Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere
Katie Rosanbalm offers commentary in The New York Times.
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The Center for Child and Family Policy is dedicated to improving the well-being of children and families through research, education, and engagement. We study factors that influence child outcomes, develop and test promising interventions, and advance evidence-based practices and policies that can inform change and unlock opportunities for all children and their families.
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Student Reflection on Benforado Talk “How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All”
April 12, 2024
CCFP News
[Benforado] inspired me to continue advocating for the cause of putting children first. Minjee Kim PPS ’25 Dr. Adam Benforado, professor of law at Drexel University, discussed the importance of prioritizing child wellbeing in public policy as part of the Robert R. Wilson Distinguished Lecture series on March 7, 2024. Benforado was welcomed by the…
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April 8, 2024
KNX News
That is a huge surge in student absenteeism from before the COVID pandemic disruptions to schooling. We talked with Dr. Katie Rosanbalm at Duke University’s Center for Child and Family Policy and asked her about why the root of the student absenteeism problem traces back to COVID.
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April 4, 2024
Pratt School of Engineering
The InventHERs Institute team is bringing STEM education and community engagement to local young girls and their caregivers with a focus on diversity and inclusion.
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April 3, 2024
Leading Voices in Food
This podcast episode features researchers from Baby’s First Years, a multi-year effort to test the connections between poverty reduction and brain development among very young children.
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Net Worth Poverty and Children’s Development
This study examines how net worth poverty – or household’s whose wealth levels fall below one-quarter of the federal poverty line – is associated with children’s cognitive and behavioral development. Most children who are net worth poor are not income poor, meaning that these economically vulnerable group of children have been conventionally overlooked in conversations about poverty.
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Developing and Evaluating Progressive Prosecution in Durham, NC
The purpose of this project is to support the development and evaluation of new evidence-based plea bargaining policies and practices in the Durham District Attorney’s Office.
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Child and Adolescent Predictors of Young Adults’ and Their Parents’ Primals in Nine Countries
This study provides an unprecedented opportunity to understand whether and how primals in early adulthood are predicted by childhood and adolescent experiences and how parents’ primals are related to their young adult children’s primals in the most diverse long-term longitudinal study ever conducted.
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ITTI Care
The Infant-Toddler Trauma-Informed Care (ITTI Care) Project leverages the existing early childhood education workforce support system to expand and strengthen trauma-informed knowledge and practice within the communities they serve.
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The Center offers a variety of ways for Duke students at every level to learn about child and family policy and become involved in original research.