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.
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.
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.
