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Current OSLC Projects

Adolescent Latino Acculturation Study

How do Latino families who have immigrated to the U.S. adapt to life in this country?

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Center for Drug Abuse Prevention in the Child Welfare System

Scientists and national experts integrate knowledge to help fill the gaps in drug abuse prevention research, practice, and policy.

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The Child Study

Oregon Social Learning Center.

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Couples

A life-span perspective of young men’s romantic partner selection.

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Early Experience, Stress Neurobiology, and Prevention Science

A grant funding a network of scientists studying the effects of stressful early environments on the developing brain and interventions that can remediate these effects.

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Early Growth and Development Study: Phase I

A nationwide study of the relationship between heredity and family environment on child development.

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Early Growth and Development Study: Phase II

A nationwide study on understanding the relationship between heredity, the prenatal environment, and family environment in child development.

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Family R&R

This is a longitudinal study of 180 children and their families. The study is being conducted in collaboration with the Relief Nursery in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan areas in Oregon.

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Healthy Family Project

An investigation of parent-management training efficacy with a sample from a rural Oregon county population receiving court-ordered supervision.

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Kids in Transition to School (KITS)

The Kids in Transition to School (KITS) foster care project is a 5 year randomized efficacy trial of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in foster children as they enter school.

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Kids in Transition to School - Early Childhood Education Program (KARES)

The Kids in Transition to School -Early Childhood Education project is a randomized efficacy trial of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in children with developmental disabilities as they enter kindergarten.

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The Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project - II

A study of the delivery and a test of the adapted version of OSLC’s Parent Management Training to Latino families.

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Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers

Follow-up During Young Adulthood of Participants in a School-Based Randomized Preventive Intervention Trial.

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The Middle School Success Project

A study of the effectiveness of providing enhanced services for pre-adolescent girls in foster care.

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fMRI Study of Inhibitory Control

fMRI Study of Inhibitory Control is designed to examine children’s behavioral performance and brain activation during an inhibitory control task.

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The Parent Child Study

A test of the impact of parent management training on children of incarcerated parents.

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Preventing Behavior and Health Problems for Foster Teens

Aimed at testing the efficacy of an intervention designed to strengthen the parenting skills of foster parents and to increase social skills related to preventing health-risking behaviors for youth in foster homes.

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OSLC Relationship Study 3

This study is a follow-up of two randomized intervention studies The OSLC Relationship Study 1 and The OSLC Relationship Study 2 aimed at improving adjustment and reducing delinquency during adolescence.

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Three Generational Study

A study of the parenting practices of the young parents, and the association of the father's parenting style to that of his own parents; and and examination of child characteristics such as temperament, attachment, behavior problems and cognitive ability.

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Women’s Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence

Domestic violence is the leading cause of injuries to women aged 15-44 years.

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