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COMMITTEE ON SUPPORTING THE PARENTS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
VIVIAN L. GADSDEN (Chair), School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
CLARE ANDERSON, Chapin Hall, University of Chicago
OSCAR A. BARBARIN, III, Department of African American Studies, University of Maryland,
College Park
RICHARD P. BARTH, School of Social Work, University of Maryland, Baltimore
WILLIAM R. BEARDSLEE, Departments of Psychiatry, Boston Children’s Hospital and
Harvard Medical School
KIMBERLY BOLLER, Mathematica Policy Research, Princeton, New Jersey
NATASHA J. CABRERA, Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology,
University of Maryland, College Park
ERIC DEARING, Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology,
Boston College
GREG J. DUNCAN, School of Education, University of California, Irvine
NORMA FINKELSTEIN, Institute for Health and Recovery, Cambridge, Massachusetts
ELENA FUENTES-AFFLICK, Department of Pediatrics, University of California, San
Francisco
IHEOMA U. IRUKA, Buffet Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska
SAMUEL L. ODOM, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
BARBARA ROGOFF, Department of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz
MARK A. SCHUSTER, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Department of
Medicine, Boston Children’s Hospital
SELCUK R. SIRIN, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University
KASISOMAYAJULA (VISH) VISWANATH, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences,
Harvard School of Public Health, and Health Communications Core, Dana-Farber/Harvard
Cancer Center
MICHAEL S. WALD, School of Law, Stanford University
Study Staff
MORGAN A. FORD, Study Director
HEATHER BREINER, Associate Program Officer
SARAH TRACEY, Research Associate
KELSEY GEISER, Research Assistant
STACEY SMIT, Senior Program Assistant
ANTHONY JANIFER, Program Assistant (until December 2015)
PAMELLA ATAYI, Administrative Assistant
BRIDGET KELLEY, Acting Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families (from July to
September 2015)
KIMBER BOGARD, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families (until July 2015)
NATACHA BLAIN, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families (from November 2015)
KATHERINE J. GOLD, James C. Puffer /American Board of Family Medicine Fellow
LISA ALSTON, Financial & Administrative Officer (starting July 2015)
FAYE HILLMAN, Financial Associate (until July 2015)
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MEMBERS OF THE BOARD ON CHILDREN, YOUTH, AND FAMILIES
ANGELA DIAZ, (Chair), Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of
Medicine at Mount Sinai
SHARI BARKIN, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital, Vanderbilt University
THOMAS F. BOAT, College of Medicine, University of Cincinnati
W. THOMAS BOYCE, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia
DAVID A. BRENT, Western Psychiatric Institute and University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine
DAVID V.B. BRITT, Retired CEO, Sesame Workshop
DEBBIE I. CHANG, Nemours Health and Prevention Services
PATRICK H. DELEON, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine and the Graduate School of
Nursing Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
ELENA FUENTES-AFFLICK, University of California San Francisco and San Francisco
General Hospital
EUGENE E. GARCIA, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers’ College, Arizona State University
J. DAVID HAWKINS, School of Social Work, University of Washington
JEFFREY W. HUTCHINSON, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
JACQUELINE JONES, Foundation for Child Development, New York, NY
ANN S. MASTEN, Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota
VELMA MCBRIDE MURRY, Peabody College, Vanderbilt University
BRUCE S. MCEWEN, Harold and Margaret Milliken Hatch Laboratory of
Neuroendocrinology, The Rockefeller University
MARTIN J. SEPULVEDA, IBM Fellow, (retired), Research Division, IBM Corporation
TAHA E. TAHA, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
NATACHA BLAIN, Director, Board on Children, Youth, and Families
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The committee and project staff would like to express their sincere gratitude to all of
those who generously contributed their time and expertise to inform the development of this
report.
To begin, we would like to thank the sponsors of this study for their guidance. Support
for the committee’s work was provided by the Administration for Children and Families, the
Bezos Family Foundation, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Department of Education,
the Foundation for Child Development, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the
Heising-Simons Foundation, and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Administration.
