Recent Policy Papers

  • Advancing Culturally Responsive Services: Incorporating Community-Defined Evidence When Evaluating What Works

  • Strategies to Compensate Unpaid Caregivers: A Policy Scan

  • Culture is Healing: Removing the Barriers Facing Providers of Culturally Responsive Services

  • A Policy Agenda for a Nation that CARES for Young Adults

Latest Briefs

  • The Child Tax Credit: Where We Are, Where Families Think We Should Go

  • So Much More Than ABCs: Families’ Experiences with Head Start

  • “It’s Horrible to Live Like This”: Immigration Policy’s Real-Time Impact on Young Children

  • The Revised Strengthening Families Self-Assessments: What’s Different?

Latest Publications

  • Manifesto for Race Equity & Parent Leadership in Early Childhood Systems

  • Manifiesto Para Equidad Racial y Liderazgo de Padres

  • A Community that CARES for Young Adults: A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for New York City

  • A Community That CARES for Young Adults: A Youth-Centered Housing Policy Agenda for Los Angeles

Recent Blog Articles

  • Young People Deserve More From the Budget: A Statement from our CARES Ambassadors

  • These Cuts Matter: The Budget Reconciliation Bill Undermines Families and Will Drive Children into Child Welfare Systems

  • Child Care Providers Sound the Alarm on Immigration Policies’ Harm to Families with Young Children

  • Deep Cuts to Our Foundation: How the House-Passed Budget Undermines Health and Wellbeing for Young People and Families