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The Center has become a national leader in the public discussion, debate, and consensus building on topics of major significance to children, youth, and families. These topics vary over time with public interest, but may include community approaches to violence prevention, preschool and after-school care provision for families with working parents, the transfer of juvenile offenders to adult court, divorce and custody of children, public funding for elementary education, and children’s access to offensive media. Debate is encouraged at the local, state, national, and international levels.
To encourage debate and facilitate dissemination, the Center participates in the following activities:
- conferences, at which basic researchers, policy analysts, and community leaders converge on a topic of major importance in order to understand the problem
- describe the state of knowledge and examine public strategies for solutions
- lectures, at which prominent scholars and public leaders address major issues
- testimony before local, state, and national legislative bodies
- briefs, through which policy questions are analyzed and solutions are formulated
- internet debate, through which university scholars participate in discussion of policy issues
- newsletters, through which current knowledge is disseminated to policy makers
- public communication, in the form of articles, interviews, and Op-Ed pieces, through which the public becomes involved in matters of policy
- consultation with nonprofit and government agencies
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