Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.3, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # cuartaslab.com ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://cuartaslab.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Apapacho: preventing violence and promoting child development in Colombia](https://cuartaslab.com/apapacho-preventing-violence-and-promoting-child-development-in-colombia/) - Apapacho: preventing violence and promoting child development in Colombia Lab director Jorge Cuartas, along with lab members Juliana Borbon, Luciana Becassino, and collaborators from Fundación Apapacho, Innovations for Poverty Action, and the Colombian Institute for Family Welfare (ICBF), have published a new article in Child Abuse & Neglect: “The Apapacho Early Childhood Violence Prevention Parenting - [Understanding School Unpredictability and Its Connection to Children’s Social and Emotional Development](https://cuartaslab.com/understanding-school-unpredictability-and-its-connection-to-childrens-social-and-emotional-development/) - Understanding School Unpredictability and Its Connection to Children’s Social and Emotional Development: A Conceptual Framework Lab member Lucero Ramírez-Varela, doctoral candidate in Applied Psychology at NYU Steinhardt, along with J. Lawrence Aber and lab director Jorge Cuartas, have published a new working paper in the NYU Steinhardt Education Policy Working Paper Series: “Understanding School Unpredictability - [Colombian Government Recognizes CARE Lab Members’ Contributions](https://cuartaslab.com/colombian-government-recognizes-care-lab-members-contributions/) - CARE lab director, Jorge Cuartas and Psychology and Social Intervention PhD student Juliana Borbon received an award from the National Government of Colombia’s Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar, for their work to support child policy and practice in the country. This award reflects a five-year research–practice partnership with the Colombian government to develop, implement, and evaluate violence - [Excessive heat and early childhood development](https://cuartaslab.com/excessive-heat-and-early-childhood-development/) - New evidence: Excessive heat impacts early childhood development and parenting A new set of studies led by lab director Dr. Jorge Cuartas, together with Lenin Balza (IDB), Andrés Camacho (University of Chicago), and Nicolás Gómez (IDB), shows that atypically high temperatures—that is, temperatures above what is usual for a given region and season—negatively affect early - [Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence](https://cuartaslab.com/climate-change-families-and-human-development-review-of-the-evidence/) - Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence We are excited to share that Lab Director Dr. Jorge Cuartas and Lab Member Lucero Ramírez-Varela, along with their co-authors, have published a new paper, “Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence,” in the Journal of Cognition and Development.This review highlights how - [The ‘next 1,000 days’ (ages 2-5) are a critical time to build on early childhood development: The Lancet](https://cuartaslab.com/the-next-1000-days-ages-2-5-are-a-critical-time-to-build-on-early-childhood-development-the-lancet/) - The ‘next 1,000 days’ (ages 2-5) are a critical time to build on early childhood development: The Lancet Lab director Jorge Cuartas published two articles in The Lancet, one of the world’s leading medical journals, as part of a series of papers about the “next 1,000 days” (ages 2-5 years). These articles build on previous Lancet - [Dr. Cuartas presented at Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children](https://cuartaslab.com/dr-cuartas-presented-in-the-global-ministerial-conference-on-ending-violence-against-children/) - Dr. Cuartas spoke at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children CARE Lab director Jorge Cuartas presented in one satellite event and two side events at the First Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Bogotá, Colombia. The Conference was recognized in the Guinness World Records for the most countries - [How climate change may affect families and what to do about it](https://cuartaslab.com/climate-and-families/) - Policy report by lab members Jorge Cuartas and Lucero Ramirez Varela discussed how climate change may affect families, and what to do about it - [New study highlights how climate change may impact early childhood development](https://cuartaslab.com/new-study-highlights-how-climate-change-may-impact-early-childhood-development/) - New study by Jorge Cuartas shows links between climate change and early childhood development ## Pages - [Care Lab](https://cuartaslab.com/) - Welcome to the CARE Lab at NYU Steinhardt, directed by Jorge Cuartas. We use science + research with lived experience to promote child development within diverse contexts. - [Apapacho](https://cuartaslab.com/projects/apapacho/) - Apapacho: Violence Prevention and Parenting Our lab integrates theory, empirical evidence, and lived experience to design, evaluate, implement, and scale policies and programs focused on the promotion of nurturing care, prevention of violence against children, and promotion of resilience and positive development across the life course.We apply frameworks from developmental psychology, behavioral science, and implementation - [ECD](https://cuartaslab.com/projects/ecd/) - 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.Our work employs causal frameworks and a range of psychometric and econometric methods to address key developmental questions such as: (1) how contexts shape child development, (2) - [Climate Change](https://cuartaslab.com/projects/climate-change/) - Climate Change, Nurturing Care, and Child Development The CARE lab examines the links between climate change, nurturing care, and child development and leverage science + existing experiences of families living in climate hazard settings to understand how to promote resilience, ecologically, in the context of climate change.We do so by employing quasi-experimental analyses that leverage - [Intro](https://cuartaslab.com/intro/) - Found us: Twitter – Google Scholar – Researchgate Welcome to the Catalyzing Action for Resilient Ecologies (CARE) lab! 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