Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

Develop Capacity of Existing Systems

Chapin Hall Center for Children

$2,397,791 over 5 years
Chicago, IL – To support the creation and launch of the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect, which will support the development of doctoral students working on critical issues in abuse and neglect and create new knowledge on the dynamics of child maltreatment and effective prevention strategies.
www.chapinhall.org

Erikson Institute

$1,384,812 over 3 years
Chicago, IL – To renew support for the Fussy Baby Network to provide direct services to families, develop new strategies that address maternal depression, expand to three more sites, and pursue additional evaluation activities.
www.erikson.edu

Zero to Three

$1,578,737 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To renew support for Zero to Three’s training and consultation to early education/ childcare systems using the Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect curriculum, and to support an evaluation of the impact of training and coaching on program operations and family and child outcomes.
www.zerotothree.org

Develop and Disseminate Knowledge

Prevent Child Abuse America

$494,032 over 2 years
Chicago, IL – To create and disseminate a national public education campaign with newly developed messages, tools and approaches to raise public awareness about the prevention of child maltreatment.
www.preventchildabuse.org 

Other Grants

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$34,750 over 3 months
Washington, DC – To support the Strengthening Families Leadership Summit.
www.cssp.org

Family Violence Prevention Fund

$25,000 over 3 months
San Francisco, CA – To explore opportunities to prevent child abuse and neglect and intimate partner violence.
www.endabuse.org

National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds

$95,000 over 1 year
Seattle, WA – To develop education and communication strategies and materials that support the preservation of state Children's Trust Fund infrastructure and services during the economic downturn.
www.msu.edu/user/nactpf

Prevent Child Abuse America

$100,000 over 1 year
Chicago, IL – To work with its network of state chapters and national experts to sustain, support and strengthen the nation’s existing prevention infrastructure during the economic downturn.
www.preventchildabuse.org

Home Visiting

Pew Charitable Trusts

$1,885,962 over 3 years
Philadelphia, PA – To increase access to quality home visiting services for at-risk families by supporting research to build the knowledge base and disseminate information on effectiveness in the home visiting field in partnership with Pew Center on the States’ Home Visiting Initiative.
www.pewtrusts.org

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$289,351 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To provide matching funds that support the creation of a new, federally funded, National Quality Improvement Center for the prevention of maltreatment of infants and young children.
www.cssp.org

Massachusetts Friends of Children’s Trust Fund, Inc.

$1,698,000 over 3 years
Boston, MA – To renew support for the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds’ Early Childhood Initiative, which works with state-based Children’s Trust Funds to promote child abuse prevention in early education systems.
www.mctf.org

Pediatric Health Care

University of Maryland Medical System Foundation, Inc.

$323,770 over 1 year
Baltimore, MD – To support the final phase of the Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) research study, which aims to inform, improve and increase the role pediatrics plays in the prevention of child maltreatment.
www.ummsfoundation.org

Research & Special Projects

National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Inc.

$1,226,179 over 3 years
Atlanta, GA – To support an examination of how a public health approach, specifically community and societal-level prevention strategies, could address child maltreatment.
www.cdcfoundation.org
http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/phl/

University of Wisconsin Foundation

$594,049 over 3 years
Madison, WI – To support the Institute for Research on Poverty’s work to address gaps in research related to the prevention of child neglect by conducting a comprehensive review of existing research studies and detailed data analysis of two longitudinal studies, and to develop a neglect risk assessment tool that will be tested in several Wisconsin sites.
www.uwfoundation.wisc.edu

Urban Institute

$400,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC – To support an investigation of the intersection of maternal depression and child abuse and neglect and develop recommendations for how mainstream systems can assist depressed mothers and prevent maltreatment.
www.urbaninstitute.org

Home Visiting

Georgia State University

$1,321,403 over 3 years
Atlanta, GA – To develop the National SafeCare Training and Research Center to increase the availability and use of the SafeCare home visitation program throughout the U.S.
www.gsu.edu

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$1,864,667 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue expansion of the Strengthening Families Initiative, which integrates child maltreatment prevention strategies into early education and child care systems, by creating and managing a National Network; providing technical assistance to states; developing and disseminating additional materials and tools focused on quality assurance; and tracking the progress of states and other jurisdictions implementing the Strengthening Families Initiative.
www.cssp.org

United Way of America

$1,835,585 over 3 years
Alexandria, VA – To launch a competition and award matching grants to up to six local or state United Way chapters to demonstrate how United Way can promote and integrate the prevention of child abuse and neglect into its early education work. United Way of America will provide training and technical assistance; coordinate learning activities; create and disseminate materials on promising practices; and evaluate the initiative.
www.liveunited.org

Pediatric Health Care

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$2,146,012 over 5 years
Chapel Hill, NC – To support a five-year statewide demonstration and research project in North Carolina for the Period of PURPLE Crying program, which provides educational materials to all new parents with information about the characteristics of infant crying, ways to deal with the frustration of not being able to soothe a baby, and emphasizes the importance of never shaking an infant.
www.unc.edu

