{"id":1086,"date":"2024-10-01T16:30:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T20:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.psych.rochester.edu\/MHFC\/?page_id=1086"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:10:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T20:10:36","slug":"about-transform","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.psych.rochester.edu\/MHFC\/transform\/about-transform\/","title":{"rendered":"About TRANSFORM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-23916\" src=\"https:\/\/www.psych.rochester.edu\/MHFC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/childsystemneed-300x266.jpeg\" alt=\"A circle with land and water depicted using colors and words.\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.psych.rochester.edu\/MHFC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/childsystemneed-300x266.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.psych.rochester.edu\/MHFC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/childsystemneed.jpeg 586w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The TRANSFORM Research Center is a nationally recognized Center of Excellence, funded by the National Institutes of Health.\u00a0 Our mission is to change the paradigm of child maltreatment prevention from reactive to proactive through research and dissemination. 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