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Research Brief
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/research-and-evaluation-capacity-building-a-resource-guide-for-child-care-and-development-fund-lead-agencies
A Resource Guide for Child Care and Development Fund Lead Agencies
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Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
A list of selected resources for Child Care and Development Fund lead agencies seeking to build research and evaluation capacity.
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Family Life Education Methodology
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https://youtu.be/K_f3O3kOkVk
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Mathematica Policy Research
Leaders from across the federal policy community discuss how emerging research methods to generate and interpret evidence can inform policy decisions.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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Family Resource Management
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http://www.apa.org/pubs/books/4313045.aspx
Part of the Concise Guides to Conducting Behavioral, Health, and Social Science Research Series
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American Psychological Association
This guide walks through each step of the process for both qualitative and quantative studies from choosing a topic to sampling and measurement strategies.
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Family Science Education
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Research Brief
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0190740917301342
A longitudinal evaluation of KVC's bridging the way home initiative
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Children and Youth Services Review
This study evaluated the effectiveness of a system-wide reform effort to implement trauma-informed care across a large, private child welfare system.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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Research Brief
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/understanding-american-indian-and-alaska-native-early-childhood-needs-the-potential-of-existing-data?utm_source=ACF%20OPRE%20News%207/13/17&utm_campaign=OPRE%20News%207/13/17&utm_medium=email
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Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families
This report describes preliminary work in support of an early childhood needs assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native children prenatal to age five.
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Family Health
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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Article
/ncfr-report/focus/effects-work-travel-sleep-patterns
Work often influences sleep and sleep is associated with health outcomes.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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Family Resource Management
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/ncfr-report/focus/empowerment-and-knowledge-guiding-parents-creating-healthy-infant-sleep-routines
A variety of different safe sleep routines are recommended for infants, and many of them identified as the only safe routine.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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Parent Education and Guidance
Family Life Education Methodology
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https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/why-rates-bedsharing-infants-are-rising
“Bedsharing” refers to a parent (usually the mother) and infant sharing the same adult bed for all or part of the night.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Interpersonal Relationships
Internal Dynamics of Families
Family Law and Public Policy
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https://www.ncfr.org/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-interdisciplinary-research-close-relationships
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CFLE Network, Winter 2017
This volume underscores the rationale for the change in nomenclature from Family Studies to Family Science.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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https://cire.mathematica-mpr.com/
from the Mathematica Center for Improving Research Evidence
This guide from Mathematica's Center for Improving Research Evidence explains four important types of evidence as well as how to evaluate them.
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Research Brief
http://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/anderson-divorce-rate-us-geo-2015-fp-16-21.html
The divorce rate in the U.S. has fallen for the third consecutive year, decreasing to its lowest level in more than 35 years.
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Interpersonal Relationships
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http://supp.apa.org/style/pubman-ch03.00.pdf
Supplemental material from the American Psychological Association's guide to writing clearly and concisely.
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http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470673400.html
by Katherine R. Allen and Angela C. Henderson
2017's Family Theories: Foundations and Applications presents a comprehensive, accessible approach to the most current perspectives in the field of family theory.
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/news/zippy-weekly-videos/science-based-innovation-early-childhood
It's okay if you don't succeed. Don't hide it — shine a bright light on it and figure out why it didn't work. That's where big breakthroughs come.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/family-focus-families-and-obesity/bridging-family-science-health-theories-better-u
by Jerica M. Berge, Ph.D., M.P.H., LMFT, CFLE; and Keeley Pratt, Ph.D., LMFT; University of Minnesota
Family systems theory and social cognitive theory offer complementary frameworks.
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Family Health
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/cfle-network/current-issue/book-review-sage-handbook-child-research
Reviewed by Clara Gerhardt, MBA, Ph.D., CFLE
Of all the books crossing my desk recently, this is the work that impacted me considerably and I referred to its pages again and again.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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https://www.nichd.nih.gov/research/NCS/Pages/default.aspx
The National Children's Study Vanguard pilot study, beginning in 2009, enrolled and collected data on environmental influences on child health and development.
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/professional-resources/archived-webinars/family-science-research-updates-webinars/inclusive-same-sex
Nikki DiGregorio, Ph.D., and Amanda Rich, Ph.D., prompt thinking about an interdisciplinary approach to same-sex family research. 60 minutes. 1 CFLE contact hour.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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http://www.census.gov/mso/www/training/?cid=16O30
Free, ongoing web trainings from the U.S. Census Bureau address topic areas within the Census and American Community Survey.
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/news/zippy-weekly-videos/simple-words
Space travel is complicated. Do you think an expert could explain all its complexities to a layperson in less than three minutes?
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Textbook
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1138797189
by James J Ponzetti Jr
This is the first book to provide a comprehensive, multidisciplinary overview of evidence-based relationship and marriage education (RME) programs.
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Interpersonal Relationships
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Website
https://www.childstats.gov/
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
This group of 22 U.S. government agencies works with research and activities related to children and families.
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Website
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Data Center is the premier source for data on child and family well-being in the United States.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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Family Law and Public Policy
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Research Brief
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/gender/worldswomen.html
Trends and Statistics
This report, put together by the United Nations Statistics Division, includes analyses of the status of women and men in policy areas of concern.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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