Ousted from Opportunity: Eviction's Adverse Impact on Parenting College Students
Policy Brief
Jun 26, 2025
New America partnered with Eviction Lab to understand how eviction affects parents who are attending college while caring for children.
Research
Uplifting the Power of Culture: Protective Factors for the Health of California’s Children
Policy Brief
Jan 15, 2025
The Children’s Partnership’s newly released policy brief, “Uplifting the Power of Culture: Protective Factors for the Health of California’s Children,” emphasizes how culturally grounded protective factors in early childhood can create equitable pathways to health and success for BIPOC children.
Helping Families Thrive: The Help Me Grow Goal Concordant Care Study Through the Lens of the Centralized Access
News Article
Jan 14, 2025
The Help Me Grow National Center (HMG) conducted a year-long Goal Concordant Care Study to explore how aligning early childhood system support with families’ goals can not only prevent negative outcomes for young children, but also help them thrive.
The State of Paid Family and Medical Leave in the U.S. in 2025
News Article
Jan 15, 2025
The Center for American Progress (CAP) is sharing three new fact sheets for 2025 in its ongoing series, “A Guide to Workplace Leave Laws in the United States.” These 2025 editions provide an overview of the state of play at the local, state and federal levels.
Framework Centers Meeting Family Needs, Preventing Child Welfare Involvement
Research
Jan 29, 2025
A fact sheet from the National Partnership for Women & Families, “Paid Leave Means A Stronger Nation,” reports that most working people in the United States–73 percent, or 106 million people nationwide–do not have paid family leave through their jobs.
Medicaid’s Role in Small Towns and Rural Areas
Report
Jan 15, 2025
The Georgetown University Center for Children and Families (CCF) has released a revealing new report on Medicaid in rural areas and small towns. CCF updated its semi-annual rural analysis to show Medicaid's reach in rural areas, which is not always well understood.
Community Policing Study
Research
Sep 12, 2023
The Los Angeles Police Department’s Community Safety Partnership (CSP) was a violence-reduction and community-building strategy implemented in four HACLA public housing developments beginning in 2011.
Try, Reflect, Try Again: How Fatherhood Programs Used Learning Cycles in Efforts to Improve Participation Outcomes
Policy Brief
Mar 1, 2023
Social service programs are often looking for ways to assess and improve program design and implementation, and are increasingly using rapid learning methods to do so.
A Summary of Findings from the Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs Study
Policy Brief
Mar 1, 2023
This document summarizes what was learned in SIRF (Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs), which engaged 10 programs in using learning cycles—repeated periods of implementing ideas and reflecting on the results—to build evidence on practices to improve the enrollment, e
Using Learning Cycles to Strengthen Fatherhood Programs
Report
May 1, 2023
Federally funded Responsible Fatherhood programs work with fathers to promote healthy relationships and marriages, strengthen parenting practices, and help fathers attain economic stability.