice involvement among children with severe emotional disturbance
- Is there a theoretical and empirical basis for strength-based planning?
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Center faculty and staff will also present at the Campus-Community Partnerships for Health Annual Conference to be held in May. Presentations include:
- Collaborating for community safety: A research partnership to support Project Safe Neighborhoods
- Campus policies and procedures: How to avoid stumbling while “walking the talk”
- Building community capacity through a community-driven mini-grant process
- Combining Evidence Based Approaches in a Maternal and Child Health Intervention Program.
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As the Research Partner for the Middle District of North Carolina, Dr. Jim Frabutt will serve on an invited panel regarding action research to support community at the Project Safe Neighborhoods Annual Conference to be held in May.
Chris Payne and Claretta Witherspoon recently conducted a U-STEP professional development training for Guilford County School’s Pre-K and Kindergarten teachers entitled Family Involvement: Creating Effective Partnerships in the Context of Risk.
Dr. Payne has conducted a series of 4 training sessions for North Carolina Head Start Directors entitled Evidence Based Practice: Enhancing Classroom Quality (Reflective Supervision, Curriculum Implementation, Assessment and Program Evaluation, Cultural Competency)
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