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Penn State to open child abuse research center in September

Rich Barnes-USA TODAY Sports

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - Officials say a research center at Penn State University aiming to prevent child abuse and improve treatment should open in a few months.

A university spokeswoman told The Daily Item that the school is targeting September for the opening of the Center for Healthy Children.

The center, which was announced in April, will be supported by nearly $8 million from the National Institutes for Health and more than $3 million from the school.

The program will supplement the university's Child Maltreatment Solutions Network, established in response to the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal. The network will continue its work in education and outreach, while the new money will be purely for research.

Penn State made battling child abuse an institutional priority after Sandusky's arrest and conviction on charges he abused 10 boys, some on campus.

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