Completed Projects

Principal Investigator: Michael Holmes, PhD

Funder: Oregon Community Foundation

Dates: 08/01/2022 – 03/01/2024

To develop underrepresented (communities of color, LGBTQ+, etc.) future scientists to engage, learn and grow while at the same time providing critical services to local nonprofits.

Principal Investigator: Erika Westling, PhD

Funder: Yarg Foundation

01/31/2023 – 09/30/2023

To pilot a mindfulness-based mental health training of trainers program for the 2023-24 school year, focusing on middle schools and other organizations who work with young adolescents.

Principal Investigator: Erika Westling, PhD

Funder: Washington County Public Health Division

07/27/2022 – 12/31/2023

To develop of a community centered Health Equity Action Plan as part of Washington County’s Public Health Modernization

Principal Investigator: Vincent Chirimwami, PhD

Funder: African Family Holistic Health Organization

10/01/2023 –12/31/2023

A pilot study to develop procedures and evaluate the potential efficacy of an intervention to discourage commercialized tobacco use among African refugees in the Portland, OR area.

Principal Investigator: Vincent Chirimwami, PhD

Funder: African Family Holistic Health Organization

08/01/2022 – 07/31/2023

To address the root causes of commercialized tobacco use in the Portland, OR, African American community.

Principal Investigator: Keith Smolkowski, PhD

Funder: Choose Kindness Foundation

01/01/2022 – 06/30/2023

To assist with a survey study of kindness within school wide PBIS in elementary, middle, and high schools across the United States.

Principal Investigator: Keith Smolkowski, PhD

Funder: Subaward from University of Alabama (US Department of Education grant)

08/01/21 – 09/30/23  

To provide project services including intervention development, data collection procedures, analyses, and dissemination.

Principal Investigator: Keith Smolkowski, PhD

Funder: University of Oregon General Council

05/01/21 – 12/31/23 

To assist with an evaluation of the University of Oregon student conduct records.

Principal Investigator: Carol W. Metzler, PhD

Funder: Partnership with United Way/LaneKids, with funding from Lane County Public Health Prevention Program

09/01/2015 – 06/30/2023

To work with community partners to implement the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program in Lane County, to assist families county-wide with evidence-based parenting supports. ORI CES staff also provide program evaluation services to the project, including collection and analysis of parent surveys and program exposure data.

Principal Investigator: Carol Metzler, PhD

Funder: Triple P America

01/01/21 – 12/31/2022

To conduct program evaluation and data analysis for the TPCHD roll out of the Triple P – Positive Parenting Program.

Principal Investigator: Angela Phinney

Funder: Long Term Recovery Group/United Way

05/1/2022 – 06/15/2022

To understand the effects and impacts of the McKenzie wildfire and to determine priority needs, find resources, and help individuals and families recover from the disaster.

Principal Investigator: Andrew Bergen, PhD

Funder: University of California San Diego

07/01/2020 – 06/30/2022

Projects related to genetic analyses of anorexia nervosa including public and private biospecimen, clinical and genotyped datasets

Principal Investigator: Ed Feil, PhD

Funder: Oregon Community Foundation  

01/1/21 – 12/31/22

To promote oral health interventions in low-income Oregon families with young children.

Principal Investigator: Andrew Bergen, PhD

Funder: University of California San Diego

08/15/2022 – 12/31/2022

To obtaining sequence data, transferring biospecimens, and planning the transfer of biospecimens

Principal Investigators: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD, Mark Van Ryzin, PhD, Jason Small, PhD, Gulcan Cil, PhD, Jeff Gau, MS, Erika Westling, PhD, Jeanette Ricci, PhD

Funder: Portland Public Schools, School District 1J

Dates: 08/01/2021 – inactive

In vendor pool to provide independent research and evaluation services as need by PPS School District 1J.

Principal Investigator: Jorge I. Ramirez Garcia, PhD

Funder: University of Oregon

1/1/2021 – 12/31/2021

To provide rapid scaling of COVID-19 testing for the Latinx community within local and surrounding communities and counties.

