| Description of Project: | The University desires to create a world-class center on family resiliency that would be the home to innovative research, education, and outreach initiatives to enrich child, individual, and family well-being in the context of communities. By conducting multidisciplinary research and by training future generations of researchers, educators, and other professionals, we will help parents, teachers, employers and policymakers to strengthen families and communities to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing world. The Family Resiliency Building would be situated on the East Campus near Lincoln and Nevada Avenues, in close proximity to the Child Development Laboratory and the recently completed Expanded Child Development Laboratory. The central location of the building will serve as a critical resource to University faculty and staff who wish to study family issues as well as a tangible ?gateway? to members of the Urbana-Champaign communities who wish to learn ways to strengthen their own families. The $8.5M project will provide a 29,000 gsf. facility which will contain a family resource center observational suite, commons area, classrooms and offices. |