Intergenerational family services are services provided to parents, caregivers and their children in pediatric health care settings. This family-centered approach recognizes that children’s health is directly connected to the physical, mental and social well-being of their caregive...

Unintended pregnancy and abortion rates are higher in the United States than in most other developed countries. The problem of unintended pregnancy disproportionately affects adolescent women. Almost half (49%) of all pregnancies in the United States, and 80-90% among adolescent an...

Every day, four to eight children in the United States die from abuse or neglect at the hands of their parents or caretakers. No one knows the exact number, and there has been little progress in preventing these tragic deaths. Most of the children who die are infants or toddlers. C...

Clinicians caring for immigrant children (or children with immigrant parents) often need to use translated versions of standardized screening instruments, also known as questionnaires. Existing translated, culturally-adapted, and validated questionnaires are invaluable when they a...

Data are necessary for developing public health screening guidelines, but this can be challenging when working with vulnerable, dispersed populations, such as resettled refugees. We created the first large-scale dataset for refugee children who arrived to the United States between ...

In 2006, Unfulfilled Promise: The Dimensions and Characteristics of Philadelphia’s Dropout Crisis, 2000–2005 shed light on how many students drop out of high school in the School District of Philadelphia (SDP) and what factors put students at risk for dropping out. The results were...

ChildStat is a management accountability and quality improvement process that was created to examine New York City’s child welfare outcomes. This 28-page guide describes the history, goals and core features of the approach, along with lessons learned about implementation. It also s...

While the Great Recession technically ended in June 2009, many families, including those with children, continue to feel the effects of the United States’ most serious economic contraction since the Great Depression. As of 2013, 14.7 million children were in poverty, a significant ...

This brief authored by the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s PolicyLab & Safe Place, explores collaborations—old and new—between child welfare and medical providers. It serves as a resource for states seeking to strengthen these collaborations across the continuum of child ...