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Grants and Projects

We work to address problems that threaten to undermine families — including poverty, abuse, mental illness, school failure, and substance abuse as well as those that provide for aging family members, or the safe care for children.

Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Project
Aims to professionalize the child welfare workforce by integrating research-driven training, education, policy development and provide evidence-based training to foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers through a flexible trauma-informed and culturally aware curriculum.

Rural Integrated Behavioral Health Training (RIBHT) program 
The purpose of the RIBHT program is to prepare MSW students for behavioral health practice, with a focus on integrated and culturally appropriate rural service delivery.

Play Higher: Virtual Reality for Career Exploration
https://playhigher.wvu.edu/
Aims to apply gamification to career development and readiness. We achieve this through novel technological applications such as augmented and virtual reality, simulation, mobile applications, and more.

Past Grants and Projects