Old - Child and Family Center for Innovative Research
Objectives
Meet the Team
Recent Grants Awarded
Featured Projects
Goal
The overall goal of the Child and Family Center for Innovative Research (CFCIR) at the University of Houston is to improve youth and family well-being, strengthen interpersonal relationships, and promote social justice.
Objectives
1.Provide a platform for conducting research and engaging faculty and staff in community-based projects using innovative methods and approaches.
2.Collaborate with national, state and local agencies to perform child and family service and workforce analyses.
3.Develop and test innovative treatment and strategic plans through funded research to improve child and family services.
4.Identify effective prevention and evaluative measures and treatment programs for children, youth and families across diverse cultural backgrounds, especially among ethnic minorities and LGBTQX communities.
5.Provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration, between government and not-for-profit agencies and among community organizations, scholars and other service providers, from local to global, aiming to ensure health development for all youths and stop family and interpersonal violence.
Meet the Team
Director, Child and Family Center for Innovative Research: Professor Monit Cheung, Ph.D, LCSW.
Professor Monit Cheung, MA, MSW, PhD, LCSW, is Professor and Chair of the Clinical Practice Concentration at the Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston. She received her doctoral and master’s degrees in social work and a master’s degree in public administration from The Ohio State University and a post-doc certificate on Geriatric Education from the University of Iowa. She is Director of the Child & Family Center for Innovative Research and Principal Investigator of the Child Welfare Education Project, a state partnership program funded federally by Title IV-E for training child welfare social workers. She has been a social worker for 40 years and is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker specializing in play therapy, family counseling, geriatric counseling, child/adolescent counseling, child protection, sexual and domestic violence, and incest survivor treatment. She has practiced as a consultant trainer for the Hong Kong Social Welfare Department and the Hong Kong Police Force. Using an experiential and practice-oriented approach to teaching, Dr. Cheung has taught at the graduate level for 30 years. She has presented in 287 workshops and conferences and written 470 articles, books, book chapters, and research reportson child protection and parenting issues in English and Chinese. Her research interests are related to treatment effectiveness in the areas of child sexual abuse, creative family therapy, therapeutic touch, and immigrant adjustment.
Recent Grants Awarded
State of Texas
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Professor Patrick Leung, Ph.D. (P.I.) |
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Federal-state Partnership
 Professor Monit Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW (P.I.) |
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Other Projects 2018
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 Isabel Torres, Ph.D. (P.I.) |
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Sheara Jennings, Ph.D, ACSW (P.I.)
Sarah Narendorf, Ph.D, LCSW (P.I.)
Danielle Parrish, Ph.D. (P.I.)
Suzanne Pritzker, Ph.D. (P.I.)Other Projects 2017
| Reiko Boyd, Ph.D. (P.I.) |
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| Christina Miyawaki, Ph.D. (P.I.) |
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| McClain Sampson, Ph.D. (P.I.) |
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Featured Projects
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| Professor Patrick Leung, Ph.D. | Professor Monit Cheung, Ph.D., LCSW | Micki Washburn, Ph.D., LMSW, LPC-S, NCC |