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Child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and suicide attempts and related injuries have varied and serious consequences across the lifespan and represent a significant cost to individuals and society. They are widespread sources of immediate and longer term injury during early childhood and young adulthood.
The Brown School's Center for Violence and Injury Prevention aims to address this serious problem.
The new center is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (1R49CE001510-01) and is the first Injury Control Research Center located in a social work school.
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Brown School Associate Professor Melissa Jonson-Reid is the principal investigator and director of the new center. John Constantino, MD, of Washington University’s School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, serves as co-investigator and co-director. Both are faculty scholars at the University’s new Institute for Public Health.
The Center’s work is supported by a variety of interdisciplinary teams including a National Research Advisory Board; Education/Outreach Core that includes a special Field Agency Advisory Board, and an Administrative Core.
The Center also has a number of critical connections to schools and programs outside of the Brown School and Washington University.
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The Center has seven initial projects underway or in development.
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Certificate Program
Beginning in 2010, the Center will be offering a certificate program. For MSW students it is designed as an individualized concentration. For MPH students, this program may be completed through elective credit and a specific Trandisciplinary Problem Solving course on child maltreatment.
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The Center offers links to a range of online resources for those interested in violence and injury prevention.
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Box 1196
One Brookings Drive
Washington University in St. Louis
St. Louis, Missouri 63130
Phone: 314-935-8129
Email: bcvip@gwbmail.wustl.edu