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.

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.

Report

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

Developmental Relationships

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

Announcements

Transition-Age Youth

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

Report

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...

Report

“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...

Publication

Words That Change Minds

This feature article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy profiled the FrameWorks Institute and the way our work helps nonprofit communicators drive social change.

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Talking About Early Childhood Development in Australia

It is easy to get lost in translation when talking about early childhood. There are a number of barriers to being heard and understood. The public has multiple ways of thinking about...

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Framing Two-Generation Approaches to Supporting Families

Two-generation needs more explanation. New guidance from FrameWorks and Ascend at the Aspen Institute shows how.

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Narratives of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh: A Field Frame Analysis

Based on research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute and the BRAC Institute of Educational Development, this report identifies the most prevalent frames and narratives that have been embedded...

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Science, Culture, and Framing: Mapping the Science, Culture, and Framing of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh

This report summarizes the Map the Gaps and Field Frame Analysis research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute and the BRAC Institute of Educational Development between October 2017 and March...

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Early is Key: Mapping the Gaps on Understandings of Early Childhood Development in Bangladesh

This report summarizes research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute and the BRAC Institute of Educational Development. It compares and contrasts the expert science of ECD in Bangladesh with how...

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Cultivating Nature: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Early Development in Australia

This report presents findings from research conducted with CoLab, a partnership between the Telethon Kids Institute and the Minderoo Foundation. It maps the terrain of public thinking about early...