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Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF) has identified the following priority issue areas:
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Family SupportEarly ChildhoodYouth |
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Healthy Children, Youth and FamiliesOther Resources |
FAMILY SUPPORT
Family support is a priority issue area for GCYF encompassing resources, supports, and services needed to strengthen:
Connections within families, addressing the family as context for health development and including: parenting education, family violence and abuse; and family interactions with the foster care system and juvenile justice system.
Family connections to economic security, addressing issues such as living wage legislation; paid family (new-parent) leave and other family-friendly corporate policies (including policies of foundations and nonprofit organizations); universal health insurance; and the economic effects of globalization on families.
Family connections to neighbors, civic partners and communities, addressing issues of public education, advocacy, and community organizing to empower parents to make informed decisions on behalf of their families.
Programs that Work
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Early Childhood Education and Assistance Program (ECEAP)
Families And Schools Together (FAST)
Father/Male Involvement Preschool Teacher Education Program
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Parent Child Development Center
Parenting With Love and Limits
Strengthening Families Program
TopResearch in Brief
Strong Families outcome area
See all research briefs in this outcome area
Medicaid's Role for Women — Oct. 2007
Issue brief at Kaiser Family Foundation website
Improving the Management of Family Psychosocial Problems at Low-Income Children's Well-Child Care Visits — Sep. 2007
Parenting-Related Stressors and Self-Reported Mental Health of Mothers with Young Children — July 2007
Journal abstract at American Journal of Public Health website
Better Access to Federal and Employer-Provided Time Off Helps Working Parents of Chronically Ill Children — June 2007
Families' Health-Related Social Problems and Missed Referral Opportunities — June 2007
Need for and Use of Family Leave Among Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs — May 2007
The Impact of Placement Stability on Behavioral Well-being for Children in Foster Care — Feb. 2007
Basic Facts About Low-Income Children: Birth to Age 18 — Sep. 2006
No Shelter from the Storm: America's Uninsured Children — Sep. 2006
Toward a National Strategy to Improve Family, Friend and Neighbor Care — Sep. 2006
Understanding Recent Changes in Child Poverty — Aug. 2006
Getting On, Staying On, and Getting Off Welfare: The Complexity of State-by-State Policy Choices — July 2006
A Decade of Welfare Reform: Facts and Figures — June 2006
Other Family Support Resources
Who Are America's Poor Children? — Dec. 2006
Community Partnerships for Protecting Children: Challenges and Results — Dec. 2005
Focus on Foster Care: Committing to Diversity and Anti-Racism — Dec. 2005
Family Economic (In)Security: A View from the States — Nov. 2005
Federal Policies Restrict Immigrant Children's Access to Key Benefits — Oct. 2005
Providing and Funding Financial Literacy Programs for Low-Income Adults and Youth — Sep. 2005
Parent-Child Connectedness: Voices of African-American and Latino Parents and Teens — May 2005
Improving Family Foster Care: Findings from the Northwest Foster Care Alumni Study — Apr. 2005
Engagement and Retention in Voluntary New Parent Support Programs — 2005
Work Supports and Low Wage Workers: The Promise of Employer Involvement — 2005
Effects of Federal Child Welfare Financing Waivers — Dec. 2004
Ending Family Homelessness: Problems and Solutions — Dec. 2004
Marriage and Family Strengthening for Incarcerated Individuals — Dec. 2004
Structural Racism and Community Building — June 2004
Commitment to Kin: Elements of a Support and Service System for Kinship Care — Apr. 2004
RUBAN: Bridging Economically Isolated Rural and Urban Communities — 2004
The High Cost of Being Poor: What it Takes for Low-Income Families to Get By and Get Ahead in Rural America — 2004
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Strategies for Preventing Violence: Early Childhood Home Visitation — Oct. 2003
Behaviors of Children Who Are Exposed and Not Exposed to Intimate Partner Violence — Sep. 2003
Community Development and Family Support: Forging a Practical Nexus to Strengthen Families and Communities — Sep. 2003
Violence in the Lives of Children — Aug. 2003
Left Unsupervised: A Look at the Most Vulnerable Children — Apr. 2003
Child Neglect: Outcomes in High-Risk Urban Preschoolers — June 2002
Adult Communication and Teen Sex: Changing a Community — Mar. 2001
Fathers & Families — Apr. 2000
Restoring Fathers to Families and Communities: Six Steps for Policymakers — 2000
EARLY CHILDHOOD
Early childhood is a priority issue for GCYF encompassing healthy development, social and emotional development, and the importance of early childhood education, including universal Pre-K for all children.
This GCYF priority area intersects with PPN's Children Ready for School outcome area.
