Partnership Resource Network
Project Name: Demonstration of an Emotion Regulation Intervention’s Application to Enhancing the Safety and Success of Middle School Students and Preventing Juvenile Justice Involvement
Applicant: Psychiatry, Applicant: University of Connecticut Health Center
Applicant Type: University
Application Number: 2012-50705-CT-JF
Funding Request: $500,000
Focus: Juveniles, Risk and Protective Factors
Location: CT
Areas Covered: State of CT
Summary: This 3-year project will provide the first systematic demonstration of the adaptation, implementation, and outcome and sustainability evaluation of a school-wide evidence-based intervention designed to: (a) enhance stress-related emotion regulation in order to decrease violent and impulsive behavior (including bullying), (b) increase the safety and success of middle school students, and (c) prevent juvenile justice involvement and/or recidivism. The only multimodal (group, individual, and milieu) intervention with an evidence base for addressing traumatic stress and associated disruptive and delinquent behavior problems with adolescents will be integrated into a large (1350 students) urban middle school on a randomized time series basis during the project’s first year, permitting comparison of student- and school-level outcomes between immediate and delayed recipient cohorts of trajectory and absolute levels of student school behavior, academic engagement and performance, juvenile justice involvement, associated behavioral problems, and emotion regulation and prosocial behavior, and of student and school personnel perceptions of the school social climate. In years two and three replication will ensue with new students, and sustainability will be assessed with repeated measures of outcomes. Implementation fidelity will be monitored by direct school-based observation procedures across all three years. Anticipated results include a replicable and dissemination-ready intervention with evidence of effectiveness in enhancing student and school safety and performance and reducing juvenile justice involvement.
For Further Information:
Julian D. Ford, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry
Graduate School Faculty
University of Connecticut Health Center
MC1410
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT 06030-1410
jford@uchc.edu
(860) 679-8778
Application Submitted in Response to Solicitation: Field-Initiated Research and Evaluation Program
Grants.gov Assigned Number: OJJDP-2012-3246