News
December 1, 2024
To share the most recent data on the accumulation and types of adverse childhood experiences, or ACEs, in North Carolina and the South, Daniel Gitterman, a Faculty Fellow at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, led the development of two new policy briefs, Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in North Carolina, 2016-22 and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the South and U.S., 2022. The reports quantify the problem and help bring renewed attention to social policies that address child poverty and well-being.
November 26, 2024
A new study shows that adding text messaging to traditional in-clinic health counseling for parents about feeding habits, playtime, and exercise prevents very young children from developing obesity and potentially lifelong obesity-related problems. Findings from the study, co-led by Kori Flower, were published in JAMA. Samantha Schilling was also a co-investigator on the study. Both Flower and Schilling are Faculty Fellows at the UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
November 20, 2024
Christine Harradine earned both her MA and PhD in Educational Psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill and is a long-time member of the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) family. As part of our FPG profile series, we recently spoke with her to learn more about her work at FPG. FInd out what she had to say.
November 18, 2024
Executive functions play a role in future academic achievement, interpersonal skills, and emotion regulation. To understand how to best measure these skills in young children, FPG Advanced Research Scientist Laura Kuhn and colleagues compared three performance-based measures of executive functions that have been developed for preschoolers. The results of that work were published in “A Comparison of Three Executive Function Batteries in a Preschool-Aged Sample."
