Knight's Well-being of Children and Families Priority: To provide all children and youth with opportunities for positive growth and development and to give all parents resources they need to strengthen their families.

What works to improve outcomes for children and youth? What do research and evaluation tell us are effective strategies and promising approaches to meeting the needs of children and adolescents?

Harvard Family Research Project

• Out-of-School-Time Program Evaluation Database
  The Harvard Family Research Project (HFRP) Out-of-School Time (OST) Program Evaluation Database contains about 200 profiles of evaluations of OST programs and initiatives. It provides accessible information about evaluation work of both large and small OST programs to support the development of high quality evaluations and programs in the out-of-school time field. Each profile is available as an abstract and a full report, and many contain links to research websites. A full bibliography is online.

What Works: A Tool for Improving Services to Children and Youth
Two broad topic areas have been covered by these reports:

• Youth Development: American Teens (May 2002 to present)
  (Produced by Child Trends in partnership with the
  John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)
• School Readiness (2001)
  (Produced by Child Trends in partnership with the
  John S. and James L. Knight Foundation)

ChildTrends Databank: An extensive repository of research on trends in health, education and lifestyle of children.

ChildTrends Guide to Effective Programs for Children and Youth: Child Trends' Guide to Effective Programs for Children and Youth offers a way to present our extensive knowledge base about programs found to "work" to enhance children's development, in a user-friendly format for policy makers, program designers, and funders. This approach is built on the concept that child development is a cumulative process that begins before birth and continues into young adulthood.