Principal Investigator: Ed Feil, PhD

Funder: Head Start of Lane County

1/1/2021 – 12/31/2021

to provide the training and support to implement Mom-Net, a self-guided web/mobile program for mothers to learn skills to improve mood and make parenting more enjoyable.

Principal Investigator: Ed Feil, PhD

Funder: U.S. DOE grant to Columbia University  

09/01/2017 – 08/31/2021

To provide leadership in technological aspects of intervention development and deployment of the Exceptional Coaching for Early Language and Literacy–Online Professional Development Program for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade Teachers on an Internet/mobile system.

Principal Investigator: Carol Metzler, PhD

Funder: Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department  

05/17/21 – 06/30/21

To manage parent incentives for the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Triple P program.

Principal Investigators: Lori Allen & Grace Bullock

Funder: OEA Choice Trust

Dates: 07/01/20 – 06/30/21

Purpose: To work with OEA Choice Trust to plan and implement mindfulness trainings and technical assistance for school administrators and school employees to promote the health and well-being of school employees.

Principal Investigator: Noni Canavan, PhD

Funder: Oregon Department of Education

07/27/2020 – 12/21/2020

To examine how other state agencies are investing in Oregon’s Black Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and present the data to the ODE and Oregon’s Multi-Agency Coordination Committee.

Principal Investigator: B Grace Bullock, PhD

Funder: Passageworks Institute

02/01/2019 – 07/31/2020

To refine and expand an existing leadership training survey—survey creation in Qualtrics, data collection, cleaning, analysis and reporting results.

Principal Investigator: Lew Goldberg, PhD

Funder: RTJC Hogan Family Foundation

01/01/2019 – 02/28/2020 

To conduct personality and assessment research with the Eugene–Springfield Community Sample and with international scientific collaborators

Principal Investigator: Jorge I. Ramirez Garcia, PhD

Funder: Oregon Health Authority  

01/17/2019 – 08/14/2019  

To evaluate the service accessibility of EASA’s Center for Excellence (C4E), make recommendations to the program’s approach to culturally diverse communities, and include those changes and adjustments in the program’s training, practice guidelines, and expectations for outreach and engagement.

Principal Investigator: Ed Feil, PhD

Funder: Ford Family Foundation

6/26/2018–7/31/2019

To provide mental health services to mothers with depression who have children enrolled in Head Start of Lane County through MomNet, a coach-facilitated Internet-based interactive intervention.

Principal Investigator: B Grace Bullock, PhD

Funder: OEA Choice Trust

04/01/2018 – 03/31/2019 

To work with OEA Choice Trust to plan and implement mindfulness trainings and technical assistance for school administrators and school employees to promote the health and well-being of school employees.

Principal Investigator: Joe Brewer

Funder: Donations and grants.

Date: 2018

To help communities guide their own social change efforts using integrated social science tools and frameworks.

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Oregon Health Authority (OHA)

11/1/2016 – 09/28/2018

To evaluate OHA’s Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (HPCDP) Section’s work with the CDC to increase the availability of lower sodium foods while engaging the food sector to facilitate reduced sodium levels in packaged and restaurant foods in Oregon. 

Principal Investigator: B Grace Bullock

Funder: Lane County Health & Human Services   

09/01/2017 – 12/31/2018

To implement Positive Parenting public awareness campaign, Triple P primary care training, and Triple P Online Program use to support family success in Lane County.

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Lane County Public Health Prevention

09/01/2017–06/30/2018

To evaluate the process and impact of Lane County’s NAP SACC program in childcare facilities.

Principal Investigator: B Grace Bullock, PhD

Funder: Lane County Public Health Prevention

07/01/2017 – 06/30/2018

To evaluate Lane County’s implementation of the Family Check-Up model of parenting intervention.

Principal Investigator: Missy Peterson

Funder: Washington University  

Dates: 04/01/2017 – 04/30/2017

Data support for Oregon Youth Substance Use Project 

Principal Investigator: Jorge Ramírez García, PhD

Funder: Oregon Health Authority (OHA)

10/1/2016 – 6/30/2017 

To evaluate OHA’s Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention (HPCDP) Section’s work with the three Regional Health Equity Coalitions (RHECs).

