Neighborhood/Community

Healthy children can only develop in the context of healthy neighborhoods and communities. In recognition of this knowledge, most work of the Center includes a neighborhood/community component. The Center's projects focused exclusively in this area examine the influence of neighborhood processes on children of different ages and the effects of residential change on low-income families, with particular attention given to the intersection of neighborhood and family resources and the opportunities and challenges they present for enhancing the well-being of children.

Current Neighborhood/Community Projects:

- The Yonkers Family and Community Project
- Neighborhoods and Children: Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN);
- A MultiLevel Study of Young Children's Emotional Health: Individual, Family, and Neighborhood Influences (follow-up to PHDCN)
- Children's Exposure to Violence Over Space and Time (follow-up to PHDCN)
- Immigrant Differences in School-Age Children's Verbal Trajectories (follow-up to PHDCN)

Completed Neighborhood/Community Projects:

- Moving to Opportunity Experiment: A Randomized Study of Mobility