LCT-RN Products

10+ years of advancing life course intervention research.

Over the past ten years, the Center for Healthier Children, Families & Communities has served as the national coordinating center for the Life Course Research Network (LCRN, 2013-2019), the Life Course Intervention Research Network (LCIRN, 2018-2023), and the Life Course Translational Research Network (LCT-RN, 2023-present). This page contains a list of some of our other resources that have been created to help build the field of life course intervention research.

Recent Publications

• Anderson NW, Russ SA, Eisenberg D, Halfon N. Dashboards as Mechanisms for Community Empowerment: Developing a Prototype for Child and Adolescent Well-being in California. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2023;29(4):529-538. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000001746 
• Childress, S., Roberts, A., Ekueku, M., Findley, E., LaBrenz, K., & Baiden, P. Exploring the Lived Experiences of Women with Children During COVID-19: Maternal Stress and Coping Mechanisms. Children & Youth Services Review. 2023(145)106775 
• Duh-Leong C, Fuller AE, Johnson SB, Coble CA, Nagpal N, Gross RS. Social Capital and Sleep Outcomes Across Childhood in United States Families. Acad Pediatr. 2023;23(6):1226-1233. doi:10.1016/j.acap.2023.01.002 
• Duh-Leong C, Ghassabian A, Kannan K, et al. Prenatal oxidative stress and rapid infant weight gain. Int J Obes (Lond). 2023;47(7):583-589. doi:10.1038/s41366-023-01302-8 
• Huang CX, Halfon N, Sastry N, Chung PJ, Schickedanz A. Positive Childhood Experiences and Adult Health Outcomes. Pediatrics. 2023;152(1):e2022060951. doi:10.1542/peds.2022-060951 
• Nailah Gallego Clemmons, Erica Coates & Alison McLeod (2023) Understanding the benefits of child-parent psychotherapy delivered via telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic, Children's Health Care, DOI: 10.1080/02739615.2023.2179489
• Sobotka, SA, Lynch, E, Msall, ME, Graham, RJ. Early childhood developmental skills of children with tracheostomies and ventilators recently discharged home. Pediatric Pulmonology. 2023; 58: 853- 865. doi:10.1002/ppul.26265 
• Coates EE, Hayes, KR, de Heer R, McLeod A, Curtis, L, Domitrovich, C, Biel, M. “It was just good to have an outlet for other parents to talk to”: Feasibility and acceptability of integrating mental health and wellness services into predominantly Black early childhood education centers during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2023 June. 
• Meza, Benjamin P. L., Rebecca N. Dudovitz, Ziva D. Cooper, Joan S. Tucker, and Mitchell D. Wong. “Adolescent Cannabis Misuse Scale: Longitudinal Associations with Substance Use, Mental Health, and Social Determinants of Health in Early Adulthood.” Substance Use & Misuse 58, no. 9 (July 29, 2023): 1080–89. 
• Duh-Leong C, Perrin EM, Heerman WJ, Schildcrout JS, Wallace S, Mendelsohn AL, Lee DC, Flower KB, Sanders LM, Rothman RL, Delamater AM, Gross RS, Wood C, Yin HS. Prenatal Risks to Healthy Food Access and High Birthweight Outcomes. Acad Pediatr. 2023 Sep 1:S1876-2859(23)00346-7. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2023.08.017. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37659601. 
• Childress, S., LaBrenz, C. A., Findley, E., & Baiden, P. (2023). Adjusting Parenting Roles and Work Expectations Among Women With Children During COVID-19. Families in Society, 0(0).  
• Kim L, Duh-Leong C, Nagpal N, Ortiz R, Katzow MW, Russ S, Halfon N. Supporting early childhood routines to promote cardiovascular health across the life course. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2023 Oct 9:101434. doi: 10.1016/j.cppeds.2023.101434. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37821292.
• Tolliver DG, Abrams LS, Biely C, Meza BPL, Schickedanz A, Guerrero AD, Jackson NJ, Bath E, Heard-Garris N, Dudovitz R, Barnert E. United States Youth Arrest and Health Across the Life Course: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study. Acad Pediatr. 2023 May-Jun;23(4):722-730. doi: 10.1016/j.acap.2022.08.009. Epub 2022 Aug 31. PMID: 36055448; PMCID: PMC9971348. 
• Rook JM, Yama CL, Schickedanz AB, Feuerbach AM, Lee SL, Wisk LE. Changes in Self-Reported Adult Health and Household Food Security With the 2021 Expanded Child Tax Credit Monthly Payments. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 Jun 2;4(6):e231672. doi: 10.1001/jamahealthforum.2023.1672. PMID: 37354539; PMCID: PMC10290752. 
• Rodriguez SH, Blair MP, Timtim E, Millman R, Si Z, Wroblewski K, Andrews B, Msall ME, Peyton C. Smartphone application links severity of retinopathy of prematurity to early motor behavior in a cohort of high-risk preterm infants. J AAPOS. 2023 Feb;27(1):12.e1-12.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2022.11.018. Epub 2023 Jan 13. PMID: 36642242; PMCID: PMC10243477. 
• Duh-Leong C, Canfield CF, Fuller AE, Gross RS, Reichman NE. Early Childcare Precarity and Subsequent Maternal Health. Womens Health Issues. Published online November 15, 2023. doi:10.1016/j.whi.2023.10.002 
• La Charite J, Khan M, Dudovitz R, et al. Specific domains of positive childhood experiences (PCEs) associated with improved adult health: A nationally representative study. SSM Popul Health. 2023;24:101558. Published 2023 Nov 11. doi:10.1016/j.ssmph.2023.101558 
• Liu PY, Spiker S, Holguin M, Schickedanz A. Innovations in social health delivery to advance equitable pediatric and adolescent life course health development: A review and roadmap forward. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2023;53(6):101451. doi:10.1016/j.cppeds.2023.101451 
• Lesnick J, Abrams LS, Angel K, Barnert ES. Credible messenger mentoring to promote the health of youth involved in the juvenile legal system: A narrative review. Curr Probl Pediatr Adolesc Health Care. 2023;53(6):101435. doi:10.1016/j.cppeds.2023.101435
• Barnert ES, Schlichte LM, Tolliver DG, et al. Parents' Adverse and Positive Childhood Experiences and Offspring Involvement With the Criminal Legal System. JAMA Netw Open. 2023;6(10):e2339648. Published 2023 Oct 2. 
• Crandall, A., Holmes, E. K., Villalon, S. E., Weiss-Laxer, N. S., & Berge, J. M. (2023). A conceptual model of family well-being: Bridging constructs, fields, and practice applications. Journal of Family Theory & Review, 1–18. 

