The Coping and Regulation of Environmental Stress (CaRES) Lab, headed by Dr. Martha Wadsworth, is looking for several volunteer child assessors to help with our Building a Strong Identity and Coping Skills (BaSICS) research study. BaSICS is a new intervention developed by the CaRES Lab for children and adolescents facing chronic stress. For children and adolescents, certain types of stress – such as stress due to discrimination or family money problems – are especially harmful because children have little control over these problems. Fortunately, children can learn tools to help them manage stress. The BaSICS Program seeks to help children develop positive personal and cultural identities and to learn healthy ways of dealing with the stress in their lives. The BaSICS study will test to see if the BaSICS intervention program is an effective tool for youth to manage stress in their life and community
Child assessors will gain valuable, hands-on experience working in a clinical setting by interacting directly with youth during the assessments, collection a variety of data, and learning about a federally funded clinical trials.
BaSICS Child Assessors:
- Set up interview spaces for assessments
- Consent families to enroll them into the study
- Conduct study assessment interviews with youth aged 11-13 years old
- Record youth responses during interviews
- Collect saliva samples from participants
- Maintain detailed documentation of data collection
- General assessment related tasks
This position will be responsible for conducting assessments in accordance with the project timeline. There may be months where no assessments occur. For any off site transportation, travel will be provided.
Both females and males are highly encouraged to apply.
- This position requires availability from 2:30-7:30 PM at least one time per week (additional days preferred)
- State and Federal background checks are required for this position. These are non-reimbursable by the university
- Previous experience working with youth or in a research setting is desired, but not required
- Summer availability is highly desirable
- This is a volunteer position.
Submit your application here: https://forms.office.com/r/Bzt7MrELN0 . Please have a CV/Resume ready for your application.
For more information about our lab and projects, please visit https://careslab.la.psu.edu/. Please email Mary Veneziano, mev15@psu.edu, with any questions you may have.