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How Are Advocates Talking about Children’s Issues? An Analysis of Field Communications

This is one of a set of three reports that map the landscape of current discourse and thinking.

How to Keep Our Policy Discussion Focused on Kids

We're failing our kids. And in large measure, it's because—at a political level—we don't connect our policy priorities with what's good for them.

Imran Hussain

UK Board Director

Reframing Transition Age Foster Youth

Introduction The resources in this toolkit are designed to collectively build the understanding and support we need to change the narrative around transition age foster youth. Building public...

Framing Strategies to Shape Parent and Adolescent Understandings of Development

Nat Kendall-Taylor

(2021, August 1). Framing Strategies to Shape Parent and Adolescent Understandings of Development. Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, 148(2),

Do’s and Don’ts

When talking about transition age foster youth…  

Talking Points

These strategically framed talking points can be used across messengers and channels to change the conversation about transition age foster youth.

Steep Climb Metaphor Card

For transition age foster youth, the climb to adulthood can be particularly steep. They need support to find their footing.

Plugged In Metaphor Card

As transition age foster youths become adults, they need to be plugged into networks of support that power their growth and success.

Why aren’t kids a policy priority? The cultural mindsets and attitudes that keep kids off the public agenda

This report focuses on American mindsets about kids and how these mindsets limit the effectiveness of advocacy messaging.

Jennifer John, PhD, MSW

Associate Director for Quantitative Research

Communicating about Intergenerational Urban Poverty and Race in America: Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging Recommendations

Emerging and longstanding solutions focused on what each neighborhood needs, crafted in collaboration with the communities that would benefit from those solutions, bring hope and new possibilities...