CHILD HEALTH & WELL-BEING
Durham Family Initiative
The Durham Family Initiative (DFI) is a community-based effort to help families at risk of child abuse become self-sufficient and supportive of their children's growth and development; to help stressed neighborhoods become supportive environments for children and families; to help the Durham community support families and neighborhoods; and to help public and private service organizations integrate their services so they can most effectively help Durham's children and families.
Early Childhood Attachment
Read this brief on attachment theory and research; includes resources for parents, practitioners and researchers
Mental Health Prevention Science for Child Maltreatment
This Career Development Award supports Dr. Berlin 's research in early child development and early intervention, and the prediction and prevention of child abuse and neglect.
Parenting Across Cultures
Funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Parenting Across Cultures study involves an international group of researchers representing
eight countries. The group is conducting the largest multi-cultural study to date to understand how parents' discipline strategies and other aspects of parent-child relationships affect children's development.
Project M.O.M.
Project M.O.M. (Making the Most of Motherhood) is a prospective longitudinal study of the predictors of problematic parenting, child maltreatment, and birth outcomes in 500 Durham mothers and their young children.
Program Evaluation Projects
Comprehensive Family Assessments to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes
The Center will partner with the Alamance County Department of Social Services to develop, implement, and evaluate an evidence-based model for conducting comprehensive family assessments, based on the Comprehensive Family Assessment Guidelines (CFA). The Alamance County Department of Social Services was awarded one of five national grants to demonstrate the use of Comprehensive Family Assessments to Improve Child Welfare Outcomes.
Implementation of North Carolina's Multiple Response System (MRS)
The Center is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of North Carolina 's new child protective services effort called the Multiple Response System (MRS). MRS increases coordination between law enforcement agencies and child protective services, tailors its interventions to address the individual needs of families and uses other key strategies to protect children.
Improving Child Welfare Outcomes through Systems of Care Through a Children's Bureau grant from the North Carolina Division of Social Services, the Center will develop an evaluation process to determine if a community-based, interagency Systems of Care can achieve positive outcomes for children and families involved with the child welfare agency and its partner agencies.
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