Current Studies

ParentCorps: Academic Achievement Outcomes From a Pre-K Family and School Intervention
Principal Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Co-Investigators: Spring Dawson-McClure, Ph.D., Demy Kamboukos, Ph.D., and Esther Calzada, Ph.D.
Funding Source: Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education
Years: 2005-2011
Aim: This study evaluates the long-term academic outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of ParentCorps, a universal family and school intervention for Pre-K Students.

ParentCorps: Preventing Conduct Problems in Preschoolers Living in Low-Income, Urban Communities
Principal Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Co-Investigators: Spring Dawson-McClure, Ph.D., Esther Calzada, Ph.D., and Eva Petkova, Ph.D.
Funding Source: Institute for Education Sciences, US Department of Education
Years: 2005-2011
Aim: This study evaluates the immediate and short-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of ParentCorps, a universal family and school intervention for Pre-K students.

ParentCorps: Preventing Conduct Problems in Preschoolers Living in Low-Income, Urban Communities, Follow up to 2nd Grade
Principal Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Co-Investigators: Spring Dawson-McClure, Ph.D., Esther Calzada, Ph.D., and Eva Petkova, Ph.D.
Funding Source:  National Institute of Mental Health
Years: 2008-2012
Aim: This study evaluates the long-term outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of ParentCorps, a universal family and school intervention for Pre-K students.

ParentCorps/Bridges: A Cultural Model of Mental Health Services for Immigrant Afro-Caribbean Students
Principal Investigator:  Esther Calzada, Ph.D..
Co-Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Funding Source:  Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Caring Across Communities
Years: 2007-2010
Aim: This study evaluates Bridges, a program designed to complement ParentCorps by providing services to teachers and families in first grade.  The program provides training and consultation to teachers and mental health workers in cultural competence, ethnic socialization, and evidence-based strategies for dealing with child mental health problems. The program also provides classroom support and family workshops.

ParentCorps: Culturally-Informed Early Prevention for Spanish-Speaking Immigrant Families
Principal Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Co-Investigators: NYU CSC and Internal General Medicine Collaborative Co-Investigators
Funding Source: NYU‐HHC Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Years: 2009-2010
Aim: This project includes initial efforts to translate and adapt ParentCorps for Spanish-speaking immigrant families of preschoolers.

Family and School Contexts as Predictors of Early Childhood Latino Development
Principal Investigator: Esther Calzada, Ph.D.
Co-Investigators: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Funding Source: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Years: 2010-2015
Aim: This project aims to test a model of early childhood development that incorporates developmental and cultural concepts to examine the family context, the school context, and the intersection of the two as predictors of academic and behavioral functioning of Latino children.

A School-based Approach to Helping Urban H.S. Students with Undiagnosed Asthma
Principal Investigator: Jean-Marie Bruzzese, Ph.D.
Funding Source: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
Years: 2008-2013
Aim: In a randomized controlled trial, this study tests the efficacy of an intervention to assist adolescents with symptoms of persistent asthma who are not diagnosed to obtain a diagnosis and appropriate treatment.

Cultural Adaptation of Hispanic Parents
Principal Investigator: EEsther Calzada, Ph.D.
Funding Source: K award, National Institute of Child and Health Development
Years: 2006-2011
Aim: To study Latino parenting of preschoolers using a cultural framework that focuses on cultural childrearing values and value-driven parenting behavior.

Can Family-Based Prevention of Conduct Problems Prevent Intimate Partner Violence?
Principal Investigator: Laurie Miller Brotman, Ph.D.
Funding Source: Centers for Disease Control
Years: 2007-2011
Aim: This grant is a sub-contract from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice to evaluate the pre-adolescent and adolescent outcomes for siblings of adjudicated youth who participated in a randomized controlled trial of a family intervention in the preschool period.