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Ages 6.5-9

Building Resiliency and Nurturing Children’s Health

We want to work with rural families to understand how your community promotes strength and resilience to protect young children from the ways that stress influences the risk for addictive behaviors.

Click below to take our eligibility survey.

Common Questions

  • If you are interested in participating in our study, you can fill out our eligibility survey here. Then, we will set up a time to call you to go over the study details and schedule your visits.

  • Part 1: The first part of the study includes a home visit. Our team will come to your house and you and your child will play games and complete surveys. Next, we will invite you to our imaging center on UGA’s campus for a brain scan.

    Part 2: Eighteen months later, we will reach out to schedule another brain scan on campus.

    Part 3: We will send you and your child surveys to fill out at home.

  • Your family can earn up to $390 for completing the study. There is an incentive for each part of the study.

  • We gladly accept referrals! We offer $50 incentives for every successfully enrolled referral.

Supportive Organizations

Hope for Henry provides MRI gameboards for every participant in the study. These gameboards allow children to celebrate each step they take and it ends with a prize!

Using the Child Life on Call app, we can share resources for MRI preparation and study information with all of our families.

Our virtual reality headset allows kids to practice with an MRI simulator before their scan. This allows them to practice holding still and hear the noises an MRI can make.