An Award to Fund Groundbreaking Child and Family Policy Research

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The following is a summary of an announcement that appears on the Made for This website.

Duke University has received a $10.5 million award from Bukhman Philanthropies, a London-based foundation focused on improving the mental health and well-being of children and young adults.

The award will support the university’s Center for Child and Family Policy and groundbreaking research on some of the most pressing issues facing children and families today.

The gift will support several new center-based research projects that span from three to five years.

The projects include a multi‑phase effort to scale early relational health, an evaluation of a North Carolina initiative that trains early childhood professionals in trauma‑informed care, the development of a professional learning framework for middle and high school ESL teachers, a youth‑centered project to redesign AI‑driven mental health tools for students, and the creation of a digital book‑building platform that supports connections among multilingual learners and their communities.

“This gift is a testament to the more than 25 years of quality work our researchers have been doing at the center to improve the lives of children and families,” said Jennifer E. Lansford, S. Malcolm Gillis Distinguished Research Professor of Public Policy at Duke and director of the Center for Child and Family Policy.

Bukhman Philanthropies  is a London-based charitable foundation focused on neonatal and maternal support, mental health and well-being of children and young adults, and literature. To further its emphasis on child health, it supports innovative research and provides grants to organizations to maximize impact, scale up proven ideas, and implement new initiatives.

For more information on the projects and the award, go to the Made for This website.