School of Social Work News

Assistant Professor David Córdova was named a fellow of Saint Louis University's Health Criminology Research Consortium.

Assistant Professor David Córdova’s article, “Development of the Brief Social Capital for Youth Sexual and Reproductive Health Scale Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis” was published in Youth & Society.

Assistant Professor David Cordova was selected to be part of the NIDA Diversity Scholars Network (NDSN). Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, The NDSN aims to improve the funding of outstanding underrepresented early stage investigators in substance abuse research and build a sustainable independent research career.

Assistant Professor David Córdova received a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to develop a cross-platform and universal version of Storytelling 4 Empowerment (S4E)--a theory-driven, culturally congruent, interactive, tailored and targeted mobile health intervention--and to examine the preliminary efficacy of S4E, relative to control condition, in preventing and reducing drug use and condomless sex, and improving HIV and STI testing in a clinic sample of at-risk adolescents.

Assistant Professor David Córdova's project, "Preventing HIV/STI in Urban Adolescents via an mHealth Primary Care Intervention" was funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. The purpose of this research is to develop a cross-platform and universal version of Storytelling 4 Empowerment, an interactive, tailored and targeted mobile health intervention. The project will examine its preliminary efficacy in preventing and reducing drug use and condomless sex, and improving HIV and STI testing in at-risk adolescents.

Assistant Professor David Córdova's article, "Personal Identity Development in Hispanic Immigrant Adolescents: Links with Positive Psychosocial Functioning, Depressive Symptoms, and Externalizing Problems" was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence. 

Assistant Professor David Cordova received a grant for his project, ''Greater Than'' from Teen Hype. This Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration-funded project is a community-university partnership between Teen Hype (Detroit) and the SSW. The five-year initiative aims to build capacity for substance abuse and HIV prevention services for at-risk racial/ethnic minority youth residing in the Detroit Metropolitan Area.

Assistant Professor David Córdova, along with his Detroit community partner Detroit Hispanic Development Corporation, presented his research, "Preventing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems Among Detroit Hispanic Youth," at the Urban Research Center 20th Anniversary Symposium on January 21, 2016. The project aims to narrow and ultimately eliminate Hispanic health and mental health inequities in Detroit.