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The Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) holds two meetings per year, during which members, sponsoring agency staff, and guests discuss current issues and hear presentations by invited researchers and policy makers. A portion of these meeting often include a public seminar or open session.
BCYF also organizes public workshops and other events that bring together relevant expertise and experience to consider and report on current evidence, research, insights and innovations related to specific strategic priority areas.
Description
The Board on Children, Youth, and Families (BCYF) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine advances the health, learning, development, resilience, and well-being of all children, youth, and families by mobilizing expertise from multiple disciplines to analyze the best available evidence on critical issues facing children, youth, and families.
BCYF identifies and addresses current needs and future developments that may advance or harm families and their children and youth from the perinatal period through young adulthood. The board develops evidence-based policies, practices, evaluation approaches, and research; and identifies promising opportunities for holistic, constructive and sustainable change in relevant systems, processes, environments, culture, technology and services that will support our mission.
Contributors
Sponsors
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Staff
Natacha Blain
Lead
Pamella Atayi
Major units and sub-units
Center for Health, People, and Places
Lead
Social and Economic Systems Program Area
Lead
