Center for Promotion of Child Development Through Primary Care

The Center is a non-profit organization. As the initial developer of CHADIS (www.chadis.com), the Center seeks to improve the lives of children and families through research, training and support for parents and healthcare providers through the primary care application of child development expertise. Specifically, the Center's goal was to develop a mechanism for using the pediatric check-up visit as a window into the social, emotional and behavioral health of the child and his/her family.

The Center was established to conduct research integrating child development knowledge into primary pediatric care and to disseminate this knowledge in practical form nationally. Further, the Center was designed to serve as a multidisciplinary training site for all participants in the Child healthcare industry.