Child and Family Center
The Child and Family Center (CFC) is an institute within the University of Oregon. The center staff is dedicated to understanding and promoting mental health and resilience within families across cultural communities. The center is currently funded by external grants from the National Institute on Mental Health (NIMH), National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). The center supports family-centered interventions and services.
The Child and Family Center is an Oregon University System research institute. Research scientists, interventionists, and staff members are located in Eugene, as well as in the center's office in Portland.
Currently, there are two active research projects; both are referred to as Project Alliance. Project Alliance 1 (Dishion, principal investigator) is a follow-up study of 998 young adults and their families who we studied and who participated in family-centered services in Portland school district middle schools in 1996 through 1998. Project Alliance 2 (Stormshak, principal investigator) involves a sample of 650 middle school students and families in the Portland school district. A focus of Project Alliance 2 is to enhance services for families of color.
Contacts:
Thomas J. Dishion, Ph.D., Director
Beth Stormshak, Ph.D., Codirector
Kate Kavanagh, Ph.D., Intervention Director in Portland
Allison Caruthers, Ph.D., Project Director in Portland
Child and Family Center
2738 Northeast Broadway Street
Portland OR 97232-1723
(503) 282-3662