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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: msepulveda@unimet.edu.ve
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