Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development – Overview Webinar

Check out the Center’s “Place Matters” webinar to learn about the 16th working paper from the National Scientific Council on the Developing Child’s Place Matters: How the Environment We Create Shapes the Foundations of Healthy Development.

Members of the Center’s leadership team discuss what the latest science tells us about the role of the built and natural environments in shaping children’s development, including how systemic racism has influenced historic and current policies resulting in the inequitable distribution of risk and opportunity across communities. The conversation also touches on implications for new directions in policy that can help work toward “fairness of place” so that all children—regardless of where they grow up—can live in an environment that supports their healthy development.