Programs that Work
Infant Health and Development Program
Interactive Shared Book Reading
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
Parent Child Development Center
Phonological Awareness Training
Phonological Awareness Training plus Letter Knowledge Training
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
Research in Brief
Children Ready for School outcome area
First-Year Maternal Employment and Child Outcomes: Differences Across Racial and Ethnic Groups — Apr. 2008
Importance of Early Neglect for Childhood Aggression — Apr. 2008
A National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades — Oct. 2007
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 — July 2007
Food Insecurity and Overweight Among Infants and Toddlers — July 2007
Young Latino Infants and Families: Parental Involvement Implications from a Recent National Study — June 2007
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Addressing the Mental Health of Sexually Abused Children — May 2007
Extreme Irritability: Is It Childhood Bipolar Disorder? — Feb. 2007
Family Characteristics Have More Influence on Child Development than Does Experience in Child Care — Oct. 2006
Preschoolers with ADHD Improve with Low Doses of Medication — Oct. 2006
Maternal Depression and Violence Exposure: Double Jeopardy for Child School Functioning — Sep. 2006
Bullying Victimization Uniquely Contributes to Adjustment Problems in Young Children — July 2006
2006 KIDS COUNT Data Book — June 2006
Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at 18 Years of Age for the Infant Health and Development Program — Mar. 2006
Other Early Childhood Resources
A Guide to Calculating the Cost of Quality Early Care and Education — May 2006
Degrees of Improvement: States Push to Reverse the Decline in Preschool Teachers' Qualifications — Jan/Feb 2006
Patterns of Health Care Use That May Identify Young Children Who Are at Risk for Maltreatment — Dec. 2005
Resources to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness in Young Children and Families: A Community Guide — Nov. 2005
Spending Smarter: A Funding Guide for Policymakers and Advocates to Promote Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness — Nov. 2005
Losing Ground in Early Childhood Education: Declining Workforce Qualifications in an Expanding Industry — Sep. 2005
Head Start Impact Study: First Year Findings — June 2005
All Together Now: State Experiences in Using Community-Based Child Care to Provide Pre-Kindergarten — May 2005
Getting Ready: Findings from the National School Readiness Indicators Initiative — Feb. 2005
Building Community Systems for Young Children: Early Childhood Education — Jan. 2005
Early Childhood and the Well-Being of our Regional Economy — Winter 2005
Early Care and Education: Realizing a Collective Vision — 2005
Enhancing Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed Care: A Best Clinical and Administrative Practices Toolkit — 2005
Going to Scale with High-Quality Early Education: Choices and Consequences in Universal Pre-Kindergarten Efforts — 2005
The Productivity Argument for Investing in Young Children — Oct. 2004
Framing the Birth to Three Agenda: Lessons Learned from Pre-K Campaigns — Sep. 2004
Building an Early Learning System: The ABC's of Planning and Governance Structures — 2004
Projected Cost-Effectiveness of Statewide Universal Newborn Hearing Screening — Nov. 2002
Child Development Programs in Community Health Centers — Jan. 2002
Effects of Kindergarten Retention Policy on Children’s Cognitive Growth in Reading and Mathematics — Fall 2005
Assuring Better Child Development (ABCD)
Pre-kindergartners Left Behind: Expulsion Rates in State Pre-kindergarten Systems
YOUTH
Youth issues are a priority for GCYF, encompassing the supports and services needed for healthy youth development, and the individuals, organizations, networks, and systems that interact to improve outcomes for and develop leadership skills in youth to empower them to transition successfully into adulthood.
