Nationwide Academic Research Centers

Below are links to academic research centersthat are part of the national University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium, as well asother child-focused centers around the country.  If your center is not listed and you would like to be added, please contact us.

Boston College - Lynch School of Education

Brandeis University - The Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy

Brown University - Center for the Study of Human Development

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Clemson University - Institute on Family and Neighborhood Life (IFNL)

Columbia University - Institute for Child and Family Policy

Columbia University - National Center for Children in Poverty

Columbia University Teachers College - National Center for Children and Families

Cornell University - Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research

Duke University - Center for Child and Family Policy

Fordham University- Applied Developmental Psychology 

Georgetown University - Center for Research on Children in the United States (CROCUS)

Georgia State University - Child Policy Initiative, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies

Harvard University - Center on the Developing Child

Indiana University - Center for Adolescent and Family Studies

National Academies

New York University - Institute of Human Development and Social Change

New York University - Child and Family Policy Center

Northwestern University - Human Development and Social Policy Program

Ohio University - Programs in Child and Family Studies

Pennsylvania State University - Prevention Research Center

Portland State University - Center for Improvement of Child and Family Services

Princeton University - Center for Research on Child Wellbeing (CRCW)

Rutgers University - National Institute for Early Education Research

Stanford University - Center on Adolescence

Tufts University - Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development

University of California at Davis - Center for Child and Family Studies

University of California at Los Angeles - Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities

The University of Chicago - Chapin Hall

The University of Chicago - Center for Human Potential and Public Policy - The Harris School of Public Policy Studies

University of Illinois - Institute of Public and Government Affairs

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - The Family Resiliency Center

University of Minnesota - Children, Youth and Family Consortium

University of Nebraska - Center on Children, Families, and the Law

University of New Hampshire - Family Research Lab

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute

University of Pittsburgh - Office of Child Development

University of South Carolina - The Center for Child and Family Studies

University of Tennessee at Knoxville - Department of Child and Family Studies

University of Washington - Partners for Our Children

Vanderbilt University - Child and Family Center

Yale University - Child Study Center

Yale University - Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy