This infographic provides a pictorial overview of executive functioning and how it relates to child development. The full text for the graphic is also provided and details misconceptions about the development of executive functioning skills, as well…

This guide identifies the first step toward a conceptual understanding of executive function and self-regulation and how building executive functioning supports skills for life and learning. The guide also refers to other reports and multimedia…

This fact sheet defines two-generation and whole-family approaches that simultaneously provide services and opportunities to both children and the adults in their lives. The fact sheet also includes summaries and links to resources on 5 key…

The Children’s Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families produced this toolkit for child welfare agency staff to use with their evaluators. The toolkit presents “formative evaluation” as a way of assessing programs during their early…

This Casey Family Programs brief identifies a practice model for reducing the need for foster care and building permanent families. The practice model draws on input from professional staff, youth, biological parents, resource families, and…

Data analysis in this U.S. Government Accountability Office report shows that nearly 2 million at-risk college students did not report receiving SNAP benefits. The report also highlights the risk factors for food insecurity among this population.…

This Jobs for the Future issue brief includes data and infographics that outline Federal programs designed to serve opportunity youth in poverty by bridging improved educational and economic outcomes, including TANF, the Supplemental Nutrition…

This report highlights a study that documented that almost two-thirds of young adults had encountered “some kind of dating violence” as teens in Orange County. These incidents include psychological and cyber abuse, stalking, and physical and sexual…

Family engagement has been identified as a key factor in children’s early learning and development at a cognitive and social level. Since few ways exist for early care and education (ECE) programs to determine the strength of family engagement…

This Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation report explores the importance of the relationship between self-regulation and improved economic outcomes. The report identifies the psychological insights behind self-regulation, which refers to the…