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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Announcements

Making Room For More: Building Support For Young Dual Language Learners In The US

This strategic resource outlines seven key framing shifts necessary to advance public understanding and political will regarding dual language learning policy.

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Reframing Family, School, and Community Engagement

In partnership with the National Association for Family, School, and Community Engagement (NAFSCE), FrameWorks researchers examined public thinking about family engagement and developed...

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Wiring Up: Talking About Connecting STEM Learning Environments

Wiring Up: Strategies for Talking about Connecting STEM Learning Environments includes guidance to help advocates talk about connected learning effectively.

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Building Framing Capacity In Bangladesh

Two new framing studies will help the early childhood field in Bangladesh speak with a more consistent and strategic voice to both public and policy audiences.

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Communicating about the Foster Care “Unsystem”: A Strategic Framing Brief

This brief offers a set of framing recommendations for the GHR Foundation, Alia, and other key stakeholders to use in developing a new messaging strategy, as well as to refine existing...

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Framing Two-Generation Approaches To Supporting Families

This strategic resource outlines 10 framing shifts to advance two-generation approaches to updating the systems that support family wellbeing.

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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.

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Developmental Relationships

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

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Transition-Age Youth

How can advocates reframe the issues facing transition-age foster youth – a group that is both imperceptible and misperceived?

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Making Room for More: Building Support for Young Dual Language Learners in the US

This strategic resource outlines seven key framing shifts necessary to advance public understanding and political will regarding dual language learning policy. Recommendations are illustrated with...

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“They All Play a Role”: Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings fo Developmental Relationships

This study compares expert and public understandings of developmental relationships, yielding actionable strategies that communicators can use to anticipate and navigate public thinking.

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Reframing Developmental Relationships: A FrameWorks MessageMemo

This strategic resource advises advocates to adopt a master frame of Cultivating Connections to update public thinking about relationships. Other recommendations include appealing to the values of...