Research
The Family Resiliency Center is dedicated to advancing knowledge and practices that strengthen families' abilities to meet life's challenges and thrive. We focus on collaborative research related to our four core themes. Please select a topic to learn more.
Alphabetical Listing of Research Projects
(or search by theme above)
- Abriendo Caminos
- An Evaluation of the Backpack Program
- Balancing Household Needs
- Culture Brokering in Immigrants and Refugee Families from Eastern Europe
- Early Childhood Health and Food Project
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of an Online Parenting System for High-Risk Parents
- Family Approach to Asthma Management (FAAM)
- Families EAT Together
- Family Processes, Intergenerational Learning, and Involved Fathering
- Fostering Health and Nutrition
- Healthy Today, Healthy Tomorrow
- I-TOPP Program
- Illinois Early Childhood Activity Program (I-CAP)
- Improving Eating Behavior Through A Nutrition Education Program to Prevent Diabetes in Hispanic Communities
- Latino Needs Assessment
- Maternal Work Schedules and Children’s Socioemotional Development in Single Mother Families: The Mediating Effects of Home Environment and Child Care
- More Fun with Sisters and Brothers
- Pathways Project
- Preschoolers’ Emotional Resiliency: Family Processes, Temperament and Neurobiological Correlates
- Preventing Diabetes
- Project DINE
- Resiliency of Military Families
- Shared Family Mealtimes: Catalogue and Connect
- Shared Family Mealtimes: Family Mealtimes Messaging
- STRONG Kids Program
- Family Health Awareness Study: (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- Food Marketing to Young Children: (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- Obesity Risk Biomarkers (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- Preschoolers’ Food Preferences and Nutritional Knowledge: (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- The Role of Head Start and Child Care Classrooms in Early Childhood Obesity: A Cumulative Risk Model (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- Family Health Awareness Study: (STRONG Kids Subproject)
- Transition to Child Care: Maternal Perspectives and Psychological Resources
- Transitions into the Labor Force, Marriage and Biological Fatherhood
- Up Amigos
- Youthworks