In January, Resilient Georgia and the Center for Interrelational Science and Pediatrics received a Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning Community Transformation Grant to launch an Infant and Early Childhood Professional Development Course and Guidebook. Across Resilient Georgia’s 16 regional coalitions , there is a documented need to support the early childhood care and education (ECCE) workforce. Leveraging statewide support for training Georgia’s workforce in the Community...

School shootings are tragic, but parents, students, and school staff can take steps to prevent them, researchers report. PHOTO BY MARK WILSON/GETTY IMAGES To read more of Beverly Kingston and Sarah Goodrum's article, please click here. We are sociologists at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of Colorado, Boulder. We study the circumstances that lead to violence in which an attacker picks a target —like a person, group, or school—in advance. We find that...

To read Emily Brower's article, please click here. Two new studies reveal the ways that teachers and schools can encourage students to be humble and feel comfortable making mistakes. The classroom is where habits are created, mentalities are formed, and lessons are taught. Classrooms are spaces to encourage students to learn as much as they can—but also to recognize what they do not yet know. This skill is part of what researchers call intellectual humility, the ability to accept that our...

Because of a collaboration with Columbia University and UW-Madison, we have answers to these questions. By Peter Peter Pecora, Casey Family Programs, March 17, 2023 - Overview The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) recently released a “ roadmap ” to reduce child poverty by as much as half through the implementation of a series of social policy packages. The aim of this study was to simulate the reductions in Child Protective Services (CPS) involvement and foster care placements that are...