Learning from families to support
child and adolescent mental health

Our Mission

  • Engaging families in evidence-based prevention and intervention services.

  • Engaging families to support healthy child development.

  • Engaging families to build strong family relationships.

  • Engaging families in the research process to come up with practical and feasible solutions.

  • Engaging families to find out about their daily lives.

  • Engaging families to tackle mental health disparities.

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Graduate students Mary Kuckertz and Melissa Uribe presented their poster at the National Latinx Psychological Association (NLPA) 2024 Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico. They presented on our lab’s research to find out how to best help caregiv
We are recruiting potential research assistants who are sophomore+ students who can speak and write fluently in Spanish. As a lab, we aim to learn from families to support child and adolescent mental health, specifically through evidence-based interv
Do you know any families who are refugees or were forced to moved to the US? @parentinginthemoment is looking for for families to participate in a parenting program. Please share this opportunity with them!
Last week, we looked at the Family Development Theory. Swipe to learn more about some criticisms of this theory! - Image Descriptions: #1 Title of the post, “Criticisms of the Family Development Theory” #2 Brief statement how limitations
🌟SIRC Recap Highlight 🌟 Jaya Nandiwada, our lab’s project coordinator, attended SIRC and presented her research on “[building] a home practice app to go alongside an evidence based parenting intervention to help parents practice their
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⭐️AZPA Poster Presentation Highlight ⭐️ Jaya Nandiwada, our lab’s project coordinator, attended AZPA and presented her research on “[conducting] user testing with multiple stakeholders to gather insights on our digital intervention to su
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Make an Impact!

Your gift to the Engaging Families Lab helps it develop, provide, evaluate and innovate high-quality parenting interventions and engagement strategies for families navigating stressful transitions and experiences. Research activities include, but are not limited to, research on parenting interventions for substance use and mental illness prevention, app development for parenting interventions, home practice research, prevention research, and adaptations of parenting interventions for parents of children with physical disabilities.

Life happens! Help us learn what’s getting in the way of parenting skills

We’re looking for partners to learn about the hassles of daily life that get in the way of practicing parenting skills.