C. Chris Payne, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Youth, Family, and Community, Partnerships
University of North Carolina Greensboro
330 S. Greene St., Suite 200, Greensboro, NC 27402,
Phone: 336.217.9731
Dr. Chris Payne serves as Associate Director of the Center for Youth, Family and Community Partnerships and adjunct graduate faculty in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at UNCG. Dr. Payne’s primary research initiatives focus on the influence of early care and school environments on children’s development across early and middle childhood. As well, her work focuses on both intervention and prevention-based programs which enable families to become active partners with their children’s health, child care, and education providers. In particular, her research examines significant relationships such as parent-child, family, and teacher-child relationships and how these support healthy development and school success in children.
Dr. Payne is involved with two collaborative interdisciplinary studies that focus on the influences of family, particularly parenting, and early child care on children’s development and school success. For information concerning the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, the Baby First study and other new initiatives see the following links.
Research and Training Initiatives:
NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development
Combining Evidence Based Approaches to Early Learning (pdf)
Family and School Partnerships (pdf)
Dr. Payne is committed to work which creates a dynamic interface of research and theory, with practice and policy. She has over 25 years of experience in educational administration, research and academe. She has developed and directed model school-based programs for children, served on state and national task forces to develop standards for pre-K and after-school programs, provided professional consultation, training, protocol development, and evaluation services for various community agencies and university colleagues both nationally as well as internationally. Before joining the Center in 2005, she served as Director of B-K Student Teaching in the department of Human Development and Family Studies at UNCG.
For more information about me, please see curriculum vitae (pdf)
Or send me an e-mail at ccpayne@uncg.edu
For information concerning my graduate students visit the FRC website: Family Research Center