Children and Youth

There’s a Place: How Parents Help Their Children Create a Capacity for Playfulness and can it be Sustained across the Lifespan

Posted by Jamar Little on November 13, 2024 | Featured

This article traces the ways that playfulness shifts and grows with the child and with the parent-child dyad. It also speaks to the paradoxical manner in which feeling essential as a parent is both necessary at the beginning of the … Read More

Tags: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, Children and Youth, Data, Parents, Resources, Safety Permanency & Wellbeing

Methodological Research to Support the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence

Posted by Jamar Little on April 29, 2024 | Featured

This report describes comprehensive efforts to review and assess the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) and recommends alternate approaches. The NatSCEV study design and methodology warranted reassessment. One reason for this reassessment is because response rates have … Read More

Tags: Child Welfare, Child Well-Being, Children and Youth, Data, Resources, Safety Permanency & Wellbeing, Survey, violence, Violence Against Children