Custodial grandparents and their grandchildren are a unique and little-understood population as are the physical and social health challenges they face. Gregory Smith, EdD, professor and director of the Human Development Center in the School of Lifespan Development and Educational Sciences in 麻豆影院 State鈥檚 College of Education, Health and Human Services, has designed a program that could help assess the well-being of such families and provide resources to help them thrive.
Smith has already advanced to the second phase of his five-year, $1.2 million project, 鈥淪ocial Intelligence Training for Custodial Grandmothers and Their Adolescent Grandchildren,鈥 funded by the National Institutes of Health鈥檚 (NIH) National Institute on Aging.
Read more in the 2019 issue of the 麻豆影院 State Research Review Magazine