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Child Homelessness Initative

Established by Lesley University in May 2011 with support from the Schoen Family Foundation, the Child Homelessness in Massachusetts Initiative is designed to bring attention to the growing number of children and families without adequate shelter in the Commonwealth.

According to the Urban Institute, in the United States, “on any given day over 200,000 children are homeless.” One child in five in the United States is likely to experience chronic or episodic homelessness before reaching age six. Of the children most likely to experience homelessness, twenty-five percent have suffered from physical abuse and neglect. In Massachusetts upwards of 20,000 to 50,000 children experienced homelessness in 2010, the latest year for which there is government data.

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Library Resources

Hello! This guide is designed to round up library resources and put them in one place for your use in this particular course.

The tabs above provide the following information:

1. Finding Books - On this page, you will be able to find books of both the print and electronic variety.

2. Finding Articles - This page will enable you to find articles and journals appropriate for research.

3. Websites/Media - this page will conatin links to websites that involve demographics, policy, and goverment information relevant to the sociology of the family, as well as some links to our audiovisual material.

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Featured Speaker

Jack Shonkoff

Dr. Jack Shonkoff, Professor of Child Health & Development and the Founding Director of the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, will be the inaugural speaker for Lesley University’s Child Homelessness in Massachusetts Initiative.

November 2, 2011
University Hall Amphitheatre
1815 Mass Ave, Cambridge

From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development / Jack P. Shonkoff and Deborah A. Phillips, editors