Research Topic Areas & Resources
Community Solutions at the University of South Florida is committed to cutting edge research to improve the quality and effectiveness of services in real world settings and to ensure the dissemination and translation of research findings into practice.
Reduction in Mental Health Disparities
- Accessibility of Mental Health Services: Identifying and Measuring Organizational Factors Associated with Reducing Mental Health Disparities
- Community-Defined Evidence Project (CDEP): improving access to services and supports and reducing mental health disparities
- Culturally Competent Community-Based Research within Neighborhoods (East Tampa): using strengths-based approaches with African American families and communities to enhance student academic achievement
- EQUIPO: strengthening the partnership between natural helpers in the community and formal service providers
- RAICES: Resources, Advocacy, Integration, Collaboration, Empowerment, and Services: building healthy school and family ties upon the foundations present within the family and community
School-Based Mental Health Services
- Mental Health Integration Study: increasing student access to quality mental health services
- Parent Connectors: a parent support program to improve outcomes for students who have emotional disturbances
Trauma-Based Support
- Many Faces of Trauma: Community Engaged Trauma Research : development of partnerships and approaches that can remediate the psychological impact of trauma
Youth Transition
- Healthy Transitions Initiative Process Evaluation: improving outcomes for transition-age youth and young adults (14-25 years of (age) with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties (EBD)
Systems Planning & Policy
- Actualizing Empowerment: Developing a Framework for Partnering with Families in System Level Service Planning and Delivery: examining the impact of natural supports in the African-American community to improve service delivery to children and families
- Case Studies of System Implementation: Holistic Approaches to Studying Community-based Systems of Care
- Developing Systems of Care in African-American Communities Using Natural Supports: examining the impact of natural supports in the African-American community to improve service delivery to children and families.
- Integrative Data Analysis of Gender and Ethnic Differences in Multidimensional Family Therapy Randomized Control Trials (MDFT RCTs): reducing or eliminating adolescent substance abuse and other problem behavior
- National Survey of System of Care Implementation: an in-depth look at systems of care and the context in which they operate
- Sustainable Infrastructure Project: developing strategies that support, improve, and sustain best practice in local programs