Donation to CCPP

Donating to the Clinical Child Psychology Program (CCPP)

Please consider donating to enhance the Program’s activities and advance the training and education of our graduate students.

We’ve identified five priority needs:

Graduate Student Research

The Program helps students meet the ever-increasing costs of conducting empirical research. Money donated through KU Endowment can be used to recruit and reimburse research participants, greatly assisting the development of research. State funds or clinic income cannot be used for this purpose.

The funds are used to supplement Program support for students’ major projects (thesis, task, and dissertation) as well as extra projects. For annual commitments of research support in excess of $500, named awards can be arranged in specific topic areas. http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/gradresch

Graduate Student Travel Support

Students often need financial assistance to travel. The Graduate School only partially funds one convention/conference trip during a graduate student’s tenure. We would like to provide additional support for our students to attend meetings for their professional development and to present their projects at conventions and conferences. CCPP students could also benefit from travel funds for data-gathering, often necessary for studying low incidence clinical samples and other special populations. http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/gradstdtravel

Speakers/Colloquium

The Program currently does not have a speaker series. With financial support, we could invite speakers to share with CCPP students their expertise on topics in developmental psychopathology, assessment, therapeutic interventions, and prevention programs. For now, we prefer to use available funds to sponsor a biennial ethics workshop and the Kansas Conference in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology (a national conference co-sponsored with the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Division 53 of American Psychological Association). http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/speakers

Clinic Furniture Replacement

The current clinic furniture was acquired while we were in Joseph R. Pearson Hall in 1993, and most has not been replaced. We are unable to use state funds to buy the kind of furniture needed, but money donated to KU Endowment can be used for this purpose. http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/furniture

Unrestricted accounts

The Program can spend funds in this expendable account as needed, for such purposes as new student recruitment, speaker receptions and student activities. http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/progunrest

Endowed funds

Donors who wish to “endow” the Program can make larger donations for designated purposes. The principal cannot be expended from endowed funds; only the interest the fund accrues is spent for the donor’s designated purpose.

Donations are tax-deductible. All money donated goes to your stated purpose and does not mingle with or supplant state funds. Funds are administered jointly by the Program faculty and KU Endowment. http://www.kuendowment.org/depts/clinchildpsych/progendow

For further information about the funds or to establish new accounts, please contact:

Michael C. Roberts, Ph.D., ABPP
Director, Clinical Child Psychology Program
University of Kansas
1000 Sunnyside Avenue
Lawrence, KS 66045
785-864-3580
mroberts@ku.edu

For further information about assisting the Program through KU Endowment, please contact Kathleen Brady, 785-832-7357 or 800-444-4201.