The list below is of research projects at the School of Social Service Administration identifying the principal investigator, the funding source, and the project title. 

Scott Allard

• Russell Sage Foundation
  “Places in Need: The Changing Geography of Poverty and the American Safety Net”

• Silberman Fund
  “Struggling to Help the Newly Poor: Understand the Safety Net Response to the Changing Geography of Poverty”

Alida Bouris

• National Institutes of Health/University of California at San Francisco
  “Substance Use and HIV Prevention Research in Minority Communities Training Program”

Robert Chaskin

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  “Youth Affected by Chicago’s Housing Transformation”

Yoonsun Choi

• National Institutes of Health
  “Culture, Family Process, and Developmental Outcomes in Asian American Youth”

Mark Courtney

• Hilton Foundation
  “Evaluation of the Impact of California’s Fostering Connections Act on Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth”

• Stuart Foundation
  “Evaluation of the Impact of California’s Fostering Connections Act on Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth”

• Walter Johnson Foundation
  “Evaluation of the Impact of California’s Fostering Connections Act on Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth”

• Zellerbach Foundation
  “Evaluation of the Impact of California’s Fostering Connections Act on Adult Outcomes for Foster Youth”

Matthew Epperson

• National Institute of Justice
  “Comparative Evaluation of Court Based Responses to Offenders with Mental Illness”

Roberto Gonzales

• James Irvine Foundation
  “Assessing DACA Implementation in California”

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  “Leaning to be Legal”

Deborah Gorman-Smith

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  “Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention”

• National Institutes of Health/Michigan State University
  “Integrating Contextual, Proximal, and Individual Risk for Child Conduct Problems”

Neil Guterman

• Nathan Cummings Foundation
  “SSA Violence Prevention Program”

Sydney Hans

• Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)/State of Illinois
  “Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program”

• Irving B. Harris Foundation
  “Infant Mental Health Training Program”

• Ounce of Prevention Fund/University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
  “Study of Early Childhood Settings in Multiple Communities (Educare RCT)

• State of Illinois/Ounce of Prevention Fund
  “Leveraging Change for Children”

Julia Henly

• Administration for Children and Families
  “Determinants of Subsidy Stability”

Leyla Ismayilova

• National Institutes of Health
  “Computerized Family-Based Youth HIV and Drug Abuse Prevention in Kazakhstan”

Susan Lambert

• Fort Foundation
  “The Scheduling Intervention Study”

Jens Ludwig

• Department of Justice
  “Evaluation of COPS Funding

• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
  “Crime Lab Operational Funds”

• McCormick Foundation
  “Gun Violence in Urban America”

• New Venture Foundation
  “Gun Violence in Urban America”

• St. Louis Metropolitan Police Foundation
  “Evaluating Increased Cash Bond Amounts for Illegal Gun Carrying”

Harold Pollack

• National Institutes of Health/Columbia University
  “National Dentist Survey About HIV Testing in Dental Settings”

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  “Intellectual Disability and the American Medical Welfare State

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration/Access Community Health
  “Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment”

Melissa Roderick

• Boeing Foundation
  “Network for College Success”

• Chicago Community Trust
  “Strengthening Instruction: Linking Language Development and Literacy”

• Chicago Tribune Charities
  “Network for College Success”

• DOE/ISBE/CBOE
  “School Improvement Grant (SIG)”

• Lloyd A. Fry Foundation
  “High Quality, Transformational Leadership and Improved Student Outcomes in Chicago Public High Schools”

• McDougal Foundation
  “Network for College Success”

• Polk Bros. Foundation
  “Network for College Success”

• Spencer Foundation
  “Does College Matter?”

Tina Rzepnicki

• Illinois Department of Children and Family Services
  “Program Practices Project”

Marci Ybarra

• Silberman Fund
  “Child Care Arrangements and Cognitive Outcomes among Children from Latino Immigrant Families”