The USDA's Office of Research and Analysis just published a report named Effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC): A Review of Recent Research.
Today’s soldiers, sailors, marines, airmen, and Coast Guard members have faced unprecedented stresses. Based on reinvigorated research into this unique population, this piece provides the reader with a taste of what we know, and what we don’t, about military families.
How does underage drinking correlate with adult alcoholism? What preventable problem injures 1900 U.S. teens per year? Which prescription pain medications were involved in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined? The National Institute on Drug Abuse in the U.S. answers these questions and more in a free online booklet in PDF format called "Drug Facts: Shatter the Myths"
The AIFS Conference is the premier event for discussing cutting-edge research findings, policy priorities and topical issues important to family wellbeing in Australia.
Family Life Education majors from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point are hosting a benefit for "Simply Smiles" on Wednesday, April 11th, 2012, at 7 pm in Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Using data from the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this report for the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services provides a portrait of children entering Head Start for the first time in fall 2009, as well as of their family backgrounds, and the classrooms and programs that serve them. The report also offers comparisons across the past decade of the Head Start program to delineate trends and changes in the population served and the services provided.
Will your career involve working with the media? The challenges of getting research out via popular media are significant in today's high-tech world of information (and misinformation!) overload. In this article, Marthi Erickson discusses working with the media based on her many years of expertise.
