
Adolescent Decision-Making Study
A study to learn what contributes to healthy decision making in adolescent girls.
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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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After Deployment Adaptive Parenting Tool (ADAPT2)
An Internet-based delivery format to address the unique needs of families of re-integrating service members after deployment to combat zones.
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Cascading Dissemination of a Foster Parent Intervention
A study of whether parent management training could improve parenting practices, decrease out-of-home placements, and improve child functioning.
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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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CM+
Experimental Mediation Research Aimed at Enhancing Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment
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Community Database Research Project
A collaborative effort between OSLC and Tillamook County to develop and maintain a community database for evaluation purposes.
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Early Intervention Foster Care
Five-year trial testing the efficacy of a preventive intervention designed to reduce risk and improve long-term outcomes for preschoolers in the foster care system.
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FAIR (Families Actively Improving Relationships)
FAIR IS AN INTENSIVE TREATMENT FOR PARENTS REFERRED TO CHILD WELFARE SERVICES FOR CHALLENGES RELATED TO SUBSTANCE USE, MENTAL HEALTH SYMPTOMS, PARENTING, AND ANCILLARY NEEDS. THE TREATMENT AIMS TO BUILD PARENTS’ SKILLS IN PARENTING AND ADDRESS THEIR SUBSTANCE USE AND MENTAL HEALTH NEEDS, WHILE PROMOTING STABILITY THROUGH HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, AND OTHER SUPPORTS.
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Family R&R
A longitudinal study of 180 children and their families. The study was conducted in collaboration with the Relief Nursery in the Eugene-Springfield metropolitan areas in Oregon.
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Family-Peer Linkages
An examination of children’s abilities to self-manage their emotions and of their peer relations at school.
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Follow-up of the Kids in Transition to School – Developmental Disabilities Project
The Kids in Transition to School – Early Childhood Education Project was a randomized efficacy trail of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in children with development disabilities as then enter kindergarten.
IES: (#R324A150149)

Friends of the Children Mentoring Program (Continuation Study)
Mentoring is commonly viewed as an important prevention strategy for youth at risk for involvement in the juvenile justice system. Unfortunately, providing mentoring to the highest-risk youth can be extremely challenging. This multisite randomized controlled trial examined the impact of a 12-year long professional youth mentoring program, Friends of the Children (FOTC), on boys and […]
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Girls’ Longterm Outcomes—Suicidality and Depression Study (GLO-SADS)
A longitudinal prospective study that followed 164 adolescent girls who were involved in a randomized clinical trial of Treatment Foster Care of Oregon (TFCO) to young adulthood.
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Health Opportunity for Mother and Child Emotion Function (HOME)
Project developed and piloted an emotion-focused intervention to support incarcerated mothers as they leave prison and reunite with their children in the community
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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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Indian Family Wellness
A collaboration between the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians and OSLC toward the development, implementation, and evaluation of a family-based, culturally competent preventive intervention for families enrolled in a tribal Head Start Program.
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JDC-HIV
This project conducted statistical analyses and assisted in the preparation of manuscripts using data from a recently completed trial of an adolescent substance abuse intervention.
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Juvenile Probation Officers-Contingency Management (JPO-CM)
This study (NIDA #R01DA041434) will determine if JPOs can deliver an evidence-based intervention as a means to ultimately decrease drug use and criminal behaviors among high-risk adolescents
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KEEP SAFE™
Numerous studies have shown that many of today’s foster children have complex and serious behavioral and mental health problems that put them at risk for negative long-term outcomes. The enormous potential of these young people and the tough challenges faced by foster and kinship parents inspired the development of the KEEP® and KEEP SAFE™ models.
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KEEP-P
Preschool-aged foster children are at high risk for numerous negative outcomes. KEEP-P conducted a randomized clinical trial of a new, low-cost, manualized, group-based intervention for foster preschoolers and their caregivers.
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KEEP®
Numerous studies have shown that many of today’s foster children have complex and serious behavioral and mental health problems that put them at risk for negative long-term outcomes. The enormous potential of these young people and the tough challenges faced by foster and kinship parents inspired the development of the KEEP® and KEEP SAFE™ models.
