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 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.
This working paper provides a child-centric framework for reparations and the resulting policy considerations and implications for child descendants of enslaved African Americans. (updated from September 2023 publication)
Project Description This study builds on the Great Smoky Mountains Study (GSMS), a study originating at Duke, and now currently following participants in the Great Smoky Mounties Study of Rural Aging (GSMS-RA). This study, Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural South (HIRS) aims to create a new consortium of samples for the study of midlife…
learn more about Midlife Health Inequities in the Rural SouthThis 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 article illuminates how youth in under-resourced communities negotiate, imagine, and realize possibilities for their futures.
When researchers intentionally account for the complexities of gendered racism, focus groups can become spaces for healing, community building, information exchange, psychological safety, and support for Black girls and Black women. In this paper we advance strategies for employing focus groups as counterspaces, an anti-racist and anti-oppressive research method that educational psychologists can utilize to challenge current methodological approaches related to Black girls and Black women.
This article advances the use of mixed methods in higher education research to better understand the racialized experiences of African American college students and demonstrate how Critical Race Mixed Methodology can be used to integrate quantitative and qualitative findings.
This study examined the relation between schools’ color-evasive versus multicultural diversity ideologies, school characteristics, and adolescent development.