Childwatch International – Key Institution Profiles

Consortium on Children, Family and the Law

Institute on Family & Neighbourhood Life
158 Poole Agricultural Center
Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29643-0132
USA

Tel: +1-864-656-6271
Fax: +1-864-656-6281
E-mail: [email protected]

Gary Melton
Director

The need for connection between families and their communities

Research divisions
– Family policy
– Neighbourhood development and family support
– School-based family services
– Justice studies and the family
– Families and gobal change
– Families of Africa and the African diaspora
– Integrated family studies

Current projects
– Child protection policy research
– Treatment of abused and neglected children
– Novel concepts in the Convention on the Rights of the Child

– 60 principal faculty and professional staff
– 10 support staff
– 100 affiliated faculty and policy fellows

Disciplines
– African-American studies
– Business
– Dental hygiene
– Economics
– Education
– English
– Journalism
– Law
– Mass communication
– Nursing
– Paediatrics
– Planning
– Political science
– Psychology
– Public administration
– Social work
– Sociology