National Assembly Today

Over the next few newsletters, we will highlight the unique storytelling elements that work together to form the complete Building Well-Being Narrative: the Value, the Metaphor, and the Examples. This week, we’ll focus on the Value of Human Potential. When we support well-being, we make sure that everyone can reach their potential and fully contribute […]

As we explained in our last newsletter, the new frame for human services, Building Well-Being, is a narrative structure that provides the public with a deeper understanding of, and support for, human services. In the next newsletter, we will begin to break down each component of the narrative for you. This week, however, we wanted […]

After several years of rigorous research conducted by the FrameWorks Institute, we now have an overarching story that we know significantly improves the public’s understanding of what human services are and why they are important. We call it the Building Well-Being Narrative. If you missed our webinar unveiling the Building Well-Being Narrative, you can watch […]

Recent economic downturns tremendously impacted communities and families in the United States, especially young families. There is a growing chorus of voices calling for new models and solutions that meet the needs of both young parents and their children collectively. Two-generation programming provides an important poverty reduction roadmap for young families, making service providers, policy […]

Ascend at the Aspen Institute’s 2Gen (Two-Gen) Outcomes Bank is designed to help capture and organize the outcomes, research, tools, and evidence base for two-generation approaches, strategies, and programs. Within the database, you will find outcomes, indicators, and research organized by child, parent, and family across the core 2Gen components of education, economic assets, health […]