2023 Annual Impact Report FINAL - Flipbook - Page 26
IMPACT SPOTLIGHT
FRAMING CHILD
WELLBEING
Whether it’s the metaphors we use, the examples we reference, or how
we explain the science of development, discourse around early
childhood is changing.
Earlier this year, the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard
University released Place Matters: The Environment We Create Shapes
the Foundations of Healthy Development. The paper, from the National
Scientific Council on the Developing Child, explains how environmental
factors shape early child development and represents an important
step forward for the field. This kind of progress reflects decades of
effective and sustained collaboration between the scientific
community, early childhood advocates, and framing experts—a
collaboration that continues to advance what people know and say
about what children need to thrive.
For the past 25 years, we’ve been working alongside developmental
scientists and advocates to help tell the story of early child
development in a way that drives change. As social scientists, we’ve
created and tested framing strategies that shift thinking. As social
change strategists, we’ve equipped and advised experts and advocates
to navigate persistent framing dilemmas and tell new stories.
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