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The Activate Center's new resource can help youth-supporting professionals: 📝 Prepare for conversations with youth about healthy romantic relationships. 💬 Start conversations with youth about healthy romantic relationships. 🧠 Understand dos and don’ts when having those conversations. Check it out!  

Family planning clinics can improve equitable delivery of services by understanding clients' experience with unfair treatment. https://lnkd.in/eBzgxGFB

It’s always great to hear that the job you’re doing is a job well done! At All Our Kin (AOK), we’ve long known that our Technical Assistance (TA) is literally changing the landscape for #familychildcare. And now we have the data to prove it! 📊 We are excited to share the results of a new report from Child Trends that demonstrates how successful TA can be when we partner with organizations across the country to build strong, educator-focused family child care networks. With a nimble design that is tailored to the strengths and needs of our partners, our TA model is demonstrating the power of family child care to transform communities. Want to learn more? Read the report here: https://bit.ly/49B97zz #ChildCare #EarlyEducation

Claire Kelley, Samantha Holquist, Sarah Kelley, and Lorena Aceves, PhD describe four ways researchers are using AI to support education research and offer best practices for effective AI use in their new Child Trends blog. https://lnkd.in/eXA2KSt7  

Caregivers and experts agree that children with prenatal opioid exposure exhibit courage, resilience, and other strengths while navigating challenges associated with the outcomes of their exposure. As Andra L. Wilkinson, PhD MSPH says, “They’re a shining light.” Read more in a new People Magazine article. 

Please join us in welcoming five new members of the Child Trends Board of Directors! Chris Caruso, Sam Cobbs, Sangeeta Narayanan, Dwayne Norris, Jens Teagan and their colleagues represent a range of sectors, locations, and professional backgrounds. Read more about them here: https://lnkd.in/gCBSKhTg

The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families has released a new publication summarizing updates to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards on collecting and reporting data about race and ethnicity. Authors Diana Cedeño, PhD and Elizabeth Wildsmith discuss some of the changes in the updated standards that are most relevant to the Latino population and review research implications of these changes. https://lnkd.in/e2BxQMGW

Many families face considerable barriers to accessing child care and early education (CCEE) that is affordable and meets their families’ needs. In a new report prepared for OPRE, Child Trends' Patti Banghart Gottesman, Ashley Hirilall, Gabriella Guerra, Katherine Paschall, and Dana Thomson identify actionable steps that state and territory child care administrators, local CCEE leaders, and researchers can take to advance measurement of equitable CCEE access by centering families’ child care needs and preferences. https://lnkd.in/eXWAn5vk

Today’s young Kānaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiians) continue to deal with the impact of the United States’ illegal annexation of Hawaiian Kingdom. Intergenerational trauma, historically-rooted systemic barriers, and being disconnected from their culture have led to higher risks of depression, suicidal ideation, and substance use among Native Hawaiian youth. Cherry Y. E. W. Yamane, mph—who is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi—explains the power of interventions that are community-based, culturally-driven, and land-based to build upon the strength and resilience of Kānaka Maoli youth. https://lnkd.in/eNUgu4UD  

Meet Cherry Y. E. W. Yamane, mph! Cherry is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) from Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi and a senior research analyst at Child Trends. Their personal and lived experiences as a Kanaka born-and-raised in a dominantly Native Hawaiian community has allowed them the opportunity to dedicate their career to advocate for the wants and needs of their community to center and foster spaces of healing. Cherry feels most fulfilled when they are outside in the sunshine or in water and when they can spend plenty of time working on crafts, including weaving lauhala (pandanus leaves). https://lnkd.in/eizREecg