Framing Two-Generation Approaches to Supporting Families

Frameworks Institute

This tool provides critical steps to building wellbeing for 2-gen families. Guidance provided includes where to start, making intentional choices, what to emphasize and what to leave unsaid.

From Disparities to Discrimination

Children's HealthWatch

In this report, we highlight the emerging research from Children’s HealthWatch Philadelphia site that documents differences in food insecurity in relation to experiences with racial and ethnic discrimination on the street, in healthcare, school and work, with the police, and in other settings. The report analyzes discrimination and food insecurity in the context of the racial and ethnic disparities in food insecurity in the United States and in the twenty-year history of the Children’s HealthWatch dataset from the front lines of pediatric care.

From trauma-informed to asset-informed care in early childhood

Ellen Galinsky, Brookings Institute

Without a doubt, the emphasis on toxic stress, adverse childhood experiences, and trauma-informed care has been beneficial. But, it’s time to shift beyond a focus on these trauma-laced concepts. As child and adversity expert Philip Fisher of the University of Oregon said, “focusing on trauma is the starting line, not the finish line.” Successful interventions are asset-based, focusing and expanding on what children and adults are already doing that’s right.

Futures without Violence

Futures Without Violence

Provides a wealth of resources surrounding domestic violence, sexual violence, workplace harassment, human trafficking, and bullying. Along with these online resources, the programs, policy development, and public action campaigns are designed to prevent and end violence against women and children around the world.

GARE membership network

.

GARE is working to advance racial equity and increase opportunities for all communities. They are building the field of practice to advance racial equity within the government.

Getting BUILD Ready: tools for Moving Resources, Attention, and Action Upstream to Drive Sustainable Improvements in Community Health

The BUILD Health Challenge

A guide and webinar describing progress and tools according to BUILD principles: BOLD: Aspire toward a fundamental shift beyond short-term programmatic work to longer-term influences over policy, regulation, and systems-level change. UPSTREAM: Focus on the social, environmental, and economic factors that have the greatest influence on the health of your community and produce more equitable outcomes, rather than on access or care delivery. INTEGRATED: Align the practices and perspectives of communities, health systems, and public health under a shared vision, establishing new roles while continuing to draw upon the strengths and diversity of each partner. LOCAL: Engage neighborhood residents and community leaders as key voices and thought leaders throughout all stages of planning and implementation, with a particular focus on populations most affected by health disparities and inequities. DATA-DRIVEN: Use data from both clinical and community sources as a tool to: disaggregate data to identify inequities and understand areas of highest need, measure meaningful change, facilitate transparency among stakeholders, and generate actionable insights.

Getting Equity Advocacy Results

PolicyLink

Getting Equity Advocacy Results (GEAR) draws from the wisdom and experience of seasoned advocates and action researchers to provide useful benchmarks, frameworks, and tools for measuring progress in equity efforts for policy change across a range of issues.

Getting Ready for Evaluation

Racial Equity tools

Explore this webpage, published by Racial Equity tools, and learn about how an organization can prepare for evaluation with a racial justice lens.

Getting Started with Mindfullness: A toolkit for Early Childhood Organizations

ZERO to THREE

Created by ZERO TO THREE, this mindfullness toolkit focuses on implementing healthy practices in the early childhood environment to promote wellbeing for bothchildren and employees.

Getting Started With Policy Change

County Health Rankings & Roadmaps

This guide contains guidance, examples, and tools to learn about the what, why, and how of policy change and upholding equity throughout.

Getting to Scale: The Elusive Goal

Magnolia Place Community Initiative

A report that presents the collective actions and learnings at Magnolia Place Community Initiative, that can be used for coalition development.

Go NAP SACC

NAP SACC, UNC Chapel HIll

This tool provides early care and education programs with quality, evidence-informed materials. The Go NAP SACC contains an interactive tools that allows users to complete self-assessments and save the assessments online. The tool also consists helps providers create action plans and set goals to achieve their plans.

Governance of Partnerships and Coalitions

Center for Community Health Education Research and Service, Inc.

This presentation by CHERS highlights examples of governance models through CHERS work with partners. CHERS's mission is to promote the development of “academic community health centers” that integrate service, education and research to influence and change health professions education, improve health care delivery, and promote health systems change, to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health.

