Attachment-Based Interventions In Head Start Child-Parent Dyads with University of Virginia, Spokane Head Start, and Marycliff Institute. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. September of 1998 to September of 2001. This research was conducted in collaboration with Dr. R.S. Marvin.

Hand in Hand research project at the University of Maryland, Department of Psychology, Jude Cassidy, Ph.D. principal investigator.  A research project using a modification of the Circle of Security Protocol for early intervention in a home-visiting program. September 2000 to September 2005.

Teaching Attachment-Based Interventions for Head Start Dyads with the University of Virginia, Spokane Head Start, and Marycliff Institute. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. September 2001 to September 2004.

Tamar’s Children, a service grant for the city of Baltimore to provide intensive early intervention using a modification of the Circle of Security Protocol with incarcerated women who are pregnant. The Mayor of Baltimore was the principal investigator and Jude Cassidy, Ph.D. from the University of Maryland was the evaluator. October 2001 to October 2004.

Project: Same Page a project funded by the Paul Allen Foundation aimed at enhancing child welfare workers’ and foster parents’ knowledge of the complex issues surrounding attachment and bonding.  Three hundred and sixteen service providers and other interested parties attended the two-day training. The pre/post evaluation showed that participants chose more empathic words to describe parent/child interaction after participating in the training. February, 2003

High-Risk Adolescent Mothers and Their Children: Comparing Two Preventive Interventions with Neil W. Boris, M.D. as principal investigator at Tulane University Health Sciences Center. The project randomly assigned African American teen parents (who attend high school in a combined school/head start site) to either The Circle of Security Protocol or The Nurturing Program. October 2002 to October 2006.

Circle of Security Protocol with families referred by the Department of Social Services for Child Abuse and Neglect, Graduate School of Social Work at Louisiana State University. A pre/post assessment and intervention with control group research project; Tim Page, M.S.W. Principal Investigator. 2004 to 2006.

Touching Base: Attachment-Based Intervention With Parent-Child Dyads, a pre-post assessment and intervention research project at St John of God Hospital Raphael Centre in Perth, Australia. The project organized by Caroline Zanetti, M.D. Director of Psychiatry. 2004 to 2006.

Project: Same Page Two funded by the Paul Allen Foundation, was a three-year project focused on the following: 1) Training of child welfare workers and supervisors in the areas of attachment and child development. 2) Assisting judges, court commissioners, and others involved in the juvenile dependency system to incorporate this knowledge into their work. 3) Training of professionals in evidence-based assessments. 4) Developing enhanced awareness of advances in child developmental research in the broader community.

North West Early Childhood Institute, Portland Oregon, David Willis M.D. director. Training and supervision to staff to conduct Circle of Security groups for at-risk families. Several of the groups were done at the Letty Owings Center, a residential substance abuse treatment center for mothers and their babies. Pre/post outcome data is being collected for this project. 2006 to 2009.