2022
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Triple P – Positive Parenting Program
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.
McKenzie Valley Long Term Recovery Group Needs Assessment
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.
Anorexia Nervosa Genetic Analyses
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
2021
COVID-19 testing for the Latinx Community
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.
MomNet Head Start of Lane County
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.
Early Language and Literacy Professional Development for Teachers of English Learners
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.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department Triple P Incentives
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.
Mindfulness – Oregon Mind Body Institute
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.
2020
Oregon Department of Education BIPOC Survey COVID
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.
Passageworks Leadership Survey
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.
RTJC Hogan Family Foundation
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
2019
OHA Early Assessment & Support Alliance (EASA)
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.
MomNet: Head Start Moms with Depression
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.
Addressing Chronic Stress through Mindfulness Training for School Employees
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.
2018
Center for Applied Cultural Evolution (C4ACE)
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.
OHA Sodium Reduction
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.
Lane County TripleP Implementation
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.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care Evaluation
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.
Lane County Family Check Up Evaluation
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.
2017
Oregon Youth Substance Use Project Data Support
Principal Investigator: Missy Peterson
Funder: Washington University
Dates: 04/01/2017 – 04/30/2017
Data support for Oregon Youth Substance Use Project
OHA RHEC Evaluation
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).
Oregon Family Support Network Evaluation
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.
OHA Oral Health & BMI
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
Evaluation of Ophelia’s Place Program Implementation in Rural Middle Schools
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.
2016
Buckle Survey
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.
Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care Evaluation
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.
Dove® Body Acceptance WAGGGS
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.
A Value-Ethical Approach to Assessing Virtues: Comparative and Cross-Cultural Validity
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.
Lane County Body Mass Index (BMI) Surveillance Project for Child Obesity Prevention
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
2015
Implement the VERB Summer Scorecard
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.
Technical Assistance to OHA and Coordinated Care Organization
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).
University of Queensland Coding
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.
Training in the ACT Model to Reduce Smoking among Pregnant Women Seeking WIC Services
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.
Trillium Integration and Incubator Project
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.
Retailer Reward and Reminder (RRR)
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.
2014
Oregon Department of Justice—Deschutes County Circuit Court
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.
ACT for Families—Donations
Principal Investigator: Laura Backen Jones
Funder: Donations
11/01/2014 – inactive
To Provide parents and professionals the knowledge and experience to nurture family wellbeing
Yoga Parenting for Success
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).
Developing and beta testing the Positive Parenting Program in a social-network community in Los Angeles County
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
2013
Atlantic
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.
Interactive Internet Intervention for Low-Income Mothers of Infants in Rural Communities
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).
Healthy Corner Stores Initiative
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.
2011
Mobility International USAID (MIUSA)
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.
2010
Signal Patterns
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.
2009
Reducing Youth Access to Alcohol
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.
PACT—Mobilizing Parents and Peers to Prevent Tobacco Use
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
2008
Oregon Mapping Project (Mother & Child Nutrition Field Study) – Barker 2
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.
Socio-Psychological Profile of Militant Extremists – Air Force 2
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
2007
Mother & Child Nutrition Field Study – Barker 1
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.
Socio-Psychological Profile of Militant Extremists – Air Force 1
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.
International Personality Item Pool Website
Principal Investigator: Lewis R. Goldberg, PhD
Funder: donations
Ongoing since January 1, 2007
This IPIP website is intended as an international effort to develop and continually refine a set of personality inventories, whose items are in the public domain, and whose scales can be used for both scientific and commercial purposes.
Hogan Assessment Systems
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.
Elders in Action
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.