| Centers
Among the CUSSW research centers supported by grant
funding are:
The
New York City
Social Indicators Survey Center
Provides
a core teaching resource, a unique
data source and knowledge about social needs
and services for planners and policy makers.
Among its current studies is a five-year
in-depth look at the impact of social welfare devolution
on the residents of New York City, with
a special emphasis on families with children. Go
to Web site
The Center for the Study
of Social
Work Practice
A partnership
between the School and the Jewish Board of
Family and Children’s
Services and the only endowed research organization
focused solely
on the
development and dissemination of social work
knowledge. Go
to Web site
The Social Intervention Group
Designs, develops, tests and disseminates innovative
approaches to
ameliorating and preventing human problems — recently
concentrating on AIDS, substance abuse and related
social ills in low–income urban communities. Go
to Web site
The Center for Social Policy
and Practice in the Workplace
A premiere research,
program development
and training center. Regarded as a knowledge
bank within the human service professions, the
Center has worked with service providers, corporations
and unions throughout the nation around issues of disability,
gender and substance abuse, as well as broader
issues around workplace diversity. Go
to Web site
The Cross-National Studies Research Program
The Cross-National Studies Research Program was
established in the early 1970's. As its central
purpose, the Program carries out comparative social policy research
in advanced industrialized
countries on issues of particular concern to
the United States, U.S. studies in the context of comparative studies,
and U.S. studies
which are outside of comparative projects. The
central focus is child and family policy in the advanced industrial
world, including
government, employment, and private sector programs
and policies, such as:
- Income transfers for families with children
- Maternity
and parental benefits and leaves
- Early childhood
care and education
- Social service delivery systems
- Devolution, privatization, contracting,
etc.
- Family changes and family policy
Funding for the
Cross-National Studies Research Program has been
provided by both public (governmental) and private
(foundation)
grants.
Go
to Web site
The Institute for Child and Family Policy (ICFP)
The Institute for Child and Family Policy (ICFP)
at Columbia University was initiated in 1999
to meet the urgent need for systematic exchange among policy researchers
and policy shapers from different disciplines. The program of the Institute is
based on the premise that scholars working together can address problems that
would be beyond the reach of individual researchers and together achieve results
that would be more than the sum total of their individual efforts.
The mission
of the Institute is to identify and address fundamental
and intractable problems in the formulation, analysis,
implementation, and evaluation of social
policies toward children, youth, and families. The distinctive approach of the
Institute is its integration of both a developmental perspective and an international-comparative
perspective into its work.
Go
to Web site
Center for Intervention & Prevention Research on
HIV & Drug Abuse (CIPRHDA)
Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), the Center's mission
is to advance intervention and prevention research on HIV/AIDS and drug abuse
by
training the next cadre of social work researchers in the development, testing,
and dissemination of empirically-validated intervention and prevention approaches
that address contemporary social problems. Go
to Web site |
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“The
Social Intervention Group provides training that
is unique
to Columbia.
We’re out in the
community focusing
on
contemporary social
problems, but at the same
time students get to know
the
science of intervention.”
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— Nabila El-Bassel,
Professor
of Social Work
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