Child Trends

Comprehensive, actionable data are critical for addressing inequities within preschool systems that impact children, families, and workforce members. The Early Childhood Data Collaborative's STEP Forward with Data Framework aims to fill that gap by providing preschool systems leaders with guidance for assessing their preschool system, collecting and analyzing data, and identifying action steps for creating a more equitable preschool system. https://lnkd.in/eh2AXdWV  

Child Trends’ toolkit—developed in partnership with the Center for Schools and Communities—can help school staff better understand the unique experiences of Afghan refugee students and their families and help them take action to foster safe and nurturing learning environments. https://lnkd.in/eMewx2rS  

Tomorrow, Saturday, 11/23 at 11 am ET, Chrishana Lloyd will facilitate "Exploring 100 Years of Research Focused on Black Families to Highlight Black Scholar Resistance and Strengthen Policies and Systems" at the 2024 National Council on Family Relations Annual Conference. The session will be live streamed. https://lnkd.in/eXVRFk-b

The STEP Forward with Data Framework—developed by the Early Childhood Data Collaborative—is designed to help preschool system leaders use data to promote greater equity at every step of the preschool system. By better understanding the experiences of children, families, or workforce members, leaders will be able to identify and address inequities and their root causes to ensure children, families, or workforce members have positive, equitable experiences. https://lnkd.in/emZdS-ZV  

Respectful care takes patient-centered care to the next level. It prioritizes individuals’ needs and their desired health outcomes but also factors in how discrimination and systemic inequities can impact people’s sexual and reproductive behaviors and decision making. Jenita Parekh, Deja Logan, Elizabeth Wildsmith, Kylee Novak, and Ria Shelton interviewed family planning providers from Title X family planning clinics about how they promote respectful care in their clinics for their new Child Trends brief. https://lnkd.in/eW3T26Jd  

In their new Child Trends brief, Elizabeth Villegas, Ph.D., Lauren Kissela, Gabriel Pina, Kathryn Leifheit, Yiyu Chen, and Eliana Perrin describe the findings from focus groups of mothers with young children who received pandemic-related rental and/or utility assistance. These findings informed the authors’ policy and program recommendations that can help ensure that support systems are both accessible and responsive to the needs of families with low incomes who require emergency interventions. This brief is the second in a two-part series about understanding the impact of emergency rental assistance on families. https://lnkd.in/eG9YpRVt

Brittany Paige Mihalec-Adkins, PhD, Shreya Mukhopadhyay, and Kristen Darling developed a toolkit for state-level policymakers, agency leaders, administrators, and other partners to facilitate collaborative efforts to prevent infant and toddler maltreatment through state economic and health policy. They focused on four promising policy areas—child tax credits, minimum wage laws, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and contraception access—in their new Child Trends resource. https://lnkd.in/efJG4UR8  

In addition to her work as an Ascend fellow, Deana Around Him leads Child Trends' Indigenous children and families research. Watch the video 👇 and then check out the amazing work she and the other members of the ICF research team (LaShai Jake, MPH, MSW, Dominique Martinez, Jordyn Pourier, and Cherry Y. E. W. Yamane, mph) do at Child Trends. https://lnkd.in/emcYmUa9

Child Trends at #2024APPAM! See below for the details. 👇 Thursday, 11/21 @ 3:30 pm: Yiyu Chen on trends in child support agreements. https://lnkd.in/esNWGfBS Friday, 11/22 @ 10:15 am: Renee Ryberg on lessons learned from the implementation of the CAPS Student Parent 2Gen Pilot. https://lnkd.in/ecSJtNev Friday, 11/22 @ 10:15 am: Christina Padilla on administrative burden among Latino families. https://lnkd.in/e4ED8wmP Friday, 11/22 @ 10:15 am: Kristina Rosinsky on reducing administrative burden on MIECHV awardees and grantees. https://lnkd.in/eg6RXVad

Limited access to high-quality health care has contributed to high rates of maternal and infant mortality among Native American families. Jordyn Pourier, Cherry Y. E. W. Yamane, mph, LaShai Jake, MPH, MSW, and Deana Around Him share five ways that health care providers can use culturally relevant care to address Indigenous maternal health disparities. https://lnkd.in/gVZRg2fk