What did the 2022 State Elections do for Children and Families? – Alliance for Early Success
This article from the Alliance for Early Success is an excellent breakdown of state advancement and changes due to the elections.
Big Ideas 2023 – First Focus on Children
This journal organized by First Focus highlights the big ideas driving policy discussions that affect children and families in 2023. Ideas include guaranteed health care for children, reclaiming the federal role in education, improving the user experience for families needing government assistance, and more.
Looking Ahead to 2023: Policy Opportunities for Children and Families
The 2022 election results bring change, new opportunities, and different challenges. Join us as we learn about the policy landscape at both the national and state levels. We’ll discuss how potential policy changes could affect children and the varieties of roles funders can play to advance, defend against, or communicate better about policy. Speakers: Bruce…
Funding Trauma & Healing
During this funder conversation, we heard from two funders on how they fund trauma and healing, their goals, how they decided what models to fund, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. Paula Sammons, W. K. Kellogg Foundation – Focus on family economic security and bridging research in brain development and behavioral economics to…
Trauma & Healing: What funders can do to build connection, trust, and radical change for kids
What’s the difference between trauma-informed care and healing-centered engagement? How do you know which approach is best-suited for your goals, whether in early childhood, healthcare, or youth engagement? Join us as we talk with Dr. Shawn Ginwright, one of the nation’s leading innovators, provocateurs, and thought leaders on African American youth, youth activism, and youth…
Child & Youth Mental Health Data Sources
In May 2022, the Children, Youth & Family Funders Roundtable (Roundtable) held three virtual calls focused on the children and youth mental health crisis, including a funder peer call designed to identify shared questions and obstacles to funding. Five themes emerged: 1) making mental health a policy and funding priority, 2) developing the mental health…
Advancing Early Relational Health – Center for the Study of Social Policy
Healthy and positive child development emerges best in the context of nurturing, warm, and responsive early parent- and caregiver-child relationships, when children are surrounded by safe communities with strong trust and social connectedness. This landing page offers information on the Center for the Study of Social Policy’s approach, frequently asked questions, blog posts, additional resources,…
Perspectives on Early Relational Health Series – Center for the Study of Social Policy
The Perspectives on Early Relational Health Series brings together a diverse group of parents, pediatricians, researchers, and providers to share their perspectives on why early relational health matters, and what they are doing to support and promote foundational early relationships.
Building Philanthropic Momentum in Early Relational Health – Einhorn Collaborative
At the end of 2021, more than two dozen funders came together for the first Early Relational Health (ERH) Funders Summit, co-sponsored by Einhorn Collaborative with the ERH Coordinating Center at the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP). These funders are part of a new community – the ERH Funders Community – who…
Human Connection and Human Thriving – Einhorn Collaborative
For decades, field leaders and funders have focused on developmental screening and kindergarten readiness as markers of child and family well-being. While those efforts have advanced a policy and community emphasis on Head Start, universal Pre-K, and other efforts in early education, public officials have placed much less emphasis on the critical importance of foundational…