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.
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.
Results of the study highlight that Black girls’ and women’s participation and motivation in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields are strongly shaped by supportive, and fair teachers in and out of the classroom.
This paper provides three recommendations for enhancing research experiences for Black undergraduate women: (a) rebuilding strategic mentoring and development opportunities; (b) rejuvenating institutional and community-engaged partnerships; and (c) restructuring student-driven experiences through an equity ethic lens.
This brief offers a cross-disciplinary conceptual framework that suggests a three-pronged child-centric reparations strategy for black children.
Project Description Midlife Health 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 life…
learn more about Midlife Health 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 YouthThis 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.
Research provides findings on how the Baby’s First Years cash gift intervention affected Latina families