A recent Child Trends analysis of 2018–2022 American Community Survey data finds that nearly one quarter of American Indian and Alaska Native children under age 18 lived with a grandparent. This number is nearly twice the percentage among all U.S. children.
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Activate Center's recent practice guide highlights what youth-supporting professionals need to know about consent, offering insights to support clearer, more compassionate conversations about consent.
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Our latest blog describes how creating and nurturing partnerships between public and private child welfare agencies can facilitate beneficial kinship placements (i.e., a kin-first culture) and increase supports for kinship families.
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Child Trends served as a national partner on @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social's Generation Work™ initiative, helping local partnerships integrate positive youth development approaches into their programming and their employer engagement efforts.
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According to recent Child Trends analysis, in state fiscal year (SFY) 2022, child welfare agencies across the country spent $9.5 billion in Title IV-E funds. This represents a 15% increase over the past decade, despite a more recent decline since SFY 2020.
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Nearly 1 in 3 Maryland early care and education (ECE) workers receive health insurance through Medicaid or Medicare, according to new Child Trends analysis.
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What does it mean for a 3-year-old to be “healthy and ready to learn”? The Healthy and Ready to Learn measure provides answers. Our new dashboard shows national and state-level snapshots of how 3-year-olds are developing.
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Our new resource shares guidance for parents on encouraging boys to be upstanders against harmful online behavior.
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NEW: Opportunities to serve more American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) families, align performance measures, and facilitate and enhance collaboration across home visiting programs that serve AIAN families in the same geographic region.
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Declines in parental divorce/separation and income insecurity are notable in part because they have consistently been the most common adverse childhood experiences tracked in the National Survey of Children’s Health since 2018.
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As of 2023, most youth (54%) in extended foster care lived in a supervised independent living placement, such as an apartment or dorm. Our new blog post looks at placement types among youth in extended foster care, and the supports they may (or may not) receive.
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We brought experts together and outlined 5 practical strategies that districts and schools can use to prepare teachers and students for an AI-driven future while building the infrastructure necessary to implement AI safely, responsibly, and at scale.
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Experts at Child Trends have extensive experience researching and supporting home visiting. Visit our new webpage that shares information about how home visiting programs talk with families about nutrition.
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Child Trends’ new brief—written by four members of the Evaluation Advisory Board for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation’s Foster Youth Initiative—shares recommendations for strengthening career services & expanding opportunities for youth with foster care experience.
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Despite the barriers young people in foster care often experience around finding and keeping jobs, new data from @childtrends.bsky.social shows that nearly 60% of foster youth were employed at the age of 21.
According to recent Child Trends analysis, in state fiscal year (SFY) 2022, child welfare agencies across the country spent $632 million in Title IV-B funds, a decrease of 16% over the past decade.
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Many teenage boys say they’re online almost constantly, and some of the content they see about relationships, consent, and masculinity can be harmful. Our new brief addresses common questions for youth-supporting professionals and other caring adults.
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As research on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) has expanded over the past 25 years, so has our understanding of how these experiences affect our bodies and brains, the value of preventing them, and the importance of protective childhood experiences.
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Black Families Flourishing, a Child Trends project supported by @rwjf.org, recently published a white paper that offers a fresh perspective on Black families’ strengths, history, and linkages across generations. blackfamiliesflourishing.org/bff-research...
States are innovating their ECE career pathways to recognize the competencies educators gain from the field. @natecewkfcctr.bsky.social has 2 promising approaches for ECE systems leaders to incorporate experience into career ladders. www.nationaleceworkforcecenter.org/publications...
Employers of young adults can draw on positive youth development strategies that allow young workers to identify their goals, build on their strengths, develop positive relationships with other staff, and contribute to work that feels meaningful.
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Our latest blog—based on a decade of work funded by the @annieecaseyfdn.bsky.social—explores how positive youth development principles apply in workforce development settings for young adults.
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A Child Trends analysis of federal data finds that 59% of foster youth were employed at age 21 in FY24, representing nearly a decade of growth since these national data were first collected in FY15.
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New Child Trends research finds that the prevalence of adverse childhood experiences (or ACEs) declined modestly from 2018 to 2023. Declines in three specific ACEs stand out: income insecurity, parental divorce or separation, and parental incarceration.
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If you’re tackling complex early care and education (ECE) access challenges—whether it’s supply gaps, data limitations, or policy barriers—the ECE Access Center is here to help you build practical and sustainable solutions. www.childtrends.org/research-cen...
A recent Child Trends brief explores foundational considerations for those in the child care and early education (CCEE) sector to best support Indigenous families and communities. Our researchers developed four recommendations for research and evaluation efforts. www.childtrends.org/publications...
Organizations and leaders across the business community have an opportunity to move beyond symbolic gestures to genuinely support employees’ sexual and reproductive health.
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Child Trends’ latest brief highlights several factors that may be keeping employers from taking advantage of timely opportunities to promote sexual and reproductive health-related benefits that support well-being, productivity, and retention.
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