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Children, Youth, and Families |
Children, adolescents, and families are populations with unique needs. Our work seeks to synthesize research on factors that affect the health and development of children – and the well-being of their families -- from pregnancy through adolescence, and to bring that evidence to bear on the development of policies and programs in health care, social services, and other areas. See also: |
| Current Projects | | | Child Maltreatment Research, Policy, and Practice for the Next Decade
This study will provide recommendations for allocating existing research funds and also suggest funding mechanisms and topic areas to which new resources could be allocated or enhanced resources could be redirected. | | | Workshop on Improving the Health, Safety, and Well-Being of Young Adults
The workshop brought together researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and young adults to explore how young adults are faring in systems and organizations such as health care and mental health care, educational institutions, workplaces, the military, the justice system, and in the transition out of foster care. | | | Sports-Related Concussion in Youth
The study will review the available literature on concussions, in the context of developmental neurobiology, in terms of their causes, relationships to hits to the head or body during sports, and the effectiveness of protective devices and equipment. | | | | Related Reports | | |  | | Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States (BOCYF, CLAJ, IOM)
2013
This report is a comprehensive examination and synthesis of current research on commercial sexual exploitation and sex trafficking of minors in the United States.....Read more | | | | |
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 | Design of the National Children's Study: A Workshop Summary
(CNSTAT,BOCYF)
2013
The Children's Health Act mandated the National Children's Study (NCS) in 2000 with one of its purposes being to authorize the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) to study...
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 | An Update on Research Issues in the Assessment of Birth Settings: Workshop Summary
(BOCYF)
2013
More than 30 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the National Research Council (NRC) convened a committee to determine methodologies and research needed to evaluate childbirth settings in...
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 | Nutrition Education in the K-12 Curriculum: The Role of National Standards: Workshop Summary
(FNB,BOCYF)
2013
The childhood obesity epidemic and related health consequences are urgent public health problems. Approximately one-third of America's young people are overweight or obese. Health problems once seen...
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 | Evaluation of PEPFAR
(BGH,BOCYF)
2013
The U.S. government supports programs to combat global HIV/AIDS through an initiative that is known as the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). This initiative was originally...
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 | Reforming Juvenile Justice: A Developmental Approach
(CLAJ)
2013
Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to discount long-term...
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 | Databases for Estimating Health Insurance Coverage for Children: A Workshop Summary
(CNSTAT)
2010
This report summarizes the proceedings of a workshop convened in June 2010 to critically examine the various databases that could provide national and state-level estimates of low-income uninsured...
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