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GalleryEvaluation of a rapid re-housing program for young adults
Currently, there is a significant gap in knowledge about the […]
GalleryProject LEAD (Law to Eliminate Abuse and Diversion)
The purpose of this R01 project is to examine the effects of state laws designed to reduce opioid diversion and misuse on the transition to injection drug use and how they vary in implementation across three states.
Youth Food Program Alliance
The Youth Food Program Alliance brings together effective systems change, agriculture, and culinary programs working with young people across CT to build their abilities and resources.
GalleryEnhancing Community Capacity for Preventing Prescription Drug Misuse
ICR is working with the West Hartford Substance Abuse Prevention Commission (WHSAPC) and community partners to develop a community needs assessment and strategic plan to reduce prescription drug misuse among West Hartford youth and young adults, with particular attention to minority, high-risk youth.
GalleryParticipatory System Dynamics Modeling to Simulate HIV Test-and-Treat Improvements
This study uses community participatory system dynamics (SD) group model building (GMB) and multiple data sources to build a SD computational/simulation model of the HIV care continuum in Greater Hartford, CT as a tool to reduce the epidemic.
GalleryYouth Action Hub
The Youth Action Hub is a center of research and advocacy staffed and led by youth/young adults to contribute youth voice in current research and policy advocacy around youth homelessness in Connecticut.
GalleryResilience Grows Here
Resilience Grows Here is a community-based veteran’s mental health initiative run by the Farmington Valley Health District.
GalleryHIV Community Viral Load (CVL) Study
This study is designed to engage multiple community stakeholders, including providers and people with HIV, to develop a comprehensive system dynamics model that can be used to understand how systemic processes affect HIV community viral load (CVL).
GalleryA Study of the Risks and Resilience of Unstably Housed Youth
This pilot study seeks to understand the risks and resilience of unaccompanied unstably housed youth living in small urban areas in Connecticut with high HIV prevalence, and to pilot test an internet-based peer recruitment methodology (webRDS) to reach groups of youth who are not using services.
GalleryBuilding the Capacity of Facilitators to Implement YPAR in Oregon
OHA and ICR partnered to develop and evaluate a set of training resources to accompany ICR's YPAR Curriculum Adapted for Oregon.
GalleryAssessing Perceived Risk of Dental Treatments for Pregnant Women on Medicaid
This exploratory study was designed to examine barriers to the provision of allowable dental care to pregnant patients on Medicaid in Connecticut, despite the known benefits and safety of prenatal dental care.
GalleryAlcohol, Sexual Risk and HIV Prevention in Mumbai, India
This three-year study investigated how alcohol may contribute to risky sexual activities that lead to HIV transmission among married and unmarried men and their sexual partners in three low income slums in the Mumbai metropolitan area.
GalleryDrug use, Housing and HIV risk in Low-Income Urban Residents
This 4-year study explored the relationship between structural factors of housing (access to housing subsidies and programs, status and stability) and HIV risk among low-income drug users compared to non-drug users.
GalleryMicrobicides Acceptability among Sex Workers in Southern China
This 3-year study examined readiness among female sex workers in Hainan and Guangxi Provinces, China, for vaginal microbicides and the female condom to prevent HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases.
GalleryProject Protect
This three-year study conducted in Hartford, CT explored readiness for use of vaginal microbicides as HIV prevention among women involved in high-risk activities, such as drug use and risky sex.
GalleryPathways Minority Supplement
This was a study of the sale and distribution of drugs by urban and suburban Latino youth as source of subsistence in the context of extremely limited economic opportunities.
GalleryUrban Lifestyles: Club Drugs, Resource Inequities and Health Risks in Urban Youth
This cutting-edge study examined the mechanisms through which potentially dangerous new club, dance-related and prescription drugs (often referred to as "designer drugs") were diffusing into the urban environment in Hartford.
GalleryPathways to High-Risk Drug Abuse Among Urban Youth
This 4-year study identified critical factors responsible for the transition from "soft" or "gateway" drug use to "hard" drug use, including injection drug use, among multiethnic inner city young adults in Hartford, CT.
GalleryRollin’ and Dustin’: Pathways to Urban Life Styles
This traveling exhibit, a collaboration of ICR and the Hartford Animation Institute, was designed to present almost 10 years of research findings on the lifestyles and drug use of young people in Hartford, CT.
GallerySmokeless Tobacco Project
This 3-year study of a "slum" community in Mumbai identified outlets and available forms of smokeless tobacco and examined women’s smokeless tobacco practices in relation to their reproductive health.
GalleryThe Sewing Circle Project
The Sewing Circle Project assists newcomer, refugee, and immigrant textile artists to produce and sustain their traditional art forms and share their work and cultural expressions with public audiences.
GalleryChina/U.S. Women’s Health Project
This was a 5-year study of HIV risk and social dynamics in sex-work establishments conducted in two rural and two mid-sized urban towns in Hainan and Guanxi Provinces, China.
