January
8 am-2 pm, University Club, Hall of Fame Room
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10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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12-1:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Rm
A longitudinal community study (the Great Smoky Mountains Study) has been following a representative sample of American Indian and Anglo children since 1993. In 1996 a casino opened on the Indian reservation, and since then every tribal member has received a bi-annual income supplement amounting to around $6000. Analyses after four years of the supplement showed a marked reduction in behavioral symptoms in Indian youth whose families were moved out of poverty by the supplement.
In the analyses to be presented, the impact of exposure to a family income supplement by age 21 on drug use and abuse in early adulthood will be examined. Findings demonstrate a dose-response effect of length of exposure to the income supplement while the youth remained in the family home, but a different effect once the youth took over as recipients of their own income supplement after they left school. Implications will be discussed for using income supplementation as a preventive strategy.
Jane Costello is a professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center.
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Wed Jan 16
8:30 am, Rubenstein Hall, Room 153
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Thurs Jan 17
8 am-4 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 242
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Fri Jan 18
8 am-4 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 242
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Mon Jan 21
10 am, Rubenstein Hall, 287
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Tues Jan 29
1:30-3 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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February
10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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12-1:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Peer attributes other than smoking have received little attention in the research on adolescent smoking, even though the developmental literature suggests the importance of multiple dimensions of adolescent friendships and peer relations. Social network analysis is used to measure the structure of peer relations (i.e., indicators of having friends, friendship quality, and status among peers) and peer smoking (i.e., friend and school smoking). The contribution of these peer attributes, and interactions between them, to trajectories of smoking from age 11 to 17 is examined using three-level hierarchical growth models. Data are from a longitudinal sample of 6,579 students in three school districts assessed in school every six months from spring 2002 to spring 2004. Findings suggest a greater complexity in the peer context of smoking than previously recognized.
Susan Ennett is an associate professor and doctoral program director, Health Behavior and Health Education, UNC-Chapel Hill School of Public Health. Her research focuses on understanding and preventing health risk behaviors among adolescents in the general population as well as among high-risk youth. Her current research includes a longitudinal study of the social context of adolescent alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use and a national study of substance use prevention practices in middle schools. In other recent research, she has studied substance use and risky sexual behavior among runaway and homeless youth and collaborated on the development and evaluation of a family intervention to prevent youth tobacco and alcohol use.
Lunch will be served. Please RSVP by February 1. _______________________________________________________________
10 am, Rubenstein Hall, 287
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12-1:30 pm, Erwin Square Mill Building, Bay C conference room
The Durham Family Initiative (DFI) research evaluation team has been examining the impact of DFI, a comprehensive, community-based prevention program addressing child maltreatment in Durham County. Though analyses are ongoing, the current presentation will present preliminary statistical findings regarding the overall impact of DFI on the rates of maltreatment. Emphasis will be on the technical aspects of the evaluation and the statistical approaches being used to answer the primary research questions (in particular, interrupted time series models). Input and discussion about the methodology is invited.
The DFI Research Evaluation Team is part of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. Please bring a brown bag lunch.
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12-1:30 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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10:30-Noon, Erwin Square Mill Building, Bay A events room
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March
10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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3-4::30 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 200
The What Works Clearinghouse was established in 2002 by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to provide educators, policymakers, researchers and the public with a central and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education.
The WWC collects, reviews and reports on studies of education programs, products, practices and policies in selected topic areas, using a set of standards based on scientifically valid criteria. The aim is to promote informed education decision making through a set of easily accessible databases and user-friendly reports that provide education consumers with high-quality reviews of the effectiveness of replicable educational interventions that intend to improve student outcomes. The WWC is administered by the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences through a contract to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., a nationally recognized leader in education research and in rigorous reviews of scientific evidence.
During this session, Constantine and Devaney will describe the history of the WWC project and open a discussion to determine whether education researchers at Duke would be interested in being part of this effort.
Featuring: Jill Constantine, senior researcher and associate director, and Barbara Devaney, senior vice president and managing director, Human Services Research, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
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10 am, Rubenstein Hall, Room 287
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12-1:30 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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5:30-6:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Room 04
Sesame Street has been entertaining and educating children for nearly four decades. As the single largest informal educator of young children, local Sesame Street programs are now produced in countries as diverse as South Africa, Bangladesh and India. Blending Muppet characters, reality-based live action segments, and animation, Sesame Street presents an educational viewing experience filled with music, color, and humor. Gary E. Knell, president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, will share insight into how Sesame Workshop continues to use this model to develop a wide range of educational and engaging media to meet the needs of children in the U.S. and around the world.
As president and CEO of Sesame Workshop, Knell leads the nonprofit educational organization in its mission to create innovative, engaging content that maximizes the educational power of all media to help children reach their highest potential. He has been instrumental in focusing the organization on Sesame Street's global mission, including groundbreaking co-productions in South Africa, India, Northern Ireland, and Egypt. He also helped found PBS Kids Sprout, a 24-hour domestic cable channel in the U.S.
This event is co-hosted by the Hart Leadership Program. ________________________________________________________________
12-1:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Many teens experiment with drugs and alcohol and parents, teachers and policy-makers want to know the consequences of adolescent substance use. Studies that have followed teens into adulthood have shown that exposure to illicit drugs and alcohol, especially prior to age 15, statistically predicts a number of adult physical and mental health problems. However, nagging doubts remain regarding whether substance use affects teens' later lives causally.