Governor Baker Signs Earned Income Tax Credit Increase for Working Families

Office of the Governor of Massachusetts

This 2015 press release celebrates a bill signed by Governor Charlie Baker of Massachusetts which increased Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) by 50%. This provided tax relief for over 400,000 working citizens and families in Massachusetts and was integral to building community.

Grassroots Community Engaged Investment: Redistributing power over investment processes as the key to fostering equitable communities

Transform Finance

Learn about a regional group of food co-ops working towards a thriving regional economy, healthy, just, and sustainable food systems, and a vibrant community of cooperative enterprise.

Growing Leaps and Bounds

Danon Institute

Growing Leaps and bounds is an educational program to support pediatricians’ efforts to guide parents of children ages one month to five years of age on nutrition, feeding and physical activity. The series of materials links healthy eating, exercise and childhood development and supports anticipatory guidance to help parents and caregivers make the best choices for their children as they grow and develop.

Hackastory tools

Hackastory

This resource includes a list of tools and resources for building data stories

Head Start Parent, Family and Community Engagement Framework

Early Childhood Learning & Knowledge Center

This framework provides programs with a research-based, organizational guide for implementing Head Start performance standards for parents, family and community engagement.

Health at Every Size Philosophy

.

This resources provides education on the "non-diet approach" to managing weight and the dangers of the diet industry in America. It also advocates for a paradigm shift in how we approach food, weight, self-esteem, exercise, and the body.

Healthcare Hotspotting

Camden Coalition

Healthcare hotspotting is the strategic use of data to reallocate resources to a small subset of high needs, high cost patients. This new project from the Camden Coalition is using healthcare hotspotting to improve health outcomes.

Health Data & Evaluation: Vital Statistics

Health Department, City of Lincoln

This online portal contains selected birth and death (mortality) data from 2005 to the most currently available year of vital records. Information contained in this portal is based on the vital records of Lancaster County residents that the Health Department shares with the Office of Health Statistics, a unit of the Division of Health Licensure and Health Data at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services.

HealthEquityGuide.org -- a project of Human Impact Partners

HealthEquityGuide.org

A website structured around strategic practices that local health departments can apply to more meaningfully and comprehensively advance health equity.

Health Equity In Focus: Building Diverse Coalitions for Policy Change: Lessons from Oral Health Campaigns

Community Catalyst

By building a system of advocacy and forming broad-based multi-stakeholder coalitions, consumer health advocates can increase their credibility within the community, impact change, and lay the groundwork for future campaigns. This article highlights effective practices have been increasingly effective in advancing the Dental Access Project’s campaigns.

Health Impact Project

PEW

This project works to create cross-sector partnerships that include the expertise of health care and public health systems. Their website included many health related resources, such as data visualizations regarding health influences.

Health Opportunity and Equity (HOPE) Initiative tools and Resources

National Collaborative for Health Equity

The Health Opportunity and Equity (HOPE) Initiative, funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, was launched to start a new conversation about health because we believe that every person in the U.S., no matter their background or ZIP code, should have a fair and just opportunity for the best possible health and well-being. The HOPE Initiative tracks 28 indicators that span the life course, including health outcomes and indicators related to opportunity such as socioeconomic factors, the physical and social environment, and access to health care at the state and national level.

Health Policy and Advocacy toolkit

Families USA

This resource provides a guide with practical knowledge and tactics to doing advocacy work. The toolkit is especially for people new to advocacy.

Healthy Bites: A Wisconsin guide for improving childhood nutrition

Active Early and Healthy Bites are companion guides designed to help early care and education (ECE) professionals address childhood obesity by improving physical activity and nutrition in the program. Active Early focuses on physical activity while Healthy Bites focuses on healthy eating, nutrition environments and on strengthening the USDA Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meal pattern.

Healthy Food Access Portal

PolicyLink, Reinvestment Fund, The Food Trust

The Healthy Food Access Portal harnesses a vast array of data and information to support the successful planning and implementation of policies, programs, and projects for advocates, entrepreneurs, and stakeholders to improve access to healthy foods in low-income communities and communities of color.

Healthy Housing Outcomes Survey

Enterprise Community Partners

A survey tool that enables its users to measure changes in resident health outcomes most likely to be influenced by healthy housing development.

Healthy Kids in a Digital World

The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood

A strategic plan to reduce screen time for children 0 to 5 through organizational policy and practice change. The plan includes building a national network of organizations already committed to children’s wellbeing, developing a model to increase their proactive efforts to reduce early childhood screen time, and creating policies and tools to increase their capacity and impact for that goal.

