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The Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships builds the capacity of families, service providers, researchers, teachers, and communities to ensure the health and well-being of children, bridging research, policy, and practice.
The primary purpose of the Center is to partner with key stakeholders from the community and the University to:
- Carry out basic, applied, and action research
- Infuse community perspectives into university research and teaching
- Translate research into effective programs and practice
- Facilitate quality programs, practices, and policies that yield positive outcomes for children and their families
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Funded by federal, state, and foundation grants, the Center’s current initiatives focus on:
- Family-centered, system of care approaches to mental health service delivery and training of service providers
- Violence prevention and intervention
- Community health
- Adoption and foster care
- Early childhood mental health and school readiness
- Community-based evaluation
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