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usnews.com “On Parenting” blog by Nancy Shute, Sept. 2, 2008
7 Ways to Learn More without More Study
Wilkie “Bill” Wilson, a Center Faculty Affiliate, received funding for the DukeLEARN project through Duke’s Transdisciplinary Prevention Research Center, housed at the Center. View article.
The News & Observer, Aug. 11, 2008
Nurse program helps Durham mothers get started
Durham Connects provides free nurse visits to any Durham resident who is taking home a newborn. See article.
The Herald-Sun, Aug. 9, 2008
Program offers link to baby resources
Through Durham Connects, nurses evaluate the newborn’s health, answer the mother's questions and connect the family to resources that can help address specific problems. See article.
WTVD (ABC, channel 11), Aug. 9, 2008
Program helps mothers with newborns
Durham Conects provides new mommies with resources they need for their newborn babies. View story.
The Herald-Sun, Aug. 8, 2008
Parents get a hand with health
Durham Connects “connects” parents with resources that will help them raise happier, healthier babies. See article.
Duke Primary Care Newsletter, August 2008
New program provides free in-home nurse visits to all parents of newborns in Durham County. Durham Connects bridges the gap between new parent needs and community resources. Read article.
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanic Americans newsletter, July 21, 2008
From the Executive Director
Adam Chavarria highlights the work of America’s Promise Alliance, which is one of the White House Initiative’s newest partners. America’s Promise Alliance selected the Center for Child and Family Policy to evaluate Phase I of its five-year nationwide effort to deliver developmental resources to 15 million young people. Read more.
Carolina Parent, August 2008
Hand Over the Role of CEO
Cathy Downs interviewed Lisa Berlin for this article that examines how parents can stop micromanaging and start empowering their children. See article.
The State of Things on WUNC, June 25, 2008
Joel Rosch spoke with host Frank Stasio regarding violent crime in North Carolina. Other guests: N.C. State sociologist Patricia McCall and Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert Lang. Violent Crime in N.C.
Durham Herald-Sun, May 18, 2008
Effort to end child abuse may be working
Communitywide effort to reduce child abuse in Durham County includes Durham Family Initiative and Healthy Families Durham. See article.
Durham Herald-Sun, May 2, 2008
Durham drug report may serve as template for others
Durham County substance abuse report produced by the Center to be template for surveys in other North Carolina communities. See article in May 2, 2008, edition of The Herald-Sun.
Family Circle, April 2008
Caught in the Middle: Help Your Kids Transition from Elementary to High School
A study by Duke TPRC investigators Philip Cook, Jacob Vigdor and Clara Muschkin and UC Berkeley’s Robert MacCoun is referenced in the April 2008 edition of Family Circle. See article.
News 14, March 20, 2008
Sesame leader presents Muppet Diplomacy Program
News 14 covered Sesame Workshop President and CEO Gary Knell's talk, Muppet Diplomacy: How Sesame Street is changing our world. View story.
Gist from the Mill, Spring 2008, vol. 2, issue 1
DIISP Lab Strives to Help Reduce Child Abuse in Durham
Dawn Stuart
Research taking plac e at the Duke Interdisciplinary Initiative
in Social Psychology (DIISP) lab is contributing to a community effort
to reduce child abuse in Durham.
Lisa Berlin, research scientist with Duke’s Center for Child and
Family Policy (CCFP), is conducting the study to determine how
community services for at-risk families are affecting parent-child
attachment. Berlin, who has been at Duke since 2000, specializes
in early child development and early intervention, particularly the
prediction and prevention of child abuse and neglect. Full Text see page six.
WRAL, February 26, 2008
Older Students in Middle School Concern School Leaders
Kelcey Carlson
Center for Child and Family Policy Research Scientist Clara Muschkin was interviewed for this story.
Tougher state testing standards are a reason more students are being retained in middle school, Johnston County Schools' superintendent says.
In part, that has resulted in about 50 students who are 16 years old or older in the county's 10 middle schools.
And it's a concern for both parents and school leaders who say more needs to be done to help these students be promoted to high school. Full Text. Click here for video.
