History of the Project

1966 - 1967
This prospective, longitudinal study consisted of a cohort of 1,242 first-grade children who began first grade in Woodlawn in 1966-67 and remained in a Woodlawn school during their first grade year. During first grade, teachers were asked about each child's classroom behavior; clinicians observed the children in standardized play situations; and mothers (or mother surrogates) were interviewed about their child and their family. Further assessments were made on samples of these children in their third-grade year.

1975 - 1976
Ten years after the children had been in first grade, 939 (75 percent) of the mothers or mother surrogates were re-interviewed and of the 939, 705?teenagers were assessed on a psychological self-report instrument and a questionnaire that included questions on family and school life, drug use, delinquency, and sexual activity.

1983
In 1983 the Baltimore City Public Schools and the Prevention Research Center of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health created a partnership with parents, children, and teachers, to develop programs to get children off to a good start in school. The Baltimore Prevention Program was based on the earlier Woodlawn project and on results from the Woodlawn project.

1992 - 1994
Nine hundred fifty-two (952) cohort members, now young adults, were located and interviewed.

1997 - 1998
Six hundred eighty-one (681) of the mothers were interviewed again. This time our focus was on the women in terms of their own lives.

2002 - 2003
Current research is focused on a survey of the original cohort at their mid-life age

*Data-collection points from the Woodlawn Project.

Events for the Woodlawn Cohorts

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