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FEBRUARY 2003
Nipping Violence in the Bud
Assistant Professor Jeanne Rivard has been awarded a three-year grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study trauma-focused interventions targeting risks for violence.

FEBRUARY 2003
Shaping the Debate on Child Poverty
Compton Foundation Centennial Professor for the Prevention of Children's and Youth Problems Sheila Kamerman has received a grant from the Ford Foundation for a conference on social exclusion and children, designed to reshape the current policy debate about child poverty.

FEBRUARY 2003
Quality of Life Measurements for Health Care
Associate Professor Ada Mui and Associate Professor Marianne Yoshioka received a grant to develop quality of life measurements in conjunction with research funded by the Nation Institutes of Health at St. Luke’s Hospital.

FEBRUARY 2003
Supporting Fragile Families
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Social Problems Irv Garfinkel has received recent research funding including

• $1 million from the Ford Foundation to study fragile families and child-wellbeing
• A five-year grant from the Mott Foundation to study fatherhood and
  incarceration in fragile families
• $200,000 from Ford for a survey that measures the consequences of
  welfare reform
• a Ford grant to promote the professional development of minority scholars

FEBRUARY 2003
Mental Health Training Program Extends Support
The Mental Health Services Research Predoctoral Training Program offers funded traineeships that bridge the gap between research and practice, preparing social work research scientists who will focus on issues of mental health clinical services and service systems research.

FEBRUARY 2003
A Better Big Apple
Displaying the resilient attitudes that have made them famous the world over, more New Yorkers now say the city is a better place to live than those surveyed in the years leading up to the World Trade Center attacks, according to a survey by Social Work Assistant Professor Julien Teitler. Additional information about the Social Indicator Survey can be found at the Social Indicators Survey Center Web site: www.siscenter.org.

FEBRUARY 2003
Web Resources Combat Child Abuse
Ruth Harris Ottman Professor of Family and Child Welfare Brenda McGowan ’74 DSW will receive 2002 Hedge Funds Care monies to institutionalize the Child Welfare Infonet, a Web site designed to provide child welfare practitioners and administrators with access to biweekly summaries of current research and publications about best practices in the prevention and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

FEBRUARY 2003
Welfare Reform and Wedding Bells
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Social Problems Irv Garfinkel and Professor Ronald B. Mincy co-wrote “Fragile Families, Welfare Reform, and Marriage” in Welfare Reform and Beyond: The Future of the Safety Net edited by Isabel V. Sawhill, R. Kent Weaver, Ron Haskins, and Andrea Kane. The Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.