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Current Research
Two-Generation Human Capital Interventions. In 2008, Chase Lansdale launched an action-research project on education and workforce programs for young, low-income parents, combined with high-quality, early childhood education programs for children. Currently, she is collaborating with Jeanne Brooks-Gunn of Columbia University, Christopher King of the University of Texas at Austin, Amanda Morris of Oklahoma State University, Hiro Yoshikawa of New York University, and the antipoverty agency Community Action Program (CAP) of Tulsa, Okla., to expand and study a model program called CareerAdvance®. This is a newly created education and workforce development program designed for low-income parents of young children enrolled in CAP’s early childhood education programs. CareerAdvance® also provides a number of key supportive components—career coaches, financial incentives, and peer group meetings—to prepare parents for high-demand jobs in the healthcare sector. To date, the two-generation approach of CareerAdvance® is the only human capital program with the goal of improving outcomes simultaneously for both parents and children.
Chase-Lansdale’s research program addresses the influence of two-generation interventions on the psychological health, educational attainment, and economic well-being of families and children. She is also collaborating with IPR research associate professor Teresa Eckrich Sommer and IPR developmental psychologist Terri Sabol to study a variety of two-generation human capital programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Lowell, Massachusetts. Funding for her research has come from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and the Foundation for Child Development. |