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Interacting with Dr. Jennifer Lansford and Dr. Ann Skinner, Dr. Rose Opiyo visited Duke’s Center for Child and Family Policy, delivering a lecture titled, ‘Developmental Outcomes, Drivers, and Interventions: A Focus on At-Risk Children and Adolescents in Kenya,’.

Dr. Whitney McCoy was honored with an annual Samuel DuBois Cook Society award, honoring research and service that reflect the social activism and leadership of Samuel DuBois Cook, the University’s first Black faculty member.

Food assistance programs specifically earmarked toward subsidizing household food costs such as SNAP and WIC have positive effects on infant health and school achievement and reduce behavioral problems in school, promoting a range of health and educational benefits in the short- and long-term.

This article dives into how climate change affects children’s physical and psychological well-being, highlighting 3 strategies to help combat this.

On November 19, the School Research Partnership at Duke in the Center for Child and Family Policy hosted its annual “Conducting Research in Schools” panel discussion.

The Duke Center for Child and Family Policy recently welcomed guest speaker Bryan Samuels, executive director of Chapin Hill, as part of the Sulzberger Distinguished Lecture Series.

Depression is known to run in families, however less is known on how to break the cycle of generational depression.

In a new study from Duke University’s Center for Child and Family Policy, researchers find an intensive childhood intervention designed to reduce conduct problems in at-risk children can also help disrupt the transmission of generational depression in families.

On October 17, CCFP welcomed Dr. Theresa Betancourt, Salem Professor in Global Practice at the Boston College School of Social Work, for a special event to discuss her new book, Shadows Into Light. 

Harsher immigration law enforcement by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement leads to decreased use of prenatal care for immigrant mothers and declines in birth weight, according to new Duke University research.

DURHAM, N.C. – Before the pandemic, one-third of U.S. households with children were already “net worth poor,” lacking enough financial resources to sustain their families for three months at a poverty level, finds new research from Duke University. In 2019, 57 percent of Black families and 50 percent of Latino families with children were poor…

Duke study shows automatic enrollment, paired with option to opt-out, is highly effective at boosting parents’ participation.

DURHAM, N.C. – In just a few months, the COVID-19 pandemic swiftly and substantially worsened mental health among U.S. hourly service workers and their children – especially those experiencing multiple hardships, according to new research from the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University and Barnard College. The study leverages real-time, daily survey data collected…