Grants & Projects
2023 (PI, under review) Mind and Life Institute
Cultivating Awareness and Resilience in Education: Exploring
acceptability and daily-diary methods with educational leaders
This project focuses on adaptation of the CARE program for educational leaders. Methods explore acceptability of CARE for leaders compared to teachers. Daily diary methods are also used to explore outcomes.
2023 (PI, under review) Spencer Foundation
Examining relationships between school-based mindfulness program components and youth social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes
This project focused on understanding core components of school-based mindfulness programs and the effects on outcomes using systematic review and meta-analysis.
2021 (PI, Funded)
College of Education “Equity Fund” Program
Penn State University
Cultivating Mindfulness and Compassion Skills in First-Year Seminar Instructors to Support Anti-Racist and Equitable Practices in the Classroom
This project focuses on building a complimentary mindfulness-based curriculum to augment equity-focused professional development for first-year seminar instructors in the Penn State College of Education.
2018 (Co-I, funded) Social Science Research Institute
Penn State University
"Alexa, I’m in pain!"
A Real-Time Mindfulness Intervention to Control Pain: Delivery Through a Conversational Agent
This project focuses on building an app using Amazon Alexa to support the use of practices for those who are engaging in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR). This app is being built with a focus on the chronic pain population.
2017 (PI, funded) Pennsylvania Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services
Mindfulness-Based Self-Care for Youth Services Workers
This project involved creating a mindfulness-based self-care curriculum to be used to support those working in juvenile justice. Using a community-based participatory approach to development and training, staff within the facilities helped to develop and later deliver workshops.
2014 (PI, funded) Pennsylvania Bureau of Juvenile Justice Services
Technology Enhanced Family Involvement in Juvenile Justice Services
This project focused on ways to increase family involvement for youth in residential juvenile justice services in rural areas. Best practices for family involvement were established drawing on work already being done in facilities in conjunction with research-based strategies.
Please contact Sebrina for a copy of her Curriculum Vita.