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Kids in Transition to School – Developmental Disabilities Follow-up
The Kids in Transition to School (KITS) – Developmental Disabilities Follow-Up was a longitudinal study of the effects of a randomized efficacy trial of a preventive intervention to enhance psychosocial and academic school readiness in children with developmental disabilities and behavior or social difficulties who were entering kindergarten.
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Kids in Transition to School – Developmental Disabilities Project
The Kids in Transition to School – Developmental Disabilities Project was 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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Kids in Transition to School (KITS) – Follow-up
The Kids in Transition to School (KITS) Follow-Up was a 5 year continuation of a 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 (KITS) – Promise Neighborhoods
The Kids in Transition to School (KITS) in the Promise Neighborhoods project was a randomized efficacy trial of the KITS Program, an intervention to improve early literacy, prosocial and emotion and behavior regulation, with children from socioeconomically disadvantaged neighborhoods.
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Kids in Transition to School (KITS®)
The Kids in Transition to School (KITS®) foster care program began with 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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Leveraging Evidence to Activate Parents (LEAP)
This study (R01DA050669) will investigate task-shifting of Parent Activation (PA) to Juvenile Probation Officers (JPOs) in rural communities by examining the capacity of JPOs to deliver PA within justice services and the impact of PA on youth and family outcomes.
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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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Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers Couples (LIFT)
This study involved secondary analysis for 323 young adults (184 women and 139 men; average age 21 years) and their romantic partners from the Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT) community sample. The study first used a prospective design to test a mediational model of developmental risk factors (family, peer, youth adjustment) in […]
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LINKS
A study to see if intervention would help foster children transitioning to middle school avoid risky behaviors including drug and tobacco use, participation in HIV-risking sexual behavior, delinquency, mental health problems, and school failure.
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MAP-OPT A: Research on Outpatient Treatment for Adolescents with Comorbidity
Adolescent substance abuse results in significant negative outcomes for youths, their families, communities, and society. Rates of psychiatric comorbidity, or dual diagnosis, among substance-abusing youths range from 25 to 82 percent. Treatment of these youths is both costly and complicated, with youth and their families often having to navigate separate treatment services for each disorder. […]
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Marriage and Parenting in Stepfamilies
A study of the processes that account for adjustment in stepfamilies and of the efficacy of a program designed to promote healthy child adjustment.
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Meta-Analysis of Family-Based Prevention Programs for Adolescent Substance Abuse Parent Child Study
The use of meta-analytic techniques to evaluate which program components are most strongly linked to success.
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Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults MST-EA (NIDA)
This study (NIDA #R01 DA041425-01) will evaluate the effectiveness of comprehensive treatment for justice-involved emerging adults with alcohol and other drug (AOD) abuse, as well as examining the mechanism of action for such treatments.
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Multisystemic Therapy for Emerging Adults MST-EA (NIMH)
This study (NIMH #R01MH108793) will evaluate the effectiveness of a comprehensive treatment for emerging adults who are justice-involved and have serious mental illness, as well as examining the mechanisms of action for such treatments.
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Oregon Divorce Studies
Two studies of the factors that contribute to marital and child adjustment following marital separation.
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Oregon Prevention Research Center
Founded to integrate the findings from our longitudinal research on the etiology of juvenile antisocial behavior with our experience developing intervention strategies for antisocial youngsters and their families.
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OSLC Relationship Study 1
An intervention with 13- to 17-year-old females with histories of chronic criminal behavior and mental health problems referred from the juvenile justice system.
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OSLC Relationship Study 2
A study of how community-based interventions can help girls function well in their teenage years and into adulthood.
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OSLC Relationship Study 3
Follow-up of two randomized intervention studies, The OSLC Relationship Study 1 and 2, aimed at improving adjustment and reducing delinquency during adolescence.
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Parenting Inside Out
The Parenting Inside Out® program, a nationally recognized cognitive-behavioral parenting skills training program grounded in OSLC’s Parent Management Training (PMT) program, is the only evidence-based parenting skills training program developed for parents involved in the criminal justice system.
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Partnership for Kindergarten Success (PKS)
This project was a researcher–practitioner partnership involving three organizations: South Lane School District (SLSD), Oregon Social Learning Center (OSLC), and United Way of Lane County (UWLC). The three organizations developed a formalized partnership to help South Lane School District collect information about the early childhood education and care experiences of incoming kindergarteners.
