Skip to content
FrameWorks UK
Report

Framing Child Poverty by Telling a Development Story

To build support for ending child poverty, we need a powerful framing strategy. This Message Brief offers guidance from the Core Story of Early Development.
Published
June 9, 2009
Download

This message brief recounts and interprets data gathered over the past two years on the ways that exposure to the core story of child development influences support for policies designed to remediate child and family poverty.

Issues
Child and Adolescent Development Families Poverty Science Communication
Countries
United States
Partners
Center on the Developing Child, Harvard University

Related content

Report

The Resilience Scale: Using Metaphor to Communicate a Developmental Perspective on Resilience

How can we talk about resilience in a way that disrupts people's assumption that it's all about inner strength and just a matter of "bouncing back?"
External article

Hey Politicians, Don’t Just Kiss Babies. Expand the Child Tax Credit.

There’s a gap between how much Americans say they care about kids and what they’re willing to do for them.
Webinar

Building a New Narrative about Kids

In the United States, we share a common desire for children to be healthy and develop well. Despite this desire, we don’t tend to center the needs of children and young people in our...