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  • Home
  • About
  • Parent Resources
  • Research Projects
    • Internet Based Consultation and Networking for Youth Mental Health Providers (i-CAN)
    • Intervention for Children with Behavioral and Emotional Concerns (FAST)
    • Stepped Transition to Employment and Postsecondary Education Success (STEPS)
    • Facial Emotion Awareness in Children
    • Teen Sleep Health Study
    • Healthy Relationships on the Autism Spectrum (HEARTS)
    • Exploring Relationships between Trauma, Locus of Control Orientation, and Aggression among African American Adolescents
    • Coping Power intervention for emotions and behavior in school
  • Building the Bridge
    • Racial Diversity Resources
    • Outreach and Training
    • Past Meetings
  • Meet the Team
    • Core Faculty
    • Affiliated Faculty
    • Post-Docs and Graduate Students
    • Center Staff
  • News
    • Blog
    • Publications
    • Presentations
  • Prospective Students
  • Previous Talk Recordings
  • Testimonials
  • CYDI Spotlight
  • Contact Us

"The primary goal of the Center is to facilitate translational clinical science, targeting key processes in the prevention, remediation, and management of behavioral, emotional, and neurodevelopmental conditions from early childhood through early adulthood.”

Mission of the Center


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​The mission of the University of Alabama is to advance the intellectual and social condition of the people of the state of Alabama and beyond through teaching, research, and service. The Center for Youth Development and Intervention (the ‘Center’) embodies this mission. The Center also adheres to the University’s commitment to diversity and inclusion, in which diverse viewpoints and backgrounds are welcomed.
The Center is a state-of-the-art research, training, and service facility that brings together investigators from diverse disciplines who share an interest in developmental psychopathology. The primary goal of the Center is to facilitate translational clinical science, targeting key processes in the prevention, remediation, and management of behavioral, emotional, and neurodevelopmental conditions from early childhood through early adulthood. The Center provides on-site and community-based training to providers, educators, and students in evidence-based assessment and intervention.
Center-affiliated investigators are involved in longitudinal investigation of biopsychosocial processes across development, the development and testing of innovative methods, the evaluation of programs and interventions via clinical trials, and consultation to other providers and community-based partners.

Finally, the Center serves the broader Tuscaloosa and surrounding communities. By interfacing with schools, medical and mental health providers, and the justice system, we provide needed services to the families in the Tuscaloosa community and will likewise benefit by having greater participant involvement in the development of research.

Consistent with this mission, the following are the Center's strategic objectives:

  • Facilitate transdisciplinary, collaborative, and cutting edge research related to mental and physical health and well-being
  • Provide a venue for the translation and dissemination of evidence-based approaches to community and school providers
  • Facilitate grant-funded research on intervention and prevention programming
  • Provide opportunities for student training via direct research engagement, clinical and consultative services, and secondary data analysis

Learn more about the CYDI's "Building the Bridge" initiative to improve mental health care for youth in the community here.

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