Court Clinic: Intervention for Offenders

Current Studies

• HIV Prevention in the Family Court ( funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse)
  Project RAP is testing the effect of a family-based HIV prevention intervention on reducing marijuana use and increasing safer sex behaviors among substance abusing juvenile offenders.  The project is enrolling 60 families with court-involved juveniles who are actively using marijuana.
  Principal Investigator: Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD

• Court Clinic Coding Project (unfunded)
  This project is a retrospective study examining demographic, psychosocial and psychiatric factors related to recidivism and other risk behaviors (e.g., substance use, sexual risk, self-injury) among juveniles referred for court-ordered mental health evaluations.
  Principal Investigator: Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD