![Group of people in a circle.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/2024/NewsSlide_ICDFR_ASISTWorkshop_22Dec2022.jpg.webp?itok=bGFnMfPE)
The Jan. 13-16 workshop, which is free, is offered by the university’s Institute for Child Development and Family Relations, in conjunction with the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. Space is limited; register online.
![College of Social and Behavioral Sciences](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/2024/BANNER_Winter-Festival.jpg.webp?itok=s4QSYncN)
CSUSB's Institute for Child Development and Family Relations, in collaboration with campus partners, invites all CSUSB student-parents and their children to a Winter Family Fun Festival on Saturday, Dec. 7. The event will take place from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Faculty Offices Building, room 177.
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Jess Block Nerren (communication studies) was interviewed about The Cognitive Collective on campus, Mahmood Nikbakhtzadeh (health science and human ecology) will be a guest speaker at a meeting of the ACS San Gorgonio chapter, and Mark Agars (psychology) coauthored a study about supporting workers with chronic illnesses.
![Amy van Schagen](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/RacialEquity_Slide.jpg.webp?itok=s06LcjH6)
Through surveys, open-ended responses and interviews, Amy van Schagen, associate professor in the CSUSB child development department, and her team of student research assistants gathered information about perceived experiences with racism within early childhood education.
![Laura Kamptner (center), professor emeritus, child development, with Chrystina Smith-Rasshan (left), CSUSB Institute for Child Development and Family Relations associate director, and Mark Agars, ICDFR director.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/IDCFR-Luncheon_Slide.jpg.webp?itok=TWEUDuC-)
Laura Kamptner, professor emeritus, child development, is the first recipient of the award renamed for her: the Laura Kamptner Champion for Children, Parents, and Families Award.
![Chrystina Smith-Rasshan](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_ICDFR_Smith-Rasshan_16Feb2023.jpg.webp?itok=LwtwBGav)
Chrystina Smith-Rasshan will work in collaboration with ICDFR director Mark Agars to oversee the multitude of institute programs and activities.
![A two-day workshop is being offered in suicide prevention training for Cal State San Bernardino.](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/NewsSlide_ICDFR_ASISTWorkshop_22Dec2022.jpg.webp?itok=laTkRf1x)
The Jan. 17-20 workshop, which is free, is offered by the university’s Institute for Child Development and Family Relations, in conjunction with the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools. Space is limited; register online.
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Amy van Schagen (psychology) was awarded a grant to explore the potential of racial inequity and experiences in racism with the region’s early childhood workforce, and Eric Mulz (theatre arts) talked about student Isabel Peña, who he nominated for a Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival fellowship.
![An educator outside the CSUSB Children’s Center speaking to two young children](/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/upload/image/Racial-Equity-Grant-CSUSB-Homepage-Slide.jpg.webp?itok=RYQcIhfL)
A grant of nearly $168,000 was awarded to the Institute for Child Development and Family Relations at CSUSB to explore potential race inequity and experiences in racism with the early childhood workforce in San Bernardino County.