The Center for Families and Health forms partnerships with health care institutions in New York City in order to facilitate attention to the needs of families, as well as to offer training and consultation to health care professionals.

Among the Center’s affiliations have been those with North General Hospital, serving low income families with diabetes, asthma, chronic pain, cancer and HIV/AIDS; The Family Center, working with families coping with the loss of a parent to cancer or HIV/AIDS; Maimonides Hospital, dealing with couples in which one spouse has cardiac illness; and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, offering services to families with head and neck cancer and families with adolescents who are post-cancer treatment.

Current partnerships include:

• The Healthy Families Project in partnership with the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center, Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital Center. This project offers the Multiple Family Discussion Group for families with one or more members with either Type 1 or Type 2 Diabetes. Center faculty offers consultation with Naomi Berrie physicians, nurses and social workers and family therapy to patients and families who are struggling to live well with diabetes.
  
• Family Focused Grief Therapy Research project. This research, a controlled clinical trial examining the efficacy of Family Therapy for families with a member who is dying of cancer, is sponsored by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center with a grant from the National Cancer Institute.