Research in Translation
Regional CARE events share findings from 5-year study
The BCTR’s Residential Child Care Project (RCCP) disseminates model techniques and systems to prevent institutional child abuse and neglect. The RCCP’s CARE Model guides childcare agencies to support safe environments, strong programmatic elements, and a wide-variety of treatment programs and interventions that are trauma-sensitive and...
Continue Reading >Supporting Young Families: The Role of Social Network Analysis
Young parents, especially teen parents, must depend on a network of support and multiple services to raise their children, achieve educational and financial goals, and keep their families healthy. Resources for expectant and parenting teens and young adults may come from many directions: supportive housing, child care, and...
Continue Reading >ACT focus group studies connect policy makers with youth voices
Since its inception in 2000, the ACT for Youth Center of Excellence (COE) has sought to enhance efforts to promote the health and well-being of adolescents. As an intermediary funded by the New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH), the COE aims to connect research to practice...
Continue Reading >Community input in the formation of Rachel Dunifon’s Role of Grandparents study
Rachel Dunifon’s research program, The Role of Grandparents in the Lives of Adolescent Grandchildren, would not have come about if it weren’t for the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Educators with whom she works in her parenting program. They are the ones who made Dr. Dunifon...
Continue Reading >Complementary Strengths launches new measure for youth program participation
Translational research includes developing and validating new measures that can be used during efficacy and effectiveness trials and in implementation research. It is ideal if these measures can also work as evaluation tools in real world programs. The Complementary Strengths Research Partnership worked with New York City...
Continue Reading >The TCI:SAFE Project
Evidence based programs often tout the importance of implementing their program with fidelity. But what exactly does program fidelity mean? How do community agencies know when they are (or are not) implementing with fidelity? As part of the Residential Child Care Project, (RCCP) the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention:...
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