Eco-Anxiety: How Time Outside Helps Youth Navigate Climate Emotions

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Adolescents | Child Well-Being | Mental Health

Eco-Anxiety: How Time Outside Helps Youth Navigate Climate Emotions

Publication Year:  2025  

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As climate impacts accelerate across the globe, so do feelings of anxiety, grief, and uncertainty, particularly among youth. This brief brings together emerging research and practical insights to explore how time outside and nature-based programming can play a meaningful role in helping young people process climate emotions, build resilience, and develop a sense of agency and action.
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By Blue Sky Funders Forum + Climate Mental Health Network + One Green Thing.

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    A Love Letter & Support Guide for Families Navigating Harmful Immigration Raids and Policies

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    Adolescents | Child Well-Being | Mental Health | Safety

    A Love Letter & Support Guide for Families Navigating Harmful Immigration Raids and Policies

    Publication Year:  2025  

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    This guide includes Know Your Rights materials, safety planning guidance, self-care and mental health reflection exercises and resources, and other mental health resources for immigrant parents and their children.

    By Children Thrive Action Network.

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      Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States: A 10-Year Update

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      Child Well-Being

      Measuring Access to Opportunity in the United States: A 10-Year Update

      Publication Year:  2025  

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      This report shows that child poverty fell to a record low in 2021 and then tripled by 2024. In 2021, with federal pandemic relief and an expanded child tax credit, the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) showed child poverty at 5%, the lowest on record. By 2024, as temporary supports expired, the SPM rate rose to 13%. Without public support, it would have reached 25%.

      By Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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        America After 3PM

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        Adolescents | Child Well-Being | Out-of-School Time

        America After 3PM

        Publication Year:  2025  

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        The fifth edition of America After 3PM surveyed 30,000+ parents and guardians across the country. Key finding: Parents of almost 30 million kids—more than half the country’s school-age youth—want afterschool programs for their children. Yet over 75 percent of these children do not have access to programming. Unmet demand for afterschool programs is highest for children in low- and middle-income families.

        By Afterschool Alliance.

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          The Future of Youth Development: Building Systems and Strengthening Programs

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          Adolescents | Child Well-Being | Out-of-School Time | Science of Learning & Dev

          The Future of Youth Development: Building Systems and Strengthening Programs

          Publication Year:  2025  

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          This consensus study examines the effectiveness of OST programs and identifies access and quality improvements. This book describes the array of OST activities; evaluates their effectiveness in promoting learning, development, and well-being; outlines improvements to existing policies and regulations to increase program access and quality; and lays out a research agenda that would strengthen the OST evidence base.

          By National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine.

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            Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive

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            Child Well-Being | Racial Equity

            Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive

            Publication Year:  2024  

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            FrameWorks has released Collective Caregiving: A Frame for Talking About What Kids and Families Need to Thrive, discussing how to center children in our consideration of public policies and other collective decisions.

            Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Children’s Hospital Association.

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              Expanding How We Understand Youth Well-Being

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              Child Well-Being | Science of Learning & Dev | SEL

              Expanding How We Understand Youth Well-Being

              Publication Year:  2024  

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              This series of new products urges the field to refine how it defines and measures youth well-being.

              By Urban Institute.

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                Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: Four Strategies to Increase Inclusivity

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                Child Well-Being | LGBTQ+

                Supporting LGBTQ+ Students: Four Strategies to Increase Inclusivity

                Publication Year:  2023  

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                Schools have the power to transform the lives of marginalized and minoritized students, including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGTBQ+) youth. As students return to school this fall, especially in the midst of hostile anti-LGBTQ+ policies, it is important now more than ever that LGBTQ+ students have access to a supportive and inclusive school climate with positive peer and teacher relationships.

                Given that LGBTQ+ youth are more likely to report lower developmental assets, it is still crucial that we take steps to make LGBTQ+ students feel included and supported.

                By Antonia Caba for Search Institute.

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                  Framework for Decolonizing Philanthropy

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                  Child Well-Being | Racial Equity

                  Framework for Decolonizing Philanthropy

                  Publication Year:  2023  

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                  he Decolonizing Child and Youth Philanthropy Framework aims to help us shift the power imbalances that exist between donors and their partners, as well as challenge the ways in which philanthropy has traditionally operated. Click here. x

                  By Elevate Children Funders Group and DA Global.

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                    Webinar Resources: Back to School 2023

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                    Child Well-Being | PAST GTY Webinars | SEL

                    Webinar Resources: Back to School 2023

                    Publication Year:  2023  

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                    Key Challenges & Opportunities to Support Thriving Youth

                    End of summer means it’s time to head back to school! Check out a conversation with GTY and three field leaders as they talk about trends, challenges, and opportunities, what’s important for funders to know, and how we can all act to support thriving youth.

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