Research Centers

Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence

In 1996, with a number of influential partners, it began a national initiative that sought out effective violence prevention programs. Read more

Center on the Developing Child

Based at Harvard University, the Center on the Developing Child generates, translates, and applies knowledge in the service of improving life outcomes for children globally. Read more

Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring

The Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring (CEM) provides indicator systems to schools and colleges in the UK and elsewhere. Read more

Child Trends

Founded in 1979, Child Trends is an independent, non-profit research center based in Washington DC, where it focuses on improving outcomes for children in the US by providing research, data and analysis to policymakers, program providers, charitable foundations and the media. Read more

Child-Parent Center

Child-Parent Center (CPC) is an early childhood prevention program established in Chicago in the late 1960s, and brought to notice by the Chicago Longitudinal Study, a prospective quasi-experimental evaluation of children born in 1979 or 1980, some of whom – the experiment group – attended CPC between 1985 or 1986.