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Welcome
 The mission of the Child and Family Program is to help ensure educators, human service providers, and family members have the knowledge, skills, and resources to meet the increasingly complex needs of children and families at all developmental stages of life.

Projects & Services

Project ExCEL: Building Language for Literacy Plus
 Provides systematic, intensive, and on-going training to the staff of full-day classrooms of five high-quality Head Start programs (13 classrooms at 11 sites) in Oregon.
Full-Day Kindergarten: Research, Practice, and Planning
 Research documents the benefits of full-day versus half-day kindergarten in preparing students for later elementary years, especially for students at risk of school failure.
Classroom to Community and Back
 Provides strategies to actively engage students (especially those who are typically disengaged) by tapping into their family, community, and youth culture.
School-Family-Community Partnerships
 Promoting child and youth success by working with schools to build culturally responsive partnerships with families and communities.
Early Connections
 Learn what technology can - and can't - do in the education of young children.

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