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.

From 10 to 25

What happens from ages 10 to 25? Find out as you take on the role of a young person, explore new parts of life, encounter challenges, and get the support you need.

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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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New Article Explores Public Thinking about Prenatal Exposure to Alcohol

This article offers recommendations advocates can use to make a stronger case for policies and programs to prevent and address Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.

Frame Testing Recommendations

Reframing School Discipline: A Strategic Communications Playbook

This strategic messaging playbook offers guidance. It outlines 12 evidence-based framing strategies that communicators in the education, justice, and civil rights sectors can use to challenge...

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Seeing the Spectrum: Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Manitoba

This report explores experts and public views of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in Manitoba and “maps the gaps” between them.

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Early Means Early: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert, Stakeholder, and Public Understandings of Early Childhood Development in South Africa

This report compares views of early childhood development between experts in the field and members of the public in South Africa.

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Reframing Early Childhood Development and Learning in Alamance County

How can we build support for early childhood development in Southern, conservative communities? We conducted research in Alamance County, NC, to find out.

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Reframing Learning and Development in Alamance

Welcome to Reframing Early Childhood Development and Learning in Alamance County—a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications designed to support the work of...

Toolkit

Shifting Gears on Juvenile Justice

Welcome to Shifting Gears on Juvenile Justice—a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications.

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Communicating Connections: Framing the Relationship Between Social Drivers, Early Adversity, and Child Neglect

This Brief summarizes findings from studies of how the British public thinks about child maltreatment, and lays out a powerful narrative for communicators.

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Talking Juvenile Justice Reform: A FrameWorks MessageMemo

This MessageMemo highlights tested reframing strategies that build support for a restorative, developmentally appropriate approach to youth justice reform.

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Executive Summary (Jacksonville)

The FrameWorks Institute conducted a series of studies in Jacksonville to develop communications strategies, tools, and techniques that would build public understanding and support.

Toolkit

Talking Child Wellbeing and the System of Care Initiative in Jacksonville

Welcome to Talking Child Wellbeing and the System of Care Initiative in Jacksonville—a collection of evidence-based framing recommendations and sample communications designed to help local...

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“It’s Hard to Wrap Your Head Around”: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Child Maltreatment and Child Sexual Abuse in Alberta

People would rather not think about child sexual abuse - but they hold deep assumptions nonetheless. A map of public thinking helps us navigate them.