Family & Youth
Child care gaps in rural America
Route Fifty
Communities with child care deserts, or areas with an insufficient supply of child care providers, could see fewer working adults and poorer educational and behavioral health outcomes for children.
Arts Midwest Blog
Arts Midwest
The power of stories can be an important tool for building welcoming communities. Read more to learn about the different approaches taken by members of Welcoming America's network.
The Kids Are Online
Aspen Digital
A repository of stories about diverse communities across America that are uniting to close the digital divide for young people. Curated by Aspen Digital.
Rural and Native Celebrations of the LGBTQ+ Community
A collection of rural, queer organizations and stories about rural communities and Native nations celebrating the LGBTQ+ community. Explore these moments to learn more about how queer people are celebrated in rural spaces.
2-GEN TOOLBOX
Ascend (Aspen Institute)
The updated 2Gen Toolbox includes more than 300 resources from key 2Gen leaders and consultants, gathered by Karen Murrell (Higher Heights Consulting), Aspen CSG and Ascend.
FAMILY-CENTERED COACHING
Family-Centered Coaching
Family-Centered Coaching Toolkits are strategies, tools, and resources to work holistically with families as they strive to reach their goals.
Seven Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being
Community Commons
The Seven Vital Conditions for Well-Being is a useful framework for conceptualizing holistic well-being and the Conditions that give rise to it, as well as identifying levers for community change and improvement.
Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing
Forum for Community Solutions
The Youth and Young Adult Wellbeing Measure Project Report provides insight and data from the youth and young adult researchers and displays each cultural design team’s research process to identify key areas of well-being within their culture and traditions. It also identifies common themes of well-being across the three cultural contexts. This report highlights the origin and milestones of the first stage of this project, and more importantly, it promotes and encourages the field of youth-centered programming to center young leaders as experts in their lived experience.
Health, Work, and Care in Rural America
New America
Drawing on original research, this report offers a clear case for why guaranteed public paid leave policies should be considered a social determinant of health for rural people just as access to health care facilities and other economic stability indicators are. Paid leave could improve the health, wellbeing, and economic security of rural workers and families, and increase the economic competitiveness of America’s rural communities.
Welcoming International Blog
Welcoming International
Inspiring change: Reflections on welcoming newcomers into rural communities in Australia and the United States
Welcoming America Rural Welcoming Initiative
Welcoming America
Participants in the Rural Welcoming Initiative (RWI) access technical assistance and coaching, free Welcoming America membership, and ongoing learning opportunities to strengthen welcoming efforts in rural communities. Communities will be tasked with cultivating relationships, examining their current policies and programs, and aligning their local immigrant inclusion efforts to the Welcoming Standard.
How Maternity Care Deserts Put Black Moms at Risk
Word in Black
Being pregnant and Black is hard when you live in a rural community. Options are few, and racism makes everything worse.