Many individuals volunteered significant time and effort to address and educate the
committee during our public sessions (see Appendix A) and our interviews with parents. Their
willingness to share their perspectives was essential to the committee’s work. We express
gratitude to those who provided support in identifying parents for the interviews and public
session in Irvine, California, including Sunnah Kim at the American Academy of Pediatrics,
Yolie Flores at The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading, Sandra Gutierrez and Debbie Ignacio at
Abriendo Puertas/Opening Doors, and Michael Duncan at Native Dad Networks. We are grateful
to Lucy Rivero for providing interpretation services during the public session in Irvine. We also
thank the many stakeholders who offered input and shared information and documentation with
the committee over the course of the study, including the Center for Law and Social Policy, the
Center for the Study of Social Policy, Futures Without Violence, the National Parenting
Education Network, and ZERO TO THREE. In addition, we appreciate the generous hospitality
of the organizations and providers in Omaha, Nebraska, and Washington, DC, who opened their
doors to provide us space to conduct interviews with parents. We are also immensely grateful for
the planning assistance and logistical support for site visits provided to us by Lori Koker at the
Buffett Early Childhood Institute, University of Nebraska. Furthermore, we extend our
appreciation to the many assistants who provided scheduling, communication, and travel support
for the committee members.
The committee also expresses its deep appreciation for the opportunity to work with the
dedicated members of the staff of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and
Medicine on this important project. We are thankful to the project staff: Morgan Ford, Heather
Breiner, Sarah Tracey, Kelsey Geiser, Stacey Smit, Anthony Janifer, and Katherine Gold. The
committee is also thankful to Pamella Atayi, Faye Hillman, and Lisa Alston for their assistance
on this project. The committee gratefully acknowledges Kimber Bogard and Bridget Kelly of the
Board on Children, Youth, and Families; Robert Hauser, executive director of the Division of
Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; Mary Ellen O’Connell, deputy executive director
of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; and Clyde Behney, executive
director of the Health and Medicine Division for their leadership and the guidance they provided
throughout this study. The committee would like to thank staff of the Office of Reports and
Communication of the Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education for their
assistance with the preparation of this report, including Eugenia Grohman, Viola Horek, Patricia
L. Morison, Kirsten Sampson-Snyder, Douglas Sprunger, and Yvonne Wise. We also wish to
thank the staff at the Research Center for their research assistance. In addition, we thank the staff
of Kentlands Travel for their assistance with the travel needs of this project.
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The committee is grateful to Lauren Tobias of Maven Messaging & Communications for
her work as a consultant for this study. We greatly appreciate Jessica F. Harding, Joanne
Nicholson, Karen Bierman, Kyla Liggett-Creel, Lisa A. Gennetian, Pamella Morris, and Tumani
Coker for their valuable commissioned work. We thank Rona Briere and Alisa Decatur at Briere
Associates, Inc., for the diligent editorial assistance they provided in preparing this report.
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REVIEWERS
This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse
perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The purpose of this independent review is to
provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published
report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for
objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft
manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to
thank the following individuals for their review of this report:
ANTHONY BIGLAN, Education and Training, Oregon Research Institute, Eugene, OR
DEBORAH DARO, Hall Center for Children, The University of Chicago
JULIA MENDEZ, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
BENNETT A. SHAYWITZ, Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, Yale University
SUSAN J. SPIEKER, Family and Child Nursing and Barnard Center for Infant Mental Health
and Development, University of Washington
WILLIAM H. TEALE, Center for Literacy, University of Illinois
ROSS A. THOMPSON, Department of Psychology, University of California, Davis
RICHARD WASSERMAN, Department of Pediatrics, University of Vermont College of
Medicine
Although the reviewers listed above provided many constructive comments and suggestions,
they were not asked to endorse the report’s conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the
final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by NANCY E.
ADLER, Departments of Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Center for Health and Community,
University of California, San Francisco and JEANNE BROOKS-GUNN, Teachers College and
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. Appointed by the National
Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, they were responsible for making certain
that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional
procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final
content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.
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