Healthy Places by Design

.

This model highlights the importance of a community’s context, defines six essential practices for success, and outlines a 3P Action Cycle: Partner, Prepare, and Progress. This can be useful to community coalitions, local leaders looking for a collaborative process to creating healthier places, and to funders seeking a tested approach for local investments.

Healthy Start Pittsburgh: Male Initiative Program

Seeks to educate fathers and male caregivers on how important they are to the outcome of their partner’s pregnancy and the ongoing health and wellbeing of the family through health education, parenting support, case management, resource coordination and referrals.

Heckman equation

Anyone looking for upstream solutions to the biggest problems facing America should look to Nobel Prize winning University of Chicago Economics Professor James Heckman's work to understand the great gains to be had by investing in the early and equal development of human potential.

Helping our youngest first generation Americans to thrive

Children's HealthWatch

In this report card, Children’s HealthWatch research highlights the disparities immigrant families with young citizen children experience in their ability to afford enough food and describes the severity of that deprivation. This report card also explores how the length of time mothers have lived in the U.S. is related to their family’s ability to afford enough food.

Help Me Grow National

A system model that works to promote cross-sector collaboration in order to build efficient and effective early childhood systems that mitigate the impact of adversity and support protective factors among families, so that all children can grow, develop, and thrive to their full potential.

Herth Hope Index

Dr. Kaye Herth

The Herth Hope Index is a 12 item scale employed by Dankerlui et al. (2026) to measure hope for healthcare workers and healthcare recipients. This scale can be further employed in birth work to assess feelings of hope for patients, family members, and caregivers.

High Five For Kids toolkit

High Five for Kids is an obesity intervention program designed for kids ages 2-6. The program targets how family pediatric practitioners target childhood obesity.

Holistic Trauma Informed Services

Kids In Need of Defense (KIND)

Information on the holistic trauma informed services provided by KIND.

Home is Where Our Health Is: Policies to Improve the Health of Renters in Milwaukee and Beyond

Human Impact Partners & Public Policy Institute

This report shows how the affordability, quality, and stability of rental housing affect health, and includes 32 policy recommendations to improve health and equity for renters in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin.

How a national food policy could save millions of lives.

Mark Bittman, Michael Pollan, Ricardo Salvador and Olivier De Schutter

In this article, the connection between the creation of a public policy on food and positive health outcomes is discussed. The author also discusses the current state of affairs in regard to the American food system and its inequities.

How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime

Nadine Burke Harris

Ted Talk from Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris to explain how ACEs impact the development of the brain.

How Cities Embrace Their Infants and Toddlers

Early Childhood Action Collective

This report features promising initiatives in 11 cities to support the healthy growth and development of babies and toddlers.

How Do You Successfully Put Collective Impact into Action?

FSG

Developed by FSG, this resource highlights principles for how to put collective impact in practice, and the original 5 conditions of collective impact.

How Early Childhood Experiences Affect Lifelong Health and Learning

Harvard University

Published by Harvard Universities Center on the Developing Child, this animated video explains how early childhood experiences impact lifelong health.

How to Bring Design Thinking to Public Health

Stone

"As public health departments invest in modernization and improving outcomes in their communities, public health officials must implement an intentional process that guides their department towards public health innovation. To accomplish this, departments need to practice design thinking with their teams, but how do you bring design thinking to public health? "

How-to Guide: Communicating Data for Impact

Forum One

This resource provides a how-to guide to communicating data for impact through a multi-step process to approach and develop data communications strategies. The guide also includes case study examples (e.g. NYU Langone Health�۪s Department of Population Health and the U.S. Department of Education�۪s National Assessment of Educational Progress).

IDEO toolkit

Ideo

Human-centered design is as much about your head as your hands. These Mindsets explore and uncover the philosophy behind our approach to creative problem solving, and show that how you think about design directly affects whether you'll arrive at innovative, impactful solutions.

Ignite!: Getting Your Community Coalition Fired Up for Change

Frances Dunn Butterfoss & Meredith Minkler

Ignite has many helpful tools that are accessible and have even been used for community advocacy and leadership by the Vital Village Network.

Immigrant Eligibility for Public Benefits Chart

New York Immigration Coalition - NYIC

Designed in partnership with the Empire Justice Center, this tool aids service providers with supporting noncitizens in accessing public benefits.

