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The Resource Center's virtual library collects material from a wide array of organizations available in a variety of formats to build a knowledge base around healthy marriage and relationship education, integration into safety-net service systems, and related topics for couples, educators, policy makers, public service agencies, and other safety-net stakeholders.

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Pushing Toward Breakthroughs: Using Innovative Practice to Address Toxic Stress.

This brief highlights programs that are re-thinking services for children and families based on the science of early childhood development and understanding of the consequences of adverse early experiences and toxic stress. Efforts by Acelero Learning in New York City, the Westside Infant-Family...
Innovating in Early Head Start: Can Reducing Toxic Stress Improve Outcomes for Young Children?

This article explains the federal Administration on Children, Youth, and Families is seizing on the science of early childhood development and using the home-visiting Early Head Start program to build responsive caregiving and help alleviate the effects of toxic stress. It highlights the...
Listening to a Baby's Brain: Changing the Pediatric Checkup to Reduce Toxic Stress.

This article discusses the role of the pediatrician in addressing toxic stress and the development of recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics for implementing prevention, screening, and treatment in clinical practice. The Purposeful Parenting program is highlighted as a way to...
Protectors or Perpetrators?: Fathers, Mothers, and Child Abuse and Neglect.

This brief explores what role fathers play in perpetrating or protecting their children from child neglect and abuse. Studies indicate that fathers, especially married fathers who live with their children, play an important role in protecting their children from abuse and neglect, a fact that is...
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