Parenting Matters: Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8
A University-Based Child and Family Policy (CFP) Consortium webinar held in collaboration with SRCD.
The University-Based Child and Family Policy Consortium, in collaboration with the Society for Research in Child Development, hosted a webinar on April 26, 2017 on the National Academies’ recent Parenting Matters Report.
The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a report informing a national framework for strengthening the capacity of parents of young children birth to age 8. The report is intended to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting and family support policies, practices, and research in the United States.
Three members of the study committee that authored this report discussed the report’s conclusions and recommendations on this webinar: Dr. Kimberly Boller, Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research; Dr. Natasha Cabrera, Professor of Human Development and Director, Family Involvement Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park; Dr. Eric Dearing, Professor, Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology Department, Lynch School of Education, Boston College. This webinar was moderated by Dr. Caitlin McPherran Lombardi, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, University of Connecticut.
