Projects

The Wellesley Centers for Women is home to more than 50 individual research, education, and action projects. Some are short-term, specifically focused investigations, evaluations, and trainings. Others are part of larger, long-term initiatives addressing critical areas in the lives of women, children, and families. Our Postdoctoral Research Training program offers three full-time research fellow positions and our international collaborations strive to improve the lives of women and girls across the globe. Learn more about these important initiatives.



A Course on Women Shaping Society
Ongoing
Designing a New Gender Studies Course

international work   This collaboration between the Asian University for Women (AUW) and the Wellesley Centers for Women resulted in the design of a year-long gender studies course, Women Shaping Society.

 
Accessing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to Empower Woman ...
Ongoing
Uniting Women's Rights and Disability Rights

international work  The overarching goal of this project is to facilitate full citizenship rights for women and children with disabilities in Bangladesh and Nepal.

 
Adolescent Mixed-Ancestry Identity: A Measurement Pilot
Ongoing since 2006
Self-Identity of Youth of Mixed Ancestry

Racial/ethnic self-identification can vary over time and place, in other words, some adolescents of mixed ancestry report different single-race or mixed-race identifications at different times and in different situations. This report seeks to explore whether adolescents of mixed-ancestry have particular strengths or weaknesses compared within their single-race-reporting peers.

 
Adv the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights VII - Adv Local to Global
Ongoing since 2008
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights I
Ongoing since 2008
In Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, and India
international work  This project is based on the model of past work dealing with the intersections of women's, and children's, and disability rights in Bangladesh and Nepal. It is a multiphased project to be actualized in Bangladesh (January 2009), Nepal (January 2009), Cambodia (May 2009), and India (May 2009).
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights II - Jan 2009: Bangladesh
Ongoing since 2008
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights III - Jan 2009: Nepal
Ongoing since 2008
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights IV - May 2009: Cambodia
Ongoing since 2008
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights V - May 2009: India
Ongoing since 2008
 
Advancing the Intersections of Women’s, Children’s, and Disability Rights VI - Feb 2010 Final Report
Ongoing since 2008
 
Afterschool Matters
Ongoing since 2007
A National Research, Writing and Action Initiative

The primary objective of this project is to manage the continuation of the well established Afterschool Matters Initiative, which includes several publications and a Research Grantee program, in addition to planning for the national expansion of a related action/research writing initiative.

 
Afterschool Program Assessment System (APAS)
Ongoing since 2006
Assessing Quality Afterschool Programs

APAS is an assessment system that helps programs link quality and youth outcomes together in a comprehensive and integrated fashion. It was developed to help address the accountability challenge that faces afterschool programs.

 
Building an Outcomes Evaluation System Phase III
Ongoing since 2007
Developing Youth and Family Surveys

During this phase of work, NIOST will design and develop two additional measurement tools—a youth survey (SAYO-Y) and a family survey (SAYO-F). These two tools will be used by Massachusetts Department of Education grantees to better understand youth needs, their program experiences and help pinpoint areas where youth may benefit from additional support.

 
Child Care Voucher Project
Ongoing since 2004
Assessing Massachusetts' Voucher System

WCW researchers participated in a study, led by Dr. Valora Washington and under the auspices of the Bessie Tartt Wilson Children’s Foundation, to evaluate the child care voucher system in Massachusetts.

 
Collaborative Language and Literacy Instruction Project (CLLIP) Research and Evaluation-Year 4
Ongoing since 2007
Studying the Effectiveness of Literacy Intervention

The CLLIP Research and Evaluation Project is designed to assess the impact of a literacy intervention for low-income poor performing school districts in the state of Ohio. Longitudinal data consisting of standardized literacy assessments, and surveys from students (preschool through 6th grade), parents, and teachers are analyzed and evaluated to demonstrate the effectiveness of the CLLIP intervention.

 
Community Dialogue and Needs Assessment for Addressing Traumatic Stress among Resettled Refugee ...
Ongoing since 2007
Assessing Refugee Youth Mental Health in NH

The project involves a needs assessment of child and adolescent refugee mental health services in New Hampshire and utilizes community dialogue strategies for integrating youth, family, provider, school and community knowledge and expertise towards addressing refugee mental health needs especially as it relates to trauma and in the context of resettlement.

 
Convene Asia Regional Law Reform Working Group and Train the Trainer Seminar
Ongoing since 2006
Asia Lawyers without Borders
international work

  This program brings together a working group of lawyers and jurists from Asia to focus on law reform in the region. The working group will examine the role that gender-based strategic litigation can play in advancing equality, non-discrimination, and human rights.

 
Creating a Family Court Advocacy Training Curriculum for Battered Minority and Immigrant Women
Ongoing since 2009
Empowering Battered Immigrant Women

Through this project we will develop and pilot-test a new family court advocacy training curriculum for service providers who work with battered immigrant and minority women.  This project is intended to directly affect the lives of battered immigrant women by empowering them with substantive, strategic knowledge.

