News Archive
December 20, 2021
The Impact Center at FPG has created an exciting new resource, “Implementation Science at Work.” The podcast, which dropped its initial three episodes in November, explores questions and strategies in implementation science including tackling community health issues, reducing health disparities, and improving community and population outcomes through building capacity.
December 17, 2021
In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers led by FPG Faculty Fellow Kara Hume, Ph.D., found that a new comprehensive intervention for high school students with autism was more successful in helping them reach educational goals than services typically provided for autistic students.
December 9, 2021
Researchers at FPG have recently launched the Child Find ACCESS project, a model demonstration to improve services and results for infants, toddlers, and children with disabilities. The project, which aligns with the Institute’s commitment to equity, is designed to address ongoing challenges experienced by states in identifying infants and toddlers needing early intervention services, which has resulted in persistent racial inequities and disparities in identification rates.
December 7, 2021
A grant recently awarded to the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at FPG will help ensure students are receiving high-quality mathematics education in middle school—crucial years that can impact students’ chances at successful high school graduation and post-secondary career success.
December 1, 2021
Allison De Marco, MSW, PhD, an advanced research scientist at FPG, has been selected by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for its prestigious Interdisciplinary Research Leaders program, alongside two colleagues, Danielle Spurlock, PhD, UNC Department of City and Regional Planning, and Donna Carrington, executive director of Community Empowerment Fund.
November 30, 2021
Carrie Davis Bynum, a long-time member of the FPG community, passed away on November 22, 2021 at the age of 87. Her work and spirit will live on at the Institute.
November 24, 2021
During the final webinar celebration of the Institute’s 50th anniversary of excellence in TA, the emphasis was on looking to the future. The keynote speaker and panelists focused on inspiring the early childhood education and care field going forward, and the importance of centering the lived experiences of the children and families served.
November 22, 2021
More than 700 early childhood professionals and families from across the country and throughout the world attended the 21st annual International Early Childhood Inclusion Institute, held online from October 25 - 28, 2021.
November 16, 2021
After honoring the 50-year history of technical assistance (TA) at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) by looking at the organization’s past work on behalf of children and their families, TA leaders celebrated this momentous anniversary by examining their current work.
November 11, 2021
With the motto, “teachers learning, students growing,” literacy experts at FPG's Targeted Reading Instruction (TRI) have been providing professional development for kindergarten through second grade teachers for the past 15 years to help struggling young readers.
November 8, 2021
Recently, to commemorate the golden anniversary of FPG’s celebrated technical assistance (TA) program, TA leaders and other notables in the field of early childhood education gathered for three sessions entitled Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence in Technical Assistance. The first in a three-part series, this article covers session one, "Reflecting on the wisdom of the past."
November 5, 2021
An interdisciplinary team across multiple departments at UNC in partnership with adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities(ID/DD) and their families, and community organizations providing transition services for adolescents and adults will establish a community collaborative aimed at optimizing opportunities for employment for adults with ID/DD.
November 3, 2021
Clare Harrop, PhD, Assistant Professor in the Department of Allied Health Sciences and Faculty Fellow at FPG, has received a 5-year, $3.28 million R01 award from the NIH (Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development) to chart the impact of assigned sex at birth on developmental trajectories in young autistic children.
October 25, 2021
Caryn Ward, PhD, has been an integral member of the team at the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN) at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute since 2014, when she joined as an implementation specialist. She became NIRN’s assistant director in 2017 before being named as director in July 2021.
October 20, 2021
During 2006 to 2014 as a post-doc and researcher at FPG, Iheoma U. Iruka, PhD, started thinking about the need for a center dedicated to the study of Black children and families. She realized that vision soon after her return to FPG in 2020. Iruka, a research professor in the Department of Public Policy and a Faculty Fellow at FPG, is the founding director of FPG’s Equity Research Action Coalition.
October 11, 2021
A Guide to Addressing STEM Myths, which launched in June 2021, addresses and debunks misconceptions about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) learning experiences and opportunities for young children, including infants and toddlers and children with disabilities.
October 4, 2021
Funded with a grant of nearly $700K from the U.S. Department of Education, a team from the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute recently launched Project EXPRESS: EXamining interventions to PRomote Executive function and Social Skills.
September 30, 2021
FPG's 2021 impact report is here! In this year’s impact report, you’ll see how we continue to work with intention around our top three priorities—partnership, emphasis, and culture—as outlined in our strategic plan.
September 29, 2021
Every day we work to strengthen and accelerate the translation of research knowledge to evidence-based practices and policies. We're committed to sharing the information we generate with the public via journal articles and other resources. Check out some of our most recent implementation-related publications.
September 28, 2021
The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute is celebrating 50 years of excellence in technical assistance. Join us as we celebrate a half-century of OSEP-funded technical assistance excellence at FPG with three 75-minute celebratory keynote presentations and panel discussions.