Activities

Monit Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW, (P.I.)

• Child Welfare Education Project (CWEP)
• ACES Community Engagement Project

Patrick Leung, Ph.D., (P.I.)

• 2020: Research Related to Qualified Residential Treatment Programs
• 2018: Cost Allocation of Federal Funds
• 2018: DFPS Compensation Review: A Follow-up Study.
• 2017: DFPS Compensation Assessment and Employee Incentive Review: A Follow-Up
• 2017: DFPS Compensation Assessment and Employee Incentive Review. 
  • Final Report: Executive Summary
  • Data Visualization: Job Incentives and Worker Retention (2)
  • Final Report: Appendices

• 2016: DFPS Compensation Assessment and Employee Incentive Review.
  • Data Visualization: Job Incentives and Worker Retention (1)
• 2008: Texas Statewide Placement Quality & Capacity Needs Analysis.

Yok-Fong Paat, Ph.D., (P.I.)

• 2026–2027: National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): Bridging Creativity (PI). 

• 2025–2026: Southwest Key Programs/Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Building Mental Health Resilience in Migrant and Refugee Communities (PI).

• 2023–2025: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (OTVTP): REACH (Resilience, Education, Action, Commitment, and Humanity): Using Critical Media Literacy, Civic Learning, and Arts-Based Approaches to Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence on the US-Mexico Border Region and Beyond (PI).

• 2021–2023: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office for Targeted Violence and Terrorism Prevention (OTVTP): REACH (Resilience, Education, Action, Commitment, and Humanity): An Integrated Ecological Approach to Countering Terrorism and Targeted Violence on the US-Mexico Border Region (PI)

• 2021–2026: Health Resources & Services Administration: Healthy Families Healthy Kids Initiative (PI).

Isabel Torres, Ph.D., (P.I.)

• Disclosure Preferences of Older Latinos with Advanced Cancer & their Caregivers

Christiana Miyawaki, Ph.D., (P.I. and Co-I.)

• 2023-2025: Alzheimer’s Association: Caregiver-Provided Life Review (C-PLR) for Persons with Dementia in Care Facilities (2)
• 2023-2024: NIH/NHLBI: Facilitators and Barriers to COVID-19 Vaccinations and Clinical Therapeutic Trial Participation in Vietnamese Americans
• 2023-2024: University of Houston: Cougar Cognitive Health Initiative (CHAIN)
• 2022-2027: NIH/NIA: Education and Cognitive Functioning in Later Life: The Nation’s High School Class of 1972
• 2022-2023: NIH/NIA: Community-Engaged Dementia Education Program (CEDEP) for the Houston Vietnamese American Community
• 2020-2023: Alzheimer’s Association: Caregiver-Provided Life Review (C-PLR) for Persons with Dementia in Care Facilities (1)
• 2020-2021: NIH/NIA: Caregiving and Disability in Older Vietnamese in the U.S.: Vietnamese Aging and Care Survey (VACS)
• 2016-2017: CSWE: Filial Responsibility and Acculturation among Chinese-American Family Caregivers of Older Adults in Houston, Texas: Mental and Health Impact