Research

MAKING AN IMPACT

FIU’s School of Social Work spent the past two years further identifying ways to better serve communities. In F.Y. 2020-21, our school brought in over $6.1 million in award actions, which has helped make this work possible.

Grants

Dr. Shanna Burke

Dr. Eric Wagner

Dr. Nicole Fava Dr. Shanna Burke, associate professor at FIU’s School of Social Work, was recently awarded a $900,000 grant from the Florida Center for Students with Unique Abilities (University of Central Florida) to enhance and evaluate a postsecondary program for students at FIU with intellectual disabilities. Dr. Burke is the Principal Investigator for Enhancing work-based learning, interdependent living skills, and universal design in postsecondary education for students with intellectual disabilities.

Drs. Shanna Burke and Eric Wagner, professor at FIU’s School of Social Work, received a $350,653,74 grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) for a study entitled Sleep cognition among Latinx midlife adults at-risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Dr. Burke and Dr. Wagner serve as the Principal Investigators.

Dr. Nicole Fava, assistant professor at FIU’s School of Social Work and director of the Childhood Adversity and Resilience (CARES) lab, which studies the impact of trauma and childhood adversity on healthy development with a particular focus on adolescent sexual health from a trauma-informed, resiliencefocused framework, was recently awarded a $425,145 grant from The Children’s Trust for the project entitled Traumainformed screening & treatment in community-university clinic: Parents & youth. Dr. Fava serves as the Principal Investigator, providing trauma services to youth 3-17 years of age who have experienced trauma, along with their families, through various agencies in Miami-Dade County.