Support and Funding
The Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development has procured $33 million in research and other external funding, including:
- University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities grant from the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities of the Administration on Community Living and recently refunded for a second five-year cycle through 2019;
- Five-year interdisciplinary training grant from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resource Service Administration (2011-2016);
- $2 million, four-year SafeCare implementation grant from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (2014-2019);
- Annie E. Casey Charitable Foundation grant to explore the braiding of two evidence-based parenting programs aimed at child maltreatment prevention;
- Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation grant to help fund a helpline operated by Prevent Child Abuse Georgia;
- Numerous private and public grants for research and service provision;
- Georgia Department of Family and Children’s Services grant; and
- Annie E. Casey Charitable Foundation grant that will allow the Mark Chaffin Center for Healthy Development to take national leadership in forming an evidence-based home visiting working group with national experts to create a ‘Request for Application’ for pilot work to fund three-to-four projects aimed at solving a cross-model problem of family engagement.