GCCF
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Christensen, C. M., Baumann, H., Ruggles, R., & Sadtler, T. M. (2006 December). Disruptive Innovation for Social Change. Harvard Business Review, 94-101.

Welcome To The

UCLA Global Center For
Children and Families

GCCF was created in 2005 to promote the well-being of children and families in the U.S. and worldwide.


The organization grew out of UCLA’s Center For Community Health (CCH). CCH was founded in 1994. Since then it has earned an international reputation for behavioral science research focusing on prevention and treatment of family health issues including the impact of AIDS on families, the crisis among AIDS orphans, chronic illness, trauma, and homelessness among youth in the US, India, Africa, Thailand, Australia and China.

CCH co-directors Dr. Mary Jane Rotheram-Borus and Dr. Diane Flannery founded GCCF to bridge the gap between research and the children and families who need its findings most, a gap exemplified by this fact: The National Institutes of Health spends more than $1.3 billion annually on behavioral research to improve children’s lives, but these programs reach less
than one percent of those they’re intended to help. American children are experiencing skyrocketing rates of depression, obesity, anxiety, drug abuse, and academic failure. Internationally 21 million children are AIDS orphans, 100 million are homeless, and 40 million die of starvation each year.

To help children and families address these issues, the GCCF team is developing a model that expands the traditional definition of research, including the input of product designers, social service providers, anthropologists, business leaders, philosophers, and everyday experts with the end goal of putting useful information, tools and change programs into children’s and families’ hands.

GCCF is a dynamic, evolving organization, so check back often for late-breaking developments.
© 2006 UCLA Semel Institute Global Center for Children and Families