Building A New Narrative for Kids

Building A New Narrative for Kids

In the United States, we share a common desire for children to be healthy and develop well. Despite this desire, we don’t tend to center the needs of children and young people in our collective decision-making. That responsibility is heaped onto individual adults—namely parents and teachers—while public policies and infrastructure to support them is seen as ineffective, inappropriate, or intrusive. 

New research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute in partnership with Leading for Kids shows that, by adopting the frame of collective caregiving, we can expand our thinking as a society about the social conditions and structural supports that children and families depend on to thrive. In this conversation, we’ll be joined by the following speakers to hear about the research behind the strategy and where leading advocates in the field are already seeing opportunities to put it into practice: 

Marquita Little Numan, Executive Director, Partnership for America's Children 

Jeanette Elstein, Program Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 

David Alexander, President, Leading for Kids 

Jessica Moyer, Senior Principal Strategist, The FrameWorks Institute

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