As students began returning in person to school this fall, educators faced a greater likelihood of encountering children who had been abused at home since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Read more about School of Social Work research center, nonprofit create newest release of program to help abused children

A civics education program engaging K–12 students as key decision-makers in the Arizona K–12 schools’ budgeting processes will be honored in October with the Arizona State University President’s Medal for Social Embeddedness.

• Read more about Innovative civics program to be honored with President's Medal for Social Embeddedness

More than 2.7 million American children are directly affected by the current incarceration of a parent or loved one. Many of them, as well as their relatives and peers, lack the resources to deal with the associated feelings of shame and stigmatization.

Arizona State University's Center for Child Well-Being and the ASU Library have put together a collection of 64 books designed to help Arizona’s nearly 100,000 children of parents who are incarcerated better cope with their feelings.

• Read more about Book collection to help children of parents who are incarcerated

Autism does not discriminate. The complex, lifelong developmental disability affects people of all races and socioeconomic backgrounds, yet the support and resources available to children varies across cultures.

• Read more about Why Latino children tend to be diagnosed with autism later than other children

The country’s reckoning with social justice this year has put a spotlight on America’s memorials. Who gets to be remembered forever, and who tells that story?

Big monuments are expensive and immovable, and they can get bogged down in conflicts over cost and design.

Now, a cross-disciplinary team at Arizona State University will use technology to create a new kind of monument that is both universal and intensely personal, called the Augmented Reality Children’s Memorial Marker.

• Read more about ASU team to create augmented reality memorial to child victims

ASU experts on the economy, anxiety, tourism and more share their insights in a new video series on how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting a variety of aspects of our lives.

Anxiety and emotion

• Read more about 'ASU Expert View': 5 perspectives on COVID-19 effects

First responders and essential workers who apply for graduate degree programs at Arizona State University’s Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions will have their application fees paid for by the college through June 30, Dean Jonathan Koppell announced.

• Read more about ASU Watts College extends offer to pay grad-school application fees for first responders, essential workers

• Read more about ASU survey finds state's nonprofits hit hard by pandemic recession

• Read more about Professors’ coloring book gives parents tools to help minimize kids’ COVID-19 anxiety

• Read more about ASU Watts College will pay grad-school application fees for first responders, essential workers