Posts Tagged Mt. Hope Family Center

A new study finds that local, community-wide education efforts can drastically lower incidence of sexual abuse of children.

Funding from the National Institutes of Health builds on the grant given five years ago to establish the TRANSFORM multidisciplinary national research and resource center.

Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders are a pressing public health problem—and the University is home to one of only two specialty diagnostic clinics in New York state.

New federal funding will support the center’s programs addressing child and family trauma at individual and systemic levels.

River Campus psychologists and the Mt. Hope Family Center are awarded a National Institute of Child Health and Human Development grant to study the pandemic’s long-term effects on family cohesion and child well-being.

Rochester psychologists say successful intervention efforts need to include partners of mothers-to-be.

A doctor of nursing practice degree is a capstone to a career of helping kids with special needs get better access and care.

New grants recognize the center’s success in addressing complex challenges among vulnerable children and their families.

University of Rochester experts have helped develop a handbook for health care providers to recognize and diagnose fetal alcohol spectrum disorders.

After two-and-a-half years of development and testing, the first promising results are in for an app designed to help caregivers of children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.