Center for Human Growth and Development
The Center for Human Growth and Development (CHGD) was established by the Regents of the University of Michigan in 1964, to further the understanding of the complex processes by which human beings grow and develop. With multidisciplinary collaborations among biomedical, behavioral, and social scientists, the long-range goal of research and training at the Center is to optimize children's physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional development. The Center’s research programs are in the areas of Children in Poverty, Development and Mental Health, Culture and Development, and Brain/Behavior Relationships in the Developing Child.

Center for Motor Behavior and Down Syndrome: Division of Kinesiology
To conduct and disseminate basic scientific research to better understand the complexity of individuals with down syndrome and to utilize this knowledge to drive clinical services.

Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health
The Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health, established in 1998, provides a forum for basic and applied public health research on relationships among ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic status and health. The Center seeks to develop new interdisciplinary frameworks for understanding these relationships while promoting effective collaborations among public health academicians, health providers, and local communities.

Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
The Center for the improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) is a national center for research on early reading, representing a consortium of educators from five universities (the University of Michigan and Michigan State University, with the University of Southern California, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Georgia); teacher educators; teachers; publishers of texts, tests, and technology; professional organizations; and schools and school districts across the United States. CIERA is supported under the Educational Research and Development Centers Program, PR/Award Number R305R70004, as administered by the Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education.

Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Center (URC)
The Center was established in 1995 through a Cooperative Agreement with the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through their Urban Research Centers Initiative. The overall goal of the URC is to promote and support interdisciplinary, collaborative, community-based participatory research that both improves the health and quality of life of families and communities on the east and southwest sides of Detroit, and contributes to the understanding of the relationship between social determinants, protective factors, intermediate outcomes, and long-term health outcomes specific to inner-city, urban environments.

Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning
The Ginsberg Center is home to multiple community learning programs, including Academic Service Learning, America Reads Tutoring Corps, Michigan Community Service Corps, Michigan Neighborhood AmeriCorps Program, Project Community, and Project SERVE. The Ginsberg Center also houses the OCSL Press which produces the annual Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning.

Mental Health Research Institute (MHRI)
Research at MHRI revolves around four central themes, basic mechanisms of signaling and neurotransmission, developmental neurobiology, basic mechanisms of stress and emotion and their relation to mood disorders, and cognition, neuro-imaging and psychosis.

Michigan Center for the Environment & Children’s Health (MCECH)
MCECH is a community-based participatory research initiative which is seeking to investigate the environmental, pathophysiological and clinical mechanisms of childhood asthma and to evaluate comprehensive community and household level interventions aimed at reducing asthma-related environmental threats to children, families and neighborhoods.

Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center
The mission of the Michigan Child Welfare Law Resource Center is to improve the legal system's handling of child-related cases through professional development.

National Poverty Center
The National Poverty Center is charged with exploring the long-term effects of policy changes, looking particularly at the well-being of families living in or moving out of poverty. The center will involve individuals from across the United States in its research, mentoring, and outreach activities.

NIMH Center for Research on Poverty, Risk and Mental Health
The theme of poverty and mental health is pursued in these core areas: epidemiological studies of the relationships between social class and mental illness, developmental studies of the effects of high-risk environments on the mental health of infants and children, the design and pilot testing of preventive interventions with low-income, high-risk populations, the evaluation and delivery of appropriate mental health services to the impoverished, and assessment of the role of economic factors in the functioning and recovery of persons with serious mental illness.

Prevention Research Center of Michigan
Consistent with its theme, Closing Gaps and Improving Health in Partnership with Families and Communities, the Center conducts community-based participatory prevention research aimed at improving the health status and reducing morbidity and mortality among populations experiencing a disproportionate share of poor health outcomes as compared with Michigan and U.S. populations as a whole. The interventions forming the basis for the research emphasize the role of families and communities in health promotion and disease prevention, and reflect the social ecological health model.

The School of Education (SOE) Research Centers
The School of Education web site maintains their own list of research centers.

The University of Michigan Autism and Communication Disorder Center (UMACC)
UMACC is committed to the integration of research, training, and clinical service. As a Center in an academic setting, they are involved in developing and conducting research designed to enhance our knowledge and understanding of adults and children with autism and train future researchers and clinicians in the scientific study, diagnosis and treatment of children with autism. As a Center dedicated to providing clinical services, they offer comprehensive diagnostic evaluations, intervention, and consultation to schools, therapists, and other professionals, as well as training and resources to families and professionals working with children with autism.

University of Michigan Work/Life Resource Center
The Work/Life Resource Center (WLRC) helps University of Michigan families achieve that balance through connections with campus and community resources that help you integrate your personal life and your work life. Through these programs, our goal is to help recruit and retain the best faculty and staff members at the University. *Serves as good reference for anyone looking for quality care and services in the Ann Arbor area.

Youth Violence Prevention Center
The mission of the Flint's Youth Violence Prevention Center is to develop, implement, and monitor comprehensive strategies that help prevent youth violence and promote healthy development through collaboration among community, university and health department partners in ways that focus on interdisciplinary, ecologically and culturally relevant, and community-based approaches. The Center has 3 distinct cores, Intervention, Training and Evaluation, guided by the community-based Steering Committee.