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NAEYC’s primary partner and supporter of our strengthening families work is the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
The mission of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation is to improve the quality of people's lives through grants supporting the performing arts, wildlife conservation, medical research and the prevention of child maltreatment, and through preservation of the cultural and environmental legacy of Doris Duke's properties.
Established in 1996, the foundation supports four national grantmaking programs. It also oversees three properties that were owned by Doris Duke in Hillsborough, New Jersey; Honolulu, Hawaii; and Newport, Rhode Island. The foundation is headquartered in New York and is governed by a nine-member Board of Trustees.
The foundation awarded its first grants in 1997. Grants are awarded in four program areas—the Child Abuse Prevention Program seeks to protect children from abuse and neglect in order to promote their healthy development. The program’s primary goal is to improve parent-child interactions and to increase parents’ access to information and services that help prevent child maltreatment before it occurs. The foundation supports early intervention initiatives that seek to integrate child abuse prevention strategies into national systems that serve large numbers of young children (ages 0 to 6) and their families. Click here to learn more about the fascinating Doris Duke.
Additional partnerships with organizations engaged in complementary efforts help NAEYC with this important work.
NAEYC’s partnerships with Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) andTechnical Assistance Center for Social Emotional Intervention (TACSEI) provide NAEYC members with high-quality half- and full-day professional development opportunities on addressing children’s challenging behaviors and promoting healthy social and emotional development—two key family strengthening strategies.
CSEFEL is funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau to strengthen the capacity of Head Start and child care programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children. The Center develops training and technical assistance (T/TA) materials that reflect evidence-based practices for promoting children's social and emotional development and preventing challenging behaviors. In fall 2006, CSEFEL received funding for an additional five years of work.
TACSEI is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.
Additional partners:
The Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP) strives to help states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
The National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds is a membership organization that provides training, technical assistance and peer consulting opportunities to state Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds and strengthens their efforts to prevent child abuse. Members of the Alliance are catalysts for the development of community-based child abuse and neglect prevention programs in their states. They are incubators for innovative new programs and services related to strengthening families to prevent child abuse and neglect.
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization that advances its mission by informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.
The United States Department of Health and Human Services Child Abuse Prevention Initiative, which publishes annually a Resource Packet. The entire “Promoting Healthy Families in Your Community” packet will be available to download from the Child Welfare Information Gateway Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect websection in mid-March 2007. The public may also order free resource packets from the Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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