Families

This list contains some of the current research activities that are happening in New York State. Should you wish further information on the research project you should contact the program director. If you would like to include your research on this list contact ASAP.

Program Director	Type of Grant / Project Description
William Wieczorek Buffalo State College 1300 Elmwood Ave. Buffalo, NY 14222	NIAAA Project Assessing Prevention & Treatment Needs for Small Areas The purpose of this research is to develop, validate, and refine an innovative approach to alcohol prevention and treatment needs assessment in small areas (census tracts). This project will develop a valid and generalizable methodology for allocating alcohol treatment and prevention resources at a time when many counties and planning areas are beginning to utilize geographic information systems for planning purposes. Date started 31-May-00 Date ends31-May-00
Diane Greenaway Catholic Charities of Buffalo, NY 525 Washington St. Buffalo, NY 14203	CMHS Grant School Action Grant Catholic Charities, in collaboration with other organizations, will evaluate the effectiveness of Multisytemic Therapy (MST). The intervention’s goal is to reduce and, ultimately, prevent the violence, aggression, and other antisocial behaviors that often lead to out-of-home placement for 50 at-risk youths between the ages of 7 and 16. The intervention will be conducted using an experimental design with subjects randomly assigned to treatment (MST) and control (existing interventions).
Denise Kandel Columbia University Health Sciences OGC New York, NY 10032	NIDA Project Epidemiological/Familial Aspects of Drug Use The overall objective of the research is to continue epidemiological studies related to three major themes on substance use in adolescence and adulthood; 1) the natural history of drug use and developmental patterns of involvement and cessation on the use of drugs; 2) the risk factors for involvement in drugs; and 3) the consequences of using drugs. Date Started: 5-Aug-81 Date Ends: 31-Jul-01

Ellen Fischer Community Action Partnership 3409 Genesee St. Cheektowaga, NY 14225	CMHS Grant School Action Grant The Community Action Partnership will integrate an exemplary practice, Functional Family Therapy, into a collaborative family support initiative. The program involves specific phases and techniques designed to engage and motivate youth and their families and especially deal with intense negative affects (anger and hopelessness) that prevents change. Additional techniques help change youth and family communication, interaction, and problem solving, as well as help families better deal with and utilize system resources outside the family support initiative structure.
Aminata Stephens Families Together in NYS, Inc. 405 Quail St. P.O. Box 8630 Albany, NY 12208	CMHS Grant Children & Family Network This project will increase the capacity of the statewide network to participate in the development of policies, programs, and quality assurance activities related to the mental health of children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders and their families. Families Together of New York State recognizes that a lack of experience with the local political processes as well as a need for further development of organizational and leadership skills has been one obstacle to full participation of family members raising children with serious emotional disorders. The target population includes families with children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders. The target population includes families with children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders and mental health professionals.
Jackie Brownstein Mental Health Association of Dutchess County 38 Haight Ave. Poughkeepsie, NY 12603-2434	CMHS Grant School Action Grant The focus of this intervention is on elementary-school age Hispanic youth and their families; approximately 40-60 families will be enrolled. Criteria for selection of schools in which the intervention will occur include: a) high school absentee and suspension rates; b) number of Hispanic families and children; c) single-parent families with teen mothers; d) low income families served; e) high crime and violence in the area. Professional staff will be employed to lead the eight-week long FAST (Families and Schools Together) sessions as well as other activities with participating families.
Judith Brook Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY City University of New York New York, NY 10029	NIDA Project Drug Use - A Multigenerational Study The purpose of this proposed study is to examine the generational transmission of early childhood precursors of young adult drug use. The significant of this study lies in the delineation of generational factors implicated in the development of childhood precursors of drug use. By focusing on ways to improve psychosocial environment of the young child at risk, one can not only lessen the likelihood of later drug use, but also effect changes that will “break the chain” of generational risk transmission. Date Started: 1-Jan-90 Date Ends: 31-Jul-00

Gary Rosenburg
Mount Sinai School of Medicine of CUNY
City University of New York
New York, NY 10029

NIDA Project Drug Use - Generational Transmission in Minority Youth
The purpose of this project is to study the transmission across three generations of the childhood precursors of drug use/drug abuse. By focusing on ways to improve the psychosocial environment of the young child at risk, one can not only lessen the likelihood of later drug use, but also effect changes that “break the chain” of generational risk transmission.
Date Started: 15-Apr-99 Date Ends: 31-Mar-14

Bonnie Fenster
National Health Promotion Associates
141 S Central Ave
Suite 208
Hartsdale, NY 10530

NIDA Project Life Skills in Training Parent Component
No current information is available.
Date Started: 1-Sep-99 Date Ends: 29-Feb-00

Eloise Dunlap
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048

NIDA Project Cooccurring Drugs & Violence in Distressed Households
This research will increase scientific understanding of the social processes; conduct norms and behavioral patterns associated with aggression and violence, and risk factors for HIV to co-occur.
Date Started: 30-Sep-94 Date Ends: 30-Jun-02

Michael Clatts
National Development & Research Institutes, Inc.
New York, NY 10048

