Families

Safety, nurturing families, and permanent connections are essential to a child’s well-being, and supporting community-based initiatives toward preventing child abuse and neglect is critical.

The best way to help children become their best selves is to support parents as they navigate childhood. Research throughout past decades has demonstrated the effectiveness of programs that do just that; however, those programs are not widely available and, even when they are available, they are not very accessible. This is where Empowered Generations (eGen) comes in.

CEHD is focused on deepening its global relationships. This means listening and responding to the needs of global partners and fostering significant relationships to strengthen international engagement, sustainability, and reciprocity.

University researchers, state agency leaders, and community stakeholders came together with funding from the University to form the HSWH-RP, co-directed by Eric Grumdahl (then deputy director of the Interagency Council on Homelessness), along with Professors Maria Hanratty (Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs) and Ann Masten (Institute of Child Development) from the University.

In 2025, the Institute of Child Development (ICD) celebrates its Centennial—a century of leading the field of developmental science and advancing discoveries that have improved children’s wellbeing across the world.

We’re all familiar with stories focused on overcoming adversity. Movies, books, and even LinkedIn posts frequently narrate how an individual beat the odds to win the big game, leave a troubled relationship, or start a business.

This August marked the return of the Leading in Equity, Action, and Diversity (LEAD) conference, a CEHD-sponsored event designed to give education leaders the tools and ideas necessary to disrupt pervasive racial inequities in PreK-12 schools...