Faculty Research Projects

Grant funding opportunities will be posted here, when available. Below is a list of faculty research projects funded by Poverty Solutions grants.

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2026

Equitable by Design: Informing Michigan's Food-as-Medicine Programs Through the Experiences of Trans Women of Color in Detroit

Helping Low-Wage Workers Find Better Jobs: Skills-First Matching and Job-Quality Nudges

Beyond Short-Term Relief: Long-Term Trajectories of Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America

2024

An Initial Study of WorkChat Acceptability, Feasibility, and Efficacy Among Individuals with Psychosis Spectrum Disorders

Personal and Collective Aspirations Interventions to Advance Household Economic Mobility and Community-Level Inclusive Growth

Housing Solutions for Health Equity Expansion

2022

Evaluating the Young Black Men, Masculinities, and Mental Health (YBMen) Project

Plumbing Poverty as a Social Determinant of Health: Measuring the Effects of Public Investment in Residential Plumbing Repairs

The Effect of Letters of Recommendation in the Youth Labor Market

How Social Policies Are Reinvented in Crises: Lessons from Cash Transfer Programs in Latin America During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2021

Detroit Housing Counseling and Homeownership Project

The ‘Community Tech Workers': A Community-Driven Model to Support Economic Mobility by Bridging the Digital Divide

2020

The AfricanFuturist Greenhouse

Special Delivery: A Community-Academic Partnership to Improve the Health of Low-Income Young Mothers and their Children

Poverty Alleviation through Entrepreneurship and Urban Microenterprise Development

Beyond Rhetoric: Confronting and Combating Racism in Genesee County, Michigan

Democracy's Denominator: How Citizenship-based Redistricting Impacts Racial Minority Voters

Detroit River Story Lab

The Study Of Black Families' Response To COVID In The Support Of Mathematics Learning

Using Police Body Camera Footage to Experimentally Assess the Effects of Routine Police Encounters for Community Trust and Community Health

Virulent Hate: Anti-Asian Racism and Resistance during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Network Structures: Buildings, Publics, and the Internet

Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office: Racial Equity Study and Criminal Justice Dashboard

Valuing the Costs and Benefits of Free Mobile Care for Pregnant Mothers and Infants

MIHP for All: Exploring the Impact of Universal Maternal and Infant Home Visiting on Health Outcomes

Benefits Coach Pilot

Systems and Structures of Poverty – the Profit of Debt

The Effect of COVID-19 on Food Insecurity in the United States

Program on Equity In Child and Adolscent Health (PEACH) at Mott Hospital

Time Dollars as Alternative Currency to Address Transportation Scarcity Within Detroit's Low-Income Communities

Addressing the Need and Identifying the Root Causes of the Intersection of Food and Transportation Insecurity: The City of Detroit Food Delivery Program (Re)Design

Disparate Distress: An Oversample of African Americans and Latinos in the United States for "People and Pandemics: Studying International Coping and Compliance"

Partnerships that Support Confident Use and Management of Point-of-Use Drinking Water Units in Flint

How Students Make College Decisions: The Role of Family, School and Financial Aid Provision

Evaluating Violence-Reduction and Summer Youth Employment Programs

Improving Coordination to Reduce Service Gaps and Increase Efficacy in Child and Family Homelessness Policy and Programming

Potential Health Gains from Income and Wealth Tax Proposals in the U.S.

Understanding How Poverty Affects Water Affordability in Detroit

Youth Voice in Poverty Solutions

2019

Michigan Evictions: Assessing Data Sources and Exploring Determinants

Identifying the recipe for success: Can a new cooking class in a community health center increase participation in existing center programs and build core skills to decrease food insecurity among low-income patients?

Engaging Low-Income and Minority Communities in Prioritizing Community Health Benefits

Providing Opportunity, Not Punishment: Implementing A Pilot Functional Sentencing Program in Southeast Michigan

Work-related Transdiagnostic Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Unemployed Homeless Persons with Anxiety and Depression

"It Depends": How Discretion in the Financial System Contributes to Exclusion and Marginalization

Positive Organizational Work Experiences as an Antidote to Poverty and Exploitation

Impacts of Skilling and Employment Opportunities on Female Rural-to-Urban Migrant Workers and their Families: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Exploration of Jobs for Michigan Graduates: Trauma as a Barrier to Economic and Labor Market Opportunity

The Performance of Michigan's Unemployment Insurance System

2018

Overcoming the Chilling Effect: Identifying strategies for improving immigrant families' acceptability and accessibility to health and social services that alleviate poverty

Assessing the Impact of Intergenerational Asset-Building Programs on Self‐Efficacy, Academic Achievement, and College-Going Culture of Low‐Income Black and Latino Girls

Breaking the Cycle: Refining the Trauma-Informed Clinical Ethnographic Narrative Interview (CENI)

Supporting Economic Mobility through Community Mentorship

Breaking the "Starving Student" Myth: Understanding and Addressing Food Insecurity Needs on Campus

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Bioretention Rain Gardens in Removing Pollutants Associated with Tire Dumping and Roadside Pollution

Charting How Wealth Shapes Educational Pathways from Childhood to Early Adulthood: A Developmental Process Model

Eliminating the Path to Energy Poverty: A Multi-State Analysis of Equity in Energy Efficiency Investments

The Politics of Technology for the Poor: Between India and the World

Helping Across Generations: An Exploratory Study of Blue Collar Workers' Retirement Well-Being

Can Peer Support Specialists Deliver Technology-Based Job Interview Training for People with Psychiatric Disabilities? An Assessment of Community Needs and Priorities

How Does Unintended Pregnancy Affect the Outcomes of Older Children? Evidence from a New Randomized Control Trial

2017

Helping a House Remain a Home

Improving Health and Strengthening Communities

Preserving Low-Income Housing in Detroit

Barrier Busting in the HOPE Village Neighborhood Network

Targeting Poverty in the Courts: Improving the Measurement of Ability to Pay

Poor, Invisible, and Left Behind: Understanding Financial Instability, Material Hardship, and the Availability and Use of Community Resources among Low-Income Rural Households

Improving Employability via Physical Crowdsourced Tasks

The Systemic Effects of SNAP Benefit Cuts on Washtenaw County Poverty Alleviation Institutions

Does the Earned Income Tax Credit Reduce Housing Instability?

Transportation Insecurity: Developing a Measure to Capture an Understudied Dimension of Poverty