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J. Lawrence Aber J. Lawrence Aber, a nationally recognized expert in child development and social policy, became director of the National Center for Children in Poverty in October 1994. While a member of the psychology department at Barnard College and the Graduate Faculties at Columbia University from 1982 to 1994, he directed the Barnard Center for Toddler Development, co-directed the Columbia University Project on Children and War, and co-founded the Barnard-Columbia Center for Leadership in Urban Public Policy. Aber continues to consult with community-based programs for children, youth and families as well as local, state and federal agencies and UNICEF on program and policy issues ranging from childcare and child abuse to youth violence and community development. Before coming to Columbia, he worked in community-based programs for at-risk children and youth, worked on child and family policy issues in the Massachusetts state government, was staff director of the Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's National Study Panel on the Future of Services to Children and Their Families, and was associate director of the Harvard Child Maltreatment Project.
Aber received his Ph.D. in clinical and developmental psychology at Yale University in 1982. He is the recipient of prestigious awards for research on child and family development from several national foundations, including the William T. Grant Faculty Scholar Award (1987-92) and the Visiting Scholar Award at the Russell Sage Foundation (1991-92). His basic research interests focus on the social, emotional, behavioral and cognitive development of children and youth at risk due to family and neighborhood poverty, exposure to violence, abuse and neglect, and parental psychopathology. His applied research focuses on rigorous process and outcome evaluations of innovative programs and policies for children and families at risk, including welfare-to-work programs, comprehensive service programs and violence-prevention programs. | |||||||||||||||
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