Jaime Peterson
Oregon Health & Science University, OR·Medicine & Clinical Research
Children who start kindergarten ready to learn tend to do better in school. Children from low-income families, however, often arrive behind their higher-income peers.
- Fields
Medicine & Clinical Research
Public Health & Epidemiology
Psychology
- Topics
school readiness
kindergarten readiness
early childhood development
- Grants
- 1 known grant, through Jun 2031
What they work on
- Test whether Kinder Coaching, a parent coaching program delivered by community health workers, improves preschoolers' school readiness on the Brigance III screen compared with a provider-reviewed checklist, in a randomized trial of 240 Medicaid families in Oregon.
- Compare the effects of coaching versus enhanced usual care on children's social-emotional development, measured with the Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA).
- Measure changes in parents' school readiness behaviors, confidence, resources and barriers after coaching versus checklist-based care in safety-net pediatric clinics.
- Evaluate how well Kinder Coaching can be implemented, including delivery, fidelity and cost-benefit, using the RE-AIM implementation framework.
More about the research
Pediatric primary care clinics see young children and their parents again and again and are trusted by families, so they may be a good place to help close this gap. In earlier work, families of recent kindergarteners suggested two clinic-based approaches. One is checklists that boost parents' knowledge of school readiness. The other is coaching by community health workers that empowers parents.
Why it matters
Children living in poverty, and families on Medicaid in particular, could benefit if pediatric clinics can reliably help them prepare for kindergarten. Better school readiness is linked to higher educational attainment and better health. If Kinder Coaching proves effective and affordable, it could become a practical program that safety-net clinics adopt as part of routine well-child care.
Known grants
From NIH and NSF research grants. Labs often have other funding we can't see.
Closest labs
Matthew Haemer
University of Colorado Denver/Anschutz Medical Campus, CO·Public Health & Epidemiology
Compare BMI reduction between the family-inclusive Healthy Living Program and a recommended primary care counseling control in low-income Hispanic children with obesity across three age groups, 2-6, 7-12 and 13-16 years, in a randomized controlled trial.
Jamie M Ostrov
University at Buffalo, NY·Psychology
Test whether a teacher-implemented, coached version of the Early Childhood Friendship Project reduces aggression and peer victimization and increases prosocial behavior, in a randomized trial of 600 children in 30 preschool classrooms.
Jessica Stern
University of Rochester, NY·Public Health & Epidemiology·Early-career
Identify the key parts of successful, lasting community health worker asthma care models through a rapid scoping review and intervention mapping with Rochester community partners.
The school
Oregon Health & Science University: 24 labs on PI Pages, $545M a year on research, 54 research doctorates a year.
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