FPG Project Summary
Family Life Project
This project seeks to understand the development of critical, early skills (e.g., emotional and behavioral regulation, attention, autonomous functioning, school readiness, competence with peers, social competence) in both poor and non poor, young children growing up in rural areas characterized by high poverty.
The project recruited a birth cohort of 480 children and their families in three non-urban counties of Appalachia (Pennsylvania) and 720 children and their families in three non-urban counties of the Black south (North Carolina) to be followed intensively over the first three years of life. An interdisciplinary team of investigators with expertise in a variety of important domains considers the multiple levels of influence, that contribute to good and poor outcomes for young children and their families.
| Principal Investigator(s): | Lynne Vernon-Feagans |
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| Staff supported by project: |
Allison De Marco, Investigator
Patricia Garrett-Peters, Investigator Margaret Burchinal Michael Willoughby Martha Cox |
| Funding Agency(ies): | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services |
| Funding Dates: | Started: 07/01/2002 Ends: 09/01/2012 |
| Project Email: | lynne_vernon-feagans@unc.edu |
| Project Web Site: | www.fpg.unc.edu/~flp/ (opens in a new window) |
| NC Counties Served: | Sampson, Wayne, Wilson |
| US States Served: | North Carolina, Pennsylvania |
