The Curtis Center's mission is to stimulate research, training, and outreach opportunities that promote health equity by supporting work that deepens our understanding of the factors that lead to inequities and the strategies that eliminate them.

Level Up Lab

Employment Skills Simulation Lab, bridges the equity gap in employment opportunities for underserved groups by harnessing technology for social good, ensuring healthy development for all youth, promoting decarceration, and eradicating social isolation.

Treatment, Innovation & Dissemination Research Group

The Treatment, Innovation & Dissemination Research Group is a multidisciplinary, multi-institutional team of faculty members, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, and community partners focused on improving psychosocial treatment for mental disorders and increasing access to evidence-based treatments for these conditions among traditionally underserved populations.

Prevention Research and Health Equity Lab

The goal of the Prevention Research and Health Equity Lab is to prevent problem behaviors, eliminate health disparities and work toward health equity.

Center on Assets, Education, and Inclusion

The mission of AEDI is to create and study innovations related to asset development, education, and financial inclusion that result in opportunities across the life course for low-income children and families, in the U.S. and around the globe, for the purposes of climbing out of poverty and up the economic ladder.

Trauma-informed Programs and Practices for Schools (TIPPS)

TIPPS translates research and shares strategies that help students realize their potential and become more resilient to the effects of trauma.

Latinx Faculty and Staff Research and Practice Group

The Latinx Faculty and Staff Research and Practice Group is an affinity group of self-identified Latinx faculty and staff at the University of Michigan School of Social Work. Their aim is to provide a supportive space for discussing issues and challenges relative to Latinx identities in an academic environment. They also wish to provide mentorship and support for faculty, staff, and students through scholarship, academic preparation, and networking students while at the University of Michigan and beyond.

Parenting in Context Research Lab

Parenting in Context Research Lab's research and community-based intervention work focuses on the role of fathers in promoting child and family wellbeing.

Poverty Solutions

Poverty Solutions’ action-based research is focused on partnerships, pilots and even large-scale programs that determine what is most effective and brings new discoveries to policy makers and community stakeholders.

Child & Adolescent Data Lab

The Child and Adolescent Data Lab of the University of Michigan’s School of Social Work is an applied research center focused on using a data driven approach to inform policy and practice decisions in child welfare and juvenile justice.

Center for Equitable Family & Community Well-Being

In a dynamic, post-industrial multi-cultural society, it is easy for systems and policies to evolve in such a way that they become misaligned. Similarly, with a history of racism and growing class divides, some families and communities receive inadequate attention and investment and find themselves disconnected from the resources and opportunities of their surrounding economy. Successful responses are not easy or guaranteed, but there are occasions when policymakers make an appropriate fix or when grassroots leaders and local champions rally around a promising strategy. The goal of the Center for Equitable Family and Community Well-Being is to encourage and support such win-win efforts by connecting the resources and intellectual strength of the University of Michigan with the passion and social capital of community leaders.

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Forum Theatre as a Teaching Tool to Engage in Difficult Conversations

Collectively Pursuing Employment Equity and Economic Opportunity for Detroiters

Trauma-Informed Practice Using a Framework of Radical Healing

WorkChat: A Virtual Workday

Coordinating Research Studies to Answer Bigger and Better Questions

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Ashley Cureton Awarded a Humanities Grant through Michigan Humanities

Rebeccah Sokol Writes in The Conversation About Ways to Reverse the Rise of Gun Deaths in U.S. Youth

Fernanda Cross Named a 2023 Anti-Racism Research & Community Impact Faculty Fellow

Karla Goldman on the Legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

Nicolás Juárez Named a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Research Scholar

Luke Shaefer Discusses Income Inequality on “Detroit Today”

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