Two Generation Programs

This working policy paper from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University has a downloadable PDF and a good graphic on the 3 principles: Support responsive relationships for children and adults. Strengthen core life skills. Reduce sources of…

Through complex gene-environment transactions, EF is transmitted across generations within parent-child relationships that provide powerful socialization and experiential contexts in which EF and related attentive behavior are forged and practiced. Families matter as parents regulate home environments and themselves as…

A self assessment and planning tool from the Annie E. Casey Foundation,  August, 2016. http://s3.amazonaws.com/empath-website/exchange-resources/IntergenerationalResources-EngagingParentsDevelopingLeadersASelf-AssessmentAndPlanningToolForNonprofitsAndSchools.pdf

This Ascend at the Aspen Institute report published in 2012, offers a blueprint for action that centers on helping parents pursue skills and complete education to improve their own economic security and stability, while simultaneously ensuring their children are on a…

The Administration for Children and Families’ Office of Family Assistance through the OFA Peer Technical Assistance (PeerTA) Network hosted a webinar on “Breaking the Poverty Cycle and Opening Doors to Opportunity for TANF Families: Developing a Two-Generation Approach,” on May…

  This project website introduces a project launched in September 2015 to better understand approaches that intentionally combine intensive, high-quality, adult-focused services with intensive, high-quality, child-focused programs. A final report will be available in 2017. https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/two-generation-approaches-to-improving-family-self-sufficiency-2015-2017  

This paper published in 2016 by partner organization EMPath, highlights an integrated strategy focused on strengthening core capabilities (such as self-regulation and executive function skills) that are foundational to both parents and children in a process that incorporates insights from the biological…