The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) serves low-income infants, children under age 5, and pregnant and postpartum women. The program provides access to nutritious foods, nutrition education, and referrals…

This testimony before Congress, from a Policy Analyst at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, highlights the importance of accuracy and integrity in school meal programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and…

New research is needed to learn more about how, when, and why Latino parents access certain early childhood programs and services, and not others. As highlighted in this brief series, numerous existing large-scale data sets offer potentially…

This report describes three potential designs for studies to assess the needs for early care and education and home visiting among American Indian and Alaska Native children and families.

For each of the three options, the report presents…

This report describes the results of a comprehensive review of self-regulation interventions spanning birth to young adulthood and a range of outcomes. It also summarizes the level of evidence for the different interventions. Additionally, the…

The Behavioral Interventions to Advance Self-Sufficiency (BIAS) project, sponsored by the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE) of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services…

Currently, 11 percent of young children under age 10 live in households with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line. This fact sheet from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) compares the early health, development, and…

This toolkit provides a wealth of resources and strategies to communities to help prevent opioid overdose deaths. Some of these strategies include ensuring access to treatment and to naloxone, and assisting providers in preventing overdose. It…

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing study suggests that fathers are more likely to struggle with depression when they do not have full-time employment, live apart from their children, have children with two or more women, or have been…

Children benefit from having involved fathers, but it can be difficult to quantify a father’s level of involvement. This study compares the amount of father involvement reported by mothers with what the fathers themselves report…