From May 1 to May 3, 2025, the HOME Team PI, a former postdoctoral researcher, and graduate students presented their work at the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Conference. Dr. Jane Leer, a former HOME postdoc and current Assistant Professor at San Diego State University, co-chaired a panel with Lindsay Lanteri, titled Beliefs About Economic Inequality and Social Mobility Among Parents and Children in Diverse Cultural Contexts. Lindsay presented her work on parent and youth perceptions of social mobility, sparking insightful feedback and engaging conversations with the audience. Additionally, Sarah Her, a second-year PhD student from Boston College, presented her poster on the relationship between neighborhood problems, collective efficacy, parenting, and child behavioral adjustment, co-authored with HOME PI Dr. Rebekah Levine Coley and the graduate student Yilin Wang.

On May 2, 2025, Mariam Abdelhalim, a senior at Boston College studying Global Public Health and the Common Good and an undergrad RA of the HOME project, presented her poster titled From Public Housing to Higher Education: Identity, Motivation, and Sense of Belonging in College at the BC Hamilton Symposium. Developed using focus group data from college students, this study aims to understand how identity shapes students' motivation to attend and persist in college, as well as their sense of belonging within the academic environment. 

On April 17-18, 2025, the HOME Team PIs and a graduate student presented three ongoing qualitative studies at the 2025 International Conference on Urban Affairs. In a panel titled Putting People Back in Place-Based Policies: Centering Resident and Stakeholder Perspectives in Housing and Neighborhood Transformation Efforts, moderated by HOME PI Dr. Rebekah Levine Coley, two qualitative projects were presented: HOME PI Dr. Samantha Teixeira shared her work on public housing residents’ perceptions of housing and the neighborhood environment, and Co-PI Dr. Lacee Satcher specifically focused on Black residents and their place attachment. In addition, Lindsay Lanteri, a graduate student working on the HOME team, presented a research brief on parent and youth perceptions of social mobility. 

On April 12, 2025, the HOME Team presented three studies at the Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) 2025 Insight-to-Impact Conference, including youth and parents' perceptions of social mobility (led by Lindsay Lanteri), the relationship between housing quality and adult mental health (led by Zhirui Chen), and parents' perceptions of neighborhood child-friendliness (led by Yilin Wang). These studies were conducted under the mentorship of HOME project PIs Drs. Rebekah Levine Coley and Samantha Teixeira, and featured interdisciplinary collaboration across multiple institutions. The HOME Team’s works sparked meaningful discussions with researchers, community planners, and other practitioners.

On March 1 and March 14, 2025, the HOME Team returned to the community to distribute postcards to over 600 households. These postcards, available in English, Spanish, and Chinese, highlighted key insights from the first wave of the HOME study—including community strengths and local concerns. We had great conversations with residents and are excited to return to the field this summer!

On January 17, 2025, Jenna Strauss, the third-year graduate student working on the HOME project, presented her poster, "The Neighborhood Social Environment and Early Adolescent Student Engagement: A Scoping Review," at the 2025 Society for Social Work Research (SSWR) conference. This study, co-developed with the HOME project PI Dr. Samantha Teixeira, aims to understand the relationship between neighborhood social environment and early adolescents' school engagement.

On November 17, 2024, Dr. Rebekah Levine Coley gave a talk at the Lynch School of Education and Human Development at Boston College, titled “Multiple Methods for Evaluating Policies to Improve Housing Quality and Stability.” In her presentation, Dr. Coley shared findings from a series of research projects focused on evaluating policies aimed at enhancing housing stability, affordability, and quality for low-income families. She also provided an update on the ongoing progress of the HOME project.

On October 14, 2024, Dr. Coley presented her new conceptual framework on how poverty affects the key contexts in which children's development unfolds, including home contexts, neighborhoods, and schools, for the Institute of Human Development/Developmental Psychology Colloquium at the University of California, Berkeley. This work, derived from an integrative conceptual review conducted with Dr. Dana McCoy and Sarah Hatch of Harvard University, builds on work from the HOME study and other research to delineate structural and social features in home, neighborhood, and school contexts that constrain and enhance the development of children in poverty.