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Student News

Congratulations, Class of 2025 Certificate Graduates!

CCFP25

Anniversary Spotlight: Q&A with Leslie Babinski

On the Blog

Student Reflection: School Research Partnership Event 2025

New Research

Black Reparations and Child Well-Being: A Framework and Policy Considerations

 

Employment

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Celebrating 25 Years!

2024 marks the 25th anniversary of the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University. Join us in celebrating this milestone as we host several events and activities and publish special content throughout the 2024-2025 academic year.

Recent News

2025 Certificate Graduate Story: Shelby Tisdale

June 11, 2025

CCFP News

Shelby Tisdale is a recent graduate of Duke University and the Child Policy Research certificate program.

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A Wrong Turn for SNAP Reform

June 11, 2025

The Regulatory Review

The budget bill’s expanded SNAP work requirements ignore the reality of low-wage work, writes Anna Gassman-Pines with co-author Elizabeth Ananat in The Regulatory Review.

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Lecture Recap: Triangle Economics of Education Workshop 2025

May 21, 2025

CCFP News

The Center for Child and Family Policy recently welcomed approximately 50 students, faculty, researchers, and practitioners to campus for the annual Triangle Economics of Education Workshop.

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Featured Projects

Research Project

Advancing Equity in Adolescent Health through Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs and Services

This project expands reach, builds capacity, and scales up evidence-based programs offering positive youth development and sexuality education to address health disparities in the most vulnerable areas across rural Eastern North Carolina.

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Research Project

Factors in Persistence Versus Fadeout of Early Childhood Intervention Impacts

This project seeks to understand whether, for whom, and how the effects of successful early childhood school readiness interventions are sustained across a child’s development.

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Research Project

Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging

Project to augment the longitudinal Great Smoky Mountains Study (GSMS) to create a national data resource, the Great Smoky Mountains Study of Rural Aging (GSMS-RA), for the study of early determinants of the aging experience in a rural context. The GSMS began collecting data on children, now participants are entering their 40s.

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Research Project

ITTI Care

The Infant-Toddler Trauma-Informed Care (ITTI Care) Project leverages the existing early childhood education workforce support system to expand and strengthen trauma-informed knowledge and practice within the communities they serve.

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For Students

The Center offers a variety of ways for Duke students at every level to learn about child and family policy and become involved in original research.