{"id":110279,"date":"2016-03-11T10:01:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T15:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&#038;p=110279"},"modified":"2020-12-18T13:35:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T18:35:42","slug":"faculty-receive-prestigious-inchip-seed-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/03\/faculty-receive-prestigious-inchip-seed-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Social Work Faculty Receive Prestigious InCHIP Seed Grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_110291\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110291\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-110291 img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas.jpg\" alt=\"Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/lisa-werkmeister-rozas-128x128.jpg 128w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110291\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD<br \/>Associate Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD, Associate Professor, and Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, Assistant Professor, were each recently awarded prestigious InCHIP Seed Grant Awards from the UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Werkmeister Rozas received a $15,000 faculty seed grant for her study \u201cInnovative Diabetes Prevention &amp; Disease Self-Management Intervention for Latino Families.\u201d This highly scored application uses a Community Based Participatory Research approach and works through neighborhood churches to develop innovative interventions to address Type II Diabetes, a highly prevalent problem in inner city, minority populations.\u00a0 According to the UConn SSW Associate Dean for Research, Michael Fendrich, \u201cthis proposal is highly innovative and has the potential to move the growing area of health social work forward in a crucial direction. This project involves impressive collaborations with Hartford community partners and with the UConn School of Nursing.\u201d Dr. Werkmeister Rozas is an Associate Professor and a member of the Puerto Rican and Latin@ Studies Project in the School of Social Work.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_110286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110286\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-110286 size-full img-responsive lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300.jpg\" alt=\"Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-275x275.jpg 275w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-32x32.jpg 32w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-64x64.jpg 64w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-96x96.jpg 96w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Caitlin-Elsaesser-August-2015-300-x-300-128x128.jpg 128w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/300;\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-110286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD<br \/>Assistant Professor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Elsaesser received a Junior Faculty Summer Stipend, which carries $2500 of support for building grant funded research. Funding will support secondary analysis of data that will address the linkage between violence victimization exposure and health in adolescents. This project, titled \u201cExposure to Multiple Forms of Victimization and Health Outcomes: An Integrative Approach,\u201d builds on Dr. Elsaesser\u2019s expertise and experience in complex multivariate modeling and her substantive focus on urban violence. Dr. Elsaesser is completing her first year as an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD, Associate Professor, and Caitlin Elsaesser, PhD, Assistant Professor, were each recently awarded prestigious InCHIP Seed Grant Awards from the UConn Institute for Collaboration on Health, Intervention, and Policy. Dr. Werkmeister Rozas received a $15,000 faculty seed grant for her study \u201cInnovative Diabetes Prevention &amp; Disease Self-Management Intervention for Latino Families.\u201d This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":110291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2269,1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-110279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inchip","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 01:50:03","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167330,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110279\/revisions\/167330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/110291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110279"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=110279"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=110279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}