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Overview
The Children and Community Contexts (C3) Lab, lead by Dr. Tama Leventhal at the Eliot Pearson, Department of Child Study and Human Development, Tufts University, examines the role of community, neighborhood, and housing contexts in the lives of children, youth, and families. This research is at the intersection of developmental science and social policy, with a particular focus on low-income and immigrant families. C3 employs multiple methods (e.g., qualitative and quantitative) and both primary and secondary data sources to study a variety of issues related to community and housing contexts and children’s development. Alumni from the C3 Lab work in research organizations, academia, and policy settings.
Current Projects
Community contexts and stem pathways of Mexican children
- Community Resources that Promote Mexican Origin Children’s STEM Education across Diverse Families
- Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation
- Collaborator: Robert Crosnoe, Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin
Contribution of housing to child well-being
- Housing and Children’s Health Development
- Supported by grants from the MacArthur Foundation, NICHD, HUD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- Collaborator: Sandee Newman, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Univeristy
Impacts of preschool on children from residentially mobile families
- Head Start, Parenting, and Residentially Mobile Young Children’s Health and Well-being
- Supported by Bureau of Maternal and Child Health
- Collaborator: Sara Anderson, Ph.D., Child Trends