UNC School of Social Work Professor Paul Lanier has received a $250,000 award from the Humana Foundation to study the impact of suicide prevention programs.
A $252,000 grant secured by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work Associate Professor Hsun-ta Hsu will help develop a tool to combat homeless in rural regions.
School of Social Work faculty member and associate dean for research and faculty development Sheryl Zimmerman will lead part of an $81 million grant studying the dementia workforce.
The K01 Grant will enable assistant professor Rebecca Rebbe to expand her research to include multiple forms of violence against children and to learn a new research method.
UNC School of Social Work has been awarded a nearly $1.7 million grant from The Duke Endowment for a multi-phase project that aims to prevent child maltreatment and strengthen support for kinship caregivers raising relative children with special health care needs.