Early Childhood Research Core

Early Childhood

Research Core

Hallie E. Ford Center

Faculty in this core focus on optimizing children's development and well-being in families, early care and educational settings and communities.

Core Leadership

Current project summaries from within the core

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Early Learning System Initiative

Early learning System Initiative (ELSI)

Developed and designed to increase early access to high-quality, professional learning opportunities and technical assistance for the early education workforce in Oregon.

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Oregon Inclusion Initiative

Oregon Inclusion Initiative

Developing a framework of support to implement the Pyramid Model and the National indicators of high Quality Inclusion in Oregon early care and education environments. The ultimate goal is to contribute to the creation of an inclusive, culturally responsive, and identity affirming early care and education workforce.

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ASP3IRE Children’s Environmental Health Center

ASPIRE Children’s Environmental Health Center

A dedicated team working together to improve children's health and well-being. Their efforts focus on accelerating the adoption of evidence-informed policies, programs, and practices that can reduce harmful environmental exposures where children live, play, and attend school.

•    CO-PIs: Megan McClelland, PhD and Molly Kile, ScD

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Red Light, Purple Light (RLPL) Intervention

Red Light, Purple Light! Evaluating a Self-Regulation Intervention for Children in Early Learning Settings

This project will test the initial efficacy of Red Light, Purple Light (RLPL), a self-regulation intervention developed as part of an Institute of Education Sciences (IES) grant. Researchers will examine whether access to one of two versions of RLPL, self-regulation (SR) or self-regulation with math/literacy (SR+), compared to a wait-list control (WLC) condition, relates to gains in children's self-regulation, math, and literacy skills in preschool and six months later.

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Roots of Resilience

Roots of Resilience is a professional development program designed to help early childhood teachers promote resilience in children impacted by trauma.

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Flame Retardants and Home Environment on Children's School Readiness

Flame Retardants and Home Environment on Children's School Readiness

This interdisciplinary study aims to improve our understanding of children's exposures to flame retardant compounds, as well as to examine the interplay between flame retardants and adverse social experiences on children's neurocognitive, executive functioning, and behavioral development.

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Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

The Oregon Child Care Research Partnership brings together state child care agencies, child care resource and referral entities, child care practitioners, and university-based researchers to define, create, and disseminate research on child care dynamics to decision-makers.

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Impact of 2014 CCDBG Act on Children, Families, and the Quality of Home Based Child Care

This project implements four research studies to assess the effect of Oregon's implementation of new policies in response to the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act of 2014, with a special focus on home-based child care.

 

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Development and evaluation of an intervention to increase joint activity and social well-being for adolescents with developmental disabilities

This research project is evaluating a multi-site, novel physical activity intervention for adolescents with developmental disabilities and their family dogs through a multi-site randomized controlled trial.

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