Research & Special Projects

Princeton University

$209,941 over 2 years
Princeton, NJ – To support the production, dissemination and outreach activities for the Fall 2009 Preventing Child Maltreatment edition of the Future of Children journal.
www.princeton.edu

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

$666,670 over 2 years
Chapel Hill, NC – To hold two PREVENT Institutes focused on preventing child maltreatment, which will provide intensive training, coaching and technical assistance to a total of 20 teams from states, cities or local communities across the country. Competively selected teams will be comprised of leaders from relevant agencies and systems working on prevention in their locale (e.g., health, law enforcement, early education, social services).
www.unc.edu

Early Education and Child Care

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1,504,860 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To support a train-the-trainer initiative based on Zero to Three’s Partnering with Parents curriculum, which will work with 12 states’ early education systems to train child care staff and help them develop skills to foster stronger relationships with parents and recognize and reduce risks associated with child maltreatment.
www.zerotothree.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$412,000 over 15 months
Elk Grove Village, IL – To solicit expert advice, streamline materials and strategies, and refine its approach to changing pediatric practices through the Practicing Safety initiative, which aims to prevent child maltreatment by increasing screening, guidance and resources provided by pediatric practices to parents of children birth to age three.
www.aap.org

Erikson Institute

$1,156,728 over 3 years
Chicago, IL – To support the Fussy Baby Network, a comprehensive program that provides direct home-based and clinical services to families with infants who cry inconsolably, and to provide assistance to programs that want to replicate Fussy Baby services in other locations.
www.erikson.edu

Research & Special Projects

New York State Office of Children and Family Services

$639,563 over 3 years
Albany, NY – To expand the data collection, analysis and dissemination of results associated with year seven of the Healthy Families New York home visiting evaluation.
www.ocfs.state.ny.us

Early Education and Child Care

Michigan Children’s Trust Fund for the
National Alliance of Child Abuse Prevention Funds

$1,248,260 over 3 years
Lansing, MI – To implement the alliance’s new Early Childhood Initiative by holding three regional training institutes to educate trust fund staff on integrating prevention techniques and strategies into early education and child care centers, and administering a matching grants competition to award seed funding to eight to 12 trust funds for programming that promotes child abuse prevention in early education settings.
www.ctfalliance.org

National Head Start Association

$300,000 over 1 year
Alexandria, VA – To provide direct assistance to families who request help to meet their children’s basic needs following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita; provide materials and training to Head Start centers in Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Alabama; and coordinate delivery of donated goods from across the country for the hurricane victims.
www.nhsa.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$349,100 over 6 months
Elk Grove Village, IL – To enable AAP chapters in Mississippi and Louisiana to organize a series of trainings for local health care personnel to prepare them to treat emotional problems resulting from Hurricane Katrina; deploy teams of mental health experts to reach out to families and staff in schools and child care centers; disseminate directories and set up a temporary toll-free telephone number to connect relocated families to new pediatric practices; and provide AAP books, manuals, and other publications to pediatric practices to replace materials destroyed by the storm.
www.aap.org

Research & Special Projects

National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention, Inc.

$3,034,885 over 4.75 years
Atlanta, GA – To enable the CDC’s Division of Violence Prevention to competitively award three four-year grants of $1.2 million each to effective child abuse prevention programs with innovative proposals for using technology to improve their operations.
http://www.cdc.gov/ncipc/dvp/dvp.htm

Foundation for the University of Medicine and
Dentistry of New Jersey

$1,843,884 over 4.75 years
Newark, NJ – To support the next phase of a longitudinal research study on the intergenerational transmission of childhood abuse and neglect.
www.umdnj.edu/foundweb

Home Visiting

Nurse Family Partnership

$978,000 over 3 years
Denver, CO – To support the expansion of Nurse-Family Partnership home visiting services by analyzing, improving and expanding its information systems and training of nurses.
www.nursefamilypartnership.org

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$1.306 million over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue its prior DDCF-supported work and promote implementation of the Strengthening Families approach in several pilot states by conducting a national competition; providing technical assistance to selected states to adapt the approach to their child care programs; developing and deploying the resources and tools needed to support implementation; and working with other public and private funding sources to promote the approach within their jurisdictions.
www.cssp.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

$961,000 over 3 years
Washington, DC – To continue to increase the role of child care workers in reducing risks for child maltreatment by creating a new Leadership Academy to train leaders who are well positioned to influence early education practice; conducting additional research and developing new products that encourage families to turn to child care staff to help cope with the stresses of parenting; and developing and disseminating new resources for teachers that provide more in-depth strategies for preventing maltreatment.
www.naeyc.org

Pediatric Health Care

University of Washington

$1.2 million over 3 years
Seattle, WA – To support the implementation and evaluation of the Period of PURPLE Crying program, which seeks to prepare parents for infant crying and is a partnership between the Harborview Injury Prevention Center at the University of Washington, the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, and a leading researcher on infant crying at the University of British Columbia.
depts.washington.edu, www.dontshake.org

