# The Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment Policy Research and Training (CICM)

> **NIH NIH P50** · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · 2022 · $1,204,134

## Abstract

Overall CICM Project Abstract
 Child maltreatment (hereafter CM) is a widespread and complex problem, linked to a number of negative
downstream outcomes and incurring substantial costs across individual, family and societal levels. Building on
an extraordinary multidisciplinary group of researchers and experts from across the country interested in CM
and child welfare (CW), the Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment Policy, Research, and Training
(hereafter CICM) enhances this foundation with a national network of experts to advance transdisciplinary
science and innovative dissemination and training approaches to prevent CM and promote healthy
development for children who have experienced abuse and neglect. The CICM Administrative Core (AC)
provides scientific and operational oversight with two aims: (1) To advance innovations in modelling complex
and dynamic interactions of predictors of maltreatment to improve targeting of prevention and intervention
efforts; and (2) To create a bidirectional path between identification of complex etiological models and real
world application of innovative approaches to prevention and intervention. To do this CICM draws on
transdisciplinary and systems science methods and transforms the AC Steering Committee into a Learning
Collaborative (SCLC) to support projects while also synthesizing knowledge and innovating new research
approaches. The SCLC is organized into three multidisciplinary workgroups to promote ongoing
communication: (1) advanced analytic methods and technologies (AAMT), (2) identifying risk and
understanding outcomes (IRO) and (3) translation, adaptation and implementation (TAI). Three proposed
multidisciplinary research projects crosscut SCLC workgroup themes, advance understanding of culture
and context, and focus on real world impact in the areas of screening, targeting and coordination of services.
The Community Engagement Core (CEC) works in concert with the AC to: (1) Engage research, policy and
practice stakeholders in translation of research into policy and practice as well as identification of real world
policy and practice issues that require research; and, (2) Provide innovative education and training
opportunities to build a pipeline of researchers and practitioners prepared to address the complex issue of CM.
The CEC translates research to tailored education and training products for practice and policy stakeholders
and builds the pipeline for the next generation of practitioners and researchers. CEC engages practice, policy
and community stakeholders in advising research priorities. The CICM multidisciplinary leadership includes
the Principal Investigator (Dr. Jonson-Reid) who has a significant history of funded CM research and
collaborates regularly with the CEC Co-Directors at Washington University (Dr. Patterson Silver Wolf) and
Saint Louis University (Dr. Weaver). CICM is guided by engaged experts from 11 disciplines with strong
institutional support providing the capacity ...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10475103
- **Project number:** 5P50HD096719-05
- **Recipient organization:** WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** MELISSA A JONSON-REID
- **Activity code:** P50 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2022
- **Award amount:** $1,204,134
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2018-09-20 → 2025-08-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10475103

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10475103, The Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment Policy Research and Training (CICM) (5P50HD096719-05). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-24 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10475103. Licensed CC0.

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