Jennie
Noll
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies,
Director, Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
Expertise:
- Health & Medicine
- Social Sciences
Focus Areas:
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Human Development
- Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
- Research to Policy
- Sexual Abuse
- Family Dynamics
- Population Research
In The Media:
About
- Noll is interested in the midlife reversibility of neurocognitive deficits in stress exposed populations, propensity for abused and neglected teens to engage in high-risk internet and social media behaviors, and policies and programs for the prevention of child maltreatment
- Founder and Director of the Center for Healthy Children, the first national center for child maltreatment research
Jennie Noll is a professor of human development and family studies, and Director of the Child Maltreatment Solutions Network. Noll’s research focuses on pathways to teen pregnancy and high-risk sexual behaviors for abused and neglected youth, as well as the long-term adverse health outcomes for victims of child sexual abuse. She is the founder and director of the Center for Healthy Children, the first national center for child maltreatment research.
In The Media
Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse, Your Parenting Mojo [Audio podcast]
from Your Parenting Mojo August 6, 2019
Penn State establishing research effort to improve health of abused children
from ESPN April 18, 2017
Gov. Wolf Signs Bill Providing Tuition-Free College To Pennsylvania Foster Youth
from WPSU August 12, 2019
“The pathway for foster youth is quite difficult. Many of them drop out of high school, many of them go on to have some homelessness or some other sorts of problems like substance use, teen pregnancy, HIV." -Jennie Noll
Protecting Our Children: Penn State's child center to study abuse
from The Daily Item June 27, 2017
In Penn State News
New project to evaluate the effects of adoption on older children
September 19, 2019