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January 4, 2026
The groundbreaking Abecedarian Project launched in 1972 at FPG. And while the project has been critically important in supporting the value of early care and education programs, there has been a lack of implementation data to highlight which elements were most impactful. A new mixed methods study of the project aimed to address this.
December 15, 2025
In this year’s impact report, you will get a glimpse of the crucial work being done here by our talented and dedicated scientists, specialists, scholars, and staff across a broad range of disciplines, including autism and developmental disabilities, child health and development, early care and education, and more.
December 8, 2025
Melissa Lippold, PhD, a faculty fellow at FPG, is an associate professor at the UNC School of Social Work. Her work informs the development of family-based interventions to strengthen family relationships and promote adolescent and parent well-being. Learn more about her work in this faculty fellow profile.
December 3, 2025
Book Babies, an early-literacy home visiting program, was developed to strengthen literacy promoting practices of families’ and children’s early literacy skills. To determine the efficacy of this program and whether its impacts vary by families’ language status, a team of scholars from the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute and the HighScope Educational Research Foundation evaluated the program.
