Child Trends Incorporated

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Jun 4, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$11,073,546

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Youth development - child trends is working with the los angeles united school district and families in schools to pilot and evaluate abriendo puertas parent education program. Child trends is developing protocols, conducting random assignment of participants (parents with preschool age children), developing implementation and outcome reports, assessing intervention parents' knowledge and attitudes on child and youth development, using community resources, and serving as advocates for their children's educational opportunities.child trends is updating and expanding the understanding of the factors that affect teen childbearing among latinos and synthesizing these findings into a theory of change and logic model. This work will inform the eventual goal of developing and implementing a research-based and culturally-appropriate program to reduce poverty by preventing teen childbearing among latino adolescents.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 u.s. 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.

Activity 3

Fertility and family structure - 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 u.s. Department of health and human services, child trends and its partner, mathematica policy research, are documenting how the government's personal responsibility education program (prep)-funded programs are operationalized in the field and assessing selected prep-funded programs' effectiveness. This is a seven-year evaluation which will make a significant contribution to the teen pregnancy prevention evidence base. There are 3 main components of the evaluation: 1) a design and implementation study: a survey of how states designed and implemented prep programs; 2) performance analysis study: creation of a system to monitor grantee performance and analysis of performance data; and 3) impact and implementation study of a select number of prep-funded programs. Child trends will be leading all activities associated with the performance analysis study, and will also be involved in tasks for the other two components.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.

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EIN

13-2982969