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Welcome to
the CARE Lab

Welcome to the Catalyzing Action for Resilient Ecologies (CARE) Lab at NYU Steinhardt! Directed by Jorge Cuartas, our lab focuses on understanding child development and parenting within various contexts. We use science + lived experience to drive innovative, evidence-based solutions that transform developmental systems and contexts and promote equity and well-being.

At CARE, we explore diverse developmental settings, employ various methodological approaches, and embrace interdisciplinary perspectives.

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Research

Child Development in Context

We investigate how, when, and for whom factors like physical punishment, parental stimulation, early childhood education, contextual violence, and other ecological influences impact child development.

Apapacho and Violence Prevention Parenting Programs

Our lab works on the design, evaluation, and implementation of policies and programs focused on the promotion of nurturing care, resilience, and positive development across the life course.

Climate Change, Nurturing Care, and Child Development

The CARE lab examines the links between climate change, nurturing care, and child development to support the promotion of resilience, ecologically, in the context of climate change.

CARE lab - Jorge Cuartas

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 BorbĂłn

Project Manager of Apapacho, a violence prevention parenting program in Colombia
Email: juliana.borbon@gmail.com

Lucero RamĂ­rez 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

  • Alexa Guagliano, Master’s student in Human Development, Research, and Policy
  • Nathaly Lopez, Major in Politics and Urban Design & Architectual Studies

Other Collaborators and Friends

  • Dr. Dana C. McCoy, Max & Marie Kargman Associate Professor of Human Development & Urban Education Advancement, Harvard Graduate School of Education (USA)
  • Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Courtney Sale Ross University Professor of Globalization and Education at Steinhardt, Applied Psychology, New York University
  • 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 FundaciĂłn Apapacho (USA and Colombia)

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Contact

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New York, NY, 10012
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j.cuartas@nyu.edu

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