National Quality Improvement Center on Early Childhood (QIC-EC)

The QIC-EC supports collaborative research and demonstration projects across child abuse prevention, child welfare, early childhood, and other health, education, and social service systems. QIC-EC projects focus on implementing and rigorously evaluating strategies that contribute to the prevention of child abuse and neglect and to the promotion of increased family strengths and optimal development among children (ages 0-5) and families that are at greatest risk for child maltreatment.

GOAL

Promote the development, dissemination, and integration of new knowledge about how collaborative interventions increase protective factors and decrease risk factors to achieve optimal child development, increased family strengths, and decreased likelihood of child maltreatment within families of young children at high-risk for child maltreatment

HOW WE HELP

Develop evidence-based and evidence-informed maltreatment prevention strategies aimed at increasing protective factors and decreasing risk factors
Evaluate the impact of evidence-based and evidence-informed maltreatment prevention strategies on optimal child development, increased family strengths, and reduced likelihood of child abuse and neglect
Establish a national network for sharing information on promising practices
Support dissertation research in the prevention of child abuse and neglect and the promotion of child and family well-being

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Address:	National QIC on Early Childhood Center for the Study of Social Policy 1575 Eye Street, NW, Suite 500 Washington, DC 20005
Phone:	202.371.1565
Email:	charlyn.harperbrowne@cssp.org
Contact:	Charlyn Harper Browne, Project Director

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