MISSION
Launched in January 2018, the UCLA Pritzker Center was made possible by a generous gift from the Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation. The UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families unites a multi-disciplinary network across campus and throughout LA County to identify prevention strategies that safely reduce the need for foster care, while supporting equitable reform across child and family serving systems.
VISION
Collaboration is at the heart of the UCLA Pritzker Center. Our work comes to life through research, education, and partnership. As a bridge from UCLA and into neighborhoods across the region, we team with researchers and community leaders to boldly challenge and resolve the systemic issues that result in family separation and foster care, which have made Los Angeles County’s child welfare system the largest in the nation.
OUR STORY
Launched in January 2018, the UCLA Pritzker Center was made possible by a generous gift from the Anthony Pritzker Family Foundation.
As a leading supporter of UCLA, Tony Pritzker has made significant investments toward bettering the lives of foster youth and their families. With this vision in mind, the UCLA Pritzker Center has become a dynamic interdisciplinary venture that brings together a wide variety of UCLA resources and expertise to address the complex needs of foster youth and to create better prevention systems for families who are at risk of their children entering the foster care system. The Pritzker gift also establishes the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair in Education for Strengthening Children & Families in the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, to provide faculty leadership for the Center.
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