Ongoing Project DIRECT Research

Our team has several ongoing research projects related to our primary goal of promoting high quality community-based mental health and pre-academic programming for children and their families, including...

Project Pre-K TIPS, funded by the Louisiana Board of Regents

Safe Schools NOLA, funded by the National Institute of Justice

Trauma-Informed Schools Demonstration Project, funded by the Department of Justice and United Way through the City of New Orleans Health Department

Interrelated efforts to measure, evaluate, and study the implementation of trauma informed care, conducted in partnership with Steve Brown and Pat Wilcox at the Traumatic Stress Institute, and including our work developing the Attitudes Related to Trauma Informed Care (ARTIC) Scale