Webinars

Family Health Webinar Series (2022-2023)

• Family Health, Family Functioning, Family Resilience: What’s in a Name? 
• Family Resilience with Dr. Froma Walsh and Dr. Nastassia Hajal
• Parents as Drivers of Systems Change with Yolie Flores

INRICH 13th Annual Workshop on Childhood Inequalities

• A Life Course Health Development Framework to Address Child Health Inequalities with Neal Halfon
• Three Horizons: A Framework to Guide Systems Transition with Graham Leicester
• Using Global Multi-Level Data with Jody Heymann
• New Approaches to Evaluating Early Life Public Health Interventions with John Wright
• Learning from Comparative Systems Research to Accelerate Equitable Child Health Outcomes with Sharon Goldfeld
• Child of the North: Building a Fairer Future with David Taylor-Robinson
• Deep Causes of Health Inequality with Kate Pickett
• The Systems Work of Social Change with Cynthia Rayner 
• All Children Thrive Cincinnati: Adaptive, Multi-level Approaches to Interventions to Improve Equity with Rob Kahn
• Nesting Interventions in Cohort Studies: GenV with Melissa Wake
• A Life Course Model of Adverse Childhood Experiences with Jane Kinsey

Living on the Edge: a life course discussion with Dr. Glen Elder and Dr. Rick Settersten

Life Course Research Visual Toolkit in partnership with the Lifespan Enterprise Committee

• An introduction to life course research and complexity science
• Creating systematic processes for longitudinal integration of datasets across the life span
• Utilizing data sciences resources to prepare and package integrated datasets
• Developing and validating ways to model high-dimensional data
• From microsimulations to complexity science-informed interventions
• Applying analytical methods that can capture the multiple dimensions of time (timing, dose, duration)

Strategies for Engaging Stakeholders in Research with the UNC Jordan Institute for Families

Anti-racist research and centering race and racism in the life course research agenda with Dr. Iheoma Iruka

LCRN Measurement Series

• Introduction to a comprehensive life course monitoring system
• Early Development Instrument (EDI) in US cities
• EDI in Australia
• Middle Development Instrument (MDI)
• Data Linkage
• Community-based systems approach
• Where to go next with research

Reports

• Year 2 in Review (2019-2020)
• Year 3 in Review (2020-2021)
• Year 4 in Review (2021-2022)

Newsletters

September 2022: Moving Life Course Interventions Upstream

May 2022: Advancing  Life Course Intervention Research

March 2022: Accelerating Life Course Intervention Research

November 2021: New approaches to research on the short- and long-term impacts of COVID-19 on children’s well-being

August 2021: Introducing the LCIRN Scholars Program

June 2021: Youth-led Participatory Action Research

February 2021: A rapid research agenda for COVID-19 and children’s well-being

November 2020: Introducing the LCIRN

Tools and Toolkits

Emergency & Pandemic Preparedness Toolkit for Families of Children with Special Healthcare Needs

Family Functioning Measures: A matrix of 40 validated tools to measure aspects of family functioning including organizational processes, belief systems, and communications processes

Acknowledgement

This project is supported by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under award U9DMC49250, the Life Course Translational Research Network. The information, content, and/or conclusions are those of the author and should not be construed as the official position of, nor should any endorsements be inferred by HRSA, HHS, or the US Government.

Life Course Research Visual Toolkit in partnership with the Lifespan Enterprise Committee