Archived Awards and Grants:

The Center for Child and Family Studies has been awarded a three-year, $216,000 contract to evaluate Project SAFE. This youth suicide prevention and early intervention project will be administered by Mental Health America- South Carolina and is funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Research Assistant Professor Michael Rodi, Ph.D. will serve as the Principal Investigator for the evaluation.

Dr. Michael Rodi, a Research Assistant Professor in the Center for Child and Family Studies, College of Social Work, is partnering with the USC College of Engineering, Department of Anthropology, and the School of Science, Engineering, Technology, and Math at Benedict College in a proposal to the National Science Foundation for a transdisciplinary undergraduate research project on Societal and Ethical Interactions with Nanotechnology. If the funds are awarded, The Dr. Rodi and the Center will lead the evaluation componet of the project.

Congratulations to Dr. Rodi and the Center for Child and Family Studies on this award and submission!

Congratulations to Dr. Jinseok Kim, who has been accepted to the ICPSR Summer Program: Social and Economic Contexts of Child Care and Early Education. Dr. Kim also was awarded a travel stipend to defray the costs of attending the workshop, which will be held in early August at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Dr. Jinseok Kim was selected for an internal award of $17,000.00 from the Office of Research and Health Sciences for his research productivity proposal on childhood victimization, sexual behavior development, and neighborhood context . The competition was very strong this year: only 9 of 70 proposals throughout the university were chosen by an independent scientific review panel for this particular award.

Congratulations to Dr. Jinseok Kim for being selected to participate in the 2007 Summer Research Institute of the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) housed in Cornell University, Ithaca, NY (May 30 - June 3, 2007). He also has been awarded a minority fellowship to cover the costs of the trip for his study of "Contextual effects on children's experiences of child welfare services and their long term well-being." This is a nationally advertised and very competitive summer institute.

Congratulations to Drs. Naomi Farber and Julie-Miller Cribbs! Their manuscript "Kin networks and poverty among African Americans: Past and present" was just accepted for publication in Social Work, one of the leading journals in the profession.

Congratulations to Dr. Kathy Padget and Dr. Chad Rodi. Their manuscript "Where local and national evaluators meet: Unintended threats to ethical evaluation practice" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Evaluation and Program Planning, a first-rate journal in the field of evaluation.

Congratulations to Dr. Shawna Lee. She recently was officially awarded a sub-contract from the University of Chicago via the Centers for Disease Control to fund her project, "Fathers and Risk for Physical Child Maltreatment: Prevention Pathways," which aims to to identify father-related pathways significantly altering young children’s risk for exposure to paternal and maternal physical child abuse.

In February 2006, Dr. Sadye Logan received two separate awards to conduct oral histories with associates and relatives of Dr. I. DeQuincey Newman. First, she was one of three recipients of the University of South Carolina Women’s Studies Program’s Josephine Abney Fellowship for her study, “Narratives on Race, Gender, and Civil Rights: Exploring the Role of African American Older Women.” She also received an award from the South Carolina Humanities Council for her project, “A Social Justice Activist: I. DeQuincey Newman, An American Hero.”

Dr. Karen Gray was awarded $30,000 from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy for "Durham Community Land Trustees." This instrumental case study will examine the effects of the Durham Community Land Trustees on economic well-being, neighborhood resources, and social capital in its neighborhoods since 1980. Dr. Gray will use multiple sources of qualitative and quantitative data, and the case research method of analysis.

Four College of Social Work professors were awarded $8,850 for "The Nonprofit On-line Response to Katrina: An Initial Assessment." The lead investigator is John G. McNutt, PhD, ACSW, Associate Professor, College of Social Work. The primary individuals involved with the grant are: Geri Adler, PhD, Associate Professor, Johnny Jones, PhD and Goutham Menon, PhD, Assistant Professors, College of Social Work. This study is a preliminary examination of the development of on-line communities responding to Katrina. The research intends to examine the founding and development of some of these efforts. Using diffusion of innovation theory, the research explores how these organizations come together and how they develop. Subjects are selected through Internet sources and data collection is accomplished through interviews with participants and content analysis of e-mail messages and documents.
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