Programs that Work
Aggression Replacement Training
Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids
Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Teacher Training Workshop
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA)
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)
Financial Incentives for Teen Parents to Stay in School
Keepin' it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)
Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP)
Let Each One Teach One Mentor Program
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Parenting With Love and Limits
Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies
Postponing Sexual Involvement/Human Sexuality Educational Series
Project STAR/Midwestern Prevention Project
Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)
Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP)
Residential Student Assistance Program
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
School Transitional Environmental Program
Self Center (School-Linked Reproductive Health Services)
Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14
Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together Team (SMART Team)
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8
Research in Brief
Transition to Adulthood: Delays and Unmet Needs Among Adolescents and Young Adults with Asthma — Apr. 2008
Delinquency Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2004 — Feb. 2008
Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment — Feb. 2008
Drug Offense Cases in Juvenile Courts, 1985-2004 — Feb. 2008
Petitioned Status Offense Cases in Juvenile Courts, 2004 — Feb. 2008
The Over-Scheduling Myth — Feb. 2008
Ways to Promote the Positive Development of Children and Youth — Feb. 2008
Current-Generation Youth Programs: What Works, What Doesn't, and at What Cost? — 2008
Health Care Access and Utilization: Adolescents and Young Adults — 2008
The Mental Health of Adolescents: A National Profile — 2008
Prevalence of Positive Substance Abuse Screen Results Among Adolescent Primary Care Patients — Nov. 2007
A Day in the Life of American Adolescents: Substance Use Facts — Oct. 2007
Drug-Impaired Driving by Youth Remains Serious Problem — Oct. 2007
Adolescent Bullying Involvement and Perceived Family, Peer and School Relations: Commonalities and Differences Across Race/Ethnicity — Sep. 2007
Adolescent Occupational Injuries and Workplace Risks: An Analysis of Oregon Workers' Compensation Data — Sep. 2007
Socioemotional Effects of Fathers' Incarceration on Low-Income, Urban, School-Aged Children — Sep. 2007
Changes in Family Functioning and Child Behavior Following Intensive In-Home Therapy — Aug. 2007
It Can Be Done: Reductions in Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines — Aug. 2007
Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising in Magazines — Aug. 2007
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2007 — July 2007
Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Addressing the Mental Health of Sexually Abused Children — May 2007
2007 Fact Sheet on Reproductive Health: Adolescents & Young Adults — 2007
2007 Fact Sheet on Unintentional Injury: Adolescents & Young Adults — 2007
Foster Care Youth — Aug. 2006
Diplomas Count: An Essential Guide to Graduation Policy and Rates — June 2006
Fewer High School Students Engage in Health Risk Behaviors, Racial and Ethnic Differences Persist — June 2006
National Youth Risk Behavior Survey (1991-2005): Trends in the Prevalence of Selected Behaviors — June 2006
Youth Under Age 18 in the Adult Criminal Justice System — June 2006
Reality Check 2006: How Black and Hispanic Families Rate Their Schools — May 2006
The Relative Effectiveness of 10 Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Programs in the U.S. — May 2006
Every Nine Seconds in America a Student Becomes a Dropout: The Dropout Problem in Numbers — Mar. 2006
Health Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Leaving Foster Care: Policy Options for Improving Access — Feb. 2006
Transition of Extremely Low-Birth-Weight Infants From Adolescence to Young Adulthood — Feb. 2006
Substance Use and Employment Among Youths Aged 15 to 17 — 2006
College Enrollment and Work Activity of 2004 High School Graduates — Mar. 2005
Midwest Evaluation of the Adult Functioning of Former Foster Youth — 2005
What Is Happening to Youth Employment Rates? — Nov. 2004
Career Academies: Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes and Educational Attainment — Mar. 2004
Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001 — Feb. 2004
Teens and TANF: How Adolescents Fare Under the Nation's Welfare Program — Dec. 2003
Youth Who "Age Out" of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects — Dec. 2002
Teens Fare Poorly Under Welfare Reform Policies — July/Aug 2002
Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows about Navigating Adolescence — July 2002
How Welfare and Work Policies for Parents Affect Adolescents — May 2002
Other Youth Resources
Bullying, Psychosocial Adjustment, and Academic Performance in Elementary School — Nov. 2005
Focusing Juvenile Justice on Positive Youth Development — Oct. 2005
No Turning Back: Promising Approaches to Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities Affecting Youth of Color in the Justice System — Oct. 2005
Who's Left Behind? Immigrant Children in High and Low LEP Schools — Sep. 2005
Juvenile Probation Initiatives in California and Their Effect — Aug. 2005
Moving Towards Success: Framework for After-School Programs — May 2005
A Look at Immigrant Youth: Prospects and Promising Practices — Mar. 2005
All Work and No Play? Listening to What Kids and Parents Really Want from Out-of-School Time — Nov. 2004
Toward Safe and Orderly Schools: The National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools — Nov. 2004
When Schools Stay Open Late: The National Evaluation of the 21st-Century Community Learning Centers Program — Oct. 2004
Violence-Related Behaviors Among High School Students in the U.S. (1991-2003) — July 2004
Largest Ever Study of Anti-Gay Harassment in Schools Shows the Problem Is Widespread, Dangerous and Preventable — Jan. 2004
Turning the Leadership Corner: Innovative Youth Engagement Strategies — Fall 2003
Preventing Problems, Promoting Development, Encouraging Engagement: Competing Priorities or Inseparable Goals? — Mar. 2003
Building a Better Teenager: A Summary of "What Works" in Adolescent Development — Nov. 2002
Finding Out What Matters for Youth: Testing Key Links in a Community Action Framework for Youth Development — Nov. 2002
Balancing the Equation: Communities Supporting Youth, Youth Supporting Communities — July 2002
Encouraging Teens to Adopt a Safe, Healthy Lifestyle: A Foundation for Improving Future Adult Behaviors — June 2002
Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders — 2002
Finding Common Ground: Toward a Common Vision, Analysis and Accountability for Youth — Nov. 2001
Preliminary Report on No Child Left Behind in Indian Country
HEALTHY CHILDREN, YOUTH and FAMILIES
GCYF recognizes that the health and wellness of children, youth and families is critical to developing capacities that allow them to function and build strong foundations for success, not only through healthy physical and emotional development, but school readiness, academic achievement, workforce preparedness, financial security, and a myriad of other benchmarks of a healthy community.
