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Researchers Say Metaphors Can Help Public Better Understand Juvenile Justice

The Juvenile Justice Information Exchange reports on FrameWorks research to help the public see the criminal justice system not as broken and unfixable but instead as in need of improvement.

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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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Telling Stories that Explain: Comparing Media and Organizational Discourse on Adolescent Substance Use

The research presented here was conducted by the FrameWorks Institute and sponsored by the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. It is one piece of a larger, multi-method project to design and test framing...

Toolkit

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...

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An Unthinkable Problem from a Bygone Era: How to Make Nuclear Risk and Disarmament a Salient Social Issue

This report compares how members of the public and social elites think about nuclear risk and disarmament.

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New Narratives: Changing the Frame on Crime and Justice

The research shows that these strategies can shift and expand public thinking and yield new and more productive public conversations around criminal justice reform.

External article

To Advance More Humane Refugee Policies, We Must Reframe the Debate

FrameWorks’ newly-announced CEO Nat Kendall-Taylor comments on a contemporary concern in Open Democracy, a website for debate about international politics and culture.

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Not Telling the Whole Story: Media and Organizational Discourse about Affordable Housing

The stories Americans hear about affordable housing can create opportunities for change or impede progress in the policy arena.

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“A House, a Tent, a Box”: Mapping the Gaps Between Expert and Public Understandings of Healthy Housing

This study compares public and expert understandings of housing.

Toolkit

Building Public Understandings of Comprehensive Immigration Reform

Welcome to Building Public Understanding of Comprehensive Immigration Reform—a collection of framing research, recommendations, and sample communications.

Frame Testing Recommendations

The Case for Explanatory Stories

In this feature article in Change Agent, FrameWorks founder Susan Nall Bales explains how explanatory stories "bend the narrative arc toward social justice."

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Perceptions of Parenting: Mapping the Gaps between Expert and Public Understandings of Effective Parenting in Australia

This report explains how Australian cultural models of parenting are woven from different strands of public thinking on topics including human nature, learning, social relationships, gender,...