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Apr 05, 2022
Listening to Youth Perspectives to Support School Health Education
Starting at a young age, children acquire knowledge and develop skills and habits that can impact their overall health and well-being. Schools play…
Apr 01, 2022
No More Watchful Waiting for Developmental Delays
Last month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) released an updated set of developmental…
Mar 28, 2022
Effective Expansion and Sustainability of Home Visiting Services Requires Integration Across Systems
Evidence-based home visiting services partner nurses or other trained professionals with pregnant persons and their young families to provide…
Mar 24, 2022
Restoring Equity in Our City School Communities
Throughout the pandemic, Black, Latinx, and immigrant families have faced the most significant impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionately…
Mar 23, 2022
Delaware Poised to Join New Jersey With Statewide Paid Family & Medical Leave Policy in 200 Words
Delaware may soon become the 10th state in the country to enact a statewide policy on paid family and medical leave. Although state policies…
Mar 08, 2022
Meeting Families Where They Are: Child Care Navigation Supports Through Primary Care
There is an enormous amount of evidence demonstrating how quality child care environments can have long-term benefits for children, including…
Feb 25, 2022
Educators and Caregivers Need Better Tools to Support Youth with Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are severe neurodevelopmental disorders with potentially deadly medical consequences. They can begin in childhood and occur in youth…
Feb 22, 2022
The Relationship Between State COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage and Adult Hospital Census in 200 Words
With COVID-19 case incidence rapidly declining across much of the U.S., we have an opportunity to catch our breath and evaluate the public health…
Feb 17, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: Hastened Recovery Continues, Although Some Risk Remains
Following a break from modeling last week, our COVID-Lab team updated our case incidence and hospitalization forecasts today for counties across the…
Feb 16, 2022
How Effective are Mask Mandates at Stopping the Spread of COVID-19?
More than two years into the COVID-19 pandemic when people everywhere are working hard to summon the energy for another chapter, many questions…
Feb 03, 2022
COVID-19 Outlook: As Recovery Continues, Schools Plan for Next Steps
A review of our COVID-Lab forecasting model this week reveals COVID-19 transmission and hospitalizations are declining across most of the U.S., and…
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