Children and youth thrive when they have strong, safe, and supportive relationships and environments. However, many families struggle to provide such relationships and environments. CCFP researchers engage in longitudinal studies, partnerships with state and local social service agencies, and develop and evaluate innovative programs and services to understand and support struggling families and reduce child maltreatment.
In this paper, a longstanding gap in the educational psychology literature is addressed by introducing a critically, race-gender reimagined motivation framework created specifically for investigating the academic motivation of Black girls.
This study shows that children from higher-socioeconomic (SES) households are more accurate at recognizing facial emotions than those from lower-SES households, with maternal warmth and home environment partly explaining these differences.
This study finds that U.S. households with children exhibit higher wealth inequality, lower wealth levels, and greater net worth poverty rates than other household types.
This article highlights key developmental and family theories to explain how cultural contexts affect parenting and children’s development due to parental beliefs, behaviors, and universal children needs.
Evaluation of the Substance use Treatment and Access to Resources and Supports (STARS) program for pregnant women who have a substance use issue and babies who have been exposed to substances.
learn more about Substance Use Treatment & Access to Resources StudyProject Description This study of the postive parenting app tests the feasibility and effectiveness of a mobile-based app intervention designed to enhance home visiting by providing in-the-moment parenting tips with the goal of increasing healthy parent-child interactions leading to resiliency in high-risk children. Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) profoundly influence brain and behavioral development and long-term…
learn more about Positive Parenting App StudyThe Durham Navigation Study is a randomized control trial to evaluate the impact of Community Navigation on outcomes for young children and their families.
learn more about Durham Navigation StudyThe Henderson-Polk Family Life Survey is an impact evaluation of the Family Connects home visiting program, when delivered using a hybrid telehealth model.
learn more about Henderson-Polk Family Life SurveyThis study investigated connections between short birth spacing (birth-to-conception interval of under 18 months) and the risk of child maltreatment and found that maternal history of childhood maltreatment and short birth spacing are independent, additive factors for child maltreatment risk.
In this study, primary care medical records were reviewed for children ages 3 to 17 with a subspecialty sexual abuse (SA) evaluation to assess factors associated with documentation of SA history and mental health management by the primary care provider.
This systematic review and meta-analysis examined associations of three types of ACEs (abuse, neglect, and household dysfunctions) with experiential (emotional quality of momentary and everyday experiences) and reflective (judgments about life satisfaction, sense of meaning, and ability to pursue goals that can include and extend beyond the self) facets of emotional well-being (EWB) and educational achievement.
This research brief summarizes finding from Electronic Health Record Tools to Identify Child Maltreatment: Scoping Literature Review and Key Informant Interviews, which reviewed existing research on EHR-based child abuse screens and clinical decision support systems. The authors also collected the perspectives of medical personnel on the implementation of such tools.