Principal Investigator: Jorge Ramírez García, PhD

Funder: Oregon Family Support Network

09/1/2016 – 12/31/2017

To provide consultation and technical assistance for development of OFSN’s program evaluation capacities.

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Oregon Health Authority

05/11/2016 – 07/31/2017 

To coordinate an annual oral health and BMI screening in randomly selected Oregon elementary schools (grades 1, 2, and 3) and develop a final report on the survey experience

Principal Investigator: Erika Westling, PhD

Funder: Ford Family Foundation grant, Collin’s Foundation grant, and donation from Ophelia’s Place founder, Rosaria Haugland Program

09/01/2014 – 06/30/2017

To evaluate a three-component intervention in middle and high schools in rural Lane County that aim to decrease bullying and relational violence in schools, strengthen girls, and educate and empower staff to facilitate these positive changes.

Principal Investigator: Shannon McGill

Funder: Michael Buckle, MS

04/8/2016 – 07/31/2016

To provide survey form design and scanning support services to a doctoral student at UO.  

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Lane County Public Health Prevention Program

09/01/2015 – 02/29/2016

To determine if the NAPSACC intervention model is being implemented effectively and with fidelity in childcare facilities in Lane County, and to determine the extent to which short term and long-term outcomes were achieved.

Principal Investigator: Eric Stice, PhD

Funder: World Association of Girl Guides and Girls Scouts grant from Dove®

04/01/2015 – 01/31/2016

To evaluate the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) dissemination of Eric Stice’s Free Being Me body acceptance intervention in UK with Stice team providing evaluation support in Eugene.

Principal Investigator: Gerard Saucier, PhD

Funder: John Templeton Foundation, West Conshohocken, PA

06/01/2014 – 05/31/2016

To develop diverse new assessments for ethical/moral attributes and other virtues, along with the value-oriented mindset underlying these virtues, and test to determine which among them has strongest validity evidence.

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Trillium Community Health Plan

10/01/2013–9/30/2016

To develop and evaluate the implementation of a county wide school-based BMI surveillance-screening program with Lane County elementary schools serving a high proportion of low-income students

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Lane County Public Health Prevention Program

03/01/2015 – 12/31/2015

To implement and promote the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC’s) ”VERB scorecard” youth activity incentive program for youth in Lane County, particularly in rural areas.

Principal Investigator: Jorge Ramírez García, PhD

Funder: Oregon Health Authority

03/12/2015 – 09/30/2015

To provide technical assistance to evaluate healthcare transformation activities in Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs).

Principal Investigator: Julie C. Rusby, PhD

Funder: University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

02/13/2015 – 05/31/2015

To code video-recorded data of play task for UQ Triple P study.

Principal Investigator: Tony Biglan, PhD

Funder: Lane County Public Health Prevention Program

11/01/2014 to 12/31/2015

To provide training in the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy model to reduce smoking among pregnant women seeking federal Women, Infants, and Children services.

Principal Investigator: Deborah Toobert, PhD

Funder: Trillium Community Health Plan

11/01/2014 – 03/31/2015

A case study design to determine optimal research strategy for efforts to integrate behavioral health and primary care at Trillium clinics.

Principal Investigator: Tony Biglan, PhD

Funding Source: Lane County Public Health Prevention Program

06/01/2014 – 12/31/2015

To implement RRR in rural communities and Eugene/Springfield metro area, a positive reinforcement program to support retailers who refuse sales to underage youth and remind those who would sell to minors of the legal and health consequences of such sales.

Principal Investigator: Laura Backen Jones

Funder: Oregon Department of Justice

09/05/2014–12/12/2014

To review and evaluate mandatory parenting seminar program of Deschutes County Circuit Court.

Principal Investigator: Laura Backen Jones

Funder: Donations

11/01/2014 – inactive

To Provide parents and professionals the knowledge and experience to nurture family wellbeing

Principal Investigator: B. Grace Bullock, PhD

Funder: Mind & Life Institute

05/01/2013-01/15/2014

This application proposes to develop and pilot test a randomized control trial group parenting intervention (Yoga for Parenting Success: YPS) for single mothers of toddlers. YPS integrates the tenets of Emotion Coaching (EC: Gottman, 1997) with the principles of Viniyoga™ Therapy (VYT: Kraftsow, 1999, 2002).

