This collaboration was created in 2017 through a generous grant by UT donor, clinical social worker and psychoanalyst, Sue Fairbanks.  This research grant is being conducted by the Texas Institute for Child and Family Wellbeing, a research institute within the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin.  Tina Adkins, is the Principal Investigator (PI) of this grant.

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During 2017, this grant is funding a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) of the Family Minds Psycho-Education Intervention for Foster Parents in partnership with UT and Upbring foster care agency.  An RCT is the gold-standard of research and will contribute to this intervention having the designation of an Evidenced-Based Practice or EBP.

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The Fairbanks Psychoanalytic Research Collaboration (FPRC) will also hold professional "lunch-and-learn" community lectures on various psychoanalytic topics related to the field of social work and in particular, child welfare.  The FPRS will sponsor 4 of these lectures during 2017; dates and topics to be determined.

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For more information on this collaboration or the RCT of Family Minds, please contact Tina Adkins at tina.adkins@austin.utexas.edu.

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Are you an adoptive or foster parent? Be part of the study!  Read all about it HERE

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