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NIH R01 · 2024

Multi-level evidence-based intervention to reduce health and education disparities among children of color in high-poverty schools in historically disinvested neighborhoods hardest hit by the pandemic

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT This study evaluates the enduring protective impacts of a multi-level evidence-based intervention, ParentCorps, in high-poverty schools with pre-Kindergarten (pre-K) programs serving primarily Black and Latino children in New York City (NYC) neighborhoods hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, Black and Latino children in NYC are more than twice as likely as White children to lose a parent to COVID-19. COVID-19-related financial and social stresses have been especially hard on households with young children. Reports on the well-being of families with young children document substantial increases in adversity in many areas, including lack of household basic…

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