GallerySWEET Inner Power: The Community Action and Advocacy Board for Female Condom Promotion
This 4-year study sought to enhance HIV prevention by increasing community-wide availability, accessibility, and support for use of the female condom to reduce transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections as well as pregnancy.
GalleryTranslation of the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) for Drug Treatment Clinic Implementation
The goal of this 3-year study was to translate the Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP) project for implementation in outpatient drug treatment clinics and to pilot test the modified intervention in two methadone clinics.
GalleryMDMA Project
The purpose of this study was to discover whether and in what ways MDMA contributes to sexual behavior and decision making, and when its use is associated with lack of protection.
GalleryRecipes for Life
"Recipes for Life" explored the ways in which older adults successfully cope with the aging process. Through an arts-based intervention, older adults shared life experiences and thoughts on successful aging.
GalleryNIDA New Haven
This intervention study is developing, conducting and evaluating a new approach to drug and sex-risk prevention in urban middle schools.
GalleryInter-Generational Culture Gaps, Stress Coping and ATOD Risk and Resilience among Chinese and Other East Asians American (COEAA) Youth
We recruited Eastern Asian community researchers (high school students, college students, parents) from the community as equal research partners.
GalleryAAPI PAR Study I. Experience of Stress and Substance Use among AAPI Students
This study is a supplemental study of NIDA funded R01 research named IDU Peer Recruitment Dynamics and Network Structure in Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS).
GalleryRDS Network and Peer Recruitment Dynamics
Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS) has gained its popularity internationally for its cost effectiveness in reaching hidden populations and claimed ability to make unbiased population estimates.
GalleryImproving Access to Mental Health Services for Older Hartford Residents
This three-year study identified the predictors and prevalence of depression and anxiety in a residential community of older, primarily minority, adults living in public and private senior housing in Hartford, CT.
GalleryXperience Project
This unique study piloted a performance-based intervention in partnership with Hartford youth, who developed drug-prevention messages to incorporate into performances of local artists at live shows, then disseminated them via a CD and other media.
GalleryGood Oral Health Project
This project was designed to build infrastructure for clinical and community-based training and research on geriatric oral health and to build a statewide oral health research alliance to promote geriatric oral health projects.
GalleryUrban Artists’ Initiative (UAI): Urban Artists’ Initiative (formerly Inner City Cultural Development (ICCD) Project)
The Urban Artists Initiative provided culturally and ethnically diverse artists and arts organizations in Connecticut with training, grants, mentors, technical assistance, and staff support needed to thrive and enrich the cultural health of their communities.
GalleryProvider Supplement to the Female Condom project: Engaging Clinical Health Care Providers (CHCP) in Female Condom Promotion
This 1-year study targeted Clinical Health Care Providers practicing in community and hospital-based outpatient primary care health centers and clinics in Hartford to examine factors affecting their willingness to promote the female condom for women’s HIV prevention.
GalleryHigh Risk Sites
This study identified and explored characteristics of "high-risk sites" where people gather to use drugs, drug-user social networks, and other context factors that contribute to HIV and other health risks in those settings.
GalleryProvider Supplement to the Female Condom Project
This 1-year supplement to “Sustained Safer Behaviors in High-Risk Women to Prevent HIV” targeted Clinical Health Care Providers (CHCP) practicing in community and hospital-based outpatient primary care health centers and clinics in Hartford.
GalleryCoalition Building and Youth Substance Abuse Prevention in West Hartford, CT
ICR's prevention program in West Hartford is a collaboration between the West Hartford Substance Abuse Prevention Commission, Institute for Community Research, West Hartford high school students and school administration, and community members.
GalleryCommunity Research Alliance Capacity-Building
The focus of the Community Engagement Pilot Program funded by the Connecticut Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (CICATS) is to help define and create the infrastructure for equitable, good and sustainable community research partnerships and research on health and other disparities that is scientifically sound and immediately beneficial to the communities involved.
GalleryCHAP: Serving Connecticut’s traditional artists and their communities
A longstanding program of the Institute for Community Research, the Connecticut Cultural Heritage Arts Program (CHAP) serves as the state’s official folk and traditional arts initiative.
GalleryRISHTA: Reducing Alcohol consumption to improve ART adherence in PLWA in India
The number of people living with HIV in India exceeds 2 million. India faces a major challenge in providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) services in the next decades to several million people who live with or will acquire HIV/AIDS.
GalleryYouth Participatory Action Research to Reduce Teen Substance Use in Meriden
This youth participatory action research (YPAR) program is a year round youth employment opportunity for economically disadvantaged youth in Meriden, Connecticut, funded by the Workforce Alliance, Inc.
GalleryBuilding Youth Leadership Capacity in Food Justice Campaigns
ICR is working with food justice organizations across Connecticut to develop the next generation of leaders in the local food justice movement.