Pending
PI: Ronny Bell, PhD
Co-investigators: Richard Davis, MD, Catherine Rohweder, PhD, Cherry Beasley, PhD, Elizabeth Warson, Laura Anne Young, PhD
“Enhancement of Diabetes Self-Management Using Creative Arts: A Feasibility Pilot Study with the Lumbee Nation”
National Institutes of Health (NIH R21)
10% 04/01/2014-04/01/2016 $275,000
Purpose: to create an art therapy curriculum for delivering diabetes self-management education that is culturally relevant for the Lumbee Nation
co-PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (AIAT & Fond du Lac Health Services Division)
Program Director/co-PI: Debra Johnson-Fuller, Cancer Health Educator, Fond du Lac Health Services, Fond du Lac Reservation
“Health Promotion through Digitalized Oral Stories”
CRCAIH pilot grant
20% 04/01/14-04/30/15 $80,000
Purpose: To modify an existing digital storytelling curriculum for cultural relevance and cancer focus.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (AIAT & Wounded Knee School District)
Lannan Foundation
Language Immersion Program
5% 07/01/2014-07/01/15 $40,000
Purpose: To support the second phase of the Wounded Knee School District’s Lakota Language Immersion.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
Program Director: Ricky Gray Grass (Fiscal Sponsor, Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc.)
500 Mile Sacred Hoop Run
Nike N7 Fund
10% 04/01/14-04/30/15 $10,000
Purpose: To conduct an art-based evaluation of the 500 Mile Sacred Hoop Run (5-day event).
Previous
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (AIAT, Oglala Sioux Tribe)
Program Director: Ricky Gray Grass
Lannan Foundation
“Lakota Sacred Hoop Run”
5% 06/2013 $4,000
5% 06/2012 $2,000
Purpose: To support the 30th annual Sacred Hoop Run for Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in SD.
Program Director: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
“Sacred Isnati Awicalowanpi Ceremony”
Open Meadows Foundation (Fiscal Sponsor, Art Therapy Without Borders, Inc.)
5% 07/01/13-07/01/14 $2,000
Purpose: To provide an art therapy component to the Isnati Awicalowanpi (coming of age ceremony) for Lakota girls.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (sub award)
Investigator Team: Heidi Bardot,ATR-BC, Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, Tally Tripp, LICSW, ATR-BC, Lisa Garlock, ATR-BC, & Susan Lee, MA(c)
“A Warrior’s Story”
DARPA SBIR Phase I sub award (Prime: Kinection)
5% 1/2012 to 6/2012 $12,000
Purpose: To serve as a research consultant on the development of a “Warrior Stories Platform,” a web-based digital authoring tool designed specifically for therapeutic use.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
“Healing Pathways: Art Therapy for American Indian Cancer Survivors”
American Cancer Society (Young Investigator’s Award)
20% 11/2009 to 1/2011 $29,500
Purpose: To replicate and evaluate a piloted culturally relevant art therapy workshop, focusing on stress reduction for American Indian cancer survivors and their family members.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
“Healing Pathways: Art Therapy and American Indian Medicine”
Columbian College Facilitation Funds (George Washington University)
10% 7/2010 to 7/2011 $5,000
Purpose: To provide a culturally-relevant workshop combining alternative or traditional American holistic practices with complementary forms of therapy, comprising art therapy and storytelling, for the Coharie and Waccamaw Siouan tribes.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
“Coharie Heritage Empowerment Project”
National Endowment for the Arts
20% 6/2010 to 6/2011 $40,000
Purpose: To develop a traditional cultural arts program and archival database for the Coharie Tribe.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
“Healing Pathways: Art Therapy for American Indian Cancer Survivors”
Spirit of EAGLES, Mayo Cancer Clinic
6% 8/2009 to 4/2010 $5,000
Purpose: To replicate and evaluate a piloted culturally relevant art therapy workshop, focusing on stress reduction for American Indian cancer survivors and their family members.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC
Investigative team: Emily Basto, MS; Sadie Barbor (NC Commission of Indian Affairs)
“Perceptions of Substance Use and Abuse in South Eastern American Indian Youth”
EVMS Department of Psychiatry Scholarship
1% 1/2009 to 4/2009 $1,300
Purpose: To evaluate perceptions of substance use and abuse in a southeastern tribal community through a multigenerational community art program.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC, PhD (c)
“Healing Pathways: Art for Survivors”
Society for the Arts in Healthcare and the Johnson & Johnson Foundation
6% 1/2007 to 12/2007 $10,000
Purpose: To develop and evaluate a culturally relevant art therapy workshop as a means of stress reduction for American Indian cancer survivors and their family members.
PI: Nat Kees, PhD, LPC (Colorado State University
Co-investigator: Elizabeth Warson, MA, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (dissertation study)
“Art-Based Narrative Inquiry with American Indian Breast Cancer Survivors”Barbara Rosenblum Scholarship for the Study of Women and Breast Cancer
100% 1/2007 to 12/2008 $2,500
Purpose: To explore, through narrative inquiry, the perceptions of cancer diagnosis and treatment from the perspective of breast cancer survivors and caregivers.
Ongoing Pilot Research (GWU IRB-Approved)
PI: Elizabeth Warson PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (2004-2013) Loring Ingraham, PhD (2013-)
Investigator Team: Cheri Marmarosh, PhD, Loring Ingraham, PhD, Lauren Hayes, MA, Kate Harinton, PsyD(c), Nisha Tracy, MA(c), & Annie Gittess BA(c)
“The Effects of Mandala Imagery on Mood and Cortisol Levels in Adults”
2%
Purpose: To examine the effects of coloring a pre-drawn mandala or a maze puzzle on cortisol levels and self-report measures in depressed adult patients.
PI: Elizabeth Warson, PhD, ATR-BC, LPC, NCC (2012-2103), Tally Tripp, LICSW, ATR-BC (2013-)
Investigator Team: Paula Howie, ATR-BC, LPC, Linda Gantt, PhD, ATR-BC, Lou Tinnen, MD, Heidi Bardot, ATR-BC, Donna Betts, PhD, ATR-BC, Tally Tripp, LICSW, ATR-BC, Lisa Garlock, ATR-BC
“The Effects of Graphic Narrative Trauma Processing in the Treatment of PTSD Symptomatology”
10%
Purpose: To examine the effects of a 4-week art therapy-based trauma protocol on reducing the symptoms of PTSD as compared to standard treatment of care in art therapy.