We are located on the 5th floor of Bellefield Towers in Oakland. (Click here for a map.)
Clinicians, psychiatric nurses, research specialists, psychiatrists, doctoral fellows, admin staff, and database managers work as a team to provide families in the Pittsburgh area with no cost treatment for mental health problems. The team also conducts cutting edge research on children's mental health problems.
Grants and Clinical Studies
| Grant # | Principal Investigator | Source of Support | Title | Purpose | Dates |
| 5 R01 MH63272-05 | Kolko | NIMH | Effectiveness of Treating Behavior Problems in Primary Care | To evaluate the application of a specialized psychosocial treatment protocol for children with disruptive behavior problems in pediatric primary care. | 09/30/2000 - 08/31/2005 |
| 2 U79 SM54319-04 | Kolko | SAMHA | Child Abuse and Traumatic Loss T/S Development Center | This project will provide services for evaluation of services, supervise training, assist in evaluation of community modified treatment and oversee focus groups. | 9/30/2004 – 09/29/2005 |
| 5 R01 MH57727-07 | Kolko | NIMH | Enhancing Long-Term Outcome in Childhood Behavior Disorder | Seeks to incorporate long-term follow-up assessment and evaluation of a booster treatment into an effectiveness study of two acute treatments for early-onset disruptive behavior in young patients. | 12/01/2003 - 11/30/2008 |
| 5 R24 MH067377-03 | Landsverk | NIMH | Improving Care for Children in Child Welfare (Subcontract: CHRC, San Diego) | Pilot testing measures of child welfare and MH service system financing and linkages in PA, analysis and interpretation of managed care contract elements for the service system linkage data collection and analysis of data for selected paper. | 09/20/2002 - 06/30/2006 |
| 5 R01 NR07615-05 | Dorn | NINR | Endocrine Changes & Treatment of Conduct Problems (subcon w/ Cincinnati Children's Hosp. Med. Ctr.) | 09/30/2000- 08/31/2008 | |
| 5 R01 MH56612-08 | Brent | NIMH | Familial Pathways to Early-Onset Suicide Attempts | The two-site R-10 uses a high risk design to study the familial transmission of early-onset suicidal behavior. The probands consist of adult depressed suicide attempters and depressed non-attempters. | 07/01/2002 - 06/30/2007 |
| 5 P30 MH66371-03 | Brent | NIMH | Research Methods Core--Advanced Center for Intervention & Services Resources for Early Onset Mood & Anxiety Disorder | To address methodological issues that impede treatment development and dissemination in 3 key areas: assessment development, data management & analysis; the study of factors that impede or promote dissemination of effective treatments to practice settings. | 09/24/2002 - 07/31/2007 |
| 5 P30 MH66371-03 | Brent | NIMH | Advanced Center for Intervention & Services Resources for Early Onset Mood & Anxiety Disorder Development Core—Res Network | To develop a practice-based research network based in primary care to support studies of practice variation and outcome, as well as dissemination studies. | 09/24/2002 - 07/31/2007 |
| 24560 | Kolko | Allegheny County | Comprehensive Mental Health Assessment and Treatment of Juvenile Sex Offenders | To assist with intervention and clinical services of Juvenile sex offenders. | 04/01/2005 – 06/30/2006 |
| Pending | Kolko | NIH | Treatment of Child Physical Abuse: An Effectiveness Trial | The aim of this project is a response to FRA PA-02-121, entitled, “Dissemination and implementation Research in Mental Health.” Child physical abuse (CPA) is both common and associated with significant psychosocial and health problems. | 06/01/2006 – 05/31/2011 |