Educare Follow-up Study

Happy mother and son in autumn park.

The University of Maine has been contracted as a partner in a multi-site effort to conduct follow-up studies of Educare children as they enter kindergarten and progress through the early elementary years. This project is one of six to participate in the “Educare Follow-up Studies” project at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC). The University of Maine will be responsible for gathering Educare data in Maine over three school years and will contribute to the cross-site dataset at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC.

Funding Source

Contract with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, with funding from the Buffett Early Childhood Fund.

Funding Period

March 1, 2015 through February 28, 2018

Project Personnel

Alan Cobo-Lewis, Ph.D., Principal Investigator at UMaine
University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies (UCEDD)
5717 Corbett Hall, Room 230
Orono, ME 04469-5717
207.581.1084
800.203.6957
207.581.1231 (Fax)
TTY users call Maine Relay 711
alanc@maine.edu

Jacqueline Richards
University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 234
Orono, ME 04469-5717
207.581.1084
800.203.6957
207.581.1231 (Fax)
TTY users call Maine Relay 711
jacqueline.richards@maine.edu

Angie Schickle
University of Maine
Center for Community Inclusion and Disability Studies
5717 Corbett Hall, Rm 234
207.581.1084
800.203.6957
207.581.1231 (Fax)
TTY users call Maine Relay 711
schickle@maine.edu

Links

Educare Central Maine
Buffet Early Childhood Fund_300x300
Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.