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Circle of Security Parenting

Circle of Security ParentingTM (COSP) is an 8-week parenting program based on years of research about how to build strong attachment relationships between parent and child. It is designed to help parents learn how to respond to their child’s needs in a way that enhances the attachment between parent and child. It helps parents give their children a feeling of security and confidence so they can explore, learn, grow and build positive relationships; all essential skills for life-long success.

2022-10-31T18:28:41+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , , |

The Economic Contributions of Healthy Food Incentives

This pioneering study shows that broad expansions of healthy food incentives would provide powerful returns on that investment – for families, grocers, and farmers, as well as more broadly among the state economies where such benefits are expanded.  The findings demonstrate that state and federal policymakers would be wise to double down on their support for these programs.

2022-10-28T01:00:45+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Positive Youth Development Measurement Toolkit

This toolkit provides implementers of youth programming a variety of references, resources, and tools on how to use a positive youth development (PYD) approach for evaluating youth-focused programming. A PYD approach to evaluation will measure whether youth are positively engaged in and benefiting from investments that ultimately empower them to develop in healthy and positive ways so that they can contribute to the development of their communities.

2022-10-26T17:53:27+00:00Categories: Solid Framework|Tags: , , , |

Understanding the Possibility of a Program Leading to Longer-term Change

Partnerships for Strategic Impact created a two-pager to help social sector partners use scientific research to understanding whether a program is likely to help clients create longer-term change in their lives. This is how you connect the immediate impact your clients receive (and which you can measure) to the longer-term change you hope they make (and which you cannot measure).

2024-09-19T17:51:16+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , , |

Healthy Development Summit II Report

This report provides a summary of Healthy Development Summit II: Changing frames and expanding partnerships to promote children’s mental health and social/emotional wellbeing. The Summit assembled a diverse group of stakeholders together to generate ideas for new ways to move forward to promote young children’s positive mental health. The second of two summits, this summit focused on the application of the research to practice and policy across sectors of society; that is using what we know to inform what we do. As with the first summit, this Summit focused on early childhood (birth to age eight) because the science is very solid in early childhood development. The Summit also built on momentum for change from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act3 (2010), which has multiple components related to prevention and positive mental health that may provide new opportunities for promoting young children’s mental health. Finally, the Summit built on heightened public interest in mental health, particularly in young people, due to media and policymakers’ attention to school violence, bullying, and youth suicide.

2021-11-15T17:27:01+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , , |

Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine released a report called Transforming the Financing of Early Care and Education. The 315 page document highlights the lack of access to high-quality early care and education for children in the United States, and proposes implementing a new financing structure to ensure that all children have the opportunity to access affordable education. The authors articulate their vision for a structure that will support the total cost of a high-quality ECE system. They hope the report will stimulate policy makers, practitioners, leaders, and all other ECE stakeholders to make the commitment to plan and implement the transformed and effective financing structure that we recommend here.

2021-10-04T14:01:53+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , |

Ready by 21

Ready by 21 increases the capacity of leaders to achieve collective impact for children and youth by providing standards, proven tools and solutions, and ways to measure and track youth success.

2021-10-04T14:09:41+00:00Categories: Programming that Works|Tags: , , , , , , |

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