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Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities

In Los Angeles County, 500,000 children live in poverty, 26 percent of all children are uninsured, and homicide accounts for 55 percent of preventable teen deaths.

These statistics indicate the cost that we all pay-- directly in higher taxes and indirectly through continued escalation in youth crime, higher rates of child abuse, more teen mothers, greater numbers of unemployed youth and adults and increased spread of disease.

At the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities we know things can be different.

We Foresee:

Communities of healthy children with futures as happy, productive adults.

Communities in which health care professionals, academics and policymakers build bridges with parents and children to resolve the pressing problems that jeapordize all of our futures.

Communities where new and better approaches to caring for children and families are developed by linking applied research, professional training and policy development.

Communities where families are empowered to create their own solutions to the special challenges faced by their children.

The goal of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families, and Communities is to help make this vision a reality.

Current Projects include:

• The National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy
• Child and Family Health Training Program
• TIES for Adoption
• Fellowship training program in child abuse and neglect
• Los Angeles Perinatal Home Visiting Project
• CHAIN (Child Health and Immunization Network)
• Breastfeeding Resource Program

The Center is located on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles, and it is affiliated with the UCLA School of Public Health and with the UCLA School of Medicine.

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