Recent reports from the Picard Center for Childhood Development and Lifelong Learning show that Louisiana's LA 4 program, designed to provide high-quality pre-K to students who do not have access to pre-K, continues to improve the academic performance of children into the 3rd and 4th grades.
LAFAYETTE, La. – A UL partnership with the Picard Center and LITE has produced a project that visually displays longitudinal data on individuals in Louisiana from birth into the workforce. The project, titled “Pathways to Louisiana’s Future,” will be showcased for the first time to the general public during LITE’s Open House on Friday, August 19 from 3-6 p.m.
Executive Director of UL's Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning, Billy Ray Stokes, publicly thanks the Acadiana Delegation for their support.
LAFAYETTE, La. – Believing that every child is born ready to learn, staff members from the Picard Center delivered "Born to Read" baskets to babies born at Lafayette General Medical Center on June 21, 2011. This activity was conducted as part of United Way of Acadiana’s Annual "Day of Action."
Research from UL's Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning shows that books from the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program have made a positive impact on local children and families, and that 98% of families surveyed feel that participation in the program by their child left them better prepared to enter kindergarten. The nationally recognized book program is implemented through United Way of Acadiana.
BATON ROUGE, La. – Loyd J. Rockhold, a key philanthropist of the Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning and founder of the Special Children’s Foundation, died peacefully on Friday, Nov. 26, 2010, after a courageous battle with Parkinson’s disease and prostate cancer. He was 88.
LAFAYETTE, La. – The Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning at the University of Louisiana is pleased to be named the recipient of the 2010 Friend of Children Award by the State Board of the Louisiana Early Childhood Association.
In the first study of its kind in Louisiana, UL's Cecil J. Picard Center for Child Development and Lifelong Learning found that a student’s fitness level has an impact on his or her academic performance, and that more than half of participating students in Louisiana are considered unhealthy, with almost one in three students classified as obese.
