Child Trends’ Strategic Communications Capabilities

Reach your target audiences with messages tailored to your goals. Our team of communications experts can support your organization or project in a variety of ways, including via carefully edited products, user-friendly websites, striking graphic design and videos, and timely media campaigns. We stay up to date on emerging trends, best practices, and new technologies—a diligence reflected in our flexibility, adaptability, and ability to reach myriad audiences. 

Our specific capabilities include the following, but please reach out to learn more about how we can support your work! 

Spreading the word about your work 

  • Our team bridges the gap between research and action. Many organizations struggle to translate research into practice; our team excels at making complex findings digestible for practitioners, policymakers, and the public.  
  • We have designed and implemented numerous multi-year strategic communications plans to ensure that our research isn’t just published—it’s actually used.  
  • Our social media team has decades of combined experience running social media campaigns on LinkedIn, Facebook, X, Bluesky, Instagram, and more. 
  • Our e-newsletter team has written and designed emails for millions of readers. 
  • Our media team has formed relationships with reporters at prominent national publications, such as the New York Times and People magazine, and at numerous local and trade outlets.  

Writing, editing, and design support 

  • Our team has written blogs, newsletters, press releases, and social media on a variety of topics. 
  • Our editorial team has decades of experience editing research publications and briefs for practitioners and policymakers—not to mention blogs and a range of other product types designed to reach broader populations. 
  • Our graphic design team delivers clear and attractive visuals depicting complex information in easy-to-read, print- and web-friendly formats, including fact sheets. 
  • Our editing and digital media teams emphasize the value of SEO for reaching desired audiences.  
  • Our team specializes in research translation. As one would translate between languages, we translate complex research into accessible language, formats, and recommendations that can be understood and used by target audiences. 

Creating a compelling web presence 

  • Our digital media team has a combined 20 years of experience creating websites and branding for nonprofits, federal centers, and more. 
  • Our graphic design and digital media team collaborates with researchers to create static and interactive data visualizations that are easy to understand and accessible. 
  • Our team also has experience recording and editing audio for podcasts, narrations, and radio. 

Analyzing your impact 

  • Our digital media team has a combined 20 years of experience analyzing and explaining web traffic results
  • Our graphic design team excels at creating eye-catching presentations to share data success and growth strategies.