Grants

Principal Investigator: Philip Hong

The place-based Jobs Plus Initiative program at CHA's Dearborn Homes addresses poverty among public housing residents by incentivizing and enabling employment supported by the PSS theory.

Principal Investigator: John Orwat

The Behavioral Health Workforce Education and Training Program at Loyola University Chicago (B-WEP@LUC) for Professionals Project aims to enhance the screening, assessment, and treatment of individuals at risk of behavioral health issues by creating a pipeline to employment by training 116 second year/Advanced Standing social work students for over four years. 

Principal Investigator: James Marley with Theresa Ceko (Law)

Loyola University Chicago's Veterans Clinic, in collaboration with the School of Social Work and the School of Law, will be expanding its mental health services, through more social work interns, allowing for increased case management support as well as legal services.

Principal Investigator: Marquitta Dorsey

This project aims to support preparation and training for the larger study titled Contextualizing Black Adolescent Female Sexual Health, Decision Making and Paternal Engagement through protected time and funding for methodological training and mentorship.

Principal Investigator: Philip Hong

This project will conduct TIP implementation research at Instituto del Progreso Latino (IDPL) and Heartland Human Care Services. Further, Center for Research on Self-Sufficiency (CROSS) will be providing a virtual community-based learning collaborative to agency partners that are currently implementing the TIP program.

Principal Investigator: Julia Pryce

Enhancements will build upon current continuous quality improvement efforts and our unique long-term partnership forged with families. This project aims to strengthen Friend training and ongoing whole family supports to prevent substance abuse and delinquency.

Principal Investigator: Katherine Tyson McCrea

This summer program occurs virtually in Englewood and the Near West Side. Instructors and social work interns will work with youth recruited via After School Matters and virtual interviews, in small group and large group formats over digital media. The human rights-oriented program will focus on understanding human, civil and legal rights in the context of COVID-19 and the quarantine. Youth will interview community members to understand and help with stressors and resource needs.

Principal Investigator: Julia Pryce

First Star Academy at Loyola serves a cohort of foster youth from Chicago with a program operation of teaching, supporting, and advocating for the youth by providing them with university-based programming to help them aspire to advance to higher education after graduation.

Principal Investigator: Maria Vidal de Haymes

This project aims to develop, pilot, evaluate and disseminate a professional internship model and curriculum designed to prepare social work students for interprofessional practice in migration crisis situations.

Principal Investigator: John Orwat

The Practitioner Interprofessional Substance Abuse Training Program at Loyola University Chicago (PISAT@LUC) builds on the success of the SAMHSA-funded SBIRT@LUC training program.

Principal Investigator: John Orwat

The Opioid Workforce Expansion Training Program at Loyola University Chicago (OWETP@LUC) Professionals Project aims to enhance the treatment and recovery of adolescents and transition-aged youth who are at high risk with substance use disorder (SUD) and opioid use disorder (OUD) by creating a pipeline to employment.

Principal Investigator: Philip Hong

This evaluation assesses the degree to which an increase in psychological self-sufficiency (PSS) through an employer-sponsored TIP program for employees leads to economic self-sufficiency.

Principal Investigator: Susan Grossman with Christine George (Center for Urban Research and Learning)

The three main goals of the evaluation research project are: 1) to understand the impact of FCEP activities on achieving risk-appropriate parenting arrangements via i) judges’ decisions on OPs and ii) petitioners’ pleadings as assisted by attorneys, advocates or FCEP educational materials 2) to identify factors that help and hinder implementation of FCEP practices in achieving those goals and 3) to assess the long-term impact of FCEP activities.

Principal Investigator: Caleb Kim

The goal of this project is to develop and implement the BRAVE (Building Resilience Against Violence Engagement) model for preventing minority youth's violence in collaboration with community agencies in Chicago.

Principal Investigator: Brian Kelly with David Van Zytveld (Center for Urban Research and Learning )

The 5HE project aims to develop new evaluation/assessment tools to measure the effectiveness of music programs in non-arts-based settings, in collaboration with Loyola University's Center for Urban Research and Learning (CURL).

Principal Investigator: SL Craig

Craig, S. L. (PI), DiCesare, D., (CI) McDermott, D., Lozano-Verduzco, I., McInroy, L. B., Dentato, M. P., Mendoza Pérez, J. C., Brooks, A. (CL), Doll, K., & Perry, Y. (2022). INQYIRIES: The Inaugural INQYR Student Symposium. Connection Grant: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). ($25,000 Awarded). 

Principal Investigator: C Kostovich

Kostovich, C. (PI), Solari-Twadell, P. A., O’Rourke, J., Dentato, M. P., Orwat, J., DeMarco, D., & Raschke, N. (Co-Is). (2021- 2023). Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Simulation: Promoting Access To Healthcare (S-PATH). ($500,000 Awarded). 

Principal Investigator: Philip Hong

Loyola University Chicago in partnership with Children’s Home & Aid will incorporate evaluation efforts focused on both the process of program implementation (program model and fidelity) and program outcomes with the goal of further program application and scalability. The evaluation includes program and process components, analyzing not only what is being achieved through the integration of Transforming Impossible into Possible (TIP) but also how various programmatic outcomes are achieved. The analyses will allow adjustment of programming as needed and change the systems for strengthening fatherhood and healthy families.