# The Kempe Graduate Summer Program in Child Abuse and Neglect

> **NIH NIH R25** · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · 2021 · $161,216

## Abstract

The Kempe Graduate Summer Program in Child Abuse and Neglect
 There is a substantial paucity of research and research capacity in the field of child abuse and neglect
(CA&N), a problem that impacts more than 3 million children each year in the US and an estimated 15% of the
world’s children (about 285 million each year) around the globe To address this gap, we propose unique
training for clinicians and for social science and public health researchers to stimulate new research in CA&N,
with special focus on issues of disparities and prevention. Our training, to be led by seasoned researchers and
educators at the Kempe Center and the Colorado School of Public Health, will be tailored to three specific
audiences: clinicians familiar with CA&N diagnosis and treatment but lacking research training; social science
and public health researchers unfamiliar with the problem of CA&N; and scholars seeking knowledge of the
principles of designing and evaluating primary prevention projects. Throughout, we will give special emphasis
to addressing issues of disparities and the complex legal and ethical elements of CA&N research. For all
participants, we will facilitate trainees working on their own projects directly with successful investigators as
part of an action learning approach. Training will begin by inviting applicants to propose a concept for a
research project they hope to develop further during a one week graduate summer session, followed by
individualized mentoring with a senior scholar. We propose four specific aims: 1) attract and prepare child
abuse pediatrics fellows and other clinicians in advanced training to be able to conduct clinical epidemiology,
health services, or population-based research addressing the screening, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
of CA&N; 2) attract and prepare ethnically, disciplinary, and socially diverse graduate students and
postdoctoral fellows already trained in the social sciences and/or public health research, but naïve to the field
of CA&N to explore and address critical issues with a special focus on unique legal and ethical issues of
research in this field; 3) prepare clinicians, social scientists and public health professionals already trained in
CA&N to address primary prevention and attend to the issues of disparities; and 4) build research
collaborations among junior and senior clinicians, public health and social scientists.
 We will evaluate the success of the training through pre-training, immediate post-training, and longer
term follow-up of trainees. We will assess: 1) success of recruitment into the program, with special emphasis
on enrolling minority scholars; 2) perceived quality of the training experience; 3) changes in participants’
confidence and intent to develop CA&N research; 4) participant satisfaction with each element of the training
and suggested improvements; 5) participant research trajectories over a one year period through measures of
continued contact with peers, instructors and...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10200872
- **Project number:** 5R25HD094660-04
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER
- **Principal Investigator:** John D Fluke
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $161,216
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-07-14 → 2023-06-30

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10200872

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10200872, The Kempe Graduate Summer Program in Child Abuse and Neglect (5R25HD094660-04). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10200872. Licensed CC0.

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