The aim of this project is to give hard to reach young urban women who may be at risk for HIV, access to health promotion videos on their own cell phones.

Evaluation of the readiness and feasibility of conducting a large-scale evaluation of Start Strong Boston, a highly regarded community-based intervention that teaches middle school-aged youth about healthy relationships and avoiding dating violence.

This project seeks to identify how communities’ efforts to address questions regarding the role and place of sanctuary affects their resilience, and considers ways that cities might become more resilient as they respond to various forms of oppression, human rights violations, and other unjust exercises of power worldwide.

This study is designed to (a) identify subgroups of gun owners who share similar attributes and similar suicide risk profiles and then (b) conduct qualitative research with the subgroups to explore barriers and facilitators to the development of targeted firearm suicide prevention programs that can be adopted by each subgroup.

This project builds collaborative relationships with community-based organizations so they are better able to offer proven, innovative HIV prevention and support programs that assist girls, women, and their families.

The aim of this project is to give hard to reach young urban women who may be at risk for HIV, access to health promotion videos on their own cell phones.

This project aims to provide opportunities for young artists to discuss health issues of importance to them and their community, as well as a space for creating art with guidance and supplies.

This is an evaluation of comprehensive trauma-informed, culturally-tailored substance abuse, behavioral health, and primary care services to low-income adult women in Boston who are at high risk of or living with HIV/AIDS, with a particular focus on recruiting and serving women of color.

This study aims to assess the feasibility, acceptability, potential benefits, and outcome trends of an intervention designed to promote the use of long-acting contraceptives among women in treatment for drug addiction.

This is an evaluation of peer-led services focused on enhancing substance use treatment and recovery outcomes for Latino and African American men and women with a history of co-occurring substance abuse and mental health disorders in Boston.

This study randomly assigns individuals to receive different neighborhood contexts, to support strong causal inferences of how neighborhoods shape mental health.

This is a social marketing campaign that aims to encourage students to think about how they make decisions about drinking and to promote discussion about student life and alcohol and drug use among students.

This is an Intensive Outpatient Treatment (IOT) program that aims to reduce substance abuse and to reduce HIV infection and other diseases among African American and Latina women.

This program implements and evaluates a model of integrated substance abuse and mental health treatment for men of color. It aims to support participants’ recovery by increasing access to high-quality, community-based, culturally sensitive outpatient substance abuse treatment services.

As a part of the Safe and Sound Return initiative, this training program gives women the opportunity to develop skills that they can later use in professional and educational settings. It also aims to empower women to overcome obstacles and improve their self-image.

This program expands and enhances substance abuse treatment and reentry services for women returning to their communities after being incarcerated.

This project responds to an identified need to expand residential substance abuse treatment services for pregnant and postpartum Latina women in Boston.

The goal of this study is to increase our understanding of the prevalence of limited literacy among people using public, urban mental health outpatient services and to examine mechanisms that inform our understanding of these relationships.

This study aims to determine construction worker perspectives on their mental health and wellbeing, and how work contributes to mental health and the wellbeing of the workers.

This investigation will collect pilot data and test different methods of recruitment, retainment, and assessment to prepare for research proposals to fund a longitudinal cohort study of the role of justice in the healing of sexual assault survivors.

This is a pilot study to develop and implement an adapted Adult Basic Education course in a public urban outpatient mental health clinic for those with limited literacy and living with serious mental illness.

This project promotes the emotional, social, and behavioral health of young children by enhancing early childhood service systems.

This program aims to prevent childhood obesity by supporting health promoting environments where young children live, learn, and play.

This research aims to uncover whether and how specific drug and health-related laws and placement characteristics relate to a variety of overdose related outcomes among people who inject drugs, overall and by race/ethnicity, gender, age, and HIV status.

The goal of this project is to expand knowledge of the relationships among experiences of discrimination and health outcomes for young Somali adults and ultimately mitigate disparities in mental health and health outcomes experienced by immigrant young adults.

This study aims to generate evidence on how health policies impact substance use and drug and alcohol treatment among women with and at risk of HIV in the United States, and explain the pathways through which these policies shape HIV viral suppression among women with HIV.