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Digital Opportunity for America's youth

While the Internet transforms the nature of opportunity in the workplace, schools, and society, millions of low-income young people and their families are not able to benefit from the digital revolution. The goal of The Children's Partnership's program is to make sure that digital opportunities extend to young people in every community, particularly those in underserved families and communities.

Digital Opportunity Now for America's Children

Our Digital Opportunity Now for America's Children Agenda can equip all of America's children with the 21st Century Skills they need to compete in a global economy, use technology to improve children's health and enrollment in health insurance programs, enable all children to have access to digital technology tools at school and at home, and establish a 21st Century infrastructure to extend the benefits of technology to all children and their families.

Measuring Digital Opportunity

The Children's Partnership published a year-long study, Measuring Digital Opportunity for America's Children, that examines how the Internet and other digital tools are changing opportunities for young people. The study also analyzes the disparities among those children with needed access and skills and those without. The project launched the Digital Opportunity Measuring Stick, a new tool for assessing progress, and a digital opportunity for youth agenda, both available on TechPolicyBank.

Policies to Promote Digital Opportunity

Another aspect of our program is a multi-year information and education program to promote state and local policies, as well as private-sector practices, that increase young people's access to the benefits of the Internet and other information and communications technology. Our report Helping Children Succeed: What's Broadband Got to Do With It? offers ideas for how leaders can make broadband implementation a priority for children. The video Community Technology Programs Deliver Opportunities to Youth details why access to quality technology and training matters for young people. Download fact sheets for each state, showing where it stands in improving digital opportunity for youth.

California Advocacy Program

Since the beginning of our digital opportunity program, The Children's Partnership joined with community leaders and elected officials throughout California to deliver the promise of technology to young people and their families in disadvantaged communities. As part of a statewide coalition of 200 organizations called the California Community Technology Policy Group, we helped build a state-based advocacy model to effect public policy changes and to accomplish tangible benefits for low-income communities.

Online Content for Low-Income and Underserved Americans

In 2000, The Children's Partnership launched a new area of research and advocacy by identifying the online content gap between what's needed and what's available online for low-income and other Internet users with limited-literacy and English language skills. As part of this work, The Children’s Partnership developed a set of guidelines to encourage both the creation and evaluation of online content in a way that considers the particular needs of low-income or other underserved individuