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Child Trends’ newsletters distill our high-quality research into short summaries that highlight what you need to know about children and youth in the United States and policies and practices to help them thrive.


Below you’ll find links to sign-up for our main newsletter as well as our content-specific ones.

  • Our latest research on children and youth in a (usually) weekly email.

  • All new Child Trends job postings.

  • Be the first to learn about upcoming webinars and to receive recordings of past webinars.

  • Get updates on Black children and families

  • Get updates on Indigenous children, youth, and families

  • Get updates on Latino children and families

Get the Latest Research in Your Inbox

Did you know that, in addition to the main Child Trends newsletter, several Child Trends-affiliated projects offer their own newsletters? See the details below and subscribe to the ones that interest you!

Activate

Activate: The Center to Bring Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health Research to Youth-Supporting Professionals translates research into practice by creating research-based resources for use by professionals who support young people experiencing the child welfare and/or justice systems, homelessness, and/or disconnection from school and work.

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Black Families Flourishing

Black Families Flourishing conducts rigorous, transparent research that explores the well-being of Black families in the United States. This multi-year project aims to highlight Black family strengths and cultural assets, and to identify policies and practice that support and accelerate their advancement, progress, and well-being in communities across the country.

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Breakthrough Accelerator

The Breakthrough Accelerator supports teams of innovators as they test, refine, and scale youth-centered innovations that promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health. Breakthrough’s newsletter is your go-to source for special announcements, new resources, and the latest program news.

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Early Childhood Data Collaborative (ECDC)

In the bimonthly ECDC newsletter, ECDC executive director Carlise King highlights new and upcoming work from the project and describes what the ECDC team is doing to further the early childhood field. The Early Childhood Data Collaborative supports state policymakers’ development and use of coordinated state early care and education (ECE) data systems.

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Healthy and Ready to Learn

The Healthy and Ready to Learn (HRTL) measure, developed for use in the National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH), captures young children’s development in five domains: early learning skills, social-emotional development, self-regulation skills, physical health, and motor skills. Together, these domains indicate whether young children are developmentally “on track” before entering kindergarten.

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