Kevin Quinn and Erin Brewer, his colleague at the Child Research and Study Center, have received a $17.5 million, five-year grant from the New York State Council for Children and Families to support the statewide scale-up of the Pyramid Model, a nationally recognized model that uses tiered, evidence-based interventions to support the healthy social and emotional development of young children in early childhood settings.

Cynthia Najdowski published a chapter titled “System disparities: Racial criminalization and the risk of coerced and false confessions in youth” in Confessions and Guilty Pleas of Youth (American Psychological Association 2026), examining how racialized stereotypes of Black youths may lead to wrongful policing, psychological threats during interrogation and wrongful convictions.

Ashley Fox is co-author of an article, Time For State-Based Single Payer: The New York Health Act, published this month in Health Affairs and promoted as the lead article in Health Affairs Bulletin.