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Validation Results on Remote Assessment Tool for Children Shared at Yale Summit
In September, a summit was held at Yale University to share the findings of a validation study conducted across seven countries on the Remote Assessment of Learning (ReAL) tool, which was designed in 2021 to assess literacy, numeracy, and social-emotional skills in children ages 5–14 in remote learning environments.
17 Oct 2024
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Words for Change: Yale students join global call to launch a new humanism
Yale faculty and students respond to a call for ideas by renowned Italian singer-songwriter Giovanni Caccamo for a global book project on the power of youth to drive positive change.
15 May 2024
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Spring 2024 postgraduate associate travel award recipients announced
The results of the Yale Child Study Center Spring 2024 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award have been announced. The award offers $500 toward travel expenses for YCSC postgraduate associates attending national or international scientific conferences.
12 Apr 2024
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Songs and words for hope: Raising voices of children and youth through music
Leaders in science, education, and the musical arts join in NYC to celebrate the transformative power of children, youth, and families to build a more peaceful world.
21 Dec 2023
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Leckman to receive Human Values Award
Yale Child Study Center faculty member James Leckman, MD, PhD has been selected to receive the Human Values Award through the World Culture Festival Global Leadership Forum to honor his work with the Early Childhood Peace Consortium.
28 Sep 2023
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Spring 2023 postgraduate travel awardees announced
The results of the Yale Child Study Center Spring 2023 round of awards for the department’s postgraduate travel award were announced on May 22. The award which offers $500 toward travel expenses for postgraduate associates attending national or international scientific conferences.
24 May 2023
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“Salt to the Deep Wound” - The Humanitarian Response to the Turkey-Syria Earthquake: Challenges Ahead
Dr. Kaveh Khoshnood, Faculty Director of the Yale School of Public Health Humanitarian Research Lab, moderated a discussion on January 20 between Karam Alhamad, MPP Candidate Jackson School of Global Affairs and Charles Lister, Director of the Middle East Institute’s Syria and Countering Terrorism & Extremism programs, on the response to the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria and the challenges posed by this complex emergency.
21 Feb 2023
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Humanitarian Research Lab Documenting Potential War Crimes in Ukraine
The Yale School of Public Health’s Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) is documenting potential violations of international law and crimes against humanity by Russia and Russia-aligned forces in Ukraine as part of a new Conflict Observatory initiative led by the U.S. Department of State.
28 Nov 2022
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Leckman is recipient of the 2022 International OCD Foundation's Outstanding Career Achievement Award
Dr. James F. Leckman, Neison Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Psychiatry, Psychology, and Pediatrics at Yale, receives the 2022 Outstanding Career Achievement Award by the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) for going above and beyond in service and dedication to the OCD and related disorders community.
22 Jul 2022
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Displaced Children, Youth, and Families Traumatized by War and Violent Conflict in Ukraine and Beyond
Yale Child Study Center Professor James F. Leckman, MD, PhD reflects on a recent international conference in Warsaw, Poland and the mental health needs of displaced children and families traumatized by war.
9 Jun 2022
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Promoting Love and Peace Across Generations through Science and Global Partnerships
Professor in the Yale Child Study Center Dr. James F. Leckman, leads a team of international scientists, scholars, and practitioners in a special journal publication that underscores the impact that early childhood development initiatives can have on promoting love and peace across generations
19 Dec 2021
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Hope for the world’s most vulnerable children impacted by COVID-19
Yale Child Center faculty along with international experts respond to COVID-19 for children in fragile and conflict-affected settings at this year’s Civil Society 20 (C20)’s virtual summit.
1 Oct 2020
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The promise of parent-child education programs on improving parenting practices and reducing stress in conflict-exposed families
Yale led research study shows that early childhood parenting education programs have a positive impact on disciplinary practices and parenting stress for families that experience humanitarian crises such as exposure to conflict, displacement, and economic marginalization.
30 Apr 2020
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Leckman Receives Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology has named James F. Leckman, MD, PhD, as the recipient of its 2019 Julius Axelrod Mentorship Award.
8 Dec 2019
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Representatives of Two Medical School Departments Advocate for Detained Migrant Children
The Yale Child Study Center, the Department of Pediatrics, and the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee team at the Unitarian Society of New Haven co-hosted a rally and candlelight vigil on July 12 to protest the conditions migrants are facing at the U.S. - Mexico border.
16 Jul 2019
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New Video Series: Powers of Science and Practice Advance Real Hope for Raising Children of Peace
A global team of peacebuilding experts champion the transformative power of children and families, reveal proven theory of change, and sound a global call to action in new Yale-led video series.
5 Jun 2019
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Conference to Explore Effect of Early Childhood Development on World Peace
In partnership with UNICEF and Queens University Belfast, the Early Childhood Peace Consortium (ECPC) at the Yale Child Study Center will host an open house conference at the Omni Hotel in New Haven this Thursday, Nov. 29 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The organizing question for the event will be: “Can early childhood development advance ‘The Culture of Peace?’”
25 Nov 2018
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Special edition of health journal focuses on the early child development promise for peace
Faculty members at the Yale Child Study Center announce the publication of their special issue in journal, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development (NDCAD). This Spring 2018 issue focuses on the potential of early child development programs as a viable path to peace in the context of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
14 Mar 2018
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Webcast Oct 5 | The Lancet Series on Advancing Early Childhood Development: From Science to Scale
The World Bank is hosting a live-streamed global launch of the new Lancet Early Childhood Development Series on Oct 5th from 2-4 pm EST at its annual world summit of Economic Ministers. Three Yale faculty are among the noted authors of this series that is a major milestone with major global implications.
4 Oct 2016
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Youth as Agents of Peace: Report Features Yale Faculty in Global Workshop to Invest in Youth for a More Peaceful World
Yale faculty played leading roles at the March 2016 "Forum on Investing in Young Children Globally", held in Amman, Jordan. The forum was an outcome of the partnership with UNICEF and the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue (KAICIID). Set against the worst human refugee crisis since World War II, the workshop aimed to explore how investment in young children could lead to more peaceful societies.
27 Jun 2016