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Project Description

The Chicago Longitudinal Study at the Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota, is an ongoing investigation of the educational and social development of a same-age cohort of 1,539 low-income children who participated in the Chicago Child-Parent Center Program and other early education programs in 1983-1986. Over the past two decades, the study has examined, in collaboration with the Chicago Public Schools, the link between program participation and child and family outcomes, including school performance, social behavior, educational attainment, and parent involvement. The project will investigate more comprehensively the connections between early childhood intervention, child maltreatment, and early adult well being.

The goals of the project are to:

1. Disseminate knowledge about the Child-Parent centers to policymakers and practitioners in early education and child welfare,
2. Review the evidence about the links between early childhoods and child maltreatment prevention, especially the program elements that strengthen these links, and
3. Analyze existing data in the Chicago Longitudinal Study to determine how program participation in the Child-Parent Centers can lead to lower rates of child maltreatment as well as delinquency, educational attainment, and economic well being.

Funds for the project will be distributed across these three goals.

Project investigators will:

• Prepare dissemination reports and early childhood reports on the Chicago Child-Parent Centers,
• Conduct a research synthesis of the impact of early childhood interventions on child maltreatment and risks for maltreatment, including analyses and re-analyses of data from early intervention projects,
• Conduct basic research in the Chicago Longitudinal Study to better understand the family, school, and child-level processes that explain how program participation leads to lower rates of child maltreatment.

These identified processes can be used to strengthen the links between early intervention and maltreatment prevention and improve the capacity of existing early childhood programs to contribute to children's social and educational success. Economic analyses of the benefits of preventing child maltreatment in the Child-Parent Centers and other early interventions also will be compiled.

Project Staff

Arthur Reynolds, Ph.D., Professor, ICD
Principal Investigator
Phone: 612-625-4321, Email: ajr@umn.edu

Judy Temple, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Humphrey Institute
Co-Principal Investigator
Phone: 612-625-2286, Email: jtemple@umn.edu

Suh-Ruu Ou, Ph.D., Research Associate
Phone: 612-626-0446, Email: sou@umn.edu

Michelle Englund, Ph.D., Research Associate
Phone: 612-624-5792, Email: englu008@umn.edu

Jennifer Derham, Graduate Research Assistant
Phone: 612-624-1650, Email: jderham@umn.edu

Sarah Robison, Graduate Research Assistant
Phone: 612-625-6472, Email: robis009@umn.edu

Funding

This work is funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.