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School of Social Work Research Groups
Serves as a hub for research, education, and policy analysis
leading to greater understanding of the causes and consequences
of poverty and effective approaches to reducing it in the west
coast states. Funded in October of 2005, the Center is the newest
of three regional poverty centers funded by the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary
for Planning and Education (OASPE). The Center is a collaborative
venture of the School of Social Work, the Daniel J. Evans School
of Public Affairs, and the College of Arts and Sciences. The Center
creates new opportunities for cross-disciplinary exchanges and
collaboration among poverty researchers and fosters a network
of poverty scholars in the west coast region. The West Coast Poverty
Center’s research agenda addresses the causes and consequences
of poverty and effective policy responses to it in the west coast
region. The Center gives particular focus to: the consequences
of changing labor markets, transformations in the organization
of work and family life, changing demographics and the disproportionate
poverty risk for immigrant families social and economic inequality,
and recent changes in policies and programs to support working
families.
This newly formed (2006) institute is an interdisciplinary effort
housed in the School of Social Work and with faculty members from
several departments. Its primary mission and vision are to support
the inherent rights of Indigenous peoples to achieve full and
complete health and wellness and to collaborate with Indigenous
peoples in decolonizing research, training and knowledge sharing
to achieve the vision. The primary initial health-focused research
projects are the following: a study of the impact of historical
trauma, discrimination, and other stressors on the health and
wellness of Native Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Two-Spirited
men and women; a study on how past and current life experiences
affect the health behaviors and wellness of Native American men
and women living with HIV and AIDS; Healthy Hearts Across Generations,
a 5-year development project in collaboration with the Tulalip
Tribe to design and test a culturally appropriate, feasible and
generalizable cardiovascular disease prevention program for American
Indians living in the Northwest; Adapting the “Listening
to Each Other” Substance Abuse Intervention for Jemez Pueblo
and Ramah Navajo: Integrating an Evidence Based Intervention with
Community and Culturally Supported Practices and Values.
The Native Wellness Center is a practice and policy research
center with a focus on indigenous health (mental/physical/spiritual)
and family/child welfare. A primary focus of research at the Center
is to develop and test new conceptual models, methodologies, community-based
interventions, and community-based research capacities. The Center
also has a strong commitment to the retention and recruitment
of Native students and faculty. The Center is co-directed by the
two Native faculty at the School, Dr. Tessa Evans-Campbell (Snohomish)
and Dr. Karina Walters (Choctaw).
SDRG's research seeks to promote achievement and success as
well as prevent and treat health and behavior problems among young
people. Drug abuse, delinquency, risky sexual behavior, violence,
and school dropout are among the problems addressed. J. David
Hawkins, director, and Richard F. Catalano, associate director,
began in 1979 to develop the Social Development Strategy, which
provides the theoretical basis for risk- and protective-focused
prevention that underlies much of the group's research.
An interdisciplinary applied research entity, the Innovative
Programs Research Group conducts studies designed to achieve a
greater knowledge of the characteristics and needs of undeserved
populations and assess the effectiveness of innovative means for
reducing barriers to the delivery of effective social and mental
health services.
A unique public-private collaboration between the Washington
State Department of Social and Health Services, the University
of Washington School of Social Work, and civic leaders and philanthropists
committed to making positive changes in the child welfare system.
Founded in February 2007 and led by Executive Director Mark Courtney,
the partnership combines the strengths of its partners, within
the state system and externally, to address the needs of Washington’s
most vulnerable children and families.
The mission of NICF is to develop and support leadership and
excellence in providing services to children and families. NICF
is part of the School of Social Work and the University of Washington.
The Intergroup Dialogue, Education and Action (IDEA) Training
& Resource Institute at the University of Washington School
of Social Work was started in November 1996 with funding from
the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) as a response to the
urgent challenges for social work educators to prepare competent
practitioners who can work with an increasingly diverse clientele
and embrace the profession's social justice mission. These challenges
call for changes not only in the content of future practitioners'
knowledge, but also in classroom pedagogies that can enhance their
learning experiences while developing competencies to work in
a multicultural society. Intergroup dialogue--facilitated meetings
of students from different social identity groups--offers an approach
that can engage students in substantive, sustained and conceptually
integrated learning experiences.
Intergroup dialogue is a social justice approach to dialogue.
It foregrounds both societal power relations of domination- subordination,
and the creative possibilities for engaging and working with and
across these differences. The approach aims to move beyond seeing
these differences as divisive, and to collectively generate newer
ways of being powerful without perpetuating social inequalities.
This approach coincides with core social work processes of empowerment--building
connections with others, increasing critical consciousness about
social inequalities, engendering commitments to social justice,
and developing competencies to interrupt social injustices and
engage in social change.
