Please join Child Trends and APHSA -- American Public Human Services Association on September 24 at 1:00 pm ET to hear Mavis Sanders, Dominique Martinez, Quiana Lewis Wallace, PhD, MPH, and Shana E. Rochester describe Child Trends' priorities for advancing Black child and family well-being, the importance of community-engaged research, and more. Register today! https://lnkd.in/evGsstkJ
Child Trends
Research Services
Rockville, Maryland 19,217 followers
Independent research to help children and youth thrive.
About us
Child Trends studies children at all stages of development in order to improve their lives and outcomes. We conduct high-quality, nonpartisan research and share it with the people whose decisions and actions affect children, including policymakers, program providers, foundations, and the media.
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http://www.childtrends.org
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- Research Services
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- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Rockville, Maryland
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1979
- Specialties
- Survey Design, Qualitative Research, Strategic Communications, Evaluations, Literature Reviews, Implementation Research, Policy Analysis, and Data Analysis
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A new Child Trends brief from Zipi Diamond, Rowan Hilty, Kathryn Tout, and Jennifer Cleveland reflects on the methods and measures they used to understand early care and education (ECE) quality and children’s experiences in Minnesota’s Parent Aware Rated programs. The author’s findings can inform approaches ECE researchers and state leaders use to measure and understand how ECE program quality and other factors come together to shape children’s healthy learning and development. https://lnkd.in/dD6Ma9mN
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Identity formation is an important part of adolescence and young adulthood. However, for young people in foster care, this may be challenging. A new Child Trends blog suggests that to help young people develop healthy racial identities, child welfare agencies can train adults who work in the child welfare system in cultural competency and help young people make positive connections with kin. https://lnkd.in/etWQ8cWq
Supportive Adults May Help Young People in Foster Care Develop Healthy Racial Identities - Child Trends
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A new Child Trends brief from Vanessa Sacks and Michael Bradley explores practices for incorporating positive youth development approaches into soliciting young adult workers’ opinions and implementing their suggestions in the workplace. Employers can attract and retain young adult talent by using positive youth development approaches, which focus on young adults’ strengths, growth, and relationships. This brief was was developed as part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Generation Work initiative. https://lnkd.in/euEDHBp8
Promising Practices for Integrating Positive Youth Development in the Workplace - Child Trends
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Breakthrough Accelerator just announced their 2024 (and first ever) cohort! Follow Breakthrough to learn more about each team and their impressive work.
📣 Huge news! Introducing the first ever Breakthrough Accelerator 2024 Cohort! These five teams are funded for nine months to take their sexual and reproductive health work to the next level with Breakthrough Accelerator. Each team will receive support and coaching to test, refine, and scale their programs. We are honored to support each one of the following teams: Children’s National Hospital for Beyond the Bump, HBCU Wellness Collective, The Stigma RPG, UCLA Art & Global Health Center for Up to Us, and University of Oklahoma, School of Community Medicine for ATLAS. More information on each team is coming soon! Stay tuned.
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Congratulations to Elizabeth L. Cook (she/her) (Child Trends), Katherine McLaughlin (Elevatus Training), Morrigan Hunter, and Corissa Pittman! They were recently awarded $150,000 to further their mission of ensuring adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities receive comprehensive sexual and reproductive health education.
Most adolescents with disabilities do not receive adequate sexual and reproductive health education and services. It's arguably the largest inequity in the adolescent sexual and reproductive health field. To address this issue, I partnered with Katherine McLaughlin of Elevatus Training, Morrigan Hunter, and Corissa Pittman, a high school student and former ambassador for The Center on Youth Voice Youth Choice to apply for funding through one of HHS Office of Population Affairs (OPA)'s innovation hubs. I'm happy to announce that our team won a one-year $150k grant through The Policy & Research Group's Theory and Innovation Support Hub (TISH). We will use these funds over the next year to refine Elevatus Training's comprehensive sexuality education curriculum for adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. We are incredibly grateful for this funding and for the opportunity it provides us to work on reducing the sexual health related inequities that youth with disabilities face. And on a personal note, thanks to Child Trends and Jenn Rogers for the support and encouragement to go for this opportunity!
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The percentage of Black children in foster care in the United States is 2.2 times higher than in the general population, and the percentage of Indigenous children in foster care is 2.5 times higher than in the general population. This disproportionality is often underestimated due to single-race-only categories. Learn more in a new Child Trends analysis from Alyssa Liehr. https://lnkd.in/ewG-TbAh
Use of Multiracial Category Underestimates Disproportionate Representation of Black and Indigenous Children in Foster Care - Child Trends
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A recent report from Child Trends and Bright From The Start: Georgia Dept of Early Care and Learning—authored by Mallory Warner, Jack Fojut, Jing Tang, Audrey Franchett, Meghan McDoniel, Holly Keaton, James Fuller, PhD, and Diane Early—shares findings from Child Trends’ evaluation the DECAL Scholars program which aims to improve educator retention and increase education for Georgia’s early childhood workforce through financial and other supports. https://lnkd.in/ghvKzNYU
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For young people in foster care, identity formation may occur differently as they may not have access to information about their family of origin, ancestry, culture, or background. Child Trends’ new brief explores the ways in which 29 young people’s experiences with foster care impacted their racial identity formation. https://lnkd.in/eiRB9p8p
Foster Care and the Development of Racial and Ethnic Identity - Child Trends
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The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has released a new brief examining the well-being of the Hispanic early care and education (ECE) workforce and how supports within ECE programs may play a role in their well-being. The brief highlights steps that ECE programs can take to address issues within programs to create a more positive work climate for the Latino ECE workforce. https://lnkd.in/e7mSiPPY
Informal and Formal Supports May Affect Hispanic Early Educators’ Physical and Mental Well-Being - Hispanic Research Center
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