Considerable research documents the importance of social emotional development for children’s short- and long-term outcomes, including academic outcomes and long-term hea[...]

High-quality early childhood education, such as pre-kindergarten (pre-k) can help children develop the academic and social-emotional skills they need to succeed in school[...]

Considerable research has documented the effects that high-quality preschool programs can have on children’s early learning and cognitive development, including language,[...]

Social labeling of people with behavioral health disorders falls under the umbrella of "stigma" and plays a key role in limiting the access to behavioral healthcare. Curr[...]

Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiau[...]

In recent years, family courts have made increasing use of advisors and/or advocates (e.g., forensic psychologists, social workers, best interest attorneys, guardian ad l[...]

Charlotte Bilingual Preschool’s Family Program aims to equip parents to support their children’s education at home and at school by increasing parents’ educational engage[...]

Multisystem youth, or youth involved with the juvenile court and child welfare systems, are a high-need population about which research is still-emerging. These youth ten[...]

Black women experience both racism and sexism, and these experiences have been found to be related to psychological distress and impairment. While research has pointed t[...]

School security measures (SSMs), which include school resource officers (SROs), security cameras, and metal detectors, are used in elementary, middle, and high schools ac[...]