FPG Projects

Current FPG Projects | Completed Projects | There are 54 current projects at FPG

1,2,3: Breast Care Works
The project develops developmentally appropriate breast health education materials to disseminate to women with intellectual disabilities and providers that serve women with intellectual disabilities in North Carolina and throughout the US.
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Access for All: Implementing the Fundamental Elements of Accessibility
This grant is designed to promote statewide implementation of the Fundamental Elements of Accessibility (FEA) to improve the accessibility of domestic violence and sexual assault services for women with disabilities.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~ncodh/
African American English and its Relation to Literacy Skills in Early Adolescence
This project examines the production & development of African American English through early adolescence, its impact on literacy acquisition from school entry thru middle school, & youth, family, and school factors that may affect this linkage.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~aae/
All Women: Education, Screening, Mammograms
The project provides education and breast cancer screening services to women with intellectual disabilities in five NC counties and education to their caregivers, mammography technologists and healthcare professionals.
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An Ethnography of Rural Communities, Families, and Young Children
This ethnographic project in 6 rural counties in NC and PA will conduct assessments of the relationship between community forces and resources, social networks, family routines and adaptations, and the development of infant and preschool children.
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Attention, Memory, and Executive Function in Fragile X Syndrome
This longitudinal project will study cognitive abilities in a sample of 68 children with fragile X syndrome between the ages of 8 and 13 years. This is a continuation of a longitudinal study of children with FXS that began in the preschool years.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~fx/
Building Bridges: Evaluation of an Integrated Program for School Readiness
This longitudinal study of a multimodal integrated preschool program is designed to improve children's school readiness by promoting pre-literacy, communication, mathematics, & socioemotional skills in children at risk for school difficulties.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~buildingbridges/
Choices of Care Among Latino Families in the New South
The project addresses the child care needs and utilization patterns of Latino low-income parents, and factors that influence parental choice of care.
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Comparison of Two Comprehensive Treatment Models for Preschool-aged Children with Autism
A comparison of the TEACCH, LEAP, and business-as-usual service models for preschool-age children with autism spectrum disorder, including child outcomes, long-term effects on the children and their families, and cost comparison.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~asdtc/
CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge
CONNECT: The Center to Mobilize Early Childhood Knowledge will work with the early childhood community to create a series of web-based resources that focus on and respond to challenges faced each day by those working with young children with disabilities and their families.
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Data Acquisition and Analysis Center for NICHD Early Child Care Study
This ten-site study of approximately 1,000 preschoolers and their families investigates the relationships between various types and quality of non-maternal child care and child outcomes.
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Developmental Trajectories of Young Maltreated Children
Developmental trajectories of young maltreated children Research will analyze the developmental and behavioral patterns among young children entering Child Welfare Services and their developmental trajectories across multiple waves of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being data.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~promise/
Early Childhood Outcomes Center
The purpose of the Early Childhood Outcomes Center is to provide national leadership in the development and use of outcome information in early intervention and preschool special education programs.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~eco/
Early Intervention Graduates at Kindergarten: Analyses of Outcomes from the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study (NEILS)
The project uses data collected from the National Early Intervention Longitudinal Study to create explanatory multivariate models of the relationships between child, family, and service characteristics and child and family outcomes at kindergarten.
Full Project Summary | www.sri.com/neils/
Enhancing and Evaluating the Partners for a Healthy Baby Home Visiting Curricula for Early Head Start
This project evaluates the efficacy of a new widely used curriculum for home visitors, Partners for a Health Baby, now linked with LearningGames, a curriculum developed in the 1970s for the Abecedarian Projects.
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Evaluation of NC SPARK
This project supports overall evaluation activities of the Kellogg Foundation-funded NC SPARK school readiness initiative, which funds community-based interventions to promote children's successful transitions into school.
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Evaluation of Project CLICK

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Evaluation of Smart Start Family Support and Health Grant Options
The project provides evaluation of NCPC’s 2007-2009 Family Support and Health Grant Options: Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care; Raising a Reader; and Incredible Years: BASIC Parent Training Program – Early Childhood.
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Evaluation of Summer Treatment Program for Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders
This project evaluates whether the efficacy of the Summer Treatment Program for children with disruptive behavior disorders, varies as a function of individual differences in children's callous-unemotional traits.
Full Project Summary | http://ccf.buffalo.edu/STP.php
Evaluation of the NC More at Four Program
This project provides a statewide evaluation of NC's More at Four program. Data provides information about those being served, quality and characteristics of services, satisfaction of families served, and systemic impact.
Full Project Summary | www.fpg.unc.edu/~mafeval/

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