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Pew Internet & American Life Project

The Pew Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan, nonprofit "fact tank" that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The Project produces reports exploring the impact of the internet on families, communities, work and home, daily life, education, health care, and civic and political life. The Project aims to be an authoritative source on the evolution of the internet through surveys that examine how Americans use the internet and how their activities affect their lives.

California Evidence-based Clearing House

The CEBC website's simple and straightforward format enhances the user's ability to conduct literature searches, review extensive literature, or understand and critique research methodology. The website features brief and detailed summaries that provide salient information on each reviewed program.

Grandparent Resource Sites

The Grandparent Resource Site Grant provides a holistic system of services to grandparents, grandchildren and professionals with the goal of enhancing the abilities of kinship care families to foster school readiness in young children. The goal of this initiative is to enhance and advance the cognitive, social, emotional and physical development of preschool-aged children by supporting and educating grandparents, grandchildren and professionals

Casey Life Skills

Core resources include, It's My Life: Employment Guide, Apartment Hunt, Creative Life Skills Activities, Developing your Vision while Attending College, I Can Do it! A Micropedia of Living on Your Own, I Know Where I am Going (But Will My Cash Keep Up?), It's Perfectly Normal, Life Skills Activities for Special Needs Children, Preparing Adolescents for Young Adulthood (PAYA), and may more resources available at low cost.

When Families Grieve

Sesame Street Workshop includes a number of initiatives designed to help prepare children for the challenges that await them by addressing a wide range of developmental needs, from the basics of ABCs and 123s to life lessons about health, safely, getting along, and coping with loss.

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Is Child Well-being in the U.S. Improving or Declining? - Video Recording

Paul Amato is Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Demography, the Pennsylvania State University. He is also a past Program Chair and Section Chair of NCFR and winner of the 2008 Burgess Award and Reuben Hill Award.

Observers disagree over whether children's well-being is improving or declining in the United States. Broad statements about children's well-being are problematic, however, because well-being is a multidimensional construct, and not all indicators have changed in the same direction. This presentation reviews evidence on various aspects of children's well-being (such as health, academic achievement, and poverty) and describes structural and policy factors that are linked with shifts in these outcomes.

Introduction of Speaker: David Demo

Session Presider: Anisa Zvonkovic, 2008 Program Chair

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Is Child Well-being in the U.S. Improving or Declining? - Audio Recording

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Child Well-being- Audio Recording

Do Child Outcomes of All Disciplinary Enforcements Vary by Ethnicity? Robert Larzelere, Ron Cox, Ketevan Danelia, Jelani Mandara

I Don't Want That For My Kids: Ending Intergenerational Patternsof Risk, Katherine MacTavish Contextual Resilience and Internal Resiliency: Assessing the Impact of Context on Child Well-being, Alisa Van Langeveld, Randal Day

Discussant/Moderator: Kerry Kazura

Parenting Piece by Piece

Parenting Piece by Piece is a curriculum guide for a series of eight parenting education sessions and three optional sessions. It was originally designed for use with parents who have been mandated to attend parenting training due to their identification as abusive and/or neglectful parents. The current edition also includes guidelines for adapting the program for use with incarcerated parents or with the caregivers of children whose parents have lost custody. This site provides background information, samples, and ordering information.

Talking with Children When the Talking Gets Tough

Shocking news events, disasters, political violence, and other difficult situations can be difficult to discuss with chidlren. Many adults think children can be shielded from those events, but this fact sheet provides information supporting the importance of keeping communication channels open at those times. Tips are provided for parents to broach difficult topics.