Culture-Based Resources to Promote Mental Health & Well-Being for LGBTQ Children & Youth

Family Acceptance Project and the Innovations Institute

Created by the Family Acceptance Project (FAP) and the Innovations Institute, these selected resources focus on connecting LGBTQ youth and families with organizations, events and activities that affirm ethnic, racial, spiritual and LGBTQ & Two Spirit identities.

DACA Data tools

Migration Policy Institute

Interactive data tools which support learning about participation in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program nationally and by state, as well as by top countries of origin.

Dad’s Rock: Nurturing Father Engagement

Follows fathers on the journey to deepen their bonds with their children and the professionals working to improve father engagement

Data As A tool For Change

Spark Policy Institute

This tool offers a guide on the process of using data for change. Includes sections on asking and answering questions, interpreting data, presenting data, and using results.

DataBank

Child Trends

A databank of well being indicators throughout childhood and adolescence.

Data Collection Instruments For the Evidence-Based Home Visiting to Prevent Child Maltreatment Cross Site Evaluation

Mathematica Policy Research

Designed by Mathematica Policy Research in partnership with the Children's Bureau and Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago, this metric provides data collection instruments utilized to support high-quality implementation of existing-evidence based home visiting (EBHV) programs to prevent child maltreatment.

Data for Community Health

All In

This tool reviews community collaborations working to improve health outcomes across the country.

Data is a Story: Reflections on Data, Storytelling and Equity in Social Change

Kristin Giordano

A short blog on the author's reflections about making the connection between data, storytelling, and power explicit.

Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health

CAHMI

This data center aims to advance the use of public data on the status of children's health and health-related services for children, youth, and families in the United States. The center provides accessible data that do not require statistical expertise to use.

Data Sources

National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership

Database for national and local sources of neighborhood-level data.

Data Storytelling: Best Practices and Visualization Tips To Create Remarkable reports

John Ostrowski

This article provides an overview of data storytelling, elements of data storytelling, techniques for optimized visualization, such as reducing cognitive load and choosing effective visuals.

Data Storytelling: How to Strike the Right Balance

Jenna Epstein

This article shares tips on balancing (1) use of individual and collective stories, (2) quantitative and qualitative data points, and (3) text and visual elements

Data Storytelling: The Essential Data Science Skill Everyone Needs

Brent Dykes

Provides a framework on the three key elements of data storytelling: data, visuals, and narrative, and how these combine and work together.

Data Storytelling - What It Is, What It Is Not, How To Do It

Karen Dietz

This article shares tips on using data visualizations to help make sense of the data, telling a data story using a narrative structure, triggering emotional engagement through experiences, and provoking imagination through metaphors and words that stimulate the senses.

Data Visualization and Health Equity Best Practices Checklist

Partners for Family Health Louisiana

Developed by the Bureau of Family Health Data to Action Team, this Data Visualization and Health Equity Best Practices Checklist aims to help health equity advocates, practitioners, and partners guide the development of communication materials that can present equity-related data in a responsible, reflective and representative manner

Data Viz

Urban Institute

These data cards present key stats, graphs, and maps on economic and social policy.

Data Viz Catalogue

This tool provides a general overview of main types of charts, when to use them, and tools to create them.

Decolonizing Expertise: Reflections on Power, Knowledge, and Governance in International Organizations (IOs)

Marine Gauthier

This opinion piece details a researcher's experience with identifying and conceptualizing "expertise" with global partners and international organizations in the context of research and knowledge production. The article concludes with recommendations for researchers, policymakers, and international organizations on how to decolonize expertise and global knowledge production.

Decolonizing Global Health toolkit

University of Washington International Clinical Research Center

This toolkit provides recommendations and resources for creating and conducting global research in a way that does not continue cycles of colonial oppression. The toolkit aims to achieve equitable collaborations and center projects around community-defined local priorities.

Defending Childhood Initiative

United States Department of Justice Archives

This initiaitve, launched by Eric Holder, addressses the national crisis of the exposure of America's children to violence as witnesses and as victims.

Defending Childhood: Protect, Health, Thrive

Defending Childhood Initiative, US Department of Justice

The Attorney General commissioned a task force of diverse leaders dedicated to protecting children from exposure to violence and to healing those who were exposed. The report calls for action by the federal government, states, tribes, communities, and the private sector across the country to marshal the best available knowledge and all of the resources needed to defend all of our children against exposure to violence. The Attorney General’s task force asks all readers of this report to imagine a safe country for our children’s creative, healthy development and to join together in developing a national plan to foster that reality.