 
Cross-Cities Network
Ongoing
Leaders of After-School Initiatives

This project connected high-level leaders from different cities and states to educate them on the dynamic landscape of after-school programs. in hopes of directing the influence, funding, and high expectations of these leaders towards a "critical mass" of associated initiatives across the country.

 
Dating Violence Prevention Programs in Public Middle Schools
Ongoing since 2008
A Collaborative Multi-Level Experimental Evaluation

The goal of this study is to increase the capacity of schools to prevent Dating Violence/Harassment (DV/H) by evaluating the effectiveness of current multi-level DV/H prevention programming in middle schools within a large urban school district.

 
Decriminalizing Consensual Teen Sex
Ongoing since 2006
Law and Consensual Teen Sex

This project explores the ways in which states attempt to regulate consensual adolescent sexual behavior through criminal law. In the end, the researchers hope to encourage a close-in-age exemption for Massachusetts, which currently is one of a small number of states that do not have any such exemption.

 
Development and Evaluation of Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs
Ongoing since 2005
Sexual Violence/Harassment Prevention Programs in Middle Schools

This study is designed to help increase the capacity of programs to prevent sexual violence and harassment. The long-term goal/objective of this study is to help prevent intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and sexual harassment by employing the most rigorous methods to evaluate strategies for altering the violence-supportive attitudes and norms of youth.

 
Evaluation of the Get Real Middle School Sexual Education Curriculum
Ongoing since 2007
Assessing Middle School Sexual Education

This project is a multi-faceted engagement with Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts to conduct an evaluation of the Get Real middle school sexual education curriculum.

 
From Out-of-School to Outer Space: Exploring the Solar System with NASA
Ongoing since 2008
Afterschool Activities from NASA

The project combines out-of-school time (OST) professional advisors, the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST), and NASA experts from across the agency to use research-based strategies to develop afterschool activity guides adapted from NASA Planetary Science formal education curricula.

 
Gender, Race, and Inclusive Education
Ongoing
Inclusive Education: K-12/Higher Ed

Peggy McIntosh offers presentations, workshops, and consulting on: white privilege and privilege systems in general, diversifying organizational thinking, gender-fair and multicultural curricula, diversifying teaching methods, and feelings of fraudulence.

 
Improving the Court Approach to Domestic Violence Cases in the Massachusetts Family Courts
Ongoing since 2008
Massachusetts Domestic Violence Data Collection

This project will provide systematic data on court cases involving domestic violence in Massachusetts.

 
Jean Baker Miller Training Institute
Ongoing since 1995
JBMTI

The workshops, courses, trainings, and publications at the Institute utilize the Relational-Cultural Model of development, which focuses on 'growth-fostering relationships' as central to positive human development.

 
Massachusetts Early Care and Education and School Readiness Study
Ongoing since 2004
Early Care and Education and School Readiness: Massachusetts

Researchers focus on aspects of school readiness, including social and language development, along with other data such as hours in care, so as to better understand the ways in which a child's growth is influenced by situational factors. 

 
Massachusetts Early Care and Education Studies
Ongoing since 1999
Assessment of Early Care and Education in Massachusetts

This group of inter-related research projects seeks to understand the state of early care and education in Massachusetts and make recommendations for quality outcomes.

 
Middle School Bullying & Sexual Violence: Measurement Issues & Etiological Models
Ongoing since 2007
Informing Sexual Violence Prevention

This research project addresses a critical issue by examining the overlap of bullying perpetration/victimization and sexual violence in order to inform sexual violence prevention in US schools.

 
National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST)
Ongoing since 1978
NIOST

This long-term program has brought national attention to the importance of children's out-of-school time using research, training and advocacy to strengthen children's emotional, physical, and social development.

 
Next Generation Youth Work Coalition
Ongoing since 2007
Maintaining the Momentum

The National Institute on Out-of-School Time will partner with The Forum for Youth Investment as champions for action with the Career Pathway's sites in San Diego and Long Beach, California. This will include leading research aspects of the project as well as working to anticipate the site's needs for information, support and tools in a variety of areas.

 
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Ongoing
Early Environments and the Development of Children

This study, funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, seeks to determine the relationship between children's early experiences and their developmental outcomes.

 
Open Circle
Ongoing since 1987
Social, Emotional and Academic Learning: K-5th Grade

Open Circle is a comprehensive, grade-differentiated social, emotional and academic learning program for grades K-5 children, their teachers, administrators, other school staff, parents and other caregivers. By helping schools implement Open Circle, the program fosters the development of relationships that support safe, caring and respectful learning communities of children and adults.

