Fragile Families Summer Data Training Workshop Series 2021-2025

摘要 该提案旨在为一系列的五个夏季讲习班提供资金，这些讲习班将培训一批不同的职业早期人员。 脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究（FFS），一个基于人口的，纵向的， NIH资助的出生队列调查旨在进一步了解社会和行为因素 影响城市儿童的发展。与已婚、受过大学教育的人所生的孩子相比， 父母，未婚父母所生的孩子，没有受过大学教育，通常被称为“脆弱的” 在贫穷、犯罪率高和暴力的社区长大的人， 和其他可怜的孩子一起。生物医学和人口科学家提出了许多关于 这些环境因素在多大程度上影响儿童和青少年的福祉， 缓和儿童和青少年对健康或行为挑战的遗传倾向， 控制因果效应的机制FFS在解决这些问题方面发挥了重要作用。 问题;然而，还有很多东西需要学习，新的背景和遗传FFS数据的收集 进一步推动了研究文献的发展。因此，拟议的讲习班将分别侧重于 专题领域有关的上述问题，并将讨论不同方面的FFS数据不 涵盖在以前的培训讲习班，包括青少年睡眠，健康行为的关系;认知 发展; DNA甲基化;大脑发育;刑事司法参与;和儿童的结果 当他们22岁的时候。拟议的一系列讲习班将培训新一代的研究人员， 社会和生物医学科学的各种学科对FFS数据的能力，并将导致 在传播“脆弱家庭”数据时， 和年轻人在脆弱的家庭，并为新一代的指导和合作的机会， 社会行为和生物医学科学家

ABSTRACT This proposal seeks funds for a series of five summer workshops that will train a diverse group of early-career scholars on the use of the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFS), a population-based, longitudinal, NIH-funded birth cohort survey developed to further understanding of the social and behavioral factors affecting the development of urban children. Compared with children born to married, college-educated parents, children born to unmarried parents, who lack a college education, often referred to as “fragile families,” are much more likely to grow up in poor, high crime and violent neighborhoods and to attend schools with other poor children. Biomedical and population scientists have raised a multitude of questions about the extent to which such environmental factors affect child and adolescent wellbeing, the extent to which they may moderate the genetic predispositions of children and adolescents toward health or behavioral challenges, and the mechanisms that govern any causal effects. The FFS has played an important role in addressing these questions; however, much remains to be learned, and the collection of new contextual and genetic FFS data stands to further advance the research literature. As such, the proposed workshops will each focus on a thematic area relevant to the above-mentioned concerns and will discuss different aspects of the FFS data not covered in prior training workshops, including adolescent sleep, health behavior relationships; cognitive development; DNA methylation ; brain development; criminal justice involvement; and outcomes for children when they are 22 years old. The proposed series of workshops will train a new generation of researchers from a variety of disciplines in the social and biomedical sciences on the capabilities of the FFS data and will result in the dissemination of the Fragile Families data, an improved understanding of the issues facing adolescents and young adults in fragile families, and opportunities for mentorship and collaboration for a new generation of social, behavioral, and biomedical scientists.