The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood (OEC) was recently awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS).  Professors Sara Harkness and Charles M. Super, Co- Directors of the Center for the Study of Culture, Health, and Human Development (CHHD), will be doing the evaluation part of the project.

Below is the project description from OEC-

Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program Innovation Award

The Connecticut Office of Early Childhood will partner with community experts, institutions of higher education, and professionals in early childhood development and related fields to develop and retain a highly skilled MIECHV-funded home visiting workforce through an innovative video-based intervention designed to address the particular challenges of working with complex, multi-need families. Using a randomized control trial design, two versions of the intervention will be implemented and evaluated.

Assistant Professor Caitlin Lombardi’s research was recently featured in a news article titled, New research suggests maternity leave is more important for mothers than it is for their kids.  Read the online article from Quartz Media/Baby Balance.

Professor Michael Ego was recently interviewed on the Richard French Live talk show on the Regional News Network about the Legacy of WWII Japanese Internment Camps. Watch the interview.

Associate Professor Annamaria Csizmadia received funding for her proposal to the Provost’s Academic Plan Mini Grant Competition.  Her project, “Promoting Active Learning through Blended and Flipped Classroom Design in HDFS Graduate Education: Revision of HDFS 5102: Early and Middle Childhood Development” will involve creating online resources for providing this graduate course in a blended/flipped/hybrid format.  These resources will be valuable not only for Annamaria, but for anyone else in HDFS who might teach this course in the future.

Assistant Professor Ryan Watson’s project, “Transgender Erasure and Exclusion: Next Steps in the Discourses at the Nexus of Gender Identity, Policy and Health” received funding from the Public Discourse Project at UConn.  Ryan will be editing a special issue for the International Journal of Transgenderism titled, “Today’s transgender youth: Health, well-being, and opportunities for resilience”, and the organization of a group of stakeholders at UConn and the CT community that deal with transgender students to identity and enact the next steps to better the health and well-being of the population.

Professor Michael Ego’s recent trip to Scotland was featured in Guide & Gazette article. It highlights his time there visiting programs designed to use golfing memories and football action groups to help individuals with dementia.