Defining an Accountable Community for Health for Children and Families

Nemours Children’s Health System, Center for Health Care Strategies

Health happens wherever families are—at home, in schools, in child care, in medical homes, and digitally at any location in the community. Building upon a variety of community-based models funded by the federal government, states, and private funders, as well as the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Accountable Health Communities Model, this paper adapts these models of integrated care to seamlessly address the medical, social, and developmental needs of children and families, with a focus on shared accountability across sectors as well as financial sustainability.

Delivering Birth Justice toolkit: Transforming Maternal Health through Midwifery & Community Care

Comotion

Delivering Birth Justice: Transforming Maternal Health through Midwifery and Community Care is a blueprint for integrating quality midwifery services into the U.S. healthcare system, and a call to action for healthcare officials, venture capitalists, philanthropists, lobbyists, policymakers, and activists to mobilize.

Democracy at Work Network

Democracy at Work Institute

Check out the resources and tools developed by this network of certified peer advisors who provide training and technical assistance services to worker cooperatives, including support with infrastructure, capacity, structure, and capital access.

Department of Labor: Family & Medical Leave

US Department of Labor

This website from the United States Department of Labor provides an overview of The Family and Medical Leave Act. It describes the criteria necessary for both employees to receive FMLA, and the requirements for when employers must give FMLA. The bottom of the web page lists several other resources one can visit to find out more about the rules and regulations behind FMLA.

Designing a Community-Based Nutrition Program Using the Hearth Model and the Positive Deviance Approach - A Field Guide

This is a guide intended for trainers and NGO program officers and offers assistance in designing programs aimed at combating malnutrition in collaboration with local communities.

Designing and Conducting Focus Group Interviews

Richard A. Krueger

A set of guideline and a general overview of coordinating and facilitating focus group interviews. Specific aspects of the process focused on include: participants, environment, moderator, and analysis & reporting.

Design Kit: Human-Centered Design

IDEO

A library of resources, case studies, and methods that utilize a human-centered design approach.

Design Thinking: A Quick Overview

The Interaction Design Foundation

If you have just started embarking your journey through the Design Thinking process, things might seem a little overwhelming. This is why we have prepared a useful overview of the Design Thinking process, as well as some of the popular Design Thinking frameworks commonly used by global design firms and national design agencies.

Design Thinking for Social Innovation

Brown & Wyatt

Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt from IDEO give an overview of how design thinking can be implemented by nonprofits and applied to social innovation.

Design Trust for Public Space

Design Trust for Public Space

The Design Trust for Public Space is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the future of public space in New York City. Their projects bring together city agencies, community groups and private sector experts to make a lasting impact–through design–on how New Yorkers live, work and play.

Detention Watch Network: Impacting Immigration Detention Policies through Civic Engagement

A national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.

Determinants of Health and Well-Being for Children of Immigrants: Moving from Evidence to Action

Lisseth Rojas-Flores and Jennifer Medina Vaughn, Foundation for Child Development

In this report, the authors use a social determinants of health framework to illuminate how social, economic, and sociopolitical conditions directly influence a child’s overall well-being as well as the child’s physical and mental health. Accumulating evidence indicates that the nation’s current sociopolitical climate and policies have widespread implications that extend to U.S. citizens—especially vulnerable children of immigrants—and have an impact on their development across the lifespan. Recommendations are included for improving the social determinants of health for children of immigrants.

Developing a Productive Workgroup Within a Community Coalition: Transtheoretical Model Processes, Stages of Change, and Lessons Learned

Heather A. Finnegan, et al.

This study employs a unique model to outline a successful approach for establishing an action-oriented community-based workgroups. It demonstrates that fostering social support, emotional engagement, self-reevaluation, and reinforcement management are crucial strategies for guiding the workgroup's progression and creating a cohesive and effective multidisciplinary team.

Developing Community Agreements

National Equity Project

The National Equity provides a list of best practices for developing community agreements as a powerful strategy for turning a group into a team.

Developing Effective Coalitions: An Eight Step Guide

Prevention Institute

Published by the Prevention Institute, this tool provides 8 critical steps to developing an effective coalition.

