Child and Adolescent Development

FrameWorks has the world’s largest body of framing research on children and adolescents. It is used around the world to create change.

This research provides an overarching framing strategy to effectively communicate about a wide range of issues that affect children and young people.

Certain assumptions about children, youth, and families come up again and again.

To communicate effectively, advocates need to be able to navigate these dominant beliefs.

The tested frames come from research on six continents and have pushed policy in progressive directions at local, state, national, and international levels. Join this global narrative shift effort by exploring these resources.

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Reframing Adolescence and Adolescent Development

This toolkit is a resource for communicators who want to change the narrative about adolescence and adolescent development.

From 10 to 25

What happens from ages 10 to 25? Find out as you take on the role of a young person, explore new parts of life, encounter challenges, and get the support you need.

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Talking About Racism in Child and Family Advocacy

As the field seeks to lead a more public conversation about the impacts of racism on children and families—and about how racism structures the systems that children and families interact...

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Framing Adversity, Trauma, and Resilience

The science of adversity, trauma, and resilience is a powerful tool in any effort to improve health and wellbeing. But science—no matter how strong its findings—does not speak for itself.

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Connections and Communities: Reframing How We Talk About Opportunity Youth

Everyone wants young people to thrive and be active and engaged members of their communities as they become adults. But deeply rooted, often-negative assumptions about young people can make this...

Toolkit

Emerging Minds (Australia): Children’s Mental Health and Two Generation Approaches Mini-toolkit

This mini-toolkit is a supplement to the original Reframing Children's Mental Health toolkit, created by the FrameWorks Institute in partnership with Emerging Minds. The original toolkit was...

Toolkit

Emerging Minds (Australia): Children’s Mental Health and Social Determinants of Health Mini-toolkit

This mini-toolkit is a supplement to the original Reframing Children's Mental Health toolkit, created by the FrameWorks Institute in partnership with Emerging Minds. The original toolkit was...

Toolkit

Emerging Minds (Australia): Children’s Mental Health and Climate Change and Disasters Mini-toolkit

This mini-toolkit is a supplement to the original Reframing Children's Mental Health toolkit, created by the FrameWorks Institute in partnership with Emerging Minds. The original toolkit was...

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Methods Supplement: A New Narrative about Elite Child Athletes

To arrive at the recommendations in our strategic brief, we applied Strategic Frame Analysis®—an approach to communications research and practice that yields strategies for shifting the...

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A New Narrative about Elite Child Athletes: Reframing Wellbeing and Abuse Prevention

Over the past few years, the discourse around elite child athletes in the US has centered on high-profile cases of abuse. The media has largely sensationalized and individualized the issue,...

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Changing the Narrative Together: Three Effective Strategies for Talking about Youth Mental Health

Three cultural mindsets are currently influencing perceptions about—and limiting action on— youth mental health: Individualism, Fatalism, and Otherism. We need a new narrative that makes it...

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Talking About Racism in Child and Family Advocacy

As the field seeks to lead a more public conversation about the impacts of racism on children and families—and about how racism structures the systems that children and families interact...

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Reframing the Conversation about Child and Adolescent Vaccinations

The purpose of this brief is to equip physicians, advocates, and public health communicators with the strategies necessary to effectively build understanding of and support for child and...

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Advancing Anti-Racist Education

How School Leaders Can Navigate the Moral Panic about “Critical Race Theory”

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Journey to Success Campaign: Quick Messaging Guide

Six key messages and framing tips for each of the Journey to Success campaign's policy goals.