Lorey Wheeler

Currently Funded

• An Innovative, Prospective Model to Understand Risk and Protective Factors for Sexual Assault Experiences and Outcomes Among Sexual Minority Men
• An Online Family-based Program to Reduce Inequity among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth of Color
• Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME): Evaluating the Use of Mindfulness and Compassion to Promote Early Head Start/Head Start Education Staffs' Well-Being
• Effects of Parent Substance Abuse
• Family Acceptance Project: An Online Family-based Program to Reduce Inequity among Sexual and Gender Minority Youth of Color
• Peaceful Means: Establishment and Evaluation of an Indigenous-led facility to Prevent Sexual Violence among Indigenous Youth across the U.S.
• Project LIVE: Rigorous Evaluation of the READY to Stand Curriculum as a Tool to Prevent the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children Among Racially and Ethnically Diverse Urban Youth
• REU Site: Community-Engaged Training for Advancing Health Equity
• Strategic Treatment Assessment with Youth (STAY): A measurement-based care approach to promote treatment retention among racial and ethnic minoritized youth with depression or suicide risk
• Student Engagement with Online Formative Assessments: Identifying Access and Barriers to Resource Use at Two-Year and Four-Year Institutions
• TAPP Online: Efficacy of Virtual Professional Development in Rural Schools to Enhance Teacher-Parent Partnerships for Students with Behavioral Challenges
• Teen Connection Project: Development and Pilot Evaluation of an Online Mentoring Program to Prevent Adversities Among Trans and Other Gender Minority Youth

Completed

• Attachment Security and the Gut-Brain Axis: A Nationwide Sample
• Conjoint Behavioral Consultation: A Cross-Systemic Intervention to Manage Overweight and Obesity for Low Income Preschoolers
• Development and Pilot Evaluation of an Online Intervention to Prevent Dating Violence and Problem Drinking in Sexual Minority Youth
• Equity in Engineering: Understanding and Promoting All Elementary School Children's Knowledge of and Motivation to Engage in Engineering
• Evaluate Education Improvement in Schools that Received SIG Funding (2018)
• Family, Cultural and Work Contexts as Linked to Mexican-origin Youth's Health Risk Behavior
• Help Me Grow
• Identifying the Feasibility and Acceptability of Conducting Longitudinal Outcome Evaluation Research with Adult Survivors of Sex Trafficking and Their Perceptions of a Comprehensive Service Model
• Promoting Positive School Climate among Newcomer Immigrant Adolescents
• Rapid City Family Project
• Resource Toolkit to Support the Wellness of Extension Employees Following a Natural Disaster
• Sexual Assault Recovery Among Sexual Minority Women: A Longitudinal, Multi-Level Study
• TAPP Para Familias Latinas: Benefitting Students, Families and Schools

Only CYFS-housed projects are included in the network. Please contact Dr. Wheeler to inquire about additional research projects.

• Collaboration aims to study, shape children’s attitudes toward engineering
• Community-based research aims to improve support for sex trafficking survivors
• CYFS examining intervention’s effects on early obesity
• CYFS team earns $3.5M grant to support Latino students
• Edwards honored by American Society of Criminology for community-engaged research
• Exploring ways to help those who help others in the wake of natural disasters
• Family partnership program addresses early childhood obesity
• Grand Challenges research effort aims to prevent sexual violence among Indigenous youth
• Help Me Grow Nebraska streamlines access to children’s health care services, resources
• IVRL workshop promotes strategies to prevent teen relationship violence
• Misperceptions may increase problem drinking, dating violence among LGBTQ+ youth
• Multi-institutional study explores how students approach course work once class ends
• National study addresses sexual assault among sexual minority men
• Nebraska researchers expand reach of family-school intervention
• Nebraska researchers, Iowa educators collaborate to explore prevention of child sex trafficking
• Photovoice project provides clear view of Lakota women’s challenges, resilience
• Prevention program aims to reduce dating violence, problem drinking among LGBTQ+ youth
• Research aims to strengthen Head Start, Early Head Start educators’ well-being
• Resource toolkit enables Nebraska Extension personnel to Reach Out for Wellness
• Sheridan authors guide to help teachers partner with parents
• Study exploring school climate experiences of adolescent immigrants
• Study: Link between older, younger siblings’ dating decisions
• TAPP Online brings enhanced support to rural students, families and schools
• TAPP project delivers strong results for Latinx students, parents