Welcome to
the CARE Lab
The Catalyzing Action for Resilient Ecologies (CARE) lab is a social science lab at NYU interested in understanding child development and parenting in context and using science + lived experience to catalyze science-based innovations that improve the contexts of development and promote equity and well-being.
We are interested in multiple settings of development, methodological approaches, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Research
Child Development in Context
How, when, and for whom do physical punishment, parental stimulation, early childhood education, contextual violence, and other ecological factors influence child development?
Apapacho and Violence Prevention Parenting Programs
We seek to integrate theory, evidence, and lived-experience to develop, evaluate, implement, and scale violence prevention and parenting programs
Climate Change, Nurturing Care, and Child Development
We seek to understand the links between climate change, nurturing care, and child development, and how to promote resilience, ecologically, in the context of climate change
Jorge Cuartas, Ph.D.
Director
Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at the NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. Applied developmental psychologist and social scientist who studies (1) the promotion of resilience and positive developmental trajectories across the life course, (2) the developmental consequences and prevention of violence against children, (3) the design, implementation, and evaluation of parenting and early childhood programs and policies, and (4) the intersections between climate change and the science of human development.
Email: j.cuartas@nyu.edu
Juliana Borbón
Project Manager of Apapacho, a violence prevention parenting program in Colombia
Email: juliana.borbon@gmail.com
Lucero Ramírez Varela
Ph.D. Student in Psychology and Social
Intervention, New York University
Email: lrv238@nyu.edu
Luciana Beccassino
Ph.D. Student in Psychology, Bangor University and researcher at Apapacho
Email: lbeccassino@gmail.com
Other Collaborators and Friends
People
- Dr. Dana C. McCoy, Max & Marie Kargman Associate Professor of Human Development & Urban Education Advancement, Harvard Graduate School of Education (USA)
- Dr. Elizabeth T. Gershoff, Director, Population Research Center; Amy Johnson McLaughlin Centennial Professor, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences the University of Texas at Austin (USA)
- Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D, Julius B. Richmond FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development at Harvard; Director, Center on the Developing Child; Professor of Pediatrics, HMS and Boston Children’s Hospital (USA)
- Dr Helen Baker-Henningham, Professor in Psychology, University of Bangor (UK) and The University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
- Dr. Jamie Lachman, Professor of Child and Family Global Health, University of Oxford (UK)
- Dr. Sophia Backhaus, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam
- Dr. Enrique Chaux, Professor, Department of Psychology, Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
- Dr. Catherine Draper, Associate Professor, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa)
- Dr. Catalina Rey-Guerra, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Applied Psychology, New York University, and Fundación Apapacho (USA and Colombia)
Institutes and Centers
- Center for Studies on Safety and Drugs (CESED), Universidad de los Andes
- Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA) Colombia
- Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar
- New York University’s Global TIES for Children
- Harvard’s Settings for Early Education and Development (SEED) Lab
- The Harvard Center on the Developing Child
News
New study highlights how climate change may impact early childhood development
New study highlights how climate change may impact early childhood...
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Kimball Block,
New York, NY
j.cuartas@nyu.edu
