DFPM-RED is active and busy making a difference in the lives of Arkansans through our research-based work throughout the state! Here are a few of the recent highlights.
Publications
McKelvey, L. M., Fitzgerald, S. K., Conners-Edge, N. A., & Whiteside-Mansell, L. (2017, in press). Keeping Our Eyes on the Prize: Focusing on the Parent-Child Relationship Supports Depressed Parents’ Involvement in Home Visiting Services. Maternal and Child Health Journal.
Swindle, T., Selig, J., Rutledge, J.M., Whiteside-Mansell, L., & Curran, G. (In Press). Fidelity Monitoring in Complex Interventions: A Case Study of the WISE Intervention. Archives of Public Health
Grants/Contracts
Gilead HIV project – We’ve hired a community health worker and trainer/data person for the Gilead HIV project in collaboration with the Pulaski County Drug Court
DFPM-RED faculty member Nikki Edge, Ph.D., is collaborating with Russellville school district and NLR preschools to implement a pilot ‘trauma-informed’ classrooms.
DFPM-RED’s Cindy Crone and LaTunja Sockwell will be part of a homeless project with Our House funded by SAMHSA.
“UAMS and Our House are excited to share that the Home Together grant application to SAMHSA that your organization supported has been funded for five years. This provides an innovative and much-needed opportunity to improve health and social outcomes of homeless or housing insecure pregnant women and mothers of young children to age five who also have serious mental illness (SMI) or co-occurring mental illness and substance use disorder (COD).”
New HIV Grant from Arkansas Department of Health Prevention & Viral Hepatitis C Program, HIV Education ($40,000)