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Innovations in Research Award Lighting Talks, Spring 2024

AI Helping Adolescents and Young Adults (AYAs) with Cancer in Schools

Anao Zhang

Trauma-Informed Programs and Practices for Schools

Daicia R. Price, Beth A. Sherman, Yatesha D. Robinson, Todd I. Herrenkohl

Helping Black Girls and Caregivers with Legal System Stress

Camille R. Quinn

Partnering with Community Health Workers to Prevent Suicide

Lindsay A. Bornheimer

Research News

Katie Edwards Pens Op-Ed for HuffPost on Catastrophic Cuts in NIH Funding

May 02, 2025
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Meghan Harrington Receives 2025 U-M Research Study Coordinator Award

April 09, 2025
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Katie Edwards Quoted in The Atlantic on NIH Funding Cuts

April 03, 2025
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Kathryn Maguire-Jack and Sunggeun (Ethan) Park Named 2025 SSWR Fellows

January 31, 2025
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Shawna Lee Receives a 2025 SSWR Excellence in Research Award

January 31, 2025
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Andrew Grogan-Kaylor’s Research Cited in MSN News

January 10, 2025
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Research Groups/Labs/Centers

Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Center for Health Equity Research and Training

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
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