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Collecting Data, Providing Services, Transforming Lives of Student Parents

K.C. Compton·May 11, 2023·7 min read

Two little pink lines. Sometimes that’s all it takes to derail a person’s life and torpedo any plans they might...

Mark Swartz·June 8, 2020·2 min read

A new report from New America, Pandemic Planning for Distance Learning, laments the failure of school districts across the country...

Gerry Cobb·July 10, 2019·3 min read

When the Pritzker Children’s Initiative (PCI) launched a first-of-its-kind Prenatal-to-Age Three State Grant Competition late last year, 42 of 45...

Mark Swartz·August 6, 2020·2 min read

“We’re not going to grow as a nation without a strong system of care,” Gladys Montes stated at the outset...

Our Broken Child Care System and How to Fix It, Part 1

In this three-part series, Dr. Laura Justice—executive director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy at The...

Tom Kertscher·March 10, 2020·4 min read

In each year from 2016 through 2018, more than 2 million parents of children age 5 and younger suffered “job...

How a D.C. Women’s Shelter Is Becoming a Leader in Multigenerational Therapy

Mark Swartz·December 7, 2022·4 min read

Early in the pandemic, Dr. Alicia Lieberman, director of the Child Trauma Research Program at the University of California, San...