Digital Storytelling

Tessa Lewin

This article discusses Digital Storytelling, a participatory methodology that can be used as a process to catalyze change through workshops where storytellers develop narratives with photographs, usually with a film as a final product

Disability Justice: An Audit tool

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

"Have you ever wondered how your organization is doing at practicing disability justice?" Explore this tool from Stacey Park Milbern and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha to strengthen your understanding of how your organizations are practicing disability justice, and identify place to further grow and learn.

Disaggregated Data: Not Just a Box Checking Exercise

Data Quality Campaign, Learning Heroes and National PTA

This brief from DQC, Learning Heroes and National PTA underscores that disaggregated data is key to identifying opportunity gaps and confronting persistent barriers to student success – and provides information for state leaders as they make sure that families have the data they deserve to ensure that their students get a high-quality, equitable education.

Diversitydatakids.org

The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

This resource allows you to explore hundreds of measures of child wellbeing and policy analysis.

Do-It-Yourself Strategies for Network Reflection and Evaluation

Mobilizing Action For Resilient Communities (MARC)

This toolkit offers strategies that network members can use to evaluate their collective efforts: Logic Models & Evaluability Assessment, Social Network Analysis, and Outcome Harvesting.

Dragon Fruit Oral History Project

Lavender Phoenix

An online community space preserving and uplifting transgender and queer Asian and Pacific Islander history and organizing in the Bay Area. Explore the online "Galleries" and discover different content, tools, and opportunities to learn.

Early Care and Education Workforce Demographic Series: A Look at Professional Characteristics, and Comparisons with Child and Community Characteristics

U.S Department of Health and Human Services

This report, from the Office of the Administration for Children and Families, is the first to detail the demographic alignment between ECE teachers and caregivers, children, and communities at a national level.

Early Childhood and Medicaid: Opportunities for Partnering

Nemours Children’s Health System

This new paper by Nemours Children’s Health System explains how the Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) programs function to practitioners in the early childhood (EC) sector. The paper also explores how partnerships between the ECE sector and Medicaid and CHIP can be formed to lessen the impacts of social determinants of health on child health outcomes. This work was funded in part by the Alliance for Early Success.

Early Childhood Matters: Recommendations for Messaging and Policy for Early Childhood Brain Development

Texprotects

A new report from our colleagues at TexProtects based on a survey of the state’s policymakers. While this report focuses on what messages resonate with Texas policymakers, the information to be learned from this report is relevant to all advocates across the country working with policymakers to move forward early childhood policy priorities.

Early Childhood System Performance Assessment toolkit

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)

This toolkit includes guidance and tools to use to assess how well a local early childhood system is working to improve the reach of early childhood services, promote coordination among those services, increase the community’s commitment to early childhood, and advance equity and parent engagement.

Early Childhood System Performance Assessment toolkit: Advancing Parent Engagement & Equity Items

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)

Online tools for keeping parents as partners in creating a responsive and equitable early childhood systems.

Early Childhood Workforce Index

Center for the Study of Child Care Employment

A biennial report that describes early childhood employment conditions and policies on a state-by-state basis. Providing states with periodic appraisals of their efforts based on measurable status and policy indicators, the Index is aimed at encouraging states to step up their efforts to address persistent workforce challenges.

Early Learning Alliance: Data Sharing

Early Learning Alliance

This website offers theories of change, logic models, and metrics for the family engagement, data and assessment, professional development, and governance areas developed by the Alliance team. The models specify community-level outcomes for initial, intermediate, and long-term time frames, and will be further modified as part of the ongoing work of The Alliance.

Early Learning Community Action Guide

National League of Cities and the Center for the Study of Social Policy

The Early Learning Community Action Guide provides a vision and specific action steps that city and community leaders can take to prioritize and promote early learning.

Early Learning in Promise Neighborhoods

Center for the Study of Social Policy

This guide lifts up early learning results and identifies challenges and lessons learned for three Promise Neighborhoods: Berea College Promise Neighborhood, Hayward Promise Neighborhood, and the Northside Achievement Zone.

EC-LINC Network

Center for Study of Social Policy

Developed by and for communities, EC-LINC’s mission is to support families and improve results for young children in communities across the country, with a focus on accelerating the development of effective, integrated, local early childhood systems.

