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The mission of the Center for Child and Family Policy is to contribute to solutions to important problems affecting today’s children and families, through an integrated system of scientific research, debate and dissemination, public service, and teaching. The Center emphasizes the bridge from basic research to policy and practice.
The Center addresses the needs of the whole child, from the prenatal period through adolescence, and involves the full array of institutions, practices, and issues that affect the healthy development of children: medical care and public health, welfare, education, juvenile justice, family court, preschool and childcare provision, community services, and family health and vitality.
The Center is international in the sense both of seeking foreign models for American policies and in addressing international problems. It seeks to understand the stresses, strengths, and challenges of the average family, particularly as these relate to gender, education, and economic status.
The Center also devotes attention to children suffering from significant problems, such as poverty, abuse and neglect, and mental or physical illness.
Finally, the Center addresses the development of children with special talents and giftedness. It is the integration across these diverse areas that provides the most important insights to children’s well-being.
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