The Bradley Hasbro Children's Research Center
Our Vision
To become one of the top three children’s mental health research centers in the United States with investigations that range from basic neuroscience and genomics to health services outcome and prevention.
Our Mission
To improve the knowledge base in the field of children’s mental health through empirical research and thereby ultimately increase our effectiveness in helping children and families both in our own clinical programs and nationwide. |
Future Goals
Our Short-term Outcomes:
- Train three new, young investigators in our research-training program each year.
- Increase the number of NIH funded investigators by one each year.
Our Intermediate Outcomes:
- Integrate a research component into every clinical program to be reflected in at least one publication or national presentation each year
- Add new research programs (see strategy)
- Increase public policy advocacy for children’s mental health
Our Long-term Outcomes:
- Improve evidence-based practice
- Improve children’s mental health status
Our Strategy
Our strategy is to establish an excellent, state-of-the art research program in seven key areas that are based on access to patient populations, are understudied, lend themselves to scientific rigor and are important to society.
The seven key research areas are:
- Psychiatric illnesses from early childhood to adolescence
- Treatment of combined substance abuse and psychiatric disorder
- Psychiatric treatment for child mental health disorders
- Effectiveness of child mental health services
- Prevention of mental illness in at-risk children and families
- Neurobiology of pediatric psychopathology
- Genetics of psychiatric illness in children and families.
Each new research area will work on multiple projects, be led by a high caliber, seasoned researcher, and involve both new and experienced clinicians.
Our strategy includes building program infrastructure, seeded by philanthropy, that will lead to each research area being self-sufficient in five years; national dissemination of research findings through publications, presentations and professional conferences; and involvement in public policy initiatives that destigmatize mental illness and support mental health services parity.
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