The mission of the Institute has now expanded to supporting campus
and community efforts geared toward addressing issues of oppression,
empowerment, and alliance building for social justice.
Interdisciplinary
Research Opportunities at the
University of Washington
Health Sciences Centers
(instituted 2006) Focuses
on identification and evaluation of health problems and health
inequities in underserved populations and the development and
implementation of innovative interventions that can dramatically
reduce disease burden. Programs in the Department of Global Health
provide a rich educational resource, promote and support interdisciplinary
research programs that address global health disparities, and
provide opportunities to translate educational and research programs
into improving the health of underserved populations through service
activities in developing countries. Research projects and service-based
activities provide excellent educational opportunities. Students
and trainees enrolled in educational programs facilitate new areas
of research and practice. The Department of Global Health serves
as a model for integration of educational, research, and service
activities, all focused on sustainable improvement of health in
developing countries.
Seeks to create and
support a community of scholars at the University of Washington
and to generate new, interdisciplinary knowledge about diversity
and institutional transformation. The Diversity Research Institute
aims to complement diversity research at existing centers, link
their efforts, and support their work. With funding from the Provost's
office, the Diversity Research Institute funds a small grants
program for UW faculty members and graduate students.
Recognizing the need
to address the enormous problems caused by alcohol and drug abuse,
the University of Washington established the Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Institute in October of 1973 as an interdisciplinary research
center in the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center. From
its beginning, the mission of the Institute has been to conduct
and support substance abuse research a the University of Washington,
and disseminate research findings in substance abuse.
The activities of the
Institute may be described under three general headings:
* Intramural research
by ADAI Research Scientists supported through federal, state,
and other grants and contracts;
* Stimulation and
support of research by ADAI Research Affiliates and faculty in
departments throughout the University through a Small Grants Program.
Since 1973, ADAI has awarded almost three million dollars to researchers
in 40 University departments, for approximately 300 projects.
Many of those funded projects led to outside funding for expanded
research.
* Dissemination of
research findings through its Library and Information Service,
publications and presentations by ADAI scientists, web page, listservs,
newsletters, and symposia.
The Institute receives
financial support from the State of Washington under state Initiative
171, which mandates that a portion of fees collected for state
liquor licenses be allocated to the two state research universities
for research on alcohol and drug abuse, and dissemination of research
information. The University of Washington provides additional
funding. Research studies are funded primarily through grants
and contracts awarded by federal and state agencies. and private
foundations.
The Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Institute serves as a focal point for alcohol and drug abuse
research at the University of Washington and in the region, benefiting
the citizens of Washington State by expanding our knowledge and
making information available to health and social service professionals
and policy makers. The Institute's multidisciplinary staff of
clinical and social psychologists, sociologists, epidemiologists,
public health experts, educators, and librarians plays a key role
in working to understand and reduce the harm caused by alcohol
and drug abuse.
The University of Washington
(UW) Center for AIDS and STD, established in July, 1989, provides
patient care, research, training and education, and international
assistance for HIV/AIDS and STD. The Center is administered by
the UW in collaboration with several other institutions throughout
the Pacific Northwest and in several other countries. The Center
was designated a "World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating
Center for AIDS and STD" in 1995, the only such collaborating
center in the Western Hemisphere. Approximately 120 UW and affiliated
faculty participate in these programs. They include HIV/AIDS and
STD specialists in internal medicine, obstetrics, gynecology,
pediatrics, family medicine, dentistry, nursing, social work,
public health, pharmacy, microbiology, and pathology. The Center
for AIDS and STD is funded by several federal agencies, and by
the UW to coordinate all UW AIDS and STD related programs.
Developmental disabilities
and related disabilities can affect people's lives in profound
ways throughout the lifespan. A developmental disability may interfere
with self care, language, learning, mobility, capacity for independent
living, and ability to work. Family relationships, friendships
and community life can be affected.
Range of activities
CHDD is one of the nation's largest and most comprehensive interdisciplinary
research and training centers focusing on a wide array of developmental
disabilities. More than 600 University of Washington faculty and
staff members, as well as numerous doctoral and post-doctoral
students, provide clinical services, interdisciplinary clinical
and research training, and technical assistance and outreach training
to community practitioners and community agencies. CHDD scientists
and clinicians also conduct basic and applied research to generate
new knowledge and disseminate information widely.
Two major programs
CHDD is one of the few centers in the country that encompasses
two major programs, one focusing on research and the other on
clinical services, training and community outreach. This structure
encourages strong connections between researchers and clinicians,
and creates an important bridge between basic research and state-of-the-art
clinical programs.
