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A National Agenda
Healthy mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) development is a critical foundation for a productive adulthood. Much is known about strategies to sup...
Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Open Society Foundations; and the International Step by Step Association (ISSA)
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2015-2030 strive for a world that is "just, equitable, and inclusive," in which everyone receives...
A Unifying Foundation
Children are already learning at birth, and they develop and learn at a rapid pace in their early years. This provides a critical foundation for lifel...
Supporting Parents of Children Ages 0-8
Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are...
Proceedings of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; UNICEF; and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID)
With the worst human refugee crisis since World War II as the backdrop, from March 16 through March 18, 2016, the National Academies of Sciences, Engi...
Summary of a Joint Workshop by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences
To examine the science, policy, and practice surrounding supporting family and community investments in young children globally and children in acute ...
In recent years, the U.S. federal government has invested approximately $463 billion annually in interventions that affect the overall health and well...
The Science of Early Childhood Development
How we raise young children is one of today's most highly personalized and sharply politicized issues, in part because each of us can claim some level...
Each year, child protective services receive reports of child abuse and neglect involving six million children, and many more go unreported. The long-...
Assessing and Improving Child Health
Children's health has clearly improved over the past several decades. Significant and positive gains have been made in lowering rates of infant mortal...
After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought...
Why, What, and How
The assessment of young children's development and learning has recently taken on new importance. Private and government organizations are developing ...
Workshop Summary
The Cost of Inaction for Young Children Globally is the summary of a workshop hosted by the Institute of Medicine Forum on Investing in Young Children...
Realizing Opportunity for All Youth
Our nation's youth hold the key to our future well-being. Investing generously in them will create a "more perfect union." That is the central message...
Summary of a Workshop
This report summarizes the presentations and discussion at a workshop entitled Opportunities to Promote Child and Adolescent Development During the Af...
High-quality early care and education for children from birth to kindergarten entry is critical to positive child development and has the potential to...
Implications for the Social Security Administration's Supplemental Security Income Program
Speech and language are central to the human experience; they are the vital means by which people convey and receive knowledge, thoughts, feelings, an...
Workshop Report
Demographic changes, immigration, economic upheavals, and changing societal mores are creating new and altered structures, processes, and relationship...
Bullying has long been tolerated as a rite of passage among children and adolescents. There is an implication that individuals who are bullied must ha...
Proceedings of a Workshop
Increasing numbers of evidence-based interventions have proven effective in preventing and treating behavioral disorders in children. However, the ado...
Communities provide the context in which programs, principles, and policies are implemented. Their needs dictate the kinds of programs that community ...
Promising Futures
Educating dual language learners (DLLs) and English learners (ELs) effectively is a national challenge with consequences both for individuals and for ...
In 1993 the National Research Council released its landmark report Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (NRC, 1993). That report identified child mal...
An Assessment
The National Children's Study (NCS) was authorized by the Children's Health Act of 2000 and is being implemented by a dedicated Program Office in the ...
Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean: Summary of a Joint Workshop by the Institute of Medicine, the National Research Council, and Fundação Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal, São Paulo
This report summarizes a joint workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine and National Research Council with Fundacao Maria Cecilia Souto Vidigal ...
Health Care Reform and Beyond: Workshop Summary
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), which was signed into law in 2010, has several provisions that could greatly improve the behavio...
A Virtual Workshop: Proceedings of a Workshop
Adolescence is a dynamic time for both brain development and social pressures, making it a critical period to understand mental, emotional, and behavi...
"The COVID-19 pandemic has had an unprecedented impact on the lives of children and their families, who have faced innumerable challenges such as illn...
A Review
The National Children's Study (NCS) is planned to be the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on children's health ever conduc...
Thriving in the 21st Century
Adolescence is a critical growth period in which youth develop essential skills that prepare them for adulthood. Prevention and intervention programs ...
A Summary of Two Workshops
As a result of the heightened public and political attention and the movement toward standards and accountability, performance measurement has emerged...
An Update: Workshop Summary
From Neurons to Neighborhoods: An Update: Workshop Summary is based on the original study From Neurons to Neighborhoods: Early Childhood Development, ...
Children living in poverty are more likely to have mental health problems, and their conditions are more likely to be severe. Of the approximately 1.3...
Measuring What Matters
Increasing public investments in health care services for low-income and special needs children and adolescents in the United States have raised quest...
Opportunities to Promote Healthy Development and Well-Being for Children and Youth
For children and youth, summertime presents a unique break from the traditional structure, resources, and support systems that exist during the school...
Opportunities to Improve Identification, Treatment, and Prevention
Depression is a widespread condition affecting approximately 7.5 million parents in the U.S. each year and may be putting at least 15 million children...
Benefit-cost analyses hold great promise for influencing policies related to children, youth, and families. By comparing the costs of preventive inter...
Sleep is not only a biological necessity but also a physiological drive. In today's fast-paced world, though, a good night's sleep is often the first ...
Bullying - long tolerated as just a part of growing up - finally has been recognized as a substantial and preventable health problem. Bullying is asso...
The Panel on Juvenile Crime: Prevention, Treatment, and Control convened a workshop on October 2, 1998, to explore issues related to educational perfo...