Child Trends Incorporated

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Sep 28, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$9,149,008

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Fertility and family structure- with funding from the department of health and human services office of adolescent health, child trends is helping to improve service delivery for family planning clinics serving hispanic women by providing national data analyses and in-depth perspectives from teens and young adults, as well as providers, on how to best encourage or support hispanic immigrant and non-immigrant women in utilizing family planning services. The project will result in the identification of strategies that are feasible to implement and can be used to attract hispanic women in need of family planning services to clinics and programs. A key aim of the project is to translate the research findings to make them accessible to the practitioner community.child trends is collaborating with the department of health and human services office of population affairs to produce and disseminate research-based information to improve the delivery of family planning services. Child trends is addressing the prevalence, trends, and sub-population differences in populations at risk of unintended pregnancy and stis, with a focus on adolescents and young adults. Child trends is also examining sexual activity (including sexual intercourse, oral sex, partner characteristics and same sex partners) and contraceptive behaviors (including hormonal methods, condoms and dual methods) that affect the risk of unintended childbearing and stis as well as important family, individual, peer, partner, school and community factors associated with reproductive health outcomes. Child trends and partners, university of california at san francisco and trilogy interactive, are supporting the department of health and human services office of adolescent health in developing nonpartisan resources and a data-rich website and managing a multi-faceted outreach and communications strategy to share information with the many important stakeholders in the adolescent field in the work.with funding from the william and flora hewlett foundation, child trends is producing and disseminating information and research-based guidance on reproductive health issues to decision makers. The areas that are being addressed include sexual activity, contraceptive use, relationship context, pregnancy, childbearing and sexually transmitted infections (stis). In particular, we are highlighting the importance of reproductive health issues for teens and young adults, as well as for the children they bear, with an emphasis on racial and ethnic minorities and vulnerable populations. To ensure that we understand and are responding to the range of issues and concerns before decision makers, we consult frequently with members of the policy and provider communities and then create and deliver an array of products to inform their work.

Activity 3

Youth development- with funding from the corporation for national and community service, venture philanthropy partners (vpp) launched the youthconnect initiative, a network of government, private philanthropy, nonprofit organizations, and evaluators to dramatically improve opportunities for low-income youth, ages 14-24, in the national capital region (ncr). Youthconnect will support the collaboration of a network of six nonprofits in the ncr, providing education, social services, and job training to low-income youth ages 14-24. Child trends played a key role in the design and implementation of the open competition process. As evaluation partners for the vpp youthconnect initiative, child trends is conducting multiple tasks including technical assistance for the subgrantees as they develop evaluation plans and select qualified evaluators to lead experimental or quasi-experimental studies; an implementation evaluation, examining the operations, challenges, successes of the six individual organizations as well as the collaborative network that they form; and an outcomes monitoring study that assesses progress towards improving commonly agreed upon outcomes in the domains of education, disconnection and employment.with funding from the us department of health and human services office of the assistant secretary for planning and evaluation, child trends is examining the challenges faced by program implementers as they replicate, adapt and scale up evidence-based programs for children and youth-and use evidence to inform innovative strategies when evidence-based programs are not available--and the possible solutions for addressing them. Working with the federal project officers, child trends identified researchers and replicators of evidence-based home visitation and teen pregnancy prevention programs along with experts in issues and programs surrounding long-term foster care reduction and experts from other substantive areas who are knowledgeable about replication and adaptation of ebps and issues to consider when designing new programs when ebps are not available. Child trends managed all aspects of the forum and its logistics. In april 2011 approximately 80 experts and federal staff met to discuss the state of knowledge around key replication and implementation issues and identify crucial knowledge gaps. Based on the forum's discussion and in consultation with aspe project officers, child trends is commissioning a series of issue papers for diverse audiences that summarize lessons learned from research and practice related to past and existing ebp replication and scale up efforts and areas where there is further need for information. With funding from the us department of health and human services office of adolescent health, child trends is providing resources and tools, including direct training and technical assistance and conference support, which will increase capacity and skills of pregnancy assistance fund grantees to provide services for pregnant and parenting teens, women, and their families. An interactive web resource will provide professionals, policymakers, practitioners, grantees, and the general public with information, tools, and resources to promote evidence-based best practices in effectively working with pregnant and parenting teens, women, and their families.

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EIN

13-2982969