Programs that Work
Aggression Replacement Training
Aggressors, Victims, and Bystanders: Thinking and Acting to Prevent Violence
Al's Pals: Kids Making Healthy Choices
Athletes Training and Learning to Avoid Steroids
Behavioral Monitoring and Reinforcement Program
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Brief Strategic Family Therapy
Child Sexual Abuse Prevention: Teacher Training Workshop
Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS)
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Child Sexual Abuse (CBT-CSA)
Communities Mobilizing for Change on Alcohol (CMCA)
Community Trials Intervention to Reduce High-Risk Drinking (RHRD)
Creating Lasting Family Connections
Early Risers 'Skills for Success' Program
Families And Schools Together (FAST)
Family Effectiveness Training (FET)
Gang Resistance Education and Training (G.R.E.A.T.)
Healthy Families New York (HFNY)
Keepin' it R.E.A.L. (Refuse, Explain, Avoid, Leave)
Leadership and Resiliency Program (LRP)
Let Each One Teach One Mentor Program
Linking the Interests of Families and Teachers (LIFT)
Lions-Quest Skills for Adolescence
Lions-Quest Working Toward Peace
Michigan Model for Comprehensive School Health Education
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program
Multidimensional Family Therapy
Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care
Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
Parent Child Development Center
Parenting With Love and Limits
Postponing Sexual Involvement/Human Sexuality Educational Series
Project STAR/Midwestern Prevention Project
Project Toward No Drug Abuse (Project TND)
Project Toward No Tobacco Use (Project TNT)
Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies
Protecting You / Protecting Me
Quantum Opportunity Program (QOP)
Residential Student Assistance Program
Resolving Conflict Creatively Program (RCCP)
Responding in Peaceful and Positive Ways
School Transitional Environmental Program
Schools and Families Educating Children (SAFE Children)
Seattle Social Development Project
Second Step Violence Prevention
Self Center (School-Linked Reproductive Health Services)
Start Taking Alcohol Risks Seriously (STARS) for Families
Strengthening Families Program
Strengthening Families Program: For Parents and Youth 10-14
Strong African American Families (SAAF) Program
Students Managing Anger and Resolution Together Team (SMART Team)
Syracuse Family Development Research Program
Teaching Students to be Peacemakers
Teenage Health Teaching Modules
The Peacemakers Program: Violence Prevention for Students in Grades 4-8
Too Good for Drugs and Violence
Research in Brief
Healthy and Safe Children outcome area
Early Intervention in Low Birth Weight Premature Infants: Results at 18 Years of Age for the Infant Health and Development Program — Mar. 2006
The Brookline Early Education Project: A 25-Year Follow-up Study of a Family-Centered Early Health and Development Intervention — July 2005
Other Health & Safety Resources
Depression Among Moms: Prevalence, Predictors, and Acting Out Among Third Grade Children — Mar. 2006
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality in the U.S., 1995-2002 — June 2005
A Conceptual Framework for Adolescent Health — May 2005
A Nation at Risk: Obesity in the United States Statistical Sourcebook — May 2005
The Life Course Health Development Model: A Guide to Children’s Health Care Policy and Practice — Jan. 2005
Enhancing Child Development Services in Medicaid Managed Care: A Best Clinical and Administrative Practices Toolkit — 2005
Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance — 2005
Dialing for Help: State Child Health Hotlines as Vital Resources for Parents of Young Children — Nov. 2004
Addressing Maternal Depression — Oct. 2004
Using the Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant to Support Child Development Services — Jan. 2002
Children and Mental Health (from "Mental Health: A Report of the Surgeon General") — 1999
Collaborative Framework to Improve Women's Health Across the Lifespan
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs Data Resource Center
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010
System Capacity For Adolescent Health: A Public Health Improvement Tool
OTHER RESOURCES
Fairness in Philanthropy Part I: Foundation Giving to Minority-Led Nonprofits — Nov. 2005
Fairness in Philanthropy Part II: Perspectives from the Field — Nov. 2005
Social Justice Grantmaking: A Report on Foundation Trends — Sep. 2005
Evaluation as a Pathway to Learning — June 2005
Leading by Example — May 2004
Building on a Better Foundation: A Toolkit for Creating an Inclusive Grantmaking Organization — July 2001
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