Child Health Center for Learning and Development

Objectives

  1. Support a new generation of multidisciplinary child health professionals—a diverse workforce with the skills to translate scientific advances into practice, communicate with policy-makers, and better meet the health and developmental needs of children and youth across a range of community settings.
  2. Invest in a network of community health and educational partners to co-create solutions for the most pressing challenges in health/mental health, educational achievement and workforce development in this population.
  3. Incorporate community-based experiences into public health, pediatric and psychiatry training programs to include mentoring, coaching, teaching, research and evaluation in organizations, schools and service settings;
  4. Create a shared learning environment that fosters new research questions and novel solutions at both the individual and population levels;
  5. Provide needed support to trainees, faculty, and community leaders for interdisciplinary pilot projects and abbreviated immersive experiences/exchanges for professional growth and restorative work.
  6. Create a new synergism by promoting shared learning environments including joint training and funding opportunities, cross-departmental fellowships, laboratory exchanges, field-based research, service learning, and multidisciplinary practice;
  7. Include under-represented and marginalized populations of children and youth for whom the determinants, mechanisms, and pathways of development may be under-studied, and new solutions for the promotion of optimal development are needed.