Center Goals

The Center has three major goals:

* The facilitation of collaborative, longitudinal, national, and cross-cultural research projects on connections between children, social relationships, and culture.
* The offering of graduate and post-doctoral training related to research on children, relationships and culture.
* The availability of a Resource Facility containing scholarly information that may help produce policy initiatives and improvements in practice related to strengthening of families and child development.

Research Training and Collaborative Interactions:

The Center offers a weekly seminar in both the Spring and Fall semesters (EDHD 629) in which student, post-doctoral affiliates, and faculty participate. The seminar provides students and faculty with opportunities to discuss, with leading figures in the field, central issues in child development research and policy. In addition, collaborative research opportunities are encouraged by these meetings of Center members and student affiliates.

The Center Resource Facility:

The Resource Facility has been established to facilitate scholarly training, research projects and policy initiatives. The facility includes a conference/seminar room for meetings and seminars, and classes; offices for Visiting Scholars, Center faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, and staff (research assistants).  The offices are equipped with computers, printers, a fax machine, and a small reference library.

The Resource Facility currently hosts the office of the Associate Editor for Human Development.