Implementing Photovoice in Your Community

Community tool Box

Learn how to use Photovoice to empower people as they document the community’s needs and resources from their experience.

Implementing Social Determinants of Health Interventions in Medicaid Managed Care

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

AcademyHealth and Nemours work in Oregon highlighted that the 2016 Medicaid Managed Care Rules enable Medicaid to fund and pay for a wide range of upstream interventions via managed care.

Implicit Bias Modules

Kirwan Institute

This series of video modules provides education on how implicit bias originates and how we can overcome our own biases.

Indicators of Children’s Well-Being: A Review of Current Indicators Based on Data from the Federal Statistical System

Brett V. Brown

This essay was written to familiarize participants of the 1994 Conference on Indicators of Children’s Well-Being with the variety of indicators of children’s well-being currently in use that are based on federal data. The review has been organized to correspond to the following topics: health; education; economic security; population, family and neighborhood; and social development and problem behavior.

Infants And Toddlers in the Policy Picture: A Self-Assessment toolkit For States

Zero to Three

This toolkit is intended to help state policy leaders and advocates assess the current status of services for infants, toddlers, and their families, and to set priorities for improvement. A user-friendly format allows users to easily access state information from national sources, assess how your state compares to other states, and gather stakeholder input.

Infertility Fact Sheet: Black Maternal Health Statistical Insights

Rose Archer, MDiv., M.S. & Ayanna Robinson, MPH, PhD.

From Black Mamas Matter Alliance, this fact sheet seeks to increase awareness and education about infertility in Black communities, examining systemic barriers to infertility care as well as highlighting recommendations in policy, practice and research. The fact sheet examines the experiences of seeking and receiving infertility care, infertility outcomes for Black women, and the care for Black queer and gender expansive populations.

Innovative Medicaid Payment Strategies for Upstream Prevention and Population Health: An Executive Summary

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

AcademyHealth collaborated with Nemours Children’s Health System to help state Medicaid programs test approaches to financing upstream prevention and addressing social determinants of health. This brief highlights lessons learned and synthesizes important takeaways from that work.

In Pursuit of an Equitable Start: Leveraging and expanding public funding to support a more equitable recovery for young children, families and child care workers

PolicyLink and Think Babies

This report describes how COVID-19 is widening existing racial and economic gaps in opportunity for infants and toddlers. They call to leverage this moment to create more equitable systems that ensure all children have the support that they need for healthy development, including investments in high-quality affordable child care and paid family and medical leave policies.

In Springfield, "They're All Our Kids"

Alyssa Haywoode, Strategies for Children

A case study focused on the development of coalitions.

Institute for Youth, Education and Families at National League of Cities

National League of Cities

The Institute for Youth, Education, and Families is the go-to place for city leaders seeking to improve outcomes for children and families. With expertise in early childhood success, education & expanded learning, promoting a culture of health, youth & young adult connections, and economic opportunity & financial empowerment, the YEF Institute reaches cities of all sizes and brings together local leaders to develop strategies via technical assistance projects, peer learning networks, leadership academies, and Mayors’ Institutes.

Integrator Role and Functions in Population Health Improvement Initiatives

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

Spotlights the functions & value of integrators in community efforts to improve health.

International Cooperative Alliance

International Cooperative Alliance

Founded in 1895, ICA is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations that unite, represent and serve cooperatives worldwide. Learn more about the history of the global cooperative movement and other helpful information and resources.

Introduction: The concept behind shared governance

Shared Governance: A Practical Approach to Resharing Nursing Practice

This chapter define the four primary principles of shared governance: partnership, equity, accountability, and ownership; compares two professional nursing practice models; and describe the role of relational partnerships in shared governance.

Investing in Infant and Toddler Child Care to Strengthen Working Families

Rasheed Malik, Center for American Progress

Child care is expensive and scarce for children under 3 years old, when the benefits from quality child care are highest. This report analyzes the economic effects of access to child care for families with children under 3. The author uses the U.S. Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to understand the challenges facing families with very young children and the opportunity to improve their lives by investing when children are young. This dataset contains information on what families report spending on child care, the types of care arrangements that they use, as well as the dynamics of income and debt for parents with very young children.

