The Bowling Green State University Institute for Child and Family Policy (ICFP) represents the first program in Ohio aimed at providing explicit, non-partisan child and family policy research, analysis, and recommendations to legislators, legislative staff, state agency personnel, local policymakers and education and social service professionals throughout the state. The Institute aims to strengthen connections between research, child and family policy, and best practice models in Ohio through non-partisan summaries of topical family and child research, insightful policy analysis, program evaluation research, and community demographic profiles. Attention will be primarily directed to three key domains in a child’s life: schools, families, and communities.

ICFP Policy Support

• Statewide informational seminars for legislators, legislative aides, and state agency personnel
• Briefing reports synthesizing relevant issues, research, and policy as well as a list of reference resources available on a topic
• Policy updates summarizing child and family policies in other states, updates of policy and legislative proposals in Ohio, and critical child outcomes associated with various issues
• Access to briefing reports, research summaries, and information
• Local briefing seminars tailored to local issues and demographics
• Support for research into effective approaches to link child and family research and policy
• Recommendations regarding best practice models that reflect key research and policy analysis findings

For more information and inquiries, please contact:

The Institute for Child and Family Policy at BGSU
16 Family and Consumer Sciences Building
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, Ohio 43403
(419) 372-7825
icfp@bgsu.edu