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.

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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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Modernity, Morals, and More Information: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Early Child Development in Australia

This report lays the groundwork for a larger effort to reframe the public conversation around early child development in Australia.

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“You Have to Have the Basics Down Really Well”: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of STEM Learning

This report examines expert and public perspectives on STEM education and informal learning.

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Talking about Toxic Stress

Explore these general guidelines and evidence-based best practices for communicating about development, stress, and resilience with disparately impacted individuals and communities.

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Information is the Main Ingredient: Using Metaphor to Enhance Understanding of Digital Media and Learning

How can we talk about learning technology and distance learning in a way that frames students as owners of their learning? Metaphors can help.

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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?"

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Talking About Skills and Learning

The future will require new skills - which means we new ways of teaching today. But public thinking is, often, stuck in the past. How can we reframe?

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The Stories We are Telling: How Digital Media and Learning is Communicated by Education Reformers

The way we talk about digital learning and educational technology matters. This study explores how advocates frame these issues - and the effects of the stories we tell.

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Finding a Place for Early Child Development in the Hierarchy of Needs

This report offers guidance on how to translate the science of early child development for the international development and policy community.

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Summary of Research on the Framing of Early Childhood Development in International Child Advocacy and Journalism

This study offers insight into international aid workers' perception of early childhood development issues, mapping the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

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“Anyone Can Do It… Wake up, Rise up and Get Some Gumption”: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Resilience and Developmental Outcomes

This report summarizes the findings of a multi-year study that sought to translate the science of early childhood development and the issue of resilience.

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Framing Early Childhood Development in a Global Context: An Analysis of Children’s Issues in International News Media

This media content analysis examines the explicit and implicit messages, or “media frames,” embedded in the international news coverage of children’s issues.

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Talking About Children’s Oral Health

Using these templates to build communications can help engage the public in understanding children’s oral health in a deeper way, thereby improving the public conversation and decision-making...