Is Everyone Really Equal: An introduction to key concepts in social justice leadership

Sensory, Ozlem & DiAngela, Robi

This practical handbook will introduce readers to social justice education, providing tools for developing "critical social justice literacy" and for taking action towards a more just society. Accessible to students from high school through graduate school, this book offers a collection of detailed and engaging explanations of key concepts in social justice education, including critical thinking, socialization, group identity, prejudice, discrimination, oppression, power, privilege, and White supremacy.

It Takes a Community – Magnolia Place Community Initiative website

Magnolia Place Community Initiative

The Magnolia Place Community Initiative is based in Los Angeles, CA and is uniting the county, city and community to create sustainable change for families by promoting and strengthening individual, family and neighborhood protective factors. This website offers background on the "Community Level Change Model," and applying a strengths-based approach to community wellbeing.

J-PAL Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab

MIT

J-Pal is a global research center working to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. They conduct randomized impact evaluations to answer key questions in the fight against poverty.

Justice Action toolkit

Community toolbox

Published by Community toolbox this toolkit provides resources to support community members working towards racial justice and gender equity, and indeed injustice in its many forms.

Just Schools - Building Equitable Collaborations with Families and Communities

Prof. Ann Ishimaru, University of Washington

Just Schools examines the challenges and possibilities for building more equitable forms of collaboration among nondominant families, communities, and schools. The text explores how equitable collaboration entails ongoing processes that begin with families and communities, transform power, build reciprocity and agency, and foster collective capacity through collective inquiry. These processes offer promising possibilities for improving student learning, transforming educational systems, and developing robust partnerships that build on the resources, expertise, and cultural practices of nondominant families. Based on empirical research and inquiry-driven practice, this book describes core concepts and provides multiple examples of effective practices.

Kids County Data Center

.

Kids Count is a premier source on data on childrens and families.The tool allows you to refine searches by indciators, location, or topic.

Kids Data

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health

An online data-bank for resources pertaining to child well-being and health in California.

Kirwan Institute Research

Kirwan Institute

The Kirwan Institute strives to provide innovative, compelling and strategic research to both academic audiences and the broader community. Much of the Institute’s research is applied and policy oriented, providing informed direction and assistance to social justice advocates, communities, funders and policy makers.

Know Your Rights Community toolkit

New York Immigration Coalition

Available in 14 languages, this toolkit provides critical resources and flyers to inform immigrant communities about their rights if approached by ICE/Immigration.

Know Your Rights: For People Working with Immigrant Families

Protecting Immigrant Families

Available in Spanish & English, these fact sheets provide information for community champions working with immigrant families.

Language Justice toolkit: Multilingual Strategies for Community Organizing

Communities Creating Healthy Environments

The Language Justice toolkit is a resource for organizers, popular educators, community leaders and activists, and anyone who is committed to building movements where people can communicate across languages.

Lavender Phoenix Healing Justice Learning Resources

Lavender Phoenix

A resource list for deepening understanding and strengthening practices of healing justice as a movement organizing strategy.

Lavender Phoenix's COVID Safety Protocols

Lavender Phoenix

COVID safety protocol rooted disability justice, liberatory harm reduction, and collective responsibility. "It is essential to our collective well-being and the strength of our movement for organizations like ours to practice disability justice and COVID safety, and not leave our own people behind."

Learning from Indigenous Ways of Knowing

We All Count

Published by Heather Krause, of We All Count, this brief explores the existing ways Indigenous communities all across the world create knowledge and solve problems with data.

Lessons on Local Data Sharing

Urban Institute

NNIP encourages organizations to actively advoate for open data. These guidelines delve into open data and how to access data sources.

Let's Move!

Letters for Black Lives

Letters for Black Lives

An open letter project on Anti-Blackness

Liberating our Health: Ending the Harms of Pretrial Incarceration and Money Bail

Human Impact Partners & Public Policy Institute

This report describes the health impact of pretrial incarceration and money. bail via 6 key pathways. We also partnered with Faith in Florida to create a brief on pretrial incarceration in Hillsborough County.

Liberation Line

Liberation Line

The Liberation Line provides free mental health support calls to organizers and activists, offering support, listening, resources, processing, debriefing or strategizing.

Lifeline for Moms Perinatal Mental Health toolkit

Lifeline for Moms

This toolkit provides screening tools and recommendations for assessing mental health for individuals during pregnancy and postpartum. Informed by clinical guidelines and cultural sensitivity, learn more about how safe, non-stigmatizing environments are created to accurately assess perinatal mental health.

Living Compassion

.

