Risk and Prevention

News & Events

Student News:

R&P students celebrate the end of the fall semester with a successful book drive!

Thanks to the R&P students’ enthusiastic participation, more than 50 books went to benefit Southside Headstart, a R&P practicum site. 

Faculty News:

Welcome New Faculty!

Risk and Prevention would like to extend a warm welcome to our new faculty members Jack Shonkoff, the Founder and Director of the Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University, and Nancy Hill, a visiting professor from Duke University.  These two faculty members bring a great deal of expertise and experience to our program.  This spring, Dr. Hill, will teach “Parenting, Schools, and Achievement,” and Dr. Shonkoff will teach “The Science of Learning, Behavior, and Health: Implications for Social Policy.”

Faculty Research and Community Support:

Kim Counsels Virginia’s Korean Community

by Jill Anderson
Posted: May 31, 2007

Lecturer Josephine Kim spent approximately two weeks counseling and educating Korean Americans in Virginia following the April 16 shooting at Virginia Tech.
The effects of the mass shooting — in which Korean-American student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people and wounded 25 — extended beyond the Virginia Tech campus. The Korean-American community-at-large was deeply hurt by Cho’s actions as well. Kim, who earned her Ph.D. in counselor education and supervision from the University of Virginia and is a licensed mental health counselor, was contacted by a Virginia Tech professor to aid the Korean-American and Asian populations of Virginia in dealing with their grief. (Read More: Kim )

Making it Work:
Low-wage employment, family life, and child development

HGSE Professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa

Many families with young children are living in poverty, even when a parent is employed. A persistent policy challenge has been to determine how various public policies may affect low-income families’ financial and life circumstances. In Milwaukee, the New Hope Project aims to move people out of poverty by offering supports, such as income supplements, transportation, and childcare, in exchange for working 30 or more hours per week.

The research efforts of HGSE professor Hirokazu Yoshikawa and his colleagues reveal that some patterns of parental workforce engagement, job flexibility, and supports offered through New Hope raise children’s school performance and improve their behavior at school. In this interview, Yoshikawa discusses key findings from the study, reported in his new book, Making it Work: Low-Wage Employment, Family Life, and Child Development (editor, with T. S. Weisner and E. Lowe, Russell Sage Foundation, 2006). (Read More: Yoshikawa)

Early childhood education and beyond:
Teacher-child relationships and learning

HGSE Lecturer Jacqueline Zeller

Jacqueline Zeller’s research and clinical work as a faculty member in HGSE’s Risk and Prevention and School Counseling program highlight the role of teacher-child relationships. In this article and accompanying interview, Zeller discusses the importance of teacher-student relationships for building students’ sense of security and the foundations for their learning success in school. (Read More: Zeller)