Economic Medicine For Lifelong Health

T. Berry Brazelton

In this article, a doctor writes about the importance of child and earned income tax credits in improving child health and fighting childhood poverty.

EdChange

Building Equitable and Just Schools, Communities and Organizations through Transformative Action.

EITC infographic

Children's Health Watch, Healthy Families EITC Coalition

This infographic outlines how raising the Earned Income Tax Credit in MA can positively affect community health and reduce state spending.

Embracing Emergence: How Collective Impact Addresses Complexity

John Kania & Mark Kramer

This article discusses the growing utilization of collective impact to impact social change. The authors also overview the Five Conditions of Collective Impact, and the potential hurdles to employing this approach.

Embracing Equity

A social change agency dedicated to centering racial justice in education through racial and ethnic identity development, critical consciousness and critical action.

Empahsizing Social Justice and Equity in Leadership for Early Chlhood: Taking a Postmodern Turn to Make Comlexity Visible

Julie Nicholson

There is inherent complexity in a field like early childhood where people and their relationships are at the center of their work; daily practices involve negotiating webs of dynamic relations, shifting contexts, value conflicts, and profoundly diverse family constellations and community and cultural environments. This book expands our conceptions of leadership by drawing on postmodern ontological and epistemological perspectives that value, and make visible, diversities and complex human experiences. Author Dr. Julie Nicholson explores the challenges facing children domestically and globally regarding contemporary social justice and equity; she also provides several frameworks and specific strategies that early childhood educators can draw from in enacting leadership inspired by the ideas presented throughout the book.

Ending the Invisible Neglect of America’s Infants

J Ronald Lally

For Our Babies warns that U.S policies and practices must change in order for parents to be able to raise children to be healthy and productive members of society. The book includes testimony from parents, psychologists, mental health workers, and child care providers.

Engaged Scholarship Modules

University of Memphis

This is a series of modules that focuses on engaged scholarship and community engagement. Module 3, which focuses on partnerships, has a specific unit on ethics and community engagement.

Engaging and Supporting Young Children and their Families in Early Childhood Mental Health Services

Community Mental Health Journal

Research documenting the role that family partners play in children’s mental and behavioral health needs.

Enhancing Equitable Maternal Health in Greater Boston: Framework of Coalition Principles

Vital Village Networks and Ariadne Labs

In 2022, over twenty-five community leaders from across the region worked collaboratively to design the foundational elements of a coalition governance and decision-making structure that uplifts the dignity of its members and is grounded in healing-centered advocacy and practices. Learn more about the framework of coalition principles here that formed the foundation of the Greater Boston Birth Equity Coalition.

Equality of Opportunity Project

Equality of Opportunity Project

Provides a multitude of resources and data surrounding upward mobility and economic opportunity in the U.S.

Equitable Early Care and Education System: An Alignment Framework

National League of Cities

Every community’s early care and education system will include a diverse mix of public and private initiatives, an effective alignment process necessarily begins with a commitment to work across sectors to assess current needs, identify shared goals and then take and adjust actions in a highly coordinated manner. Aligning early care and education systems for young children can take a variety of forms and functions, and this framework acts as a guide towards this effort.

Equitable Evaluation Framework

Equitable Evaluation Initiative

Equitable Evaluation Initiative's mission is to build a sustainable field of leaders who are reimagining the purpose and practice of evaluation to advance equity and expand notions of validity, rigor and complexity. Learn more about the framework with this website.

Equitable Research Projects Between Global North and Global South Research Collaborators: Making it Happen

Humanitarian Advisory Group

This guidebook outlines the importance of equity in all phases of the global research cycle. The guide outlines specific actions and perspectives that must be taken and considered in order to build truly equitable research partnerships across countries.

Equity Action Guide

Colorado Office of Health Equity

Where we live, work, learn and play has a lasting impact on our health. The social facors that create health disparities also cause disparities in areas such as housing and transportation. The Office of Health Equity, in partnership with community organizations and other state agencies, developed a Colorado Equity Action Guide that looks at the root causes of inequity across Colorado through an in-depth review of community characteristics, stories and data. It leverages cross-sector collaboration and promotes data-sharing for sustainable community informed decision-making to advance equity.

Equity Manifesto

PolicyLink

The Equity Manifesto has been inspired by the work, commitments, insights, and resolve of the many partners with whom PolicyLink has shared the journey of advancing racial and economic equity. Please use it, share it, and reflect on it in your lives, your work, your struggle. Just please don't change it.