 
Out of Harm's Way
Ongoing since 2007
Preventing Violence in Boston Middle Schools

The Primary goal of the Out of Harm's Way (OHW) Initiative is to address the escalating violence in a subset of middle schools in the Boston Public Schools by offering comprehensive services and care, and increasing the participation of students in after school programming. Wellesley Centers for Women and the National Institute on Out-of-School Time would perform as the project evaluator.

 
Outcomes Evaluation of FasTracKids
Ongoing since 2007
Evaluation of Participants in FasTracKids

international work The FasTracKids Research Study is a 19-month international study aimed at examining the link between participation in FasTracKids enrichment programs and child outcomes (children 4 and 5 years old). FasTracKids Enrichment Centers offer a variety of classes and activities designed to promote early learning, develop creative thinking and problem solving, build verbal communication, promote leadership and personal growth, and encourage a lifelong love of learning.

 
Physical Activity over Time: Health Outcomes of Elementary School Children
Ongoing since 2008
Long-term health benefits of physical activity

The is a secondary analysis of data collected over the long-term to determine how physical activity benefits the overall health and well-being of children over time. This study will focus on the NICHD’s Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development data.

 
Prevention of Depression in At-Risk Adolescents Project - Boston
Assessing the Benefits of Intervention

This national, multi-site research study aims to test the effectiveness and generalizability of a cognitive-behavioral intervention for preventing depressive disorders in at-risk adolescent offspring of parents with depression.

 
Promotion of Convention of the Rights of the Child/CEDAW as Complementary Frameworks
Ongoing since 2007
Women and Children: The Human Rights Relationship

tinyglobe This project in collaboration with UNICEF addresses, through research and analysis, the way in which women's and children's rights intersect with legislative reform.

 
Quality Inventory for a 21st Century Plan for Boston's Youngest Children
Ongoing since 2007
Assessment of Boston Childcare Programs

This project provides a comprehensive picture of the quality of Boston's Early Care and Education programs for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers, in both centers and family child care homes.

 
Robert S. and Grace W. Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives Grant Program: Empowering Children...
Stone Primary Prevention Initiatives Program

This Grant Program supports research towards comprehending the relationship between healthy child development and the role of culture and society. Researchers from universities and research institutions in the U.S are eligible to apply.

 
SEED Project on Inclusive Curriculum
Ongoing
Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)

international work The SEED Project, a staff development equity project for educators, prepares teachers to lead their own year-long seminars in public and private schools on making curricula, teaching methods, and school climates more gender-fair, multicultural, and international.

 
Sibling Relationships in Children of Depressed Parents
Connections Between Depression and Sibling Relationships

This project aims to explicate the relation between parental depression, parenting styles, parent/child relationships, sibling relationship quality and internalizing and externalizing outcomes in children.

 
Strengthening Gender Equality and Anti-Discrimination in China
Ongoing
Providing Support to Ford Foundation's Grantees Working on Women's Rights and Anti-Discrimination

international work   This project seeks to build on our work with partners in China and embark on a series of programs aimed at strengthening equality and non-discrimination in the areas of sex, residency and disability.

 
Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (SISTEM)
Ongoing since 2006
Girls' Ongoing Success in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (SISTEM)

While girls do well in science and math courses in middle school, they are less likely to enroll in higher-level STEM courses in high school, thus few will choose these subjects for a college major, and even fewer will complete such a major or go on to pursue a STEM career. The increased knowledge generated by this study will inform ways to increase the participation of girls and other under-represented groups (e.g., racial and ethnic minorities, low-income youth) in sustained STEM study and employment.

 
The Women's Sports Leadership Project
Ongoing since 2008
The Women's Sports Leadership Training Project

The Women’s Sports Leadership Project has the overarching goal of collecting, analyzing, and disseminating information on gender disparities in organized athletics for the purpose of articulating a new vision of female leadership that legitimizes and connects athletic experience to off-the-field skills.

 
What Do Abused Women of Color and Immigrant Women Experience during Family Court Proceedings?
Ongoing since 2008
Interviewing Battered Women of Color

Battered women of color often report that they do not receive fair treatment in family courts and that the courts’ insufficiencies can lead to devastating consequences for them and for their children.

 
Who Does She Think She Is?
A Full-Length Documentary About Women Artists

This project led to a full-length documentary exploring the lives of five women artists who are also mothers.

 
Work Stress and Women's Postpartum Health
Ongoing since 2004
The Impact of Work Stress on Mothers' Health

This study examines the impact of work stress on working mothers’ health during the first three years after having a child.

 
Work, Families and Children
Ongoing since 1986
Assessing Child Care Issues in Working Families

This long-term program brings together research on employment, work and family issues, and child care as a support for working families.

 
Youth Worker Career Pathways Project
Ongoing since 2007
Guiding States, Localities and Organizations toward a Framework for Policy and Practice

The Career Pathways Project will lead to a set of guidelines promoting success and strengthening the work force for afterschool providers towards stability preparation, support and commitment to the well-being and empowerment of youth.

 
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