Congratulations to ICHAD Co-Director Ozge Sensoy Bahar who was recently awarded an R21. The grant, funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, seeks to address the urgent need for evidence-based interventions that prevent poor female youth’s rural-to-urban migration for child labor in low and middle-income countries. Specifically, the study will test an innovative combination intervention among 100 girls ages 11-14 at risk of dropping out of school and their caregivers. The control group will receive bolstered usual care, including books and school lunch and the treatment group will receive a combination intervention combining an evidence-informed family-level economic empowerment aimed at creating and strengthening financial stability through the use of matched children savings accounts (CSA) and microfinance in poor households combined with a multiple family group (MFG) intervention to address family communication and parental beliefs around gender and child labor/education.