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Center for Childhood and Family Research,
Venezuela

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Centro de Investigaciones para la Infancia y la Familia (CENDIF)
Center for Childhood and Family Research

Universidad Metropolitana
Apartado 76.819
Caracas 1070-A
Venezuela

Tel: +58 2 241 6869
+58 2 241 4833
Fax: +58 2 241 6869
E-mail: [email protected]
Web site: http://www.unimet.edu.ve/investigacion/cendif/

Marie Angelica Sepulveda
Director

 Mission:
– Research, training, design, production and education related to intervention
models in the area of human development within the family and community
and socially disadvantaged groups
– Development and dissemination of practical alternatives to expand and
improve programmes and services in education, health and community development
for preschool children in the poorest sectors of society
– Preschool and global attention programmes for disadvantaged children and
families
– Early mother-baby interaction
– Prevention of drug abuse in poor communities
– Mothers and babies in prison – social microenterprises project		 – Psychologists
– Educators
– Sociologists
– Documentarian
administrator

Research agreement with the Centre for Family Research, University of
Cambridge, UK

Contact with
– several national institutions
– British Psychological Society
– Consultative Group on Early Childhood and Development, NY, USA
– International Development Research Centre (IDRC), France
– Fundación Ayda contra la Drogadicción (Spain)

Last updated: 12 December 1999