Child Development Centre Kerala (CDC)
Mission
- Reduction of childhood disability through novel scientific initiatives.
Vision
- Creating a generation of prospective and responsive parenthood through healthy children and adolescents.
- To organize and conduct undergraduate, postgraduate doctoral and post-doctoral training for medical and non-medical personnel in specialities of human development.
- To organize and conduct diplomas, graduate, postgraduate and doctoral courses in human development.
- To organize paramedical courses in clinical child development
- To provide modern and advanced diagnostic laboratory referral facilities for mothers for the prevention of low birth weight babies
- To institute professorship, resident-ship, fellowship and other research positions for the above purposes
- To conduct lectures, seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, etc…
- To organize a ‘perinatal epidemiology unit’ in modern lines, a childhood disability registry and newborn follow-up programmes.
- To institute and maintain libraries, to publish research papers, treaties, books and periodicals, newsletters and other literature.
- To work in collaboration with institutions for children needing special care.
- To co-operate with other societies and professional bodies in pursuit of all or any of the above objectives.
- To design preventive and early intervention services for women, child and adolescent care and development, and pre-marital counselling service system, throughout the country through the ICDS network in collaboration with health, social welfare, education and woman and child development departments of state governments and the Government of India.
Child Development Centre (CDC), Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram was started on the 1st of August 1987, as a project and later elevated to an autonomous centre by the Government of Kerala. During the year 1995, CDC was registered as a society (under Travancore-Cochin-Literary, Scientific and Charitable Societies Registration Act-XII of 1955, Reg. No.363/95) by the Government of Kerala to bring up the centre as an autonomous centre of excellence in Early Child Care & Education, Adolescent Care & Education, Pre-marital Counselling, Women’s Welfare and other related fields. The control, administration and management of the affairs of the centre is vested with the Governing Body under the Chairmanship of the Chief Minister of Kerala and Vice-Chairmanship under the Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Kerala. To execute the decisions of the Governing Body, an Executive Committee also functions under the Chairmanship of the Secretary to Government, Health and Family Welfare Department, with the Director, of the Child Development Centre as Member Secretary.
The Parents Corner on the CDC Kerala website provides resources and guidance for parents on child development and health. It offers information on early stimulation, managing high-risk conditions, lifestyle diseases, reproductive health, scholastic challenges, and school readiness. The section is organised by the child's age, such as the 1st, 3rd, and 4th months, to help parents support their child's growth and well-being at each stage.
Child Development Centre
Medical College Campus
Thiruvananthapuram
Kerala, India – 695 011
Phone: 0471 2553540, 2447061
Email: cdckerala@rediffmail.com, cdc.tvpm@kerala.gov.in
