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Jack P. Shonkoff, M.D., Director of Center on the Developing Child, shares in the following video how our early childhood experiences impact lifelong health. Learn how adversities, such as poverty and discrimination, effect brain development and other systems. Then reflect on how policies and resources can be used to address the root of these challenges that are facing the Chippewa Valley.

The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a nonpartisan research institution that started in 1966. According to the IRP, it's mission is to advance the understanding of the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality by producing rigorous research, training, scholars, engaging with policymakers and practitioners, and widely disseminating evidence. Most recently, IRP's Poverty Research & Policy Podcast shared insight from Dr. Quentin Riser about the impacts of family income...