New findings from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study, a 30-year prospective study, are presented to address whether there is evidence that early substance exposure is a causal factor in teens' future lives (“are drugs bad for kids?”) or, alternatively, whether teens following an at-risk conduct-problem trajectory are simply more likely to be exposed to alcohol and illicit substances during adolescence and to experience poor adult outcomes (“do bad kids do drugs?”).
Candice Odgers is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology and Social Behavior at the University of California, Irvine. Odgers received her PhD in Psychology from the University of Virginia in 2005 and completed her postdoctoral training at the Social, Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre in United Kingdom. In 2007, Candice was awarded the Saleem Shah Award for Early Career Excellence by the American Psychology-Law Society and American Academy of Forensic Psychology. Candice is currently a co-investigator on a Canadian Institutes of Health Research Study focused on the transition to adulthood among high-risk adolescents. Her current research focuses on the physical-health consequences of childhood conduct disorder and early substance use initiation through the application advanced longitudinal methods.
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April
Wed Apr 2
10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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3:30-5 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Felton Earls will discuss his signature work, The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a 10-year, $51-million epidemiological study examining the causes and consequences of children's exposure to community and family violence. His research reveals a startling finding: The most important determinant with respect to crime rates is not race, IQ, family, or individual temperament, but the willingness of neighbors to act, when needed, for one another's benefit, particularly for the benefit of one another's children. The policy implications of his work are far-reaching. In the words of a former director for the National Institute of Justice, this finding is "far and away the most important research insight in the last decade." Join us to learn more about the study's context, research agenda, major findings, new research directions and policy relevance. Click here to access the National Institute of Justice report.
Earls is professor of Social Medicine and Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is principal investigator of two large-scale research programs. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is a longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to urban violence. His newer project, the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health is a randomized community-level trial aimed at mitigating the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the growth, development and education of young adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Conducted in Tanzania, the work builds on strategies and results of the Chicago study to strengthen a community's capacity to protect children in the context of a major social disruption.
Reception immediately following lecture. Seating is limited.
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12-1:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Felton Earls is professor of Social Medicine and Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is principal investigator of two large-scale research programs. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is a longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to urban violence. His newer project, the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health is a randomized community-level trial aimed at mitigating the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the growth, development and education of young adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Conducted in Tanzania, the work builds on strategies and results of the Chicago study to strengthen a community's capacity to protect children in the context of a major social disruption.
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10 am, Rubenstein Hall, Room 287
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3-4:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
In response to the rapid increase in non-marital childbearing, Congress has passed new legislation providing $750,000 over the next five years for programs designed to strengthen marriage and encourage unmarried fathers to become more involved in the lives of their children. Dr. McLanahan will discuss whether increasing marriage (and possibly cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers' earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a new birth cohort study -- the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study -- which follows unmarried parents for the first five years after their child's birth. Results provide some support for the idea that increasing marriage will lead to increases in fathers' earnings. Results also highlight several potential weaknesses in the new marriage programs.
Featuring Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. McLanahan directs the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and is editor-in-chief of the Future of Children. Her research interests include family demography, inequality, and social policy. She has written five books, including Fathers Under Fire (1998), Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994), and Single Mothers and Their Children (1986), and over 100 scholarly articles.
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3:30-5 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that non-marital childbearing and marital dissolution were undermining the progress of African Americans. Sara McLanahan argues that what Moynihan identified as a race-specific problem in the 1960s has now become a class-based phenomenon as well. Using data from a new birth cohort study, she shows that unmarried parents come from much more disadvantaged populations than married parents. She further argues that non-marital childbearing reproduces class and racial disparities through its association with partnership instability and multi-partnered fertility. These processes increase maternal stress and mental health problems, reduce the quality of mothers' parenting, reduce paternal investments, and ultimately lead to poor outcomes in children. Finally, by spreading fathers' contributions across multiple households, partnership instability and multi-partnered fertility undermine the importance of individual fathers' contributions of time and money which is likely to affect the future marriage expectations of both sons and daughters.
Featuring Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. McLanahan directs the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and is editor-in-chief of the Future of Children. Her research interests include family demography, inequality, and social policy. She has written five books, including Fathers Under Fire (1998), Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994), and Single Mothers and Their Children (1986), and over 100 scholarly articles.
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2-4 pm, Durham Public Schools Staff Training Center
2107 Hillandale Road, Durham
By invitation only.
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10:30-Noon, Sanford Institute, Room 05
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12-1:30 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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May
10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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1-2:30 pm, Erwin Square Mill Building, Bay C conference room
Ann Brewster is a research associate in the Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center at Duke University.
Patrick Malone is an associate professor of Quantitative Psychology at the University of South Carolina.
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9:30-11:30 am, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
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June
12-1:30 pm , Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
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8:00 am-Noon, Legislative Building Auditorium, Raleigh
The 2008 Family Impact Seminar is for legislators, legislative staff, agency officials, school board chairs and district superintendents. It will focus on strategies for decreasing the number of school dropouts across the state and increasing the graduation rate.
National experts will draw on research, policy and practice when they address legislators, school board chairs and district superintendents about this critical challenge.
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July
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