Research

Sibylle’s community-based collaborative research projects include: a five year project, entitled A Community Based Violence Prevention Project that was instrumental in reducing school based violence in the participating district by 40-50%; A Community-Based Approach for Dealing with Violent Under Twelve Year Old Youth; collaborative work was undertaken with service providers entitled, Developing Girls’ Custody Units: A Project in Two Phases; a project that involved three Vancouver Island communities entitled, Developing a Gender-Sensitive Community Needs Assessment Tool for Supporting At-Risk Girls and Young Women; a project entitled, Homelessness Outreach Project for Single Parent Families, a CIHR Institute of Gender and Health (IGH) in partnership with the CIHR Institute of Human Development, Child Youth and Health (IHDCYH), Newly Emerging Team Program. Entitled, Aggressive and Violent Girls: Contributing Factors Developmental Course and Intervention Strategies, and two current projects involving collaboration with a local alternative school entitled, Implementing innovative strategies for reducing aggression and violence in at-risk mothers and their babies, and Documenting an Integrated Childcare Program’s Ability to Support At-risk Young Mothers and their Children. She is currently working with a team of researchers form six European countries on a major project on youth violence prevention.

She was chosen in 1998, as Academic of the Year by the Confederation of University Faculty Associations of British Columbia, and in 2004, received the Award of Distinction for Research from the McCreary Youth Foundation of Vancouver. In 2008, she received a Leadership Victoria Award for her many years of community-based research.