Principal Investigator: Carol Metzler, PhD

Funder: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

01/01/2012–6/30/2014

To build and conduct a preliminary test of an online social networking version of the Triple P Positive Parenting Program

Principal Investigator: Jorge Ramírez García, PhD

Funder: University of Montreal

04/01/2013 – 11/30/2013

To collect survey data from 9th grade students and their parents in Oregon for the Parental Control During Adolescence: An International Study project by the University of Montreal.

Principal Investigator: Ed Feil, PhD

Funder: Trillium Community Health Plan

01/01/2013–12/31/2013

The proposed project will establish an Internet-based, computer-delivered parent-training intervention (OHP Infant-Net) tailored to Trillium’s clients of low-income mothers with infants aged 3.5 to 7.5 months living in rural communities and their Service Providers (e.g., Nurse Home Visitors and Healthy Start/Healthy Families Horne Visitors).

Principal Investigator: Sarah Hampson, PhD

Funder: Northwest Health Foundation grant to LCHAY—Public

09/01/10 – 09/30/13

To increase availability of healthier, affordable options at two pilot stores, and to develop policy recommendations to improve access to healthier, affordable foods in underserved communities across Lane County.

Principal Investigator: Deb Johnson-Shelton, PhD

Funder: Mobility International USA

05/25/2011 – 09/30/2011

To provide a qualitative assessment of three phases of programs conducted by Mobility International USAID (MIUSA) to promote disability inclusion in USAID supported development programs.

Principal Investigator: Lewis R. Goldberg, PhD

Funder: Signal Match, Inc.

02/13/2007 – 02/28/2010

To design and implement one or more on-line experiments, in which research participants will be administered a set of assessment instruments designed by Goldberg, after which they will interact with a subsample of other participants in a social network.

Principal Investigator: Carol Black

Funder: Oregon Department of Human Services, Addictions & Mental Health Division

03/01/2008 to 05/31/2009

To carry out the Reward & Reminder (R&R) program of the Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol project. The R&R program reinforces clerks who do not sell alcohol to minors by having 21-year-olds who look younger visit each outlet in a community and attempt to purchase beer.

Principal Investigator: Nora Van Meter

Funder: Portland Public Schools

05/01/2007 – 07/31/2009

To supply PACT/TFTV/f2b antitobacco materials and technical support to six public school districts in Oregon for the school year 2007–2008

Principal Investigator: Sarah Hampson, PhD

Funder: University of Southampton and The Barker Foundation

08/01/2008 – 11/31/2008

To identify nutritional interventions currently in operation in Oregon, including the WIC program, which either directly target, or are accessible to, low-income women of child-bearing age and children under 13 years.

Principal Investigator: Gerard Saucier, PhD

Funder: Department of Defense (Air Force)

02/08/2008 – 02/29/2008

This project involves the development of a machine-readable survey of individual differences in fanaticism and dogmatism along with some corollary measures that are of interest from a validity standpoint

Principal Investigator: Sarah Hampson, PhD

Funder: University of Southampton and The Barker Foundation

05/01/2007 – 08/31/2007

To evaluate the effects of diet on feal and infant development, to provide qualitative data on the diet of low SES women in Klamath Falls, OR.

Principal Investigator: Gerard Saucier, PhD

Funder: Department of Defense (Air Force)

05/01/2007 – 06/30/2007

to identify how militant extremists differ from others, taking an initial item pool and developing an efficient instrument to measure the militant extremist socio-psychological profile in the most reliable, valid, and efficient way.

Principal Investigator: Lewis R. Goldberg, PhD

Funder: Hogan Assessment Systems, Inc.

01/01/2007 – 12/31/2007

To help HAS design and implement empirical studies, consult with HAS about HAS-related operations, and generally help HAS in ways specified by Robert Hogan or other HAS employees.

Principal Investigator: Deborah Toobert, PhD

Funder: Elders in Action

10/01/2006 – 09/30/2007

To provide the evaluation of the feedback from new users of the Healthy Changes program.