Child Policy Toolkit
Tools to help you engage in policy. Track legislation, find your representatives, read advice from scholars who work with policymakers, and more.
Child Policy Toolkit will let SRCD members delve deep into the policy process
A Child Policy Toolkit to grow your policy capacity.
Use our resources to track legislation around the U.S. that impacts children and families’ lives, read blog posts on how to ask and answer policy-relevant research questions, learn how to prepare for and host a successful meeting with a policymaker, and use tools to find your legislators.
Child Policy Toolkit is a free benefit for SRCD members.
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"Research on child development often demands engagement in the policy process. The Child Policy Toolkit is a great resource for SRCD members to begin, or enhance, that engagement. The concept of evidence-based policy can be complex. One important aspect of it is helping decision makers at all levels understand the best scientific knowledge and how to translate that research into policy approaches. In addition, engagement with those decision makers can help us determine, as scientists, the issues we should be addressing, because they are foremost on the minds of policy makers. The Toolkit is like a GPS to help our members navigate that crucial, if sometimes bumpy, two-way street."
– Mathew Stagner, Senior Fellow at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago
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