About the Center

Building on the work of the faculty with research and educational projects that address the needs of underserved populations in the context of their communities, the Center for Child and Family Health Promotion Research was created to support the development and dissemination of evidence-based interventions and best practices. The CCFHPR was designated a Center of Research Excellence within the Academic Heath Center at the University in 1998.

Researchers find the Center an exciting place to work and build a scholarly career:

• They feel energized by the support research programs receive in the collegial think-tank environment of regular staff meeting and in genuinely constructive grant reviews.
• They find innovative ideas are stimulated by each other's work and by relationships they build in the community in a recursive cycle of intervention and evaluation.
• They are encouraged by their ability not only to create by also to sustain health improvement in populations where it is needed the most.

Center goals are to:

• Facilitate research to enhance health among vulnerable populations
• Mentor nurse researchers
• Foster scholarly inquiry and collaboration among faculty and students with community and university partners
• Share research findings with local, state, national and international audiences.