Behavioral Health and Prevention/Intervention

SHIFT Research Institute

CalHOPE Student Support

CalHOPE Student Support is a multi-stakeholder, partnered initiative – between sectors, across regions, and between system levels, intended to help California educators since 2021 in the unprecedented task of bringing children back into and improving the normative routines of learning and development by strengthening capacity for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) implementation statewide.

The CalHOPE Student Support is led by the Sacramento County...

BASEL

The Berkeley Assessment of Social and Emotional Learning (BASEL; © Regents of the University of California) is a formative assessment tool that can be administered to students, teachers, and leaders to guide SEL implementation for equity and wellbeing.

The BASEL (pronounced: basil) includes brief surveys that can be used for immediate action and transformative change. It can be administered in conjunction with Kelvin’s survey platform...

Adrian Aguilera

Associate Professor
Associate Professor Adrian Aguilera’s research leverages digital & mobile technologies along with innovative methods such as machine learning to improve health & mental healthcare of low-income & ethnic minority populations, with a focus on Latinx & Spanish-speaking populations.

The Effects of Social Networks on Women’s Substance Use Disorder Recovery Outcome

Principal Investigators and Research Partners:
Principal Investigator: Hortensia Amaro, Associate Vice Provost for Community Research Initiatives and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work
Co-Principal Investigator: Erin M. Kerrison, Assistant Professor, Berkeley Social Welfare

Summary and Findings:

Since June 2016, Dr. Erin Kerrison has worked with Dr. Hortensia Amaro on the development of a Diversity Supplement proposal to her NIDA funded parent R01 study entitled, “Neuro...

Digital Health Equity and Access Lab

dHEAL logoThe goal of Digital Health Equity and Access Lab (dHEAL) is to develop and disseminate innovative technologies to improve health and mental health in low-income and underserved communities. We focus on the development, evaluation and implementation of digital health interventions (e-health, m-health and technology-assisted interventions) to improve the reach of evidence-based interventions.

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Conference: Coercive Treatment — Moving Beyond "For your Own Good"

May 3, 2019

The Berkeley Social Welfare community is invited to participate in the Coercive Treatment – Moving Beyond “for Your Own Good" Conference. The conference is organized by the Drug Policy Alliance(DPA) and...