The Division of Politics and Economics invites the CGU community to
attend this week’s Tuesday Lunch Talk featuring, Cynthia Osborne,
PhD, associate dean for academic strategies and director of the Center
for Health and Social Policy at the University of Texas at Austin LBJ
School of Public Affairs. Lunch will be provided. Cynthia Osborne is
the associate dean for academic strategies and director of the Center
for Health and Social Policy (CHASP) at the University of Texas at
Austin LBJ School. She is also the founder and director of the Child
and Family Research Partnership (CFRP), a group that conducts rigorous
research on policy issues related to young children, adolescents and
their parents. She most recently launched the new national
Prenatal-to-Three Policy Impact Center at CFRP, specializing in
evidence-informed state policies that strengthen outcomes for infants
and toddlers. Osborne holds a PhD in demography and public affairs
from Princeton University, a Master in Public Policy degree from
Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and a Master of
Arts in education from Claremont Graduate University. Her teaching and
research interests include social policy issues, poverty and
inequality, family and child well-being, early childhood, fatherhood
and family demography. Talk Title: Effective State-Level Policies to
Strengthen the Prenatal-to-3 Period Description: State policy leaders
are increasingly convinced by the science of the developing child that
investing in the prenatal-to-age-3 period is important. However, they
are less certain about what the most effective policies are to reach
their goals of ensuring children are born healthy, their parents have
the skills and resources they need, and that when infants and toddlers
are not with their parents they are in high quality care. The
Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center at UT Austin’s LBJ School of
Public Affairs aims to be a resource for state leaders as they develop
and implement policies to strengthen the prenatal-to-3 system of care.
This center conducts comprehensive reviews to determine the strength
of the evidence of effectiveness of social policies. It creates a
clearinghouse for academics and state leaders to use to identify which
policies are most effective as well as the gaps in the evidence base
that need to be filled. This talk will describe the approach of the
new Impact Center, as well as discuss the important differences in
determining effectiveness of policies as compared to programs.
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