This center studies
underlying causes of mental retardation and other developmental
disabilities, and develops behavioral and biomedical techniques
to prevent disabilities or minimize their impact. University of
Washington faculty members from a wide variety of scientific disciplines
are appointed as CHDD Research Affiliates. Supported by Scientific
Core Facilities, they work in interdisciplinary collaborations
to address developmental disabilities from a broad range of perspectives,
including genetic factors, neurobiological processes, and behavior.
http://depts.washington.edu/chdd/mrddrc.html
UCEDD is part of the
Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD), established
in every state to train professionals within an interdisciplinary
framework to meet the needs of people with disabilities, provide
clinical services and model projects, reach out to the community
with technical assistance and training, conduct applied research,
and disseminate information widely. These university-based centers
were formerly known as University Affiliated Programs (UAPs).
Mission
The mission of the Center for Disability Policy and Research is
to shape disability policy and service delivery through the following
means:
- Conduct policy
analyses of health and human services designed to prevent and
minimize impact of disabling conditions, integrate and coordinate
existing services, and assure access to high quality health
services for people with disabilities.
- Conduct research
on the disablement process and disabling conditions, the health
needs of people with disabilities, the personal, and the delivery
of health and human services to people with disabilities and
their families.
- Improve surveillance
of primary and secondary factors contributing to the progression
of chronic disease and injury.
- Train practitioners,
administrators, and policy-makers in disability policy and research.
- Disseminate information
concerning important disability policy and research issues.
Founded in 1985, the
HIPRC has become one of the premier institutions researching how
and why people suffer injuries and what can be done to prevent
them.
The problems we tackle
at the HIPRC are those we see in the emergency department, the
intensive care unit, the ward and the autopsy suite. As one of
the premier injury-control centers in the United States, we are
dedicated to lessening the impact of injury on families here in
the Northwest and across the nation. Furthermore, we aim to prevent
these injuries altogether.
The Health Promotion
Research Center, located at the University of Washington in Seattle,
WA, is one of 28 dedicated Prevention Research Centers in the
United States. These centers are funded by the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention through their Prevention Research Center
Program. HPRC is one of two centers whose focus is on healthy
aging.
The central theme of
the Health Promotion Research Center is "keeping older adults
healthy and independent." First funded in 1986 as the Center for
Health Promotion in Older Adults, the center's name was changed
to Northwest Prevention Effectiveness Center in 1996 to reflect
a life-span approach to prevention. In June 2000, the advisory
board voted to change the name to Health Promotion Research Center
for greater name understanding. Key faculty investigators from
the University of Washington have expertise in developing interventions
to reduce chronic disability in seniors. Partners of the center
include agencies committed to promoting health and quality of
life for older populations.
The University of Washington
Adult AIDS Clinical Trials Unit's mission is to:
- Conduct clinical
research in order to answer questions about how HIV works and
affects the immune system
- Study the natural
history of HIV/AIDS and its associated complications over time
- Help develop new
treatments for HIV/AIDS
- Evaluate the effectiveness
of treatments already available for both short term and long
term use
- Educate communities
in the Northwest about the need for clinical trials in all populations
- Provide equal access
to all those who wish to participate, including minorities,
women and injection drug users
The Institute on Aging
is an interdisciplinary center dedicated to research and teaching
on aging. Its mission is to improve the quality of life for older
adults in the Pacific Northwest. This institute focuses on issues
that remain major challenges for researchers, educators, practitioners
and policy makers in aging. These include health care delivery
and utilization, families and intergenerational issues, caregiving
for frail elders, housing options, and the concerns of older women
and minorities.
The Center for Women's
Health Research's primary goals are to facilitate basic and clinical
interdisciplinary research related to women's health across the
lifespan, increase the knowledge base of women's health, disseminate
scientific knowledge, and promote development of research skills
and opportunity for scholarship about women's health among faculty,
research staff, and predoctoral and postdoctoral trainees.
The mission of the
Center on Infant Mental Health and Development is to promote interdisciplinary
research and training related to the social and emotional aspects
of development for young children during their formative years.
The prevention projects
of the multi-faceted Reconnecting Youth Prevention Research Program
involve partnerships between school personnel, youth, and parents.
They focus on the following: Testing school-based models for preventing
drug abuse, school dropout, depression, and suicide behaviors
among high-risk youth; and the effect of psychosocial risk and
protective factors on adolescent development within family, friendship,
and school contexts.
All participants benefit by advancing knowledge of school-based
interventions that work to enhance those factors linked with decreases
of high-risk behavior and increases in school success.
University of Washington
Central Campus Centers for Research
The Center for Social
Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) is a computer resource
center providing facilities and support for social science departments
at the University of Washington. CSSCR facilities are restricted
to use by students, faculty, and staff of the University of Washington.
