The goal of the Network Early Career Enhancement (NECE) program is to create a cohesive and supportive experience for emerging scholars involved in the Early Learning Network.
With the support of Network principal investigators, the NECE program provides early career researchers with individualized training, professional development opportunities and mentored support.
Through their involvement with Network studies, early career researchers have the opportunity to establish practice and policy research targeting at risk children, identify malleable protective factors and find ways to close the achievement gap. As a group, NECE participants learn about collaboration, institutional roles and responsibilities, publishing and dissemination and a host of other topics relevant to young researchers.