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A national survey of the child care workforce conducted between May and June of this year found that, among 20,013 respondents, 78.2% were fully vaccinated. During that same time period, just 65% of the general adult population had been fully vaccinated.

Yale researchers have conducted the first-ever large-scale assessment of the risk of working in child care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) at the Administration for Children and Families has awarded a grant to an Education Development Center (EDC) team led by Clare Irwin, PEER co-director, to study low-income working parents’ access to child care.

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.

A candlelight vigil to protest treatment of Mexican and Central American migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, one of a reported 700-plus events around the world, will be held at 8 p.m. Friday on the steps of Hamden Memorial Town Hall.

A generous gift from a Chinese family will be used to establish a fund to initiate the MXW Program at the Yale Child Study Center.

Edward F. Zigler, a pioneer in the application of developmental psychology to social policy and known by many as the “Father of Head Start,” a program that has served over 35 million American children and their families, died in his sleep on February 7 at his home in North Haven, Connecticut. He was 88 years old.