Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Research and Training Center
The Curtis Center’s aim is to create an environment that facilitates collaboration among investigators to increase their competitiveness in securing funding from multiple sources in order to support their research agendas. Learn more...
Announcements
Curtis Center Co-director, Jorge Delva’s Santiago Longitudinal Study (SLS) Workgroup’s Success
Associate Professors Jorge Delva, PI, and Andy Grogan-Kaylor, co-PI, lead the Santiago Longitudinal Study (SLS) workgroup that meets weekly with undergraduate, graduate, doctoral, and postdoctoral students, including Cristina Bares, postdoc fellow at the Curtis Center and intermittent lecturer, and the Joint Doctoral students listed above. Several from this group will be presenting papers at SSWR. In October this group also successfully presented several papers at the annual meeting of the National Hispanic Scientific Network (NHSN) on drug abuse. One of the students has a paper accepted at the Society for Research on Adolescence, and a former student gave an oral presentation at the CSWE conference. Congratulations to this team for all of their successes!
Congratulations to Dr. Sean Joe who has recently been awarded a Curtis Center Pilot Study Grant of $15,000 for his innovative study to identify genes or proteins in body fluids that may serve to predict a patient at risk for attempting suicide. Dr. Joe's work on suicide prevention is at the forefront of the field and we applaud him for his continued passion and scholarship in this direction. Learn More...
The Curtis Center is delighted to announce its first postdoctoral fellow, Cristina Bares. Dr. Bares received her PhD from the U-M SSW Joint Doctoral Program in Social Work and Developmental Psychology in 2007. Her research on children's cognition focuses on examining how children's naive theories of illness (both in health and mental health) can inform health communications and the degree to which children's cognitive development is compatible with the demands of cognitive behavioral therapies. Learn More...
The Curtis Center research workgroup meets every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month to discuss research projects from 10:00am to 11:30am in the Curtis Center Conference Room (B631). Participants are welcome to present work in any stage of progress. We also schedule in-depth presentations and discussions on a variety of issues related to research from methodology to the finer points of real-world publication. Learn How to Join...
Mission
The Mission of the Curtis Center is to foster multi- and inter- disciplinary research to further society's understanding of mental health, substance abuse, and health problems for the purpose of developing and testing interventions aimed at reducing and eliminating these problems with a particular focus on underserved populations.
