Cal Poly Humboldt Child Development

09/23/2026

Meet the Child Development team. If you are a prospective student and would like to learn more about our program, please email [email protected] or call 707-826-3471. Current students, you know where to find us!

09/23/2026

Meet the CDL Faculty and Staff. If you are looking for a CDL tour or would like to explore possibilities of observation for your major, please reach out to the CDL program leader, Dr. Larisa Callaway-Cole at [email protected].

Meet our CDL team for the 2026-2027 school year! We're so excited for all the amazing things to come!

09/18/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Kishan Lara-Cooper, Chair of the Child Development Department, on receiving a Silver Medal in the 2026 Living Now Book Awards for Ka'm-t'em: A Journey Toward Healing, co-authored with her father, Walt J. Lara Sr.

🎉 AWARD-WINNING NEWS! 🎉

We are thrilled to announce that Ka’m-t’em: A Journey Toward Healing by Kishan Lara-Cooper & Walter J. Lara Sr. has been awarded a SILVER medal in the 2026 Living Now Book Awards!

🌿 Living Now Evergreen Book Medal for Nature Conservation — SILVER

Selected from hundreds of entries, Ka’m-t’em: A Journey Toward Healing was recognized for its quality, creativity, and powerful impact. The Living Now Book Awards celebrate books that inspire readers and make life better. This remarkable work is a testament to resistance, renewal, advocacy, resilience, beauty, and awakening.

Through the voices of Indigenous storytellers, scholars, language keepers, artists, advocates, and community members, Ka’m-t’em explores the journey toward healing and the reclamation of identity, culture, language, spirituality, and connection to the natural world.

The book features the experiences and knowledge of 28 contributing authors, offering readers a deeply meaningful opportunity to listen, learn, and reflect on the strength and beauty found within Indigenous communities and their stories.

📖 Discover Ka’m-t’em: A Journey Toward Healing and experience these powerful Indigenous testimonials for yourself.

🛒 Where to Buy:
Available through Great Oak Press at greatoakpress.com, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and a bookstore near you.

Congratulations to authors/co-editors Kishan Lara-Cooper and Walter J. Lara Sr., and heartfelt thanks to all of the contributing authors whose voices and wisdom make this book so meaningful.

🌿 Listen. Learn. Reclaim. Heal.

09/08/2026

05/12/2026

The Cal Poly Humboldt Child Development Lab is hiring for the position of Early Childhood Master Teacher. For the job announcement and details on how to apply, please follow the link.

Apply now Job no: 556347 Work type: Staff Location: Humboldt Categories: Excluded, Child/Youth Education and Development, Temporary, Full Time, On-site (work in-person at business location)

05/10/2026

Congratulations, Bailey Tara Schultz, for all your accomplishments. We are looking forward to celebrating with you.

05/08/2026

Congratulations, Lorene Lenhart, for all your accomplishments! We are looking forward to celebrating with you.

05/01/2026

Congratulations to Cate Carlson, Child Development major and CDL Assistant Head Teacher! You are the winner of our Guess Who? contest in April!
Baby pictures of Child Development Department staff and faculty have been posted on the bulletin board outside of the department office. Major and minor students were invited to guess which baby picture belongs to which faculty/staff member during the month of April. All participants were placed in a drawing for a Cal Poly Humboldt t-shirt! Answers are: #1, Dr. Larisa Callaway-Cole #2: Dr. Meenal Rana #3 Isaac Coppock #4 Dr. Kishan Lara-Cooper #5 Dr. Hyun-Hyung You #6 Jennifer Mager #7 Lauren Parker
Thank you to all who participated!