Early Education and Child Care

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1,482,600 over 3 years
Washington, DC - To support a project entitled "Child Care as Family Support: Strengthening Families to Prevent Abuse and Neglect," in which Zero to Three will partner with 60 Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies (chosen through a competitive request-for-proposal process) to train child care staff and help them develop skills to foster stronger relationships with parents and recognize and reduce risks associated with child maltreatment.
www.zerotothree.org

Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System

$873,037 over 3 years
Madison, WI - To support the research project entitled "Preventing Child Maltreatment through Early Educational Intervention," which will further examine the Chicago Longitudinal Study's finding that participation in an early education intervention was associated with a 52% lower rate of substantiated child maltreatment to better understand how program participation leads to lower rates of maltreatment; disseminate knowledge about the impact of the intervention to policymakers and practitioners; and conduct economic analysis of the benefits of preventing child maltreatment.
www.waisman.wisc.edu/cls/index.htmlx

Special Projects

Princeton University

$793,390 over 4 years
Princeton, NJ - To support the coverage of issues related to parenting and the prevention of child abuse and neglect in The Future of Children journal.
www.futureofchildren.org, www.princeton.edu

Home Visiting

Prevent Child Abuse America

$1 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To implement a strategic plan for strengthening and sustaining Healthy Families America by establishing two Regional Resource Centers that will assume responsibility for training, technical assistance and fundraising activities for local HFA programs.
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org

Early Education and Child Care

Joseph L. Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University

$1,476,625 over 2 years
New York, NY - To enable the Free to Grow program to provide direct support to 15 Head Start centers across the country to expand their family services; fund training and technical assistance to sites on child abuse prevention; and support documentation and dissemination of the Free to Grow strategy.
www.freetogrow.org

Pediatric Health Care

American Academy of Pediatrics

$1.5 million over 3 years
Elk Grove Village, IL - To support a new initiative called Practicing Safety, which will identify and promote successful strategies for involving pediatric practices in the prevention of child maltreatment.
www.aap.org

Erikson Institute

$750,000 over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To support the Fussy Baby Initiative, a comprehensive demonstration project that provides direct clinical and home-based services for families who have inconsolable infants. The initiative will develop new training and program capacity to respond to families under great stress and to protect vulnerable babies before abuse occurs.
www.erikson.edu

Early Education and Child Care

Center for the Study of Social Policy

$1.193 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To identify and promote model child abuse prevention practices in the child care field, to identify improvements in the training of child care staff to prevent maltreatment, to implement a communications plan that articulates and promotes promising approaches to child abuse prevention in child care settings, to help DDCF assess the overall effectiveness of supporting prevention strategies in child care settings, and to investigate specific opportunities for future DDCF investments.
www.cssp.org

National Association for the Education of Young Children

$430,000 over 18 months
Washington, DC - To research, assess and publish its findings about the current knowledge, sources of information, and skills of childcare staff in areas related to preventing child maltreatment and promoting the healthy development of pre-school children, and to update its position statement on child abuse and neglect and devise new communication vehicles for increasing the statement's impact and utility for the field.
www.naeyc.org

Special Populations

Family Violence Prevention Fund

$949,400 over 2 years
San Francisco, CA - To develop, test, disseminate and evaluate child abuse prevention materials - specifically practice guidelines, staff training curricula and public education materials - designed to help integrate child abuse prevention strategies into three types of programs that work with fathers and young men to reduce domestic violence.
http://endabuse.org/

Applied Research

Child Trends, Inc.

$698,000 over 2 years
Washington, DC - To design new, more meaningful indicators that measure child well-being, to work with three to four pilot sites to test a new approach for assessing child abuse prevention strategies, to publish research briefs and reports for opinion leaders, decision makers and practitioners, and to improve the quality and depth of media coverage of child abuse and neglect issues.
www.childtrends.org

Home Visiting

Parents as Teachers National Center, Inc.

$623,000 over 2 years
St. Louis, MO - To enhance the capacity of the center to ensure the quality and assess the effectiveness of Parents as Teachers programs nationwide.
www.patnc.org

Prevent Child Abuse America

$560,000 over 2 years
Chicago, IL - To strengthen the quality and sustainability of Healthy Families America, a national home visiting program.
www.healthyfamiliesamerica.org

Regents of the University of Colorado
on behalf of the Health Sciences Center

$629,000 over 2 years
Denver, CO - To support expansion of the national Nurse-Family Partnership Program.
www.nursefamilypartnership.org

Early Education and Child Care

Joseph L. Mailman
School of Public Health at Columbia University

$1.452 million over 2 years
New York, NY - For the Free to Grow national demonstration project that will provide support to 20 Head Start sites across the country to develop programs that strengthen families and communities, improve parenting practices and prevent child maltreatment.
www.freetogrow.org

Zero to Three:
National Center for Infants, Toddlers & Families

$1.184 million over 2 years
Washington, DC - To develop resources for parents, childcare providers and other practitioners that promote the healthy development of infants and toddlers.
www.zerotothree.org

Special Projects

Prevent Child Abuse America

$1.43 million over 3 years
Chicago, IL - To develop with the Ad Council a national public service campaign to educate the public about positive actions individuals can take to prevent child abuse and neglect.
www.preventchildabuse.org