The Child Well-Being Research Network (CWRN) is currently comprised of 187 members across 135 universities, research centers, non-profit organizations, and government agencies located on multiple continents.
Network Goals
- Improve diversity, equity, and inclusion in the child well-being research field
- Build a pipeline of diverse child well-being and child maltreatment prevention researchers
- Expand the Network to new child well-being and maltreatment prevention researchers
- Share knowledge and opportunities among Network members
- Translate and disseminate research to multiple audiences
- Collaborate with similar networks
- Elevate applied research that informs policy and practice, including Research to Action Grants
Network Members
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Members' Research Areas
Children & Youth
- Infancy & Early Childhood
- School-aged Children
- Adolescents
- Child development
Parents & Families
- Parenting
- Families
- Fathers
- Non-custodial Caregivers
- Kinship Caregivers
- Military & Veteran Families
Systems
- Child Welfare
- Foster Care
- Juvenile Justice
- Criminal Justice
- Health Care
- Early Care and Childcare
- K-12 Education
- Mental Health
Communities & Contexts
- Community Organizations
- Neighborhoods
- Poverty
- Community-Based Prevention
- Public Health Approaches
Adverse Life Experience
- Child Abuse and Neglect
- Trauma Exposure
- Family Violence
- ACEs
- Human Trafficking
- Race & Gender-Based Discrimination
Well-Being Domains
- Resilience
- Race Equity
- Gender Equity
- Mental Health
- Physical Health
- Maternal Health
Research Approaches & Methods
- Research Translation
- Lived Experience Expertise
- Community-Engaged Research (e.g., Participatory methods)
- Biological Mechanisms
- Continuous Quality Improvement
- Developmental Science
- Forensic/Archival Research
- Implementation Research
- Intervention Research
- Mixed Methods
- Hierarchical and Advanced Modeling Techniques
- Organizational Development
- Policy Research
- Program Evaluation
- Qualitative Methods
- Quasi-Experimental Methods