For children and families to thrive, we must confront and correct historic and current policies that create inequitable opportunities. Embedded structural racism is the major barrier to achieving better outcomes for children and families. CCFP researchers study how past and current policies and programs contribute to inequal opportunities for children and families of color and seek to identify programs, policies, and interventions that provide opportunities for all children and families, particularly those who have been impacted by structural racism.
This brief offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework that suggests a three-pronged child-centric reparations strategy for black children.
This brief describes how the black-white wealth gap is widest for households with children.
This brief details how due to a variety of social, public policy and economic forces, black children are more likely than white children to experience negative outcomes throughout childhood.
The authors offer a child-centric framework for reparations with considerations for policy and implications for child descendants of enslaved African Americans.
Project Description Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural South: Risk and Resilience (Midlife HIRS) aims to recruit residents of eastern North Carolina (NC), with particular focus on residents living in what has historically been referred to as Black Belt Counties of NC, to participate in a baseline survey and short follow-up surveys about health and…
learn more about Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural South: Risk and ResilienceThis project looks at the impact of rental housing sales on children’s residential mobility, school switches, and school performance.
learn more about Property Sales and Residential Displacement of Black and Hispanic Children in the American South: Implications for School Mobility and Educational InequalityThis 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.
learn more about Advancing Equity in Adolescent Health through Evidence-Based Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs and ServicesProject Description Safety net policies are intended to provide some level of basic income support and economic security to eligible families, in turn improving developmental outcomes and life course trajectories for children. Yet, despite high rates of poverty, Latinx families are less likely than other groups to utilize these benefits. Project Goals The team will…
learn more about How State Social Policies and Practices Impact Hispanic Low-Income Children and YouthResearch provides findings on how the Baby’s First Years cash gift intervention affected Latina families
This study fills gaps in the literature by examining how the broader social context affects Black families’ engagement in home visiting programs.
This study examines how net worth poverty and its subcomponents of asset and debt poverty relate to Black and White children’s academic and behavioral outcomes.
Critical Race Mixed Methodology (CRMM) is a transformative mixed methods approach that combines CRT within a mixed methods design. In this article, the benefits and challenges of CRMM are explored.