Behind the Trigger: Investigating the Typologies of Gang-Involved Individuals charged with...
Objective:This project builds on research efforts led by the PI to investigate longitudinal gang violence in New Jersey. His work funded by the National...
Perceptions of Violence and Safety in Three Southern New Jersey Counties
Objective:The specific aims of this proposed research are to understand perceptions of community violence and firearm violence, explore notions of safety, and examine the...
Disclosure of gun access and suicidal thoughts and behaviors: An investigation of...
Objective:Suicide risk assessment requires obtaining accurate information – and thus, accurate disclosure – about an individual’s history of suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) to inform...
Project Safe Guard: Training and Evaluation
Objective:This grant will leverage Project Safe Guard, a lethal means counseling intervention first tested by the GVRC (Anestis et al., 2021; American Journal of...
Protective Environments: Military Community Engagement to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence
Objective:In this grant, a team of researchers including the GVRC will engage in three tasks to better understand the firearm storage preferences of service...
Webinars and Trainings with New Jersey Department of Human Services Division...
Objective:The GVRC was funded by DMHAS (total costs approximately $120,000) to develop two webinars on firearm suicide prevention – one geared towards the general...
Augmenting Suicide Prevention Interventions for Service Members (ASPIS)
Objective:In this grant, a suicide research center located at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center leads a team of researchers on projects examining...
Does the Messenger Matter? A Survey Experiment to Understand Citizen Support...
Objective:In the debate over how to best address the public health crisis of gun violence in America, we often hear policy makers calling for...
Understanding Suicide and Gun Violence in New Jersey through partnerships between...
Objective:New Jersey is a unique state for many reasons, not the least of which being its relatively low suicide rate compared to the rest...
Gun Talk: Identifying the Facilitators and Barriers to Physician and Care...
Objective:This study will fill a significant gap in understanding why child and child related healthcare providers initiate conversations about secure storage and/or Extreme Risk...