About the Center

The Center for Child and Family Policy is working to solve problems facing children in contemporary society by bringing together scholars from many disciplines with policy makers and practitioners to improve the lives of children and families.

What's New:

• New policy brief.  Nicole Lawrence, Center research coordinator, and Elizabeth Snyder, Center research scientist, have written “Multiple Response System and System of Care: Two policy reforms designed to improve the child welfare system”  See policy brief.
• Center news (April 2009).  Center faculty member Rochelle Schwartz-Bloom received The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 2009 Award for Exemplary Contributions to Education.  Read more.
• KPIX TV (CBS/San Francisco), April 2009.  Center faculty member Wilkie Wilson spoke with Dr. Kim Mulvihill about activities and exercises to boost brain health.  View program.
• Duke Research, April 21, 2009.  Megan Kuhfeld, one of the Center’s Morris Fellows, presented her senior thesis poster during Visible Thinking, the annual undergraduate research forum.  View feature.
• News release (April 16, 2009).  Center research scientist Elizabeth Gifford has developed a new Web site to help people better understand the nature of substance abuse problems in North Carolina.  Read more.  View Web site.
• Center news (April 14, 2009).  Center faculty member Marie Lynn Miranda has launched a new Web site for the Community Assessment Project.  Visit Web site. 
• Center news (April 13, 2009).  Center faculty member Philip J. Cook is the lead author of “School Crime Control and Prevention,” which was posted March 26, 2009, on the Social Science Research Network.  View paper.
• The Herald-Sun, April 12, 2009.  Center Research Scientist Yvonne Wasilewski wrote a guest column entitled “Time to Discuss Dating Violence.”  View column. 
• New policy brief.  2009 Master of Public Policy candidate Aubrey Incorvaia has written “One-to-One Tutoring for Reading in Grade One:  Is It Beneficial for All Students?”  See policy brief. 
• Duke Magazine, March/April 2009.  The article “Study Binge” features Center faculty members Scott Kollins and David Rabiner.   View article.
• BBC Focus Magazine, March 2009.  Center faculty member Cynthia Kuhn wrote “Should Cannabis Be Decriminalised and Sold by the Government?”  View article. 
• GoDuke.com, March 31, 2009.  Duke Sports story “Blue Devils Tackle Unique Academic Assignments” features Center researchers Joel Rosch and Ann Brewster.  View article.
• WAMU 88.5 FM American University Radio, March 23, 2009.  Center faculty member Wilkie Wilson and Jay Giedd, Chief of Brain Imaging, Child Psychiatry Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, spoke with host  Kojo Nnamdi for the program “Inside the Teenage Brain.”  Listen now. (Wilson joins program:  Real Audio:  18:23.)
• News release (March 17, 2009):  Developmental and community psychologist Hirokazu Yoshikawa, an expert on the development of young children growing up in immigrant families, will lecture at Duke University on Wednesday, March 25.  Read more.
• News release (March 10, 2009):  Center Associate Director E. Jane Costello contributes to new report, “Preventing Mental, Emotional, and Behavioral Disorders among Young People:  Progress and Possibilities,” due out March 25.  Read more.
• The News & Observer, March 4, 2009:  Center Director Kenneth Dodge wrote a guest column entitled “Let laws reflect evidence.”  View column.
• Center news (March 4, 2009):  Center faculty member Helen F. “Sunny” Ladd is co-chair of the task force calling for a “Broader, Bolder Approach to Education.”  Read more.  Link to task force Web site.