The center’s researchers are exploring ways to address these and other problems through better policies and practices. Current research projects, include:

• Using artificial intelligence to predict suicidal tendencies among service members and veterans
• Motivating service members and their loved ones to seek needed health care
• Creating supportive schools for the children of military parents
• Evaluating government programs that provide direct services to veterans
• The development and testing of a virtual client as a tool for training social work graduate students in clinical practice with the Department of Defense
• Improved training for behavioral health care providers in evidence-based practice for treating post-traumatic stress disorder with the Department of Defense
• Advancing the integration and acceptance of LGBT service members in the military with the Department of Defense
• Examining the health and wellness in military spouses with the Army
• Examining social networks in the military and their impact on the health and well-being of service members
• Effective skills training for the prevention of sexual assault
• Comprehensive soldier and family fitness
• A pilot examination of a transition employment program
• The invisible wounds of sexual assault in the military
• Exploring the economic and employment challenges facing U.S. veterans
• Suicide among severely wounded veterans