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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Toolkit

Reframing Adolescence and Adolescent Development

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

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Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive

We all love our kids. We often love our neighbors', friends', and coworkers' kids. So why haven't we, in the U.S., built systems that support all of our kids? If we want to build demand for...

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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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Expanding the Basics: Mapping the Gaps between Expert, Decision-Maker and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in Kenya

The way the public thinks and talks about early childhood development (ECD) and learning influences which child-related policies and programmes are most likely to be adopted. This report presents...

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New Resources Lay Out Strategy To Reframe Adolescent Substance Use

The FrameWorks Institute developed two new reframing resources to change misperceptions about adolescent drug and alcohol use.

Announcements

Making A Stronger Case For Bridging STEM Learning

A new report compares expert and public thinking about bridging STEM learning and offers advocates strategic advice to overcome challenges in public thinking.

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Communicating about Obesity

People do see many pieces of the obesity puzzle, but they tend to arrange them into a picture of individuals failing to overcome challenging circumstances.

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Turning Down the Heat on Adolescent Substance Use: Findings from Reframing Research

This report outlines the findings from a series of interrelated investigations aimed at identifying framing tools and techniques capable of elevating the public discussion. The purpose of this...

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Seeing and Shifting the Roots of Opinion: Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Care Experience and the Care System in Scotland

This research report maps how Scottish people think about the children’s care system and identifies gaps between public and expert views.

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Integrating Issues: Framing for Racial Equity and Children in Immigrant Families

This report distills the communications challenges facing advocates for progressive immigration policies and outlines framing strategies to address them.

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New Article Explores Public Thinking about Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol

This article offers recommendations advocates can use to make a stronger case for policies and programs to prevent and address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Frame Testing Recommendations

Reframing School Discipline: A Strategic Communications Playbook

This strategic messaging playbook offers guidance. It outlines 12 evidence-based framing strategies that communicators in the education, justice, and civil rights sectors can use to challenge...

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Seeing the Spectrum: Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Manitoba

This report explores experts and public views of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in Manitoba and “maps the gaps” between them.

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Early Means Early: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Stakeholder, and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa

This report compares views of early childhood development between experts in the field and members of the public in South Africa.

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Reframing Early Childhood Development and Learning in Alamance County

How can we build support for early childhood development in Southern, conservative communities? We conducted research in Alamance County, NC, to find out.