Research

Uplifting the Power of Culture: Protective Factors for the Health of California’s Children

Policy Brief
Jan 15, 2025
Children’s Partnership
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
Help Me Grow National Center (HMG)
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.

Framework Centers Meeting Family Needs, Preventing Child Welfare Involvement

Research
Jan 29, 2025
National Partnership for Women & Families
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.

Community Policing Study

Research
Sep 12, 2023
Jorja Leap, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
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
Keri West, Diego Quezada, Jonny Poilpré, and Rebecca Behrmann for Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
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
Charles Michalopoulos and Rebecca Behrmann for Strengthening the Implementation of Responsible Fatherhood Programs
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