Local Study staff will begin visiting homes in Queens in January 2009 to invite eligible women to join the National Children’s Study. Eventually, the Study will include over 1,200 children and their families from throughout Queens. In the future, Study staff will begin visiting homes in the following locations of the New York-Northern New Jersey NCS Center to invite women to join the Study:
Beginning in 2010 – Nassau County, New York
Beginning in 2011 – Manhattan and Monroe County, New York
Passaic County, New Jersey
Beginning in 2012 - Brooklyn, New York
Middlesex and Warren Counties, New Jersey