Teaching Attachment-Based Interventions for Head Start Dyads with the University of Virginia, Spokane Head Start, and Marycliff Institute. The project was funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services from September of 2001 to September of 2004

Tamar's Children, a service grant for the city of Baltimore to provide intensive early intervention using a modification of the Circle of Security™ Protocol with incarcerated women who are pregnant and have their child during incarceration, October 2001 to October 2005.

First Year Project a project at the University of Maryland. This research focuses upon evaluating mother/infant interaction during the first year of life to ascertain the essential relationship components for predicting security, insecurity, and disorganization of attachment at one year of age, Sept 2002 to Sept 2006.

High-Risk Adolescent Mothers and Their Children: Comparing Two Preventive Interventions at Tulane University Health Sciences Center from October 2002 to October 2006. The experimentally controlled study project randomly assigns African American teen parents who are going to high school in a combined school/head start site to either The Circle of Security™ Protocol or another video-based parenting program and compare pre/post test results.

Circle of Security™ Protocol with families referred by the Department of Social Services for child abuse and neglect, 2004-2006. This research project is administered by the Graduate School of Social Work at Louisiana State University and utilizes a pre/post assessment of the COS intervention with random trial assignment.

Touching Base Project at St John of God Hospital’s Raphael Centre, a pre/post assessment and intervention model in Perth, Australia, 2004-2006

Evaluation and Intervention-Consultation for Virginia's Adoptive Families. This service/research project at the Child-Parent Attachment Clinic, University of Virginia Medical Center, provides any adoptive family in the Commonwealth of Virginia with a no-cost clinical evaluation based on a combination of traditional clinical procedures, attachment-research procedures, and the Circle of Security™. Follow-up consultation, based on the Circle of Security™ Protocol, is provided to the family's community-based therapist for 6-9 months. This project extends from 2003 through 2009.

Quality Improvement Centers for Adoption, Commonwealth of Virginia. This DHHS-funded project (2002-2008) is designed to develop, disseminate, and evaluate Best Practices in Adoption. It is utilizing a Circle of Security™ -based professional training protocol in one of the three sites, organized through the Child-Parent Attachment Clinic at the University of Virginia Medical Center.