This brief shows that those who reported having emotional support from family and friends were less likely to report negative mental health effects from the COVID-19 pandemic (32.9%) compared to those without emotional support (50.2%). 

This brief summarizes the policy changes made in Virginia and describes how those changes improved child care subsidy stability and participation in that state.

New research from Scott Landes and colleagues reports an increased COVID-19 risk among people with intellectual and developmental disability (IDD) in eleven U.S. states and Washington, D.C. Results underscore the need to ensure vaccine access for all people with IDD and for all U.S. states to report COVID outcomes for people with IDD.

Lerner Affiliate, Scott Landes, finds that risk factors for COVID-19 diagnosis and mortality for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) receiving residential services are similar to (age, preexisting conditions, size of residence) and unique from (Down syndrome) those reported in the general population.

Austin McNeill Brown and Mariah Brennan Nanni co-authored a paper titled Self-Esteem in 12-Step Recovery; Theoretical History, Evidence, and Implications for Future Research.

Marc A. Garcia and Catherine Garcia recently published a new study entitled "Age Patterns in Self-Reported Cognitive Impairment among Older Latino Subgroups and Non-Latino Whites in the U.S., 1997 to 2018: Implications for Public Health Policy".

Amy Ellen Schwartz and colleagues published The Global COVID-19 Student Survey: First wave results, in Issue 79 of Covid Economics: Vetted and Real-Time Papers

The COVID-19 mortality burden was greater for people with than without IDD during the first year of the pandemic.