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Turning Down the Heat: Reframing Adolescent Substance Use

This workshop focused on evidence-based framing strategies to help advocates effectively communicate about adolescent substance use and the critical elements of a prevention approach.

Presentation

Using Social Science to Translate the Science of Child Development

Developmental science has massive potential to inform policies that can better support children and families. But in order for this science to realize its potential for impact, we need to use the...

Workshop

Framing Stories About Homelessness

Stories about the experience of homelessness matter. A workshop exploring how framing can help tell powerful stories.

Training

Introduction to Framing and Framing Homelessness

A practical session exploring why framing matters and how we can frame homelessness to change hearts and minds.

Report

Beyond Caring: Mapping the Gaps between Expert, Public, Practitioner, and Policymaker Understandings of Family, School, and Community Engagement

This study compares various stakeholders’ views of family engagement, yielding actionable strategies that communicators can use to navigate and shift public thinking.

Presentation

Reframing Housing in the UK

Public thinking about housing is complex and fraught with ideas of individualism and consumerism. This presentation provides initial ideas about how the housing sector in UK can position messages...

External article

Six Ways to Boost Public Support for Prevention-Based Policy

Communications strategies for advocates, activists, and researchers who want to build support for preventative approaches to solving social problems.

Announcements

Developmental Relationships

Are healthy relationships more like the roots of a tree, or more like the pillars of a house?

External article

Have Americans Lost Interest in Real Police Reform?

It’s been five years since an unarmed Michael Brown was shot by police on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., triggering a wave of protests and nationwide efforts—including a federal task force—to...

Toolkit

Wiring Up

Welcome to Wiring Up—a communications toolkit designed to help advocates talk more effectively with public audiences about the importance of connecting STEM learning environments.

External article

Most of What We Think Works to Change People’s Behavior Doesn’t. Here’s What Does.

Knowing how people make sense of an issue allows communicators to make good decisions, tap into productive patterns of thinking, and steer clear of understandings that make it hard for people to...

Presentation

Talking About Poverty

How we talk about poverty matters. A workshop with the 4in10 London network.