Gabriela L. Stein

Gabriela Livas Stein’s research attempts to identify individual, familial, and cultural processes that promote positive development and mitigate risk for minoritized youth, with a focus on immigrant and Latine populations. Her work grounded is cultural models of child development incorporates tenets of developmental psychopathology to understand trajectories of mental health and educational outcomes. Her work also uses community-engaged approaches to develop and test prevention and intervention programs that address the mental health and cultural needs of minoritized youth and their families. 

The CAMINOS lab led by Dr. Stein focuses on basic science questions involving risk and resilience processes in minoritized communities including understanding the impacts of racial-ethnic discrimination, acculturative stress, and economic stress on youth and family outcomes, as well as the promotive roles of critical civic engagement, coping, racial-ethnic socialization, and familism values. Her translational work focuses on prevention programming for minoritized families (e.g., racial-ethnic socialization interventions) and increasing mental health access for underserved communities (e.g., community health worker delivered mental health interventions). 

Grants

Principal Investigator, Building Infrastructure for Community Capacity in Accelerating Integrated Care, National Institutes of Mental Health (2019-2024)

Principal Investigator, One Talk at A Time: Racial and Ethnic Socialization in Diverse and Immigrant Families, WT Grant Foundation (2022-2025)

Co-Investigator, Succumbing, Surviving, and Thriving: The Development of Low-Income Students in the Long Shadow of COVID-19, National Institutes of Mental Health (2023-2028) 

Consultant, Promotoras: Building Capacity of Latinx Community Health Workers to Ensure Behavioral Health, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (2023-2025) 

Prior Grant Funding

Co-Investigator, Padres efectivos y terapistas entregados, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (2016-2018) 

Co-Investigator, Addressing disparities in Latino families, Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (2013-2016)