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: Ryan Copeland
June 17, 2025
CCFP News
Ryan Copeland is a…
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June 11, 2025
CCFP News
Shelby Tisdale is a recent graduate of Duke University and the Child Policy Research certificate program.
read more about 2025 Certificate Graduate Story: Shelby TisdaleA 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.
read more about A Wrong Turn for SNAP ReformLecture 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.
learn more about ITTI CareFor 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.