Support Services
Consultation Services:
Faculty and staff at CUP provide a full range of consultation services
to help assist clients develop stronger and more competitive grants.
These services include, but are not limited to: grant writing, project
management, budget development, methodological, design, and statistical
consultation. Our work begins in the early developmental stage of projects
during which time we help clients conceptualize new projects or expand
existing research programs. To ensure methodological rigor, we provide
design consultation including sample size, experimental design, assessment
protocols, and statistical analysis. In research trials involving follow-up
data collection, we help develop protocols, consent forms, tracking
methods, and assist in other pertinent matters related to finding and
assessing clients. Consultation for statistical analysis includes database
management, data collection, collation, and data entry, plus a full
range of analytic skills to help prepare the data for interpretation.
Our staff includes well-qualified statisticians, biometricians, methodologists,
and faculty with strong analytic skills and well versed in computer-assisted
analysis programs (e.g., SPSS+, SAS-PC, and structural modeling programs
including EQS, MPLUS, LISREL, and AMOS, to name just a few).
Contact us early!!!!
Often times, community service organizations require assistance in developing
grant-related skills including preparing and submitting applications
for review at the state or federal level (and even applications for
private non-profit funding). Our staff assists this process at many
different levels. First, we offer budgetary assistance helping clients
carve out the appropriate financial resources to conduct a full scale
research program. We link service organizations throughout the state
and even nationwide to grow in capacity and present a more formidable
and competitive package. In addition, we assist clients by streamlining
project management staff, developing time lines, and helping staff develop
and write grants from their inception to submission. Clients who already
have procured extramural funding often may require statistical analysis
of data, report construction, preparation of renewal applications, or
developing effective responses to reviewers' concerns on applications
scored but not funded. Drawing on the resources of CUP faculty who are
seasoned in grant-related activities, we prepare a team response to
meet the challenges and needs of community service organizations seeking
to become more effective and successful at procuring outside funding
The Support Services Group, which is charged with maintaining a state-of-the-art
Center equipped with the latest technology to permit conducting cutting-edge
research.
The support services group consists of three interrelated service
functions focusing on:
