Place Matters: Communicating the Relationship Between Place, Racism, and Early Childhood Development
This brief offers strategies for talking about the connections between place, racism, and child development and applying it to your own work.
This strategic brief, developed in collaboration with the FrameWorks Institute, provides research-based messaging strategies for talking about the connections between place, racism, and early childhood development. It includes actionable recommendations that communicators can use and adapt in their own work to help shift public understanding and help mobilize support for systems and policies that ensure children and their caregivers have what they need to thrive.
The full brief is available on the FrameWorks website.
Background
It is widely acknowledged that responsive interactions with caregivers provide critical support for the development of healthy brain architecture and a buffer against toxic stress and adversity. However, the impact of our broader environments on children’s development—and the many ways that racism shapes unequal conditions across those environments—must also be taken into account to design better policies and programs that help all children thrive.
To support advocates and communicators in this work, we partnered with FrameWorks to create a set of resources, including this strategic brief, that build understanding of the interconnected relationship between place, racism, and early childhood development.
The new brief, Place Matters: Communicating the Relationship Between Place, Racism, and Early Childhood Development, offers research-based messaging strategies and provides a set of recommendations for communicators.
The brief is paired with a toolkit, Place Matters: Four Strategies to Connect Place with Early Childhood Development, which offers messaging guidance and real-world examples to help advocates and communicators put these strategies to use in their own contexts.