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The mission of the Center for Child and Family Policy is to solve problems facing children in contemporary society by bringing together scholars from many disciplines with policy makers and practitioners.
The Center is addressing issues of early childhood adversity, education policy reform, and youth violence and problem behaviors. It is home to the largest violence-prevention study ever funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, the largest youth-violence-prevention experiment for middle schools ever funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a major effort to evaluate the effects of education reforms on children across North Carolina, and an effort to promote healthy child development in the community of Durham, North Carolina by focusing on parent-child relationships.
Five-Year Strategic Plan (2004-2009)
Affiliations
The Center for Child and Family Policy is part of the Trinity College of Arts & Sciences. It is affiliated with the Social Science Research Institute and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.
The Center is also a member of the University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium, an organized and intentional forum fostering scientific collaboration around child and family policy issues, cross-disciplinary undergraduate and graduate training and effective translation between research, practice, and policy issues. Consortium membership includes centers and programs that represent the social, behavioral and health sciences fields, including anthropology, economics, human development, nursing, pediatrics, political science, psychology, public health and sociology.
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