The Mission: Transforming lives and ending suffering. Website includes information about the programs, workshops and projects that are offered under the Zen Awareness Practice umbrella.

Living on Grants Practical Budgeting Guidelines

New England Public Health Training Center

Updated in 2020, this webinar provides the basis of grant budget development and how to manage a grant-based budget from proposal to post award.

LMCTC Audience, Goals and Medals: General Information on the LMCTC Initiative and Goals

This document reviews the intended audience and goals of the Let's Move! Cities, Towns, and Counties component of Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign.

Local Early Childhood Partnerships

Administration for Children & Families, Department of Health and Human Services

When programs come together to better meet the needs of young children and their families, those relationships will be at the heart of their success. The resources in this section can help partners build relationships that work well and enable them to meet their goals.

Maintaining Effective Community Coalitions

Chuck McKetney and Julie Freestone

For 20 years, community-based health coalitions have been an integral part of the Contra Costa Health Services (CCHS) strategy to improve community health. With two decades of experience and insight and the results of a recent survey from 100 members of 14 coalitions, this report provides useful, practical information on running efficient coalitions, evaluating coalition work and knowing when to end a coalition.

Making Connections Backpack

Prevention Institute

A comprehensive guide to creating gender- and culture-relevant community-level approaches to improving mental health and wellbeing.

Making Room for More: Building Support for Young Dual Language Learners in the US

Frameworks Institute

Developed by the Frameworks Institute, this tool discusses seven key framing strategies for promoting dual language learning for children whose families speak a language other than English.

Manifesto for Race Equity & Parent Leadership in Early Childhood Systems

Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)

A group of 40 parent leaders and agency staff from nine EC-LINC communities, with support from CSSP staff and consultants, came together to create this Manifesto for Race Equity and Parent Leadership in Early Childhood.

Mapping Life Expectancy

Center on Society and Health VCU

These maps illustrate the life expectancy trends in different neighborhoods acrossing U.S.. They also provide background information and explanations behind the differences between neighborhoods.

Mapping the Gap: Examining Child Care Supply & Demand Across the Country

Child Care Aware of America

Following the inaugural launch of our Child Care Deserts report in fall 2016, Child Care Aware® of America is working with several states to take a deeper look at and map their unique stories in our series on child care supply and demand mapping: Mapping the GapTM. For each featured state, we explore and examine gaps in child care supply and demand, concentrations of CCDF voucher allocation, as well as an issue identified as a priority by states. The interactive story maps and resources above developed for each of the states are the result of collaboration between child care resource and referral (CCR&R) agencies, various state agencies and partners, and the CCAoA research and NDS teams.

MAPSCorps

HealtheRx

Observing, collecting, cataloguing, and analyzing data about all the public-facing businesses and organizations in our communities.

March for Our Lives Boston

Youth joining young people across the country to demand that lives are prioritized over access to guns. The goal: to amplify and emphasize the voices of communities of color, who are both disproportionately affected by gun violence and silenced in their calls for reform.

Maternal and Child Nutrition

A two-part series of papers that first examined maternal and child undernutrition (2008), and then extended to the growing problems of overweight and obesity for women and children and their consequences in low-income and middle-income countries (2013). The series also assesses national progress in nutrition programs and international efforts toward previous recommendations

Measurement tools

Building Healthy Places Network

Confused by the many tools and approaches available today to measure impact? This page from the Building Health Places Network compiles, compares, and contrasts available tools to help your community decide which fits your needs. You can also find organizations and partners engaged in this work.

MeasureUp

Building Healthy Places Network

MeasureUp is a microsite of resources and tools to help you measure and describe your programs’ impact on families and communities and on factors related to health. MeasureUp provides examples, tools, and resources to help you make your case, without having to become an economist.

Measuring Child Well-Being: An Inventory of Key Indicators, Domains and Indicator Selection Criteria to Support the Development of a National Set of Child Well-Being Indicators

Anne-Marie Brooks, Sinéad Hanafin

This document includes more than 2,500 indicators from 80 international, national and regional reports on child well-being and outlines the way in which child well-being has been conceptualised across different reports and throughout different countries. The compilation of this Inventory helped to define priorities for the national set of child well-being indicators for Ireland.

Medicaid and Head Start

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

Medicaid cannot address and invest in social determinants on its own. This brief highlights Head Start as a natural partner offering significant opportunity for alignment of care coordination and service delivery with Medicaid.