Zero to Three's grandparenting resources include information on supporting healthy child development as well as tools for addressing some of the more common challenging situations that come up when raising young children.
Child Trends' latest brief, Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Young Adults: Out-of-School Time Programs That Have Significant Positive Impacts, identifies 43 programs that have somewhat to very sizable, statistically significant impacts on adolescent or young adult outcomes. The brief uses Child Trends' online database of experimentally evaluated social interventions for children and youth, Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully (LINKS), to identify programs with manuals that have positive impacts on a range of outcomes, such as behavior problems, physical health, and education.
Sixteen scholars from the social sciences will address the question of whether new and/or alternative approaches are needed to address the complexities of family phenomena.
A new policy paper from Zero to Three, Staffed Family Child Care Networks: A Strategy to Enhance Quality Care for Infants and Toddlers, examines how staffed family child care (FCC) networks are uniquely positioned to improve the quality of care that infants and toddlers receive in FCC settings. It lists effective practices and shares examples of successful staffed FCC networks. This paper offers guidance for how states can maximize partnerships to integrate staffed FCC networks in early childhood systems. It concludes with action steps and state policy recommendations for implementing a staffed FCC network.
Zero to Three's new report, Making It Happen: Overcoming Barriers to Providing Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health, highlights the scientific evidence for infant-early childhood mental health (I-ECMH) policies; examines issues faced by national, state, and local program directors and mental health practitioners in providing I-ECMH services; and proposes a set of recommendations for policy improvements at the federal level.
