The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) in the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services has recently published a discretionary research funding announcement titled "Early Head Start University Partnership Grants: Buffering Children from Toxic Stress."
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Posted by Charles Cheesebrough | May 26, 2011
The June 2010 issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family is NCFR's "Decade in Review," a collection of landmark articles on important topics written by eminent scholars in the field. Buy it now.
The National Center for Family & Marriage Research at Bowling Green State is holding a conference with the theme of Counting Couples, Counting Families.
Air Force leaders are concerned about the well-being of airmen's families, but are the programs set up for their benefit doing enough? To find out the answers to this and other issues, the Air Force asked RAND to survey the spouses of active-duty airmen. The main concerns related to children, finances, employment, and the effects of moves and deployment. By and large, however, the families were satisfied with Air Force life.
As the fiscal crisis continues in most states, governors and legislatures are considering budget cuts to early childhood programs. But research from the Pew Center on the States shows that spending less today on evidence-based children's policies means taxpayers will face much higher costs later for problems including child abuse and neglect, high school dropouts, crime, teen pregnancy and drug and alcohol abuse.
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