Funding

Seed funding from DoD Military Community and Family Policy and DoD Health Affairs supports research and education related to military children and families, the impact of parental combat deployment on children, and the work of the Center as a Category II site of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN). As part of the NCTSN, the Center serves as a knowledge development and dissemination center providing expertise in the impact of trauma on military children and families.

Through Congressionally Directed Medical Research Program (CDMRP) funding the Center's CFP is assessing the impact of parental combat injury on children and families as part of a collaborative grant with WRAMC, Brooke Army Medical Center and the 2nd Infantry Division at Ft. Stewart, Georgia. Research is also being carried out to examine the relationship between military family and community characteristics, and the prevalence of child neglect in the Army.