The projects listed below are activities that the Center has undertaken, many with other organizations, that resulted, or will result, in a product that advances some aspect of the field of child well-being.
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The Center has designed the materials for an interactive parenting workshop to help parents of children from birth through 3 years cope with stress so that they can be better, more effective caregivers. The sessions of Parenting in the Real World cover normal child development, discipline, bonding and attachment, balancing work and school with family, and caring for oneself.
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The Center collaborated with many scientists across the country to develop this publication. The authors consider well-being holistically, integrating physical, cognitive, and social and emotional dimensions, and they describe foundational strengths, such as problem-solving, emotional regulation, and physical safety in each of the three dimensions.
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The Center supported a group of scientists, the Ecology Working Group, to specify the features of individual development, environments, social relationships, and services that promote and sustain well-being. The report compiled by this group will be available on-line March 2002.
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Staff in the Center conducted a review of the literature on child well-being to assess the current state of research and answer the following questions: 1) How is child well-being defined? 2) What are the domains of child well-being? 3) What are the indicators? 4) How is it measured? Click on the title to view a poster session describing the results of this review. The article has been accepted for publication in Social Indicators Research.
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The Center for Child Well-being supported researchers at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Center to investigate how communities make decisions about ways to meet their goals for children and families. This report is based on decision-making processes in the North Carolina Early Childhood Initiative, better known as Smart Start.
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To understand the value and use of technology in fostering child development and well-being, staff at the University of Maryland, Public Health Informatics Research Laboratory, identified and synthesized literature reviews, research syntheses, and meta-analyses to examine evidence available on the relationship between emerging technologies and holistic dimensions of child development and well-being. Reviews and research syntheses published from 1987 through 2000 provide the raw material for these two reports that addresses the following questions: What impact does technology used in educational settings have on child development? Which uses of technology hold the greatest promise for improving child well-being outcomes? What future research is needed to understand the impact of technology on children according to cognitive, social, emotional, and physical perspectives? These two papers cover the positive influences of technology on child development and well-being. The influences of technology that are problematic are not the focus of this report.
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The Parenting Network is a group of experts from diverse backgrounds and disciplines committed to supporting parents in their efforts to foster positive development in children.
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The Center has described its approach to building the science foundation of child well-being and development in a monograph published by UNESCO in their series entitled Action Research in Family and Early Childhood. The monograph describes a strengths-based approach to child development and discusses the elements or key components of physical health, cognitive growth, and social and emotional development as defined by leading scientists in the field. The monograph describes a literature review, which assesses the current state of child well-being research and includes a section on the connection between science, public policy, and practice in child well-being.
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The Center has developed a directory of information on leading organizations working to promote child well-being through science, policy, programs, education, and funding.
- The Academy for Educational Development undertook a project to conduct interviews with leading child and youth development and public health experts to gather their opinions about key issues facing the field today, major competing themes, programs that have been particularly successful, and major gaps that deter progress in improving children’s lives. This report synthesizes the outcome of the 34 interviews.
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