IES: (#R305H140081)

Path to Adulthood Study
An examination of the continuing effect of a family’s involvement with the juvenile system and the long-term results of the residential treatment the boys may have received.
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Pathways Home: Reducing Risk in the Child Welfare System
Aimed at developing effective and feasible parenting interventions for children and their families in the child welfare system.
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Pragmatic Observational Treatment Integrity Instrument for Child Therapy (TIME)
The goal of this study is to develop a “pragmatic” observational instrument for measuring therapist integrity and skill in delivering CBT for youth anxiety in community-based settings. In such settings, existing measurement systems are impractical (too long, expensive, time consuming, etc.) and/or lack evidence for their valid use. To be pragmatic, the proposed instrument will […]
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Preventing Behavior and Health Problems for Foster Teens
This study tested 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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Probation Officers – Contingency Management – Emerging Adults (PO-CM-EA)
This study (an Administrative Supplement to NIDA #R01DA041425) will determine if POs can deliver an evidence-based intervention as a means to ultimately prevent opioid use disorder among high-risk emerging adults.
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ProTeens
Three-year study designed to test the efficacy of an integrated, family-centered preventive intervention for adolescent boys involved in the juvenile justice system through the Department of Youth Services.
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R3 Supervisor Strategy
Public child welfare systems (CWS) in the United States are populated with vulnerable children and families at high risk of negative outcomes, including substance use, risky sexual behavior, delinquency, incarceration, homelessness, and early mortality. This project will evaluate the effectiveness of a supervisor-targeted implementation strategy in creating organizational change and positive family outcomes such as placement permanency, child stability and well-being.
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RRFT: Integrative Risk Reduction and Treatment for Teen Substance Use Problems and PTSD
The aim of this project was to conduct a randomized clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of Risk Reduction through Family Therapy (RRFT) for child sexual abuse victims reporting current substance abuse and experiencing trauma-related symptoms. RRFT was compared to treatment as usual on substance abuse and PTSD outcomes from pre-treatment through 18 months post-entry. […]
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SAF – Randomized Trial of Supervisor Audit-and-Feedback Intervention
This study aims to develop and evaluate a relatively low-burden observational instrument to measure the adherence and competence of community-based clinical supervisors of Multisystemic Treatment (MST).
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Scale It Up
Despite substantial declines in HIV transmission and increases in lifespan among those living with HIV over the past decade, the full potential of existing interventions have not been realized among youth, in large part because efficacious interventions for this age group have not been brought to scale. Scale It Up has assembled research teams who are […]
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Sibling Interaction and Behavior Study
An intervention-prevention research project that addressed family life and sibling relationships during middle childhood.
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STEP Research and Evaluation on Violence Against Women: Teen Dating Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Sexual Violence
Research has documented a link between substance use and other types of aggressive behavior, such as bullying, aggression, and sexual harassment, yet there remains a dearth of knowledge regarding the extent to which substance use facilitates or amplifies patterns of teen dating aggression. This project leveraged data from an existing randomized clinical trial of The […]
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Students with Involved Families and Teachers (SWIFT)
SWIFT takes a preventive approach to support students in public school settings who are at risk for placement in more restrictive school settings. This 5-year randomized controlled trial will examine SWIFT’s efficacy to improve students’ prosocial skills and emotion and behavior regulation and to improve home-school communication and the use of positive parenting practices for families.
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The Child Study (Moved to ODI)
A randomized intervention trial to test the impact of a mentoring program. Early elementary-aged children, their caregivers, and mentors were interviewed.
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The JEAP Initiative – Justice-Involved and Emerging Adults Populations Initiative
The ultimate goal of this Initiative (NIDA #R24DA051950) is rapid advancement of the recovery support services field for persons affected by opioid and polysubstance use disorders.
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The Latino Youth and Family Empowerment Project – I
A collaboration between Centro LatinoAmericano and the OSLC Latino Research Team to address gaps in prevention science and intervention services in the local Latino community.
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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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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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The Parent Child Study
A test of the impact of parent management training on children of incarcerated parents.
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Translational Drug Abuse Prevention (TDAP)
The TDAP Center focused on broadening our understanding of underlying mechanisms that contribute to healthy development and testing practical interventions and implementation strategies to improve outcomes for children and families involved in U.S. child welfare systems.
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