Our Work

 

A Stakeholder and Data-Engaged Approach to Improving Uptake of Extreme Risk Protection Orders Among Law Enforcement in Colorado  
Initiative Investigator(s)Knoepke 
Description / Aims The aim of this study is to better understand and operationalize law enforcement officers training for Extreme risk protection orders.
Funding Agency Fund for a Safer Future 
Developing Artificial Intelligence Methods to Identify Firearm and Substance Use Suicide Risk Factors in the VHA EMR
Initiative Investigator(s)Simonetti
Description / Aims The aim of this study is to use natural language processing and machine learning methods to identify important suicide risk factors located in free-text EMR entries. 
Funding Agency VA Office of Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
Development & Testing of a Veteran-Centered Lethal Means Safety Suicide Prevention Intervention 
Initiative Investigator(s)Simonetti
Description / Aims This study aims to develop and test a lethal means safety intervention in VHA ED settings. 
Funding Agency VA Health Services Research & Development 
Office of Gun Violence Prevention Resource Bank Implementation 
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz, Kelly
Description / Aims This project supports the Colorado Office of Gun Violence Prevention in fulfilling the expectations laid out in Colorado House Bill 21-1299, including the development and maintenance of a resource bank as a repository for data, research, and statistical information regarding firearm injuries and deaths, and their prevention, in Colorado. 
Funding Agency Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment 
Project Safe Guard: Evaluation of Training  
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz, Kelly 
Description / Aims This project aims to evaluate the training of National Guard key personnel for delivery of Project Safe Guard to Guardsmen. 
Funding Agency U.S. Department of Defense/Henry M. Jackson Foundation 
Protective Environments: Military Community Engagement to Prevent Firearm-Related Violence 
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz, Stanley 
Description / Aims This study aims to adapt the Project Safe Guard intervention for universal delivery and testing at Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, CO. 
Funding Agency U.S. Department of Defense/Medical Technology Enterprise Consortium 
Protective Environments: Military Community Engagement to Prevent Firearm Suicide 
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz
Description / Aims This study aims explore firearm locking device use and preferences among firearm-owning adults and military spouse and family perspectives on firearm storage in the home and lethal means safety messaging for service members. 
Funding Agency U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Health Agency 
Safety in Dementia: An Online Caregiver Intervention  
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz
Description / Aims This study aims to learn more about the decisions that take place when people begin to think about removing firearms from the home as they age and create resources and other support tools to help families plan for what to do about firearms in the home in the future. 
Funding Agency National Institute on Aging 
SECuRe - Securing the Environment, Connecting to Reduce Risk 
Initiative Investigator(s)Betz, Stanley 
Description / Aims The SECuRe study aims to adapt and pilot the Lock to Live (L2L) firearm and medication storage decision-making tool for use within the Military Health System. 
Funding Agency U.S. Department of Defense/ Air Force Research Laboratory 
Support for Missouri Communities to Examine and Explore Firearm Violence
Initiative Investigator(s)Kelly
Description / Aims The aim of this study is to support two Missouri communities to develop tailored data collection methods and tools used to facilitate community conversations to understand how local community members perceive firearm injury and violence and identify ways in which the communities may collectively prevent firearm injury and death in the future. 
Funding Agency Missouri Foundation for Health
Understanding Reasons for Recent Firearm Purchasing Among Black Americans 
Initiative Investigator(s)Simonetti
Description / Aims The aim of this pilot study is to explore perspectives on firearm purchasing and ownership among Black Americans who recently acquired a firearm. 
Funding Agency University of Pennsylvania INSPIRE Center 
VetStore: Secure Firearm Storage for Veterans When They Need It, Where They Want It, In Places They Trust  
Initiative Investigator(s)Kelly
Description / Aims The aim of this project is to develop, test, and scale-up the VetStore program, which educates and connects Veterans and their families to secure firearm storage devices. 
Funding Agency Mission Daybreak Grand Challenge, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs