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Child Trends is a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit, nonpartisan research center that studies children at all stages of development. Its mission is to improve outcomes for children by providing research, data, and analysis to the people and institutions whose decisions and actions affect children, including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media. Founded in 1979, Child Trends helps keep the nation focused on children and their needs by identifying emerging issues; evaluating important programs and policies; and providing data-driven, evidence-based guidance on policy and practice.〔(Child Trends )〕 ==Research== Child Trends researches: Child Poverty: the effects of poverty on children’s development and policies aimed at improving the lives of families living in poverty Child Welfare: policies and programs that affect children in and aging out of foster care, adoption, and kinship care Early Childhood Development/School Readiness: children’s development from birth through early elementary school Education: children's academic achievement (K-12) and behavior in school and how families, communities, and schools help support children Evaluations: Child Trends designs and conducts evaluations of child development and well-being Fatherhood & Parenting: the effects of parental involvement and interaction on children and adolescents Health: the physical and socio-emotional health of children and teens Indicators of Child Well-being: the use of trends information from infancy through early adulthood Marriage & Family: sexual behavior, contraception, pregnancy, and childbearing among married and unmarried people Teen Sex & Pregnancy: factors associated with risky adolescent sexual behavior and teenage pregnancy Youth Development: research and evaluation of out-of-school time programs Children of Immigrants: factors affecting children of immigrants and ways in which policy makers and program providers can best serve this growing group (currently 20 percent of America's child population) The Child Trends DataBank is an online resource for the latest national trends and research on over 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being. LINKS (Lifecourse Interventions to Nurture Kids Successfully) is a collection of more than 650 experimental evaluations of social interventions that assess child outcomes. Each evaluation is described. Also, syntheses describe characteristics of effective approaches. Also, several charts show programs with substantial impacts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Child Trends」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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