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Research & Projects

CNPD faculty and students are actively involved in interdisciplinary research and training projects.

Programs receive support from internal sources and a variety of external organizations, including federal and state agencies and foundations.

To have your project included, please contact Miranda Koster at miranda.koster@UND.edu.

Campus Farmers Market to Promote Gardening, Healthy Eating, and Increase Food Insecurity Awareness

This project aims to offer nutrition education about the benefits of produce gardening as a strategy to improve fruit and vegetable intake. Although Americans are not meeting nutritional guidelines, there are evidence-based strategies nutrition professionals can strategically implement to impact this trend. Gardening can increase fruit and vegetable intake, improve food security, and reduce the risk of chronic disease. Along with gardening, nutrition education activities can be employed to improve food choices and expand gardening activities as important strategies to improve nutritional health.

Children's Bureau Discretionary Grant Award

The University of North Dakota Department of Social Work at the College of Nursing and Professional Disciplines and its partners have received a second five-year $2.5 million federal award from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) to continue their work statewide to reduce the disproportionate placement of American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) children away from their families and communities and to improve child welfare outcomes for Native children and families.

UND’s Social Work Department and valued partners, the Native American Training Institute; the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation; the Spirit Lake Nation; the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe; the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians; the North Dakota Supreme Court (Court Improvement Project); the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, and the Children and Family Services Section of the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services, hope to build on the program, policy and procedural changes of the previous grant, attained through the collaborative work of the North Dakota Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Partnership. For this round of funding, the UND School of Law also brings faculty with national expertise in ICWA to the team.

The original ICWA Partnership focused on building relationships, developing quality stakeholder training curricula, and empowering Tribal partners to lead the work. The newly funded partnership will maintain these critical elements of the original partnership. New objectives will include rigorous evaluation of the expanded ICWA Family Preservation (IFP) Program, ICWA/QEW training development and evaluation, improved data collection and sharing practices, and collaborative efforts to identify and implement “best practices” that contribute to improved outcomes for Native American children, families and Tribes. 

Children & Family Services Training Center

The Children & Family Services Training Center serves as the primary training agency for child welfare services in North Dakota. It is funded by the North Dakota Department of Human Services Division of Children and Family Services.

Financial Interdependence Project (FIP)

The Financial Interdependence Project (FIP) serves as a research, training, & systems change institute dedicated to helping people become financially capable and prosperous by harnessing principles of mutuality.

Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center

The Mountain Plains Addiction Technology Transfer Center provides resources for addiction treatment and recovery services professionals. The MPATTC offers learning and training resources on topics like best practices in supporting substance abuse disorder, addressing intimate partner violence, compassion fatigue, and many issues specific to rural populations.

Native Aging in Place Project

The Native Aging in Place Project works with the Spirit Lake Nation to build local capacity to care for the community's elders while they remain in their homes.

North Dakota Nursing Research Collaborative (NDNRC)

A diverse state-wide group of nurse researchers, expert clinicians, and nursing leaders working together to conduct interprofessional research with the aims of demonstrating the value of the nursing workforce while improving healthcare outcomes.

Northern Plains Center for Behavioral Health Research

The Northern Plains Center for Behavioral Health (NPBCR) is located adjacent to the College of Nursing & Professional Disciplines. This space houses research and research training spaces.

RAIN Program

The Recruitment & Retention of American Indians into Nursing (RAIN) program provides academic support and assistance to American Indian students seeking a nursing degree - pre-nursing through doctorate. The program recently expanded support to the CNPD Social Work and Nutrition & Dietetics students.

Miranda Koster, CNPD Accounting & Grant Specialist
Nursing 312
430 Oxford St Stop 9025
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9025
P 701.777.4510
miranda.koster@UND.edu

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