NIDA Project HIV Transmission in Crack Injection Practices
No information available at this time.
Date Started: 1-Aug-99 Date Ends: 31-Jul-02

Rina Eiden Research Institute on Addictions 1021 Main St Buffalo, NY 14203	NIDA Project Maternal Substance Use, Parenting & Infant Development The candidate for this Scientist Development Award is interested in understanding the impact of maternal substance use on parenting and the caregiving environment of drug-exposed children. Date Started: 5-Aug-95 Date Ends: 31-Jul-00
Cathy Widom SUNY at Albany 1400 Washington Ave. Albany, NY 12222	NIAAA Project Child Abuse & Alcohol Abuse No further information is available at this time. Date started 31-Aug-00 Date ends31-Aug-00
Cathy Widom SUNY at Albany 1400 Washington Ave Albany, NY 12222	NIDA Project Child Abuse, Risk & Protective Factors - Drug Abuse Drug abuse has been implicated as one of the consequences of childhood victimization. The data set contains archival information from court records, official criminal history information from three levels of law enforcement at two time periods, and community level census tract information for a large sample of substantiated cases of early childhood physical and sexual abuse and neglect and matched controls (n=1,575) who were followed up and assessed. In-person interviews in young adulthood obtained information on psychiatric, cognitive, intellectual, social, familial and behavioral functioning (n=1,144). Despite the fact that extensive drug abuse information has been collected for these subjects, to date, no analyses has been undertaken. This study’s cohort design permits the identification of populations at risk for drug abuse/dependence and yields findings with clear implications for developing primary prevention strategies and interventions. Date Started: 1-Sep-96 Date Ends: 31-Aug-00

Kenneth Leonard SUNY at Buffalo Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260	NIAAA Project Alcohol & Early Marriage - Spouse & Peer Influence This proposal is designed to examine the continuity/discontinuity of alcohol consumption patterns and alcohol problems over the transition to marriage and is guided by a probabilistic-developmental framework. It is predicted that a model emphasizing the mediational role of social networks will best describe changes in drinking through individual risk factors and marital quality may also impact drinking. In addition, the study will assess whether the drinking trajectories over the two years are comparable for those going through the transition by one of several nonnormative paths (late first marriage, presence of children prior to marriage, extensive cohabitation prior to marriage) and whether subsequent transitions to parenthood, or other major events and environmental stressors common to this developmental period, have a further impact on drinking and drinking problems. Date started 31-Mar-01 Date ends31-Mar-01
Brenda Miller SUNY at Buffalo Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260	NIAAA Project Mothers Alcohol Problems & Children's Victimization No further information is available at this time. Date started 31-Dec-01 Date ends31-Dec-01
Kimberly Walitzer SUNY at Buffalo Capen Hall Buffalo, NY 14260	NIAAA Project Spouse Involvement in the Treatment of Alcohol Problems No further information is available at this time. Date started 30-Apr-00 Date ends30-Apr-00
Gilbert Botvin Weill Medical College of Cornell University Cornell University New York, NY 10021	NIDA Project Drug Abuse & Violence Prevention with Minority Youth This is an application, which proposes a 5-year investigation designed to test the efficacy of a broad-spectrum, competence enhancement drug abuse prevention approach and its direct extension and application for reducing aggression/violence with inner city minority students. The proposed study is divided into a 6-month developmental period, a 6-month pilot period, a 36-month intervention phase consisting of a large-scale randomized trial, and a 12-month data analysis/scientific dissemination phase. Forty New York City schools (N=4000) would be randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions. The treatment condition would receive a drug abuse and violence prevention intervention consisting of school and parent intervention components. The impact of the combined intervention would be tested on drug use and violence measures as well as on an array of cognitive, attitudinal, normative, skills and personality variables. The study would also examine the extent to which change on these variables meditate the impact of the revised intervention on drug abuse and violence, and the extent to which changes resulting from violence-specific intervention material impacts on risk/protective factors associated with drug abuse. This study will also examine the relationship between parameters of implementation and intervention effectiveness. Date Started: 1-Aug-95 Date Ends: 31-Jul-00

Janet Gilmor
William Floyd Union Free School District
240 Mastic Beach Rd.
Mastic Beach, NY 11951

CMHS Grant School Action Grant
The William Floyd School District and partnering agencies will utilize 2 exemplary practices to decrease youth alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use. FAST (Families and Schools Together) will target grades 1-3 and grades 6-8, serving over 75 high-risk youths and families. Reconnecting Youth, the second intervention, will be implemented at the high school, serving no fewer than 120 at-risk youths and families.

Thomas Wills
Yeshiva University
500 W. 185th St
New York, NY 10033

NIDA Project Young Children's Vulnerability to Substance Use
The candidate has been conducting research on substance use in adolescence and proposes to develop scientific skills to conduct research on vulnerability with younger children, with a focus on temperament and self-regulation processes. The candidate will develop theory and methods for doing research with children in the age range from 9-12 years, conduct pilot research on techniques for working with this population, and design new research for studying processes predictive of early-onset substance use.
Date Started: 1-Jul-95 Date Ends: 30-Jun-00

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