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    The mission of the KU Center for Community Health and Development (CCHD) is to promote community health and development through collaborative research, teaching and public service. Established in 1975, the KU CCHD joined the Life Span Institute as a distinct center in 1990. The CCHD has developed widely used capabilities for community-based participatory research (including its Community Check Box Evaluation System) and for building capacity for community work (including the Community Tool Box). Recognition of these capabilities led to an official designation in 2004 as a World Health Organization Collaborating Centre.

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    Projects

    Research and Training Center on Disability in Rural Communities
    Preparing Community Health Ambassadors as Change Agents in Creating Healthier Settings in Wyandotte County, Kansas
    The effect of built and social environments on childhood obesity and racial/ethnic disparities in the national Healthy Communities Study
    Building Capacity for Developing, Implementing, and Evaluation the Family Health and Wellness Coalition's Community Health Improvement Plan for Social, Environmental, and Behavioral Change
    Preventing Youth Violence by Addressing Social Determinants Through the KC Youth Violence Prevention Project

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    KU Researchers Lead Effort to Monitor and Evaluate COVID-19 Response in 47 African Countries
    From ‘Crime-Dotte’ To Wyandotte — Kansas City, Kansas, Teens Are Fed Up With The Violence
    Study Shows Adults with Disabilities Have Challenges with Insurance, Despite Improvements to ACA
    Largest study of its kind gauges community efforts to combat childhood obesity, a key risk factor for later chronic disease
    KU experts publish new guide for making homes visitable by wheelchair users
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Life Span Institute Centers

  • KU Life Span Institute
  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program (CLDP)
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC)
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities (KUCDD)
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Center for Research on Learning (CRL)
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training (K-CART)
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Education Center (SWIFT)
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú (CASP)

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Centers

  • Beach Center on Disability
  • Center for Community Health and Development
  • The Center for Research on Learning
  • Cofrin Logan Center for Addiction Research and Treatment
  • Child Language Doctoral Program
  • Juniper Gardens Children's Project
  • Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center
  • Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities
  • Merrill Advanced Studies Center
  • The Kansas Center for Autism Research and Training
  • The Life Span Institute at Parsons
  • The SWIFT (Schoolwide Integrated Framework for Transformation) Center
  • Centro Ann Sullivan del Perú

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Dole Human Development Center, Rm 1052
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045

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