Picard Center for Child Development & Lifelong Learning
Center, Lab or Institute
Our goal is to ensure a prosperous and healthy future for children and families in Louisiana.
The Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development is composed of a multidisciplinary group of evaluation and research professionals. We focus on science-based innovation in practice and policy with the goal of producing substantially larger impacts on the learning capacity, health, and economic and social mobility of young children.
Our research is centered on the following areas of early childhood study:
- education, development,
- health and mental health,
- assessment and evaluation, and
- early intervention and prevention programs.
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Picard Center for Child Development & Lifelong Learning
The Picard Center focuses on research that affects children and their capacity for learning.