The Center for Statistics
and the Social Sciences started in 1999, with funding from the
University Initiatives Fund. It is the first center in the nation
devoted to this interface, with the triple mission of galvanizing
collaborative research between social scientists and statisticians,
developing a menu of new graduate courses for social science students,
and putting together an innovative case-based undergraduate statistics
sequence for the social sciences.
Research collaboration
is fostered in a variety of ways, through seminars, seed grants,
the consulting program, the working papers series, and the collaborative
work of our core faculty. Our dynamic Seminar series meets on
Wednesdays at 12:30pm in Savery 209 and is run by CSSS Seminar
Director Katherine Stovel. This features a great deal of interaction
and discussion, and is highly interdisciplinary in terms of both
speakers and audience.
The Center for Studies
in Demography and Ecology, founded in 1947, supports education,
research and scholarly exchange in population studies at the University
of Washington. We focus on interdisciplinary research, with an
emphasis on understanding the structural mechanisms that link
individual behavior to population level outcomes. An independent
unit on campus since 2000, our affiliates and students come from
the departments of Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Sociology
and Statistics, and the schools of International Studies, Public
Affairs, Public Health and Social Work. Population scientists
from the Battelle Institute's Center for Public Health Research
and Evaluation (Seattle) and Western Washington University (Bellingham,
WA) also participate in Center activities.
Our affiliates are
known for their research on biodemography, health, international
demography, migration, inequality, family demography, and quantitative
methodology. Descriptions of the active research projects at the
Center can be found under Current Research Projects.
The Center provides
research support services and educational opportunities to its
members through its: graduate student, postdoctoral and mid-career
professional training; computer lab and services; library collection
and services; working paper series; and weekly research seminar.
Biodemography Laboratory
(within CSDE) Conducts
population level research in human ecology and biodemography.
Faculty researchers specialize in developing, optimizing, and
carrying out hormone assays for large-scale research projects.
A central focus of the lab is optimizing the collection, storage
and analysis of urine, saliva and blood samples for research undertaken
in (often remote) field settings. The goals are to facilitate
new areas of research in biodemography and human ecology, and
to enable population level research to be undertaken in a cost
effective and reliable manner. The researchers merge methods and
theory from biology, demography, and anthropology to foster a
more detailed understanding of the biological and cultural factors
affecting human ecology, especially in natural (non-clinical)
and non-Western settings.
The Comparative Law
and Society Studies Center at the University of Washington is
committed to promoting interdisciplinary research and teaching
as well as community service regarding law, justice, and human
rights throughout the world.
At its core CLASS is
constituted by an intellectual community of faculty, staff, graduate
students, and undergraduate students dedicated to cutting-edge
socio-legal inquiry. This community is structured around four
primary types of endeavor: (1) individual and collaborative academic
research; (2) an interdisciplinary Graduate Fellows program; 3)
the undergraduate Law, Societies, and Justice program; and 4)
community outreach and service.
The Human Rights Education
and Research Network promotes the integration of human rights
scholarship and teaching at the University's three campuses (Bothell,
Seattle, Tacoma) by generating leading research, by developing
new pathways of learning for students, and by relating this work
to the world of practice. This non-partisan organization will
provide intellectual, institutional, and financial support for
researchers and teachers at all levels of theory and practice
to further their work in the emerging field of human rights.
The Human Services
Policy Center (HSPC)'s mission is to improve the well-being of
children, families, and communities. We conduct policy and data
analysis and provide training, technical assistance, and consultation
to further this mission. Core funding is provided by the Stuart
Foundations; other local and national foundations support various
HSPC initiatives. HSPC is a collaborative effort of six professional
schools. [The School of Social Work is one of these.]
The Interdisciplinary
Qualitative Research Group at the University of Washington (IQRG)
is a newly formed cooperating site of the International Institute
for Qualitative Methodology (IIQM), based at the University of
Alberta, in Edmonton, Canada. Its purpose is to facilitate the
production of sound interpretive research including qualitative,
and ethnographic methods, as well as narrative and discourse analysis.
The IQRG encourages and supports interdisciplinary exchange about
qualitative research across the UW campus and in the community.
Community-Campus Partnerships
for Health (CCPH) is a nonprofit organization that promotes health
(broadly defined) through partnerships between communities and
higher educational institutions. Founded in 1996, we are a growing
network of over 1,600 communities and campuses across North America
and increasingly the world that are collaborating to promote health
through service-learning, community-based participatory research,
broad-based coalitions and other partnership strategies. These
partnerships are powerful tools for improving higher education,
civic engagement and the overall health of communities.
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