{"id":116225,"date":"2016-08-29T11:35:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=116225"},"modified":"2016-08-29T11:38:35","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T15:38:35","slug":"scholarship-facilitation-grants-awarded-three-school-social-work-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/08\/scholarship-facilitation-grants-awarded-three-school-social-work-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholarship Facilitation Grants Awarded to Three School of Social Work Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

This past July, the Vice President for Research awarded three new Scholarship Facilitation Fund grants of approximately $2K per award to School of Social Work faculty. \u00a0Two of the awardees (Drs. Kennedy and Wilson<\/strong>) will use the funds to conduct research specifically related to trauma and victimization.\u00a0 The third awardee (Dr. Werkmeister Rozas<\/strong>) will use funds to build a research agenda focused on understanding and alleviating health disparities.\u00a0 All three awards are noteworthy for their direct links to research in \u201careas of distinction\u201d that are central to the school\u2019s academic plan.<\/p>\n

\"Stephanie
Stephanie Kennedy, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Stephanie Kennedy<\/strong>, who is just joining the school this fall as an Assistant Professor, was awarded a grant to expand her ground breaking research on women in prison, developed from her doctoral dissertation at Florida State University. Kennedy will focus on trying to understand how exposure to multiple forms of violence in childhood \u2013 what some experts call \u201cpolyvictimization\u201d \u2013 affects the lives of incarcerated women.\u00a0 She is focused on how this experience affects criminal behavior, mental health, and substance abuse outcomes among these women.\u00a0 This small grant will allow Kennedy to expand her data collection efforts to two additional prisons \u2013 including one in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

\"Lisa
Lisa Werkmeister Rozas, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


\nDr. Werkmeister Rozas<\/strong> has developed an innovative strategy \u2013 combining both family and community based interventions- to prevent diabetes risk and promote diabetes self-management among Latinos in Hartford.\u00a0 Drawing on initial funding provided by UConn\u2019s InCHIP, Werkmeister Rozas has piloted this intervention in Hartford area churches serving Latinos. Very preliminary trials of this intervention show promising results with respect to blood sugar and weight among participants.\u00a0 This award will make possible the creation of a manual for the intervention.\u00a0 A manual will enhance the consistency with which the intervention can be delivered.\u00a0 This will increase Werkmeister Rozas\u2019 potential for leading a full-scale, NIH-funded clinical trial to understand the efficacy of this critically needed intervention.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cristina-Wilson\"
Cristina Wilson, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dr. Cristina Wilson<\/strong>, Associate Professor of Social Work, will focus on understanding how pre-school teachers can ameliorate the harmful effects of trauma exposure in young African American and Hispanic children.\u00a0 The project, which will be co-led by SSW doctoral student Alysse Melville<\/strong>, is particularly noteworthy in \u00a0that it will use an innovative measurement strategy, the \u201cHead-Toes- Knees-Shoulders\u201d task to understand traumatized preschoolers\u2019 ability to control their behaviors and feelings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This past July, the Vice President for Research awarded three new Scholarship Facilitation Fund grants of approximately $2K per award to School of Social Work faculty. \u00a0Two of the awardees (Drs. Kennedy and Wilson) will use the funds to conduct research specifically related to trauma and victimization.\u00a0 The third awardee (Dr. Werkmeister Rozas) will use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":116228,"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":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-116225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-20 05:51:18","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\/116225","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=116225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/116228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116225"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=116225"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=116225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}