The Center for Disease for Control awarded the doctors Poco Kernsmith, Roger Kernsmith and Joanne P. Smith-Darden a $1 million dollar grant for a three-year study that will research the factors that facilitate and discourage intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetration among middle school and high school youth. Read more about Dr. Kernsmith and her projects by clicking the photo.
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The main objective of this project is to test a motivational enhancement (ME) intervention to address barriers to engaging in mental health treatment for recently returned veterans of Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The long term goal of the intervention is to increase veteran’s participation in mental health treatment by using a Stages of Change model to reduce perceived stigma and barriers to treatment.
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Dr. Angelique Day researches education and health well being measures which influence the successful transition to adulthood of adolescent aged foster care youth. Dr. Day has received funding to examine cross system communication in the provision of educational services to children in foster care, as well as assessing the physical health and well-being of older foster care youth through a review of the automatic Medicaid enrollment initiative of the Michigan Department of Community Health.
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