Collaborative Projects

In collaboration with the Center for Sexuality and Health Disparities (PI: R. Stephenson), Dr. Stoddard provides her expertise on adolescent development for the iCON Plus study. The collaborative project funded by the National Institutes of Health is a randomized control trial that utilizes a mobile-friendly WebApp intervention focused on life-skills training for adolescent MSM (ages 13-18) in four U.S. regions that are geographically diverse (urban, sub-urban, rural), and heavily impacted by HIV.

The Flint Adolescent Study uses a socio-ecological life span approach to examine drug and alcohol abuse and dependence from adolescence through middle adulthood. The original goal of the study was to explore the protective factors associated with school dropout and alcohol and substance use during the high school years of adolescence. The research team continues to examine risk and promotive factors associated with drug abuse and dependence, and the effects of adolescent alcohol and drug use on adult health and behavior.

The Flint Adolescent Study Generation 2 is a follow up study with the children of the original FAS participants. The specific aim of the study is to understand the inter-generational transmission of risk for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug (ATOD) use in an urban, predominantly African-American sample. Applying a socio-ecological developmental framework with a resiliency perspective, the research team is studying how family, neighborhood environments, and past and current behaviors, attitudes, and experiences of parents influence their parenting attitudes and behaviors over time.

The CDC-funded Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center (MI-YVPC) seeks to reduce violence and create healthier environments for youth age 10-24. Through multiple interventions, the Center works with youth, families and the community at large to reduce risks for violence in a neighborhood in Flint, MI. The Center is a partnership among the health department, health systems, community organizations, law enforcement, Michigan State University, and the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Flint Campus.