Research
Child Trends researches:
Child Poverty: the effects of poverty on children’s development and policies aimed at improving the lives of families living in poverty
Child Welfare: policies and programs that affect children in and aging out of foster care, adoption, and kinship care
Early Childhood Development/School Readiness: children’s development from birth through early elementary school
Education: children's academic achievement (K-12) and behavior in school and how families, communities, and schools help support children
Evaluations: Child Trends designs and conducts evaluations of child development and well-being
Fatherhood & Parenting: the effects of parental involvement and interaction on children and adolescents
Health: the physical and socio-emotional health of children and teens
Indicators of Child Well-being: the use of trends information from infancy through early adulthood
Marriage & Family: sexual behavior, contraception, pregnancy, and childbearing among married and unmarried people
Teen Sex & Pregnancy: factors associated with risky adolescent sexual behavior and teenage pregnancy
Youth Development: research and evaluation of out-of-school time programs
Children of Immigrants: factors affecting children of immigrants and ways in which policy makers and program providers can best serve this growing group (currently 20 percent of America's child population)
The Child Trends DataBank is an online resource for the latest national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being.
LINKS (Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully) is a collection of more than 550 experimental evaluations of social interventions that assess child outcomes. Each evaluation is described. Also, syntheses describe characteristics of effective approaches. Also, several charts show programs with substantial impacts.
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