SIROW home University of Arizona
Women's Studies
contact: 520.621.7338, 520.621.1533 (fax), address: 1443 East 1st Street, The University of Arizona, PO Box 210403, Tucson, AZ 85721-0025
Sirow, The Southwest Institute for Research on Women

Border Research

• Protecting Women's Rights at the Border

Tucson Women's Workers Center

Report on Women in Immigration Detention Facilities in Arizona

Past Research

• Transforming Institutions: Gender and Health at the Mexico-U.S. Border

• Transborder Consortium: Advocacy Training

• Transborder Consortium: Outreach Materials Research and Development/Website

 

Sexual Health: Prevention, Research & Evaluation

• Project DAP

• Quality of Life and Acceptability of Medical Technology for Women with Ovarian Cancer

• Women-Centered HIV Risk Reduction Research Study (COPASA for Women)

• Youth Empowerment Project "YEP"

• Mujer Sana: Healthy Woman HIV, STD, TB, and Hepatitis B + C Drug Treatment Enhancement for Women

• Conexiones Sanas: Healthy Connections HIV, STD, TB, Hepatitis B + C Drug Treatment Enhancement for Adolescents

• Eon: Capacity Enhancement to Improve and Integrate Culturally Relevant Substance Abuse and HIV/AIDS Services

Past Research

• Leadership in HIV Education

• Adolescent HIV, STD, Hepatitis and TB Treatment Expansion

• National AIDS Awareness Day: Special Population Women and Girls

• Culturally Based HIV Prevention and Substance Abuse Prevention for Latino Adolescents

 

Substance Abuse: Prevention, Treatment and Evaluation

• Las Mariposas Project

• Project CHAT: Increasing Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment within a University Health Services Center

• Project SAFE: Integrating Individual and Environmental Strategies to Prevent High-Risk Drinking Among First Year Students

• Sleep Disorders Among Adolescent Substance Users

• Court Assisted Treatment Services/Family Drug Court (CATS/FDC)

• Family Drug Court Services with Enhanced Trauma Treatment

• Step Forward Project Development of a Cooperative Drug and Alcohol Treatment System for Youth

• Cornerstone: Gender Specific Sexual Health Curriculum for Adolescents

Past Research

• La Cañada Adolescent Evaluation Research Study

• EMPACT: Teen Substance Abuse Treatment Program Evaluation Study

• Persistent Effects of Treatment Study on Adolescents

• Pascua Yaqui Transitional Housing Evaluation

• Family Drug Court-Residential

 

Voices, Oral History & Literacy

• Empowerment Through Literacy

• Collaborative Voices: Explorations in Exchanged Vulnerability

• Tumacácori Mission Garden: Interpretive Histories

• In the Shadow of the Smokestacks: An Oral History of Mexican Americans in Morenci

• Life's Worth: Rethinking How We Live and Die

• Collaborative Voices: Explorations in Exchanged Vulnerability

• Sowing the Seeds: Promoting the Humanities in our Communities

• Women and Commerce in Downtown Tucson


Leadership, Policy & Advocacy

• Inside Out Project: Women, Incarceration & Reentry--Community Solutions from the Inside Out

• Women, Incarceration & Reentry: Perspectives on System-Level Barriers and Solutions (A Participatory Research Project)

• Transforming Institutions: Gender and Health at the Mexico-U.S. Border

Past Projects

• Frontera Grrls

• Latina Leadership Program

 

Women, Girls & Science

• WISE (Women In Science & Engineering)

• Engineering Research Center

• Linking Educators with Engineering

Past Projects

• Futurebound

• Girls in the SYSTEM: Sustaining Youth in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

• Virtual Development Center(College of Engineering)

 

Women & Place

• Women's Human Rights, Citizenships, and Identifies in a North American Context

Past Projects

• Tubac Presidio State Park: Interpretive Planning

 

Children and Families

• Infant Adoption and Awareness Training Program: Arizona and Nevada-Evaluation

• Mental Health Support for Guardians and Intergenerational Adoptive Families-Evaluation

Past Research

• Kin-nections Project Evaluation

 

Education, Employment and Equity

• West Regional Equity Network (WREN) - Region IX Equity Assistance Center