🚨Publications alert! 🚨 A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found perceived discrimination was positively associated with depressive symptoms, which were in turn associated with greater odds of ever vaping. See more results: tinyurl.com/596bj92y

The FF Challenge data files are associated with the predictive modeling stage of the FF Challenge competition, held in Summer 2017. These files are provided so that other data users may replicate and extend what participants did in the Challenge.

🚨 Data alert! 🚨 The FF Challenge data is now publicly available on ICPSR! Access the data here: tinyurl.com/5n88ufa8 📊🔍 #DataUpdate

How are food insecurity and smoking related?

Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found bidirectional relationships between food insecurity and smoking may be explained by poverty and mental health, warranting consideration of contextual factors tinyurl.com/2fpuh5jm #FFpubs

Check out another brief on the Y22 data from our colleagues at Columbia's CPSP: Economic impact payments (stimulus checks) during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced food & utility hardship among young adults with low incomes who were not residing with family tinyurl.com/2s4j79en #FFpubs

Research brief alert! 🚨Our colleagues at Columbia's Center for Poverty and Social Policy found two-thirds of young adults (65%) receive assistance from family members and one-third (34%) receive public programs; some receive both. Read more findings: tinyurl.com/5acxbhkw #FFpubs

Check out another Y22 brief from Tia Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane Waldfogel: The links between parents’ educational attainment and young adults’ educational attainment are stronger for young men than young women. Read more: tinyurl.com/3yykw2j6

Check out a new Y22 brief from Columbia Population Research Center & Columbia School of Social Work's Tia Dickerson, Hye-Min Jung, and Jane @Waldfogel! Findings suggest it should be possible to identify children at risk of young adult disconnection earlier in childhood tinyurl.com/4rcm6dh6

Publication alert! 🚨New study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found greater exposure to threat ACEs was associated with higher internalizing & externalizing symptoms, whereas deprivation ACEs were only significantly associated with higher internalizing symptoms tinyurl.com/4xuz733c #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨 A new study from Lawrence Berger, Tia Dickerson, Andrew Gelman, Hye-Min Jung, Seonghun Lee, Margaret Thomas, and Jane Waldfogel found CPS involvement may be associated with a higher likelihood of disconnection in young adulthood tinyurl.com/4tmsz9xz #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨 A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found delinquency and police interactions were positively associated with suicide attempts among both Black women and Black men tinyurl.com/yf4xbwua #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found higher relationship quality was associated with lower tobacco use, with parental monitoring emerging as a partial indirect pathway tinyurl.com/38y8d85f #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨Research using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that Black boys were school policed & disciplined more & had higher depressive symptoms than White boys tinyurl.com/46puxb2s #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found a lack of social ties with one's neighbors is associated with higher odds of SNAP receipt in high-poverty areas tinyurl.com/czxks7r4 #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found cash assistance programs in the United States may provide inadequate funds to benefit the relational wellbeing of families with low incomes tinyurl.com/yw6dmmzf #FFpubs

Publication alert! Researchers using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that parenting stress was associated with both child physical assault and psychological aggression among foreign-born Hispanic families tinyurl.com/3kzkn948 #FFpubs

Publication alert! A new study using @ffcws.bsky.social data found that among Latine families, closer parent–child relationships may buffer against the impact of maternal IPV exposure on adolescent internalizing behaviors tinyurl.com/3fwrdpu5 #FFpubs

Depression in mothers with intellectual disabilities and borderline intellectual functioning: A longitudinal study Parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) experience economic and social marginalization that increase their vulnerability for adverse mental health…

Publication alert! 🚨 Research using
@ffcws.bsky.social data found depression rates were consistently elevated for mothers with intellectual disabilities & borderline intellectual functioning & rates were particularly high when the focal child was age 3 tinyurl.com/2jxrest7#FFp...

Long-term exposure to intimate partner violence and adolescents' internalizing symptoms: A repeated measures latent profile analysis - PubMed This study employed a person-centered approach to explore children's longitudinal profile of eIPV, considering both the timing and chronicity of exposure. The findings highlight the necessity of…

Publication alert! 🚨 Researchers using #FFdata found adolescents who were exposed to IPV in childhood reported worse internalizing symptoms than those having low exposure to IPV over time. Read more: tinyurl.com/ycyk5hk9 #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @FFCWS data investigated the associations between home & classroom environments at age 3, academic outcomes at age 9, & the mediating role of attention regulation & language skills around school entry. Read more: tinyurl.com/bzkw5dyk

Community threat, positive parenting, and accelerated epigenetic aging: Longitudinal links from childhood to adolescence Abstract. Early life adversity (ELA) has been linked to accelerated epigenetic aging. While positive parenting is hypothesized to buffer the effects of ELA

Publication alert! 🚨 Researchers using @FFCWS data found positive parenting reduced the pace of epigenetic aging in contexts of low, but not high, community threat. Learn more about the results: tinyurl.com/333ts7tx #FFpubs

Publication alert! 🚨A new study using @FFCWS data found CPS involvement is associated with an increase in anxiety and depression in the overall sample and in depression for Black and Hispanic/Latino young adults. Learn more: tinyurl.com/yc8zstz9 #FFPubs

Trajectories of Childhood Housing Insecurity and Links to Emerging Adulthood Depression: A Repeated Measures Latent Class Approach Nearly one in three emerging adults experience depression. Past exposure to socioeconomic hardship increases risk, but little research investigates how disparate trajectories of childhood housing ins...

🚨Publication alert! 🚨Recently published research findings using #FFdata suggest severe housing insecurity in early childhood, even with relative improvement over time, threaten long-term mental health #FFpubs tinyurl.com/4zx9em36

🚨Publication alert! 🚨 A new study using #FFdata found school absences due to skipping were more strongly and negatively associated with educational outcomes compared with health-related absences #FFpubs tinyurl.com/4td4ndu7

📣 Big news! We’re officially kicking off Year 27 fieldwork!

Throughout 2026, we’ll be surveying our focal children—now young adults—about their transitions to adulthood, including education, work, housing, health, family formation, and more.

Stay tuned!

Fellowship opportunity for researchers and practitioners in the fields of population sciences and/or population health!

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The poster presentation “What Does a Village Do for Youth? Neighborhood Collective Efficacy and Later Housing Outcomes in Emerging Adulthood” will begin in 10 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The poster presentation “The Impact of Childhood Eviction on Depression in Early Adulthood” with Yohan Moon will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: Two poster presentations using #FFdata will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4

#FFdata at #SSWR2026: The presentation “Structural Adversity and Justice System Persistence: The Role of Early Detention, Delinquency, and Family-level Risk Factors” with Zixiaojie Yang will begin in 15 minutes. Learn more: tinyurl.com/nhh84nu4