Program Areas and Current Projects
Information about the Prevention Research Center's current research projects is organized into six Program Areas: Emerging Adulthood; Family Science & Intervention; PEACE (Program on Empathy Awareness & Compassion in
Education); School-based Prevention Research; Translation, Dissemination & Implementation; and Training. The Center also has an Administrative Services Area that handles pre- and post-award project support.
Program Areas
- An Appearance-based Intervention to Reduce Teen Skin Cancer Risk (Project iSTART) (Turrisi, PI; NCI)
- British Cohort Studies (Maggs, PI; NIH)
- A Community-based ZT Program: Completing the Model of MLDA Enforcement (Zero Tolerance Project) (Turrisi, PI [Penn State Subcontract]; NIAAA)
- Early Intervention to Prevent Student Binge Drinking in Student Athletes (Turrisi, PI; NIAAA)
- Enhancing Patient Communication among Dermatologists (Project Options) (Mallett, PI; NCI)
- Steroid Use in Adolescents (Project EPIC) (Turrisi, PI [Penn State Subcontract]; NIDA)
- Partner Assistance in Performing Skin Self-Examinations (Project Skin Watch) (Turrisi, PI; NCI)
- Parent-based Interventions to Prevent Student Drinking (Project ACT, the ENALC Project, Project PACT) (Turrisi, PI; NIAAA)
- Prevalence, Predictors, and Consequences of Alcohol Use from Childhood to Midlife (Maggs, PI; NIAAA)
- University Life Project (Maggs, PI; NIAAA)
- Efficacy Trial of a Mindfulness Enhanced Strengthening Families Program (Coatsworth, PI; NIH)
- Family Foundations (Feinberg, PI; NIH)
- Family Life Project/Children Living in Rural Poverty (Greenberg, PI; NIH)
- Parent-based Interventions to Prevent Student Drinking (Project ACT, the ENALC Project, Project PACT) (Turrisi, PI; NIAAA)
- Project SIESTA: The Role of Parenting in Infant Sleep Regulation and Sleep Problem Risk (Teti, PI; NICHD)
- Siblings are Special (Feinberg, PI; NICHD)
- Transition to Parenthood: Change in Couple Daily Stress Processes & Mental Health (Feinberg, PI; NIH)
- What Affects Outcomes in Group Homes for Youth? (E. Farmer, PI; NIH)
- CARE (Jennings, PI; U.S. Dept. of Education)
- Efficacy Trial of a Mindfulness Enhanced Strengthening Families Program (Coatsworth, PI; NIH)
- Nurturing Mindfulness in Youth (Greenberg, PI; NIH)
School-based Prevention Research
- CARE (Jennings, PI; U.S. Dept. of Education)
- Communities That Care (CTC) Research and Evaluation (Feinberg, PI; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
- Center for Prevention and Early Intervention/Johns Hopkins University--School-based Effectiveness Research
- Family Life Project/Children Living in Rural Poverty (Greenberg, PI; NIH)
- FOCUS on Learning (Welsh, PI; NIH)
- Harrisburg Character Education Evaluation (Domitrovich; Pennsylvania Department of Education)
- Harrisburg Preschool Program (HPP)/REACH (Greenberg & Domitrovich, Co-PIs; W.K. Kellogg Foundation)
- Head Start REDI (Bierman, PI: NIH)
- HealthWise II/HealthWise Dissemination: Translation to Multiple Schools (Caldwell & Smith, Co-PIs; NIH)
- Implications of Genetic Variance for Substance Use Interventions in Adolescence (H. Cleveland, PI; NIH)
- INSPIRE (Domitrovich, Small, & Bumbarger, Co-PIs)
- PATHS to Success (Greenberg, PI; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
- Preschool PATHS® Curriculum (Domitrovich, PI)
- Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS)® Curriculum (Greenberg, PI)
- PROSPER (Spoth, ISU, & Greenberg, PSU, Co-PIs)
- Siblings are Special (Feinberg, PI; NICHD)
- Transdisciplinary Approach to Understanding Variability in Preventive Intervention Outcomes/Underlying Regulatory Mechanisms of Prevention Outcomes in the School-based PATHS® Curriculum Program (Greenberg, PI on Penn State Subcontract; Fishbein, RTI International, PI)
- Communities That Care (CTC) Research and Evaluation (Feinberg, PI; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
- Evidence-based Prevention and Intervention Support Center (EPISCenter) (Bumbarger, PI; Commonwealth of Pennsylvania)
- INSPIRE (Domitrovich, Small, & Bumbarger, Co-PIs)
- PROSPER (Spoth, ISU, & Greenberg, PSU, Co-PIs)
- Weed & Seed Training and Technical Assistance (Bumbarger, Mastrofski, & Kelsey, Co-PIs)
- Prevention and Methodology Training (PAMT)
- TIES (Training Interdisciplinary Educational Scientists)
- Childhood Obesity Prevention Training Program (COPT)
Harrisburg
Harrisburg Center for Healthy Child Development
For more information on Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute projects, please visit its web site
Completed Projects
Review a list of Completed Projects conducted at the Prevention Research Center.