COUNTING CHILDREN:  2009 INVITED LECTURE SERIES When we count the number of people harmed by intimate partner violence, we count women.  We count the tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of women whose lives have been touched by harm from a loved one.  But our counting cannot stop there, for in 80% of homes where a woman suffers intimate partner violence, there are children who witness that violence.  Children who see the harm and who very directly feel its effects. When we talk about violence against women, children also count. Research estimates that millions of U.S. children are impacted each year by the experience of witnessing intimate partner violence.  And it extends beyond children, as we also know that the single most common cause of death among pregnant women in the U.S. is homicide. Since its inception, the Center's mission has included child witnesses to intimate partner violence, for here, children do count. To highlight the experience of children and pregnant women, the Center used its 2009 Invited Lecture Series to focus on maternal and child health and the impact of violence.  The Center's 2009 Invited Lecture Series offered a series of four lectures.  The first was co-hosted with the College of Public Health and the Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology.  The final three were co-hosted with the Department of Psychology.  The lectures included: Sandra L. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Dean for Research and Professor, Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Homicide of Pregnant and Postpartum Women: Empirical Findings and Implications for Clinical Practice and Future Research  Sandra A. Graham-Bermann, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Michigan Identifying Risk Factors and Evaluating Intervention for Children Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence Gayla Margolin, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California Violence Exposure: Impact on Youth and Families Ernest Jouriles, Ph.D., Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology, Southern Methodist University Children in Partner Violent Homes: Interventions and Virtual Reality As a further effort to advance research on the experiences of child witnesses to intimate partner violence, the Center decided to establish an endowed chair in this area. A generous gift from Joan Day and the Cralle Foundation, pledged July 31, 2006, established the Cralle-Day Children-at-Risk Endowed Chair of Study which the Center will fill in the near term.