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NICHD Director's monthly podcast for July is now online

July 31, 2012

The July 2012 NICHD Research Perspectives, the NICHD’s monthly podcast, is now online.

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On Your Lap, In Your Heart. Resources for Grandparents

Zero to Three's grandparenting resources include information on supporting healthy child development as well as tools for addressing some of the more common challenging situations that come up when raising young children.

from 2012 NCFR Annual Conference

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12:15 pm - 2:00 pm | Regency Ballroom B

"Caregiving is Just What Families Do": Challenges of Aging Families and Health

Closing Plenary Session

Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D., Kraemer Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

Greetings From Session Sponsor: Susan Walker, University of Minnesota Department of Family Social Science

Presentation of the Feldman Outstanding Research Proposal for Research in Family Policy. Presenter: Diana Baltimore, SNP of the Family Policy Section and Award Committee Chair

Presentation of the Feldman Internship Award or Feldman Travel Award. Presenter: Diana Baltimore, SNP of the Family Policy Section and Award Committee Chair

Presiding: Leigh A. Leslie, 2012 Program Chair

Sponsored by the University of Minnesota, Department of Family Social Science, B. Jan McCulloch, Ph.D., Head.

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Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs that have Significant Positve Impacts

Child Trends' latest brief, Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts, identifies 43 programs that have somewhat to very sizable, statistically significant impacts on adolescent or young adult outcomes. The brief uses Child Trends' online database of experimentally evaluated social interventions for children and youth, Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS), to identify programs with manuals that have positive impacts on a range of outcomes, such as behavior problems, physical health, and education.

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Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers

A new policy paper from Zero to Three, Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers, examines how staffed family child care (FCC) networks are uniquely positioned to improve the quality of care that infants and toddlers receive in FCC settings. It lists effective practices and shares examples of successful staffed FCC networks. This paper offers guidance for how states can maximize partnerships to integrate staffed FCC networks in early childhood systems. It concludes with action steps and state policy recommendations for implementing a staffed FCC network.

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Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health

Zero to Three's new report, Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health, highlights the scientific evidence for infant-early childhood mental health (I-ECMH) policies; examines issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I-ECMH services; and proposes a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.

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Search Institute American Family Assets Study

The American Family Assets Study from the Search Institute highlights critical strengths in families that contribute to positive outcomes for both kids and parents, introduces a new framework of Family Assets which focus on healthy relationships and practices in families, and emphasizes strengths that are relevant to a wide diversity of families in America.

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Alexis Walker wins prestigious Felix Berardo Award for mentoring

June 27, 2012

The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) has conferred its organization’s prestigious Felix Berardo Scholarship Award for Mentoring to Alexis Walker, Ph.D., Co-director for the School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences and the Jo Anne L. Petersen Chair in Gerontology and Family Studies.

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Amber Case: Cyborg Anthropologist

Anthropologist Amber Case studies the symbiotic interactions between humans and machines. In this fascinating brief TED talk (ted.com), Case, gives us a vision of how we are already acting like cyborgs. Quoting the lecture description, "Case, who predicts that intensification of the human-technology interface will quickly reduce the distance between individual and community, believes that the convergence of technologies will bring about unprecedented rapid learning and communication."

Deborah B. Smith

Associate Professor of Sociology, Univeristy of Missouri - Kansas City

Ph.D., Cornell University

Specialty Areas:

Dr. Smith's expertise and research is on:

retirement and couples
volunteering activities of midlife couples.

She has been interviewed by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor, and NPR.

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