Research Family Partners

Research Family Partners is a program that helps families connect with the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center research studies that best suits their interests and needs.

Join Research Family Partners

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You Can Benefit by Joining

Be among the first to learn about opportunities.

Membership allows the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center to contact you by email or telephone to see if you might have interest in an upcoming study. Otherwise, the law requires you contact us each time.

Save time. Stay Connected.

Partnership saves families the legwork of keeping track of new studies to participate in and provides an advantage to getting a spot in studies that provide various types of compensation.

Access to services and compensation.

Some of the studies offer services for free that are beneficial to people with or without disabilities. Others even offer cash. Partnership helps connect you with these studies.

Helping the science community helps you and your family.

Without the help of family partners, the community would not have the knowledge and treatments that it has today. Without the continued partnership, new knowledge and treatments may not be possible at all.

  • Your Protected Rights and Privacy

    The rights and privacy of our research study participants are very important to us, please review our Research Study Participants Rights and Privacy Protection Policy.

    Our policies abide by national and international law.

    Special Thanks to Our Partners

    For 40 years, researchers at the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center have been working with individuals with and without disabilities and their families to expand our understanding of human development.

    We know how fortunate we are to have families share their experiences, time, and knowledge with us. Thank you for making so much of what we do possible.

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    Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Links

    • Find Studies and Research Projects to Participate In
      By participating in research, sometimes free services are provided that will directly benefit you or a family member. The studies listed in this section offer services and/or compensation in return for your participation.

    Other Vanderbilt Kennedy Center Websites