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Researcher urges shift from measuring harm to promoting child flourishing, offers county-ready data tools
Summary
Dr. Christina Bethel told symposium attendees that community-level measures and free tools (childhealthdata.org, short-form flourishing metrics) can let counties track protective relationships, school readiness and positive childhood experiences without waiting for new funding or legislation.
Dr. Christina Bethel, founder of the Child and Adolescent Health Measurement Initiative, urged attendees at the Davis Community Resilience Symposium to move "from awareness to action" by using concise, localizable measures that detect not only risks but what she called "flourishing." She said communities can access 2023–24 county- and state-level data and tools at childhealthdata.org to translate research into local programs.
Bethel described a theory of change rooted in lived experience and measurement: build measures that…
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