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Grace Cua MSW

Senior Research Specialist

Department of Psychiatry, UIC

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Contact

Email:

gcua2 [at] uic.edu

Office Phone:

(312) 413-8639

Building & Room:

Institute for Juvenile Research (IJR) 214

Address:

1747 W. Roosevelt Rd. Chicago IL 60612

About

Grace Cua is a Senior Research Specialist in the Department of Psychiatry and Graduate Student in the Educational Psychology program at the University of Illinois Chicago. Her research focuses on service use, sustainability, and cost effectiveness of alternative models for mental health services, specifically for undeserved children and families. She also is an Adjunct Lecturer at Jane Addams College of Social Work at UIC.

Title Description Investigator(s) Category Status
Building Family Foundations (BFF) BFF was a prenatal to early childhood home-visiting program to support first-time Latino and African American young mothers in their transition to motherhood and adulthood.
  • PI Angela L. Walden PhD
  • PI Grace Cua MSW
  • Co-I Marc S. Atkins PhD
  • Co-I Ané Maríñez-Lora PhD
Community Based Children and Family Mental Health Services Research Program On-going
Partners Achieving School Success (PASS) PASS was a school based mental health prevention and early intervention program for children in pre-kindergarten through third grade.  Our team collaborated with four social service agencies on a school-based prevention and early intervention program for youth in K-3rd grade living in impoverished communities in Chicago (approximately n=700).
  • PI Tara G. Mehta PhD
  • PI Dana Rusch PhD
  • Co-I Marc S. Atkins PhD
  • Co-I Angela L. Walden PhD
  • Co-I Davielle Lakind MA
  • Co-I Grace Cua MSW
  • Co-I Erika Luz Gustafson PhD
Community Based Children and Family Mental Health Services Research Program Completed

*System-generated list from psychiatry research website.