Essentials for Childhood Framework: Creating Safe, Stable, Nurturing Relationships and Environments for All Children

CDC

Intended for communities committed to the positive development of children and families, and specifically to the prevention of child abuse and neglect. The framework has four goal areas and suggests strategies based on best available evidence to achieve each goal.

Ethics in Community Based Participatory Research

Center for Social Justice and Community Action -- Durham University

This web page includes a guide to ethical principles and practices, case examples, articles, and films for researchers and students interested in evaluating community based participator research methods.

Ethnic and Racial Minorities & Socioeconomic Status

American Psychological Association

This fact sheet provides information on how socioeconomic status impacts society and is a good tool for informing community workers.

Evaluating Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Organizations

Sheila Robinson, Monique Liston, Leah Peoples and Ibukun Owoputi

Alumnae of the AEA’s Graduate Education Diversity Internship (GEDI) program’s 13th cohort reflections on the importance of increasing an organization’s capacity to conduct equitable evaluations across all the stages of an evaluation and share the Reflective Flower Framework for integrating equity in evaluation processes.

Evidence-Based Practices for Effective Community Coalitions: A Summary of Current Research

Center for Prevention Research and Development

This research brief provides a summary of the current research on effective community coalitions.

Exclusionary Discipline in Preschool: Young Black Boys' Lives Matter

Wesley, Lawanda Ellis, Addie Lucille

The preschool to prison pipeline has received increasing exposure over recent years. This opinion paper utilizes the recent research from the Yale Child Study Center to suggest the need for preschool educators to review current disciplinary practices. The researchers frame the discussion from the perspective of implicit bias having long-term impact on the lives of preschool-age Black males.

Expanding Access to Early Head Start: State Initiatives for Infants and Toddlers at Risk (Montana)

Zero to Three

This report by ZERO TO THREE and CLASP draws on newly conducted research on state efforts to expand and enhance access to Early Head Start (EHS) services for infants, toddlers, and their families.

Facing History and Ourselves

To engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.

Factors that predict financial sustainability of community coalitions: five years of findings from the PROSPER partnership project.

Greenberg et al

This study is a longitudinal investigation of the Promoting School-community-university Partnerships to Enhance Resilience (PROSPER) partnership model designed to evaluate the level of sustainability funding by community prevention teams, including which factors impact teams' generation of sustainable funding.

Fair Budget Coalition FY21 Budget report

Fair Budget Coalition

An example of coalitions centering the dignity of families in a community budget for the city of Washington DC.

Family and Community Engagement Network

Institute for Educational Leadership

A large network that connects families and pools resources and knowledge surrounding child wellbeing and education.

Family and Medical Leave in 2012: Executive Summary

Abt Associates

This four page report from 2012 by ABT Associates Inc. is a summary of their findings from over 2000 interviews conducted about FMLA. They extracted 4-5 main themes (such as “Leave is not uncommon”, to “Unmet need for leave is limited”) from the data and explored them in greater detail. Through the data they concluded that while FMLA has achieved some stability in the two decades it has existed, although more needs to be done.

Family Focused Organizing Training Manuals

COFI

These training manuals include curriculum and activities to build parent leadership development and organizing experience over time.

Family Meals: The Family Dinner Project

Includes planning guides for healthful family eating, healthy recipes, and provides support around connecting families and sharing stories about nutrition through a blog and parenting groups.

Fatherhood Task Force of South Florida

Values the importance of fathers’ engagement with children from before they are born through adulthood. and work toward helping them to have closer and more productive relationships.

Fed Up! Winning the War Against Childhood Obesity

Susan Okie

Based in part on the Institute of Medicine's ground-breaking report on childhood obesity, this new book from family physician and journalist Susan Okie provides in-depth background on the issue; shares heartrending but instructive case studies that illustrate just how serious and widespread the problem is; and gives honest, authoritative, science-based advice that constitute our best weapons in this critical battle.

Feeding Your Child the Brazelton Way

Brazelton, T. and Sparrow, J.

The authors apply the Touchpoints philosophy to feeding, then they follow feeding progress age by age, and finally they deal with the most common issues: breast or bottle, weaning, basic nutritional needs, the over-involved parent, food battles, adolescent overeating, and the roots of eating disorders.

