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Election Year Framing – What’s Repeated vs. What’s True?

Is it true that people believe what’s repeated rather than what’s true?

Framing Resource

Election Year Framing – Counteracting Disrespect

How can I counteract the demonization and dismissal of certain groups?

Report

Is It Care, Or Is It Work?: Cultural Mindsets of Care Work in the United States

The future of care work is at a crossroads where new frames and narratives have huge potential to shift public thinking. During the COVID-19 pandemic, care was in the spotlight, and with that came...

Report

Five Trends in Public Thinking about Care Work

How we talk and think about care in the United States has significant bearing on how care is organized in our society—impacting families, communities, and the economy. If we are to continue to...

External article

Beyond soundbites: issue framing in election season

The noise of a presidential election season makes it hard to avoid getting lost in the weeds of political rhetoric when communicating about the issues we work on. Right now, communicators must...

Workshop

Connections and Communities: How we talk about Opportunity Youth

Everyone wants young people to thrive and be active and engaged members of their communities as they become adults. However, deeply rooted, often-negative assumptions about young people can make...

External article

Why the Parents’ Rights Movement (Still) Matters | Opinion

The parents' right rhetoric is powered, in part, by three distinct but inter-related cultural mindsets—implicit ways of understanding and making sense of the world.

Webinar

Framing for change: the social science of effective communication

Over the last 25 years FrameWorks has brought social scientists together to create a theory and practice of using empirical communications research to support those working for social change. This...

Report

Changing the Story of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Building a More Effective Narrative

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is preventable. There is strong evidence that programs focused on preventing abuse before it happens are effective, but these programs can be a hard sell for a...

Report

Methods Supplement: Changing the Story of Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Building a More Effective Narrative

In this supplement, we describe the research we conducted in which we designed and tested frames to address the challenges and leverage the opportunities in public thinking about child sexual...

Toolkit

Child Sexual Abuse Prevention Toolkit

The materials in this toolkit support those in the field to be better equipped to talk about CSA in ways that invite greater support and understanding for prevention. These materials can,...

Toolkit File

Quick-Start Guide to Framing CSA Prevention

This quick-start guide is designed to give a broad range of communicators support in strategically framing their CSA prevention efforts. It includes guidance on how to avoid common...