What is the Translational Research on Child Neglect Consortium (TRCNC)?

The Translational Research on Child Neglect Consortium (TRCNC) was awarded a grant to continue the preliminary effort created by federal program staff to bring disparate fields together to tackle the public health issue of child neglect by advancing translational science as part of the Federal Child Neglect Research Consortium.  Through this next generation of research collaborations, participants at the TRCNC meeting will include members of the original Federal Child Neglect Research Consortium, invited guest speakers, federal partners, diverse postdoctoral fellows, early career faculty and interested community partners.

 

The goals of the annual TRCNC meetings are to:

• serve as a catalyst for continued innovation in research on child neglect;

• provide special mentoring opportunities for postdoctoral fellows and members from underrepresented groups (including women and racial/ethnic minorities) as well as opportunities for new investigators to attend the annual meetings and develop strong research career trajectories in research on child neglect;

• stimulate the exchange of ideas and research findings, permitting cross-fertilization among researchers from different disciplines to decrease the well-documented risk for adverse mental and physical health outcomes and impairments affecting large numbers of neglected children and families across the developmental life span;

• facilitate community outreach through dissemination activities including webcasts of invited speaker presentations and through community collaborations at local, state, and federal levels (where possible) to foster dissemination of research findings and translate science to "real world" settings.