About the Capital Area Health & Human Development Institute

It became clear that a new and integrated center was needed in order to coordinate all the activities accomplished through research, training and technical assistance provided in the Harrisburg and South Central Pennsylvania areas.  That new organization, the Capital Area Health and Human Development Institute, was created in 2005, combining the Capital Area Early Childhood Training Institute, the Harrisburg Center for Healthy Child Development and the Urban Community Partnership Initiative, all a part of the Prevention Research Center within Penn State’s College of Health and Human Development.

Faculty and staff efforts focus on the following activities:

1. Developing mentoring programs that help to produce positive behavioral change in caregivers caring for young children
2. Developing certificate programs that articulate for college credit in the following areas:  infant toddler, preschool, director, special needs, social emotional development, and home based
3. Evaluating other mentoring programs to determine their effectiveness
4. Completing early care and education quality studies
5. Being responsible for all early care and education activities within the College of Health and Human Development
6. Coordinating all training and technical assistance activities within South Central Pennsylvania as the Regional Key
7. Providing  policy-relevant information on best practices in infant toddler care to federal, state, and local governments
8. Assistance to communities on the development, implementation, and evaluation of early care and education programming
9. Research and evaluation of various human service programs
10. Conducting public policy research studies related to children, youth and families.

As we look back on the past and plan for the future we wish to thank all those individuals and organizations who have collaborated and supported us to where we are today—a leader in higher education-based infant and toddler program quality activities and prevention research interventions in the United States.

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