Dr. Jim Frabutt has been promoted to deputy director of the Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships.

Frabutt, who earned his doctorate in human development and family studies at UNCG, had been the center's associate director. His new duties include additional responsibility for planning, overseeing grants, managing graduate assistants and representing the center at meetings.

His research interests include parenting and children’s social development; family development in racial and ethnic minority families; juvenile justice and mental health; and university-community partnerships. His violence prevention work includes collaboration with the nationwide Project Safe Neighborhoods initiative, Guilford County Schools, Greensboro and High Point violent crime task forces, and the Center for Community Safety at Winston-Salem State University.