All children are able to learn and deserve the best start in life, and at the Child Development Center (CDC), preschoolers are indeed getting a great start.
Tag: School of Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
The outdoors is for everybody
Yesina Castro, ’13, isn’t satisfied with outdoor access for Latinos and is doing something about it

HDFS Ecampus students juggle school, kids and full-time jobs, and still find the time to study abroad.

Cherann Marie Daniels will receive her bachelor’s degree in Human Development and Family Sciences – Human Services on June 16. Cherann’s personal history and the support she is receiving is driving her to become a social worker. She will begin Portland State University’s master of social work program this fall.
The course – Red Light, Purple Light: A Self-Regulation Intervention Program – incorporates a series of evidence-based music- and movement-based games that can be used to promote young children’s self-regulation at home and at school.
Adding a daily 20 to 30 minute self-regulation intervention to a kindergarten readiness program significantly boosted children’s self-regulation and early academic skills, College of Public Health and Human Sciences researcher Megan McClelland has found.