Featured Awards – January 2016

Jason Dickinson (Robert D. McCormick Center for Child Advocacy and Policy, CHSS) received a $559,000 subcontract from Rutgers University for the New Jersey Department of Children and Families-funded “New Jersey Child Welfare Training Partnership 2015-2016.” The Center provides training for Area Directors, Assistant Directors, Local Office Managers, and Case Work Supervisors employed by the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services in Essex, Union, Hudson, Bergen, and Passaic Counties. The objective of this training program is to manage and coordinate a competency-based, family-centered, culturally relevant statewide workforce development program for the child welfare/child protection agency in New Jersey.

Dr. Dickinson also received a $127,000 subaward from Rutgers University for the NJ Department of Children and Families-funded “Summer Housing Internship Program (SHIP) 2015-2016.” SHIP is a program that offers an alternative to recipients of the New Jersey Foster Care scholarship who lack the financial, family and social connections to secure safe and stable housing in the summer months. Students between the ages of 18 and 22 are given the opportunity to receive quality housing and paid internship positions throughout the summer months. The program provides for weekly workshops and recreational activities for the participants. This summer, the program is being extended to include MSU students.

Jonathan Cutler (Mathematical Sciences, CSAM) was awarded $19,725 by the National Security Agency for the second year of “Enumerative extremal problems,” which will gather problems and potential tools in order to answer a wide range of open questions in the area of extremal enumeration.