Child and Youth Well-Being

We maintain a growing collection of research, policy briefs, videos, and downloadable resources on strategies for promoting the social-emotional well-being of infants, children, and youth.

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Policy Brief: Advances in Social Emotional Learning: Current understanding, research and practice

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. After more than 30 years of research on social emotional learning (SEL) in classrooms, scientists and practitioners, recognizing that social emotional learning is…

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Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Social & Emotional, Cognitive, and Academic Competence: Promoting Responsive, Secure Caregiving Relationships

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. When the primary attachment relationship is secure, children are more likely to have a range of positive outcomes, including empathy, curiosity, adaptive emotional regulation…

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Policy Brief: Laying a Foundation for Academic, Social & Emotional Competence: Promoting Effortful Control

This brief is a result of a CCFW Research to Real World Forum. Effortful control, a core of self-regulation, has been shown to predict academic, social, and emotional success in both typical and at-risk children. In fact, it is a more robust predictor of early academic and social success than early verbal skills…

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Early Adversity and the Neurobehavioral Development of Children, Part 1

Dr. Liliana Lengua examines how familial and social factors associated with adversity can shape children’s brain development as well as promising programs that promote their resilience.

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Family Values and Culture in the Successful Adjustment of Ethnic Minority Adolescents

Dr. Ana Mari Cauce, President of the University of Washington, discusses African and Mexican-American parenting styles and how they serve to hinder or help adolescent adjustment.  

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