Duke Today, February 21, 2008
A Healthy Start for All
Jackie Ogburn
The Durham Family Initiative (DFI) has birthed a new program that will help Durham County reach out to support its youngest new residents.
Durham Connects, a collaborative research effort to discover ways to reduce community rates of child maltreatment, will provide in-home visits of newborns by licensed public health nurses. At the same time, the nurses will “connect” the families with referrals for additional support services and information as needed. Full text.
News and Observer, February 15, 2008
Meet the Mentors
Kinea White Epps, staff writer
Courtney McGee has her eyes set on becoming a chemist. Her classmate Miguel Lizama can picture himself patrolling the streets as a police officer.
Helping Courtney and Miguel, students at Wake Forest-Rolesville Middle School, figure out the steps to achieving those goals is the aim of a new after-school program at Wake Forest-Rolesville High School. Full Text.
March 1, 2007
A Critique of Pure Reason
By DAVID BROOKS
OP-ED COLUMNIST NYTimes
All the presidential candidates this year will talk about education. The conventional ones will talk about improving the schools. The creative ones will talk about improving the lives of students.
The conventional ones, though they don't know it, are prisoners of the dead husk of behaviorism. They will speak of education as if children were blank slates waiting to have ideas inputted into their brains with some efficient delivery mechanism.
Full Text.
News and Observer, December 20, 2006
OPED:
Wiser ways to approach teen criminals
BY ANN BREWSTER
There's been much debate about the N.C. Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission's recommendation to move 16- and 17-year-olds from the adult criminal justice system to the juvenile justice system. While the debate has been contentious, advocates on both sides appear to have common goals: to increase public safety and lower rates of repeat offenses by teens. [full text]
Durham Herald-Sun, July 6, 2006
McDougald Terrace 'reborn'
BY ADAM PLAYFORD
In the T.A. Grady Neighborhood Center, 40 children sit clustered around tables, doing arts and crafts. Their hands are splashed with paint, and they talk excitedly as they create... features Durham Family Initiative's Annie Jones.
Christian Science Monitor, January 26, 2006
A Push to Focus on Worst Cases in Child Abuse
After a 7-year-old's death, New York debates whether to adopt a 'dual track' approach, which has support in other states
By Maia Ridberg, Christian Science Monitor
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So far, employees of North Carolina's child-welfare services are applauding the program. "Social workers are now feeling like they can make a difference," says Adele Spitz Roth of the Durham Family Initiative. "...
Education Week, January 18, 2006
Scholars Cite Privacy Law as Obstacle: Protections for Students Impeding Researchers
By Debra Viadero
...“If the study will improve the lives of students and teachers, that research is allowed,” said Elizabeth J. Glennie, the director of the center, located on Duke's campus in Durham, N.C....
Nashville Parent Magazine, August 2005
Playground Politics
..."Kenneth A. Dodge, Ph.D., professor of public policy and psychology at Duke University and director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy, paints a verbal picture of a normal day during recess at grammar school: “A large group of boys are playing a game of kickball. Several leaders are establishing teams, and others are going along. A few boys are watching from the periphery. The girls are in smaller clusters of twos and threes. The girls are less likely to be running around. They are talking a lot more.”
Christian Science Monitor, September 15, 2004
Behind the Surge in Girl Crime
The headlines pull no punches: "Girls getting increasingly violent," "Violent crime by girls rising," "Girls not all sugar and spice." ...
Washington Post, May 17, 2004
Examining and Shielding Current Events
By: Valerie Strauss
Without a lot of discussion about the atrocities [children] see through the media, Kenneth Dodge said, children can develop a "very simple-minded sense of morality, where everything you do is okay as long as you get away with it."
St. Paul Pioneer Press, May 7, 2004
Baboons Give Peace a Chance
Kenneth Dodge, a clinical psychologist at Duke who studies aggression in children, sees in new research hope for changing human cultures.
Durham Herald-Sun, February 6, 2004
Committee's Goal is Parenting Parents (Durham Herald-Sun) ~
A new committee is seeking ways to help Durham parents--especially young people and those in low-income neighborhoods--become better parents.
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