Child Trends
US research institute
Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, research center based in Bethesda, Maryland, which conducts research on children, children's families, child well-being, and factors affecting children's lives.
01History
Child Trends was founded in 1979 and in 2014 added the Child Trends Hispanic Institute, now the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families, with partnership from Duke University, University of North Carolina, and University of Maryland. The organization developed a tool for estimating agencies' kinship diversion practices.
In 2019, Fortune named the organization as #5 on its list of 25 Best Small and Medium Workplaces for Women.
02Funding
The organization is funded through grants and contracts from foundations, federal and state agencies, and other organizations. In 2019, they had revenues of $23 million.
03Research
04Other projects
Child Trends designs and conducts evaluations of child development and well-being. The Child Trends DataBank is an online resource for national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being. Child Trends' What Works is a collection of experimental evaluations of social interventions that assess child outcomes.
05Notable staff and board
Sources and credits
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