Project Harmony Child Protection Center is a community-based organization providing child-friendly, centralized and integrated child abuse assessment and investigation for children throughout eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. Project Harmony works with state human services and local law enforcement agencies to protect the child and prosecute the offender. This past year, 8,064 children sought services at Project Harmony.
Since the opening of Project Harmony in 1996 more than 64,000 children have received vital services in prevention and child abuse assessment, investigation and treatment referral. Prosecution rates have increased and abused children and their families are able to get professional help in the process of healing.
The Project Harmony Training Institute was established in 2007 and since that time more than 30,000 students, citizens and professionals have been taught the best methods to assess and respond to children and their families who have been impacted by abuse and neglect.
Project Harmony and its partner agencies work together to serve families throughout the communities of eastern Nebraska and southwest Iowa. This collaborative effort provides effective, immediate and sensitive support to child victims and their non-offending family members, improved communication and case resolution.
Core Dynamics is developing new methods for freezing, thawing and freeze-drying cells. The company's unique freezing and thawing technology allows precise control, and in a repeatable process, with high recovery, survival and function of cells after thawing. Cells, preserved with the Company's technologies and specially developed protocols can be stored for long time periods at room temperature and subsequently rehydrated with resultant high rates of cell viability and functionality. The company's preservation technologies are already providing means for cell storage of cell types that are being studied for therapeutic purposes. This breakthrough is based in part on the innovative freezing technology called Multi Thermal Gradient (MTG™) freezing developed by the company. This freezing method, also known as directional freezing, achieves low temperature freezing without the use of glycerol or DMSO, the additives commonly used today to freeze cells. Core Dynamics has expanded the scope of its basic directional freezing technology to include a number of different freezing methods adapted to different materials. The directional freezing, coupled with the Company's freeze-drying technology, are making it possible to freeze-dry a variety of cell types. Core Dynamics provides companies and institutions the opportunity to collaborateon the development of cell preservation methods and protocols to suit specific cell types.
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