Feed Me, I'm Yours: Baby Food Made Easy!

Vicki Lansky

This classic cookbook for parents of tots and toddlers contains some of the most popular recipes for baby food, finger food, snacks and desserts.Includes information on the newest Food Pyramid Guide, sample servings for young children, organic baby food options, and a multitude of feeding techniques and strategies for parents.

Financial Resources for Coalitions

The Ohio State University

This resource outlines how financial support for community change can beavailable from diverse sources, both public and private, and identifies why muliple sources of funding may be preferred to avoid total obligation or association with a single source.

Finding Leverage – The Power of Systems Thinking with Chris Soderquist

Chris Soderquist gives an overview of the systems thinking framework, and how it can improve group decision making and help create lasting, meaningful change.

First 1,000 Days Request for Letters of Interest

Washington State Frontiers of Innovation

The Washington State Frontiers of Innovation (WA FOI) partners released a request for Letters of Interest (LOI) from communities that have a passion for prevention, innovation and reducing the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) for families with young children. This document includes the invitation to submit a letter of interest, information about the project, and the Interest Submission form. It also contains the timeline for Phase One and Phase Two of the project period, and what to expect from the WA FOI “Team Resource” partners as Deep Dive Community.

First Nations Development Institute, Food Sovereignty Assessment tool

First Nations Development Institute

The Food Sovereignty Assessment tool (FSAT) assists Native communities in reclaiming their local food systems. It helps demystify the process of data collection about local food systems and provides tools and a framework for Native communities to measure and assess food access, land use and food policy in their communities.

Five Borough Farm

Design Trust for Public Space

Five Borough Farm, a project of the Design Trust for Public Space, offers a roadmap to farmers and gardeners, City officials, and other stakeholders to understand and weigh the benefits of urban agriculture.

Five COVID-19 Policy Recommendations Infographic

FAMILIESUSA

Created by FAMILIESUSA, this infographic is a creative tool to highlight important policy recommendations that support communities during COVID-19.

Five Numbers to Remember About Early Childhood Development by the Harvard University Center on the Developing Child

This resource provides 5 important statistics to help us better understand neural development during childhood and the importance of investing in early childhood programs.

Food Apartheid: What Does Food Access Mean In America?

T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies

An article by Isabel Lu examines the structual discrimination that fuels food access in the United States, and calls for acknowledgement that food justice is linked to economic justice.

Food Justice is a Black Maternal Health Imperative

Coalition for Food and Health Equity

An article by Tonni Oberly, published by Coalition for Food and Health Equity examines the correlation between the Black maternal health crisis and racism in food systems, and calls for an integration of food justice with birth justice.

Food Policy: CUNY UFPI Publications and Research

CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute

The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute shares knowledge to guide policy and highlight projects that can improve the diet and health of New Yorkers and reduce health inequalities. They support and nurture research conducted by CUNY faculty and students that provides evidence to inform food and nutrition policy in New York and other cities.

For Food Co-ops, the Future Is Now

Nonprofit Quarterly

An article by Darnell Adams calls for the food cooperative community to move the field toward addressing social and economic inequities. Reflecting on the internationally recognized principles, Adams suggests that food co-ops are designed to meet community needs made by systems failures, and encourages leadership in the food systems spaces to address the racial inequities within it's own system.

Framework for Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating PreK-3rd Grade Approaches

Kauerz, K. & Coffman, J.

The vision for PreK-3rd grade approaches is to improve the quality and coherence of children’s learning opportunities, from the experiences children have before they enter the K-12 system and extending through elementary school. Ultimately, comprehensive PreK-3rd grade approaches hold the potential to improve child outcomes and to prevent or close achievement gaps.

FrameWorks: Housing Research

FrameWorks Institute

The FrameWorks Institute is working with some of the nation’s most influential housing policy organizations to ensure that advocates have sophisticated communications research available to guide their efforts. This project will address the critical need to build public understanding of a range of housing-related issues: why they matter, how they work, whom they affect, and what we can do to ensure that all Americans have access to safe, affordable, and healthy housing.

FrameWorks Institute

A nonprofit think tank that advances the mission-driven sector’s capacity to frame the public discourse about social and scientific issues. The organization’s signature approach, Strategic Frame Analysis®, offers empirical guidance on what to say, how to say it, and what to leave unsaid.