NEW Brief! Receiving SNAP (food assistance) was linked with more supportive parenting among immigrant parents with low incomes and young children. Read more: csch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u...
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State policies matter for the well-being of immigrant parents and the academic achievement of their young children. Read more in our latest brief written by CSCH affiliates and colleagues.
csch.media.uconn.edu/wp-content/u... @drkevinfvl.bsky.social @caitlombardi.bsky.social
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@caitlombardi.bsky.social & I recently published a mixed methods paper examining the role of state policy exclusions on immigrant parent wellbeing & development of their children. The paper is publicly available, please read and share: doi.org/10.1002/ajcp... #academicresearch
Thanks @uconncsch.bsky.social for the spotlight! Coming from an immigrant family, a central value for my work is moving from research on communities to research with communities. How can we support the dreams of immigrant communities & build their capacity for research that supports those dreams?
ICYMI: The Biden Administration has taken action to extend #TPS for the following countries
SUDAN 🇸🇩
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01...
VENEZUELA 🇻🇪
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01...
UKRAINE 🇺🇦
www.dhs.gov/news/2025/01...
EL SALVADOR 🇸🇻
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I know I'll eke out a couple more working hours in 2024 but it's time for my 2024 #wrapped! This work isn't possible with the many collaborators who I work alongside - thank you to everyone. #highereducation #highered #academia #mentorship #teaching #research
New: A 2006 study found undocumented immigrants contributed more to Texas than they cost the state. The state hasn’t updated the analysis since.
But a series of reports released by nonprofits and universities since then have reached similar conclusions.
www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/t...
One of the best feelings I get as a professor is at the end of the semester when students in class ask you what other courses you teach because they want to take another class with you - it always puts me on cloud nine!
👏👏👏 Congrats to Vanessa, a PhD candidate here in the UConn HDFS program, for receiving the Early Care &Education Research Scholars: Head Start Dissertation Grant from the Administration of Children and Families of the US DHHS! Take a look at this profile of her work
today.uconn.edu/2024/12/givi...