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Dear colleague,
FrameWorks has
been busy this fall building capacity with new people, new projects and new
products. We are pleased to be able to share these new resources and colleagues
with you.
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New
Products: Child Abuse and
Neglect Prevention Online Toolkit
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FrameWorks'
most recent online issue-specific toolkit was developed for Prevent Child Abuse America and funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. This compendium
of research on how Americans think about child development includes specific communications
recommendations and user-friendly tools for advocates working to increase
public support for policies that support prevention and intervention and reduce
child abuse and neglect.
The toolkit includes a variety of useful
applications of FrameWorks' recommendations, such as: sample talking points,
responses to frequently asked questions, sample editorial and letter to the
editor, and case studies that demonstrate how advocates have been able to
successfully incorporate framing recommendations.
Click here to access this toolkit. As a
member of the FrameWorks community, you may log on to the toolkit by using the
username/password combination of guest/guest.
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New Projects:
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This fall, we began a two-year project
supported by the Norlien Foundation of Alberta, Canada, to investigate Canadian understandings of early childhood development, child and family mental health, and addiction. This project will
include identification of the dominant discourses operative in Alberta on each
issue, production of alternative communications recommendations and tools, and
dissemination of the findings to advocates through two regional Study Circles. This
work complements earlier studies in the U.S. conducted by FrameWorks for the
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, a perennial partner in
our work.
In the coming year, we will partner with
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to greatly expand our investigation of how Americans think about
budgets and taxes and to offer more tools for the field.
Finally, we will extend our exploration of
American thinking about education reform with new support from the Ford Foundation.
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New Staff, Fellows, and Board Members
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FrameWorks is strengthening its bench with
new scholars and collaborators! We are delighted to announce the following recent
additions.
New
Staff:
Eric
Lindland will join us in 2010 as Senior Researcher for the Institute. A
cultural anthropologist, now teaching at the University of Notre Dame,
Lindblom's work focuses on enhancing FrameWorks' investigations of "mapping the
gap" between public and expert understandings of complex issues. He earned his Ph.D. at Emory University.
Michael
Erard will join the Institute as a Senior Researcher in February. A
linguist and author, Erard develops robust simplifying models and tests them in the
field. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, and is the
author of Um...: Slips, Stumbles, and
Verbal Blunders, and What They Mean (Random House, 2007).
New Fellows:
Miranda Yates is a Fellow with the
Institute and Regional Director at the Covenant House Institute. A
developmental psychologist, Yates is currently collaborating on a paper
describing FrameWorks' Field Building approach. The book she co-authored with
James Youniss - Community Service and
Social Responsibility in Youth (University of Chicago Press, 1997) - remains
an important influence on FrameWorks' thinking.
Suzanne
Lo
is a Graduate Fellow with the Institute. In this role, she contributes to our
growing use of experimental surveys, partnering with Stanford University's
Political Communications Lab and YouGov!Polimetrix. Lo is pursuing graduate
studies in public health at Johns Hopkins University.
New
Board Members:
Ronald Manderscheid is executive
director of the National Association of County Behavioral Health and
Development Disability Directors and adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University
Bloomberg School of Public Health. A sociologist with a specialization in
social psychology and statistics, Manderscheid has been involved in health care
and mental health care policy reform throughout his career. He served as Chief of the Survey and
Analysis Branch, Center for Mental Health Services; Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration, HHS; and President of the Mental Health Section
of the American Public Health Association.
Margaret
Weir is professor of Sociology and Political Science at the
University of California, Berkeley. Her research
and teaching fields include political sociology, American political
development, urban politics and policy, and comparative studies of the welfare
state. Weir is also the Director of the MacArthur Foundation Network in
Building Resilient Regions and a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. She is the author of Politics
and Jobs (Princeton University, 1992) and Schooling
for All: Race, Class and the Decline of the Democratic Ideal (coauthored with Ira Katznelson, Basic Books 1985), among other works.
We at
FrameWorks are pleased to recommend the works of our collaborators for
inclusion on your holiday gift lists!
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