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Training Grant on Black Child Development Pre and Post Doctoral Training Program Supported by a training grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development The goal of this training program is to prepare predoctoral students and postdoctoral fellows in psychology and related disciplines for productive careers in behavioral research focusing on African American children and families. The program is structured to achieve several complementary goals: (a) to promote broad, multidisciplinary, and multi-level perspectives on the social, cognitive, and health-related development of African American children; (b) to equip trainees with expertise in diverse research methodologies, especially longitudinal methods, and their application to the behavioral study of African American children and families; (c) to foster competence in research strategies that enhance the cultural sensitivity and validity of research with African American populations; (d) to develop skills in addressing ethical issues especially prone to arise in research with ethnic minority and poor children and parents; and (e) to promote understanding of the application of developmental research to issues of practice and policy. The training program, now in its second year, is situated within the current training activities of the University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill Department of Psychology and the Center for Developmental Science. The program brings together strands of training activities relevant to research on African American children that already exist within the Department and the Center, while adding training components that strengthen and consolidate these strands.Each year, the program can support up to three predoctoral students and two postdoctoral fellows. Predoctoral fellows are selected from students who have been admitted to any graduate program in the UNC Department of Psychology and have interests in research on African American children and families. Persons interested in postdoctoral training are invited to submit an application directly to the Postdoctoral Program. The program trains ethnic minority and non-minority graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. It helps meet two critical needs: the need for an ample supply of well-trained scientists equipped to pursue innovative research on minority issues and the need for increased numbers of well-trained ethnic minority scientists prepared for distinguished careers in behavioral research. Core Faculty and Research
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