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Leading Child and Family Research Analysts Awarded Grant to Establish Early Childhood...

Publication: AScribe Business & Economics News Service
Date: Wednesday, August 17 2005

Byline: National Center for Children in Poverty

NEW YORK, Aug. 17 (AScribe Newswire) -- The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health was just awarded a prestigious five-year cooperative agreement from the National Bureau of Maternal and Child Health within the federal department of Health and Human Services. With this support, NCCP will create Project THRIVE: Linking Policies for Child Health, Early Care and Learning, and Family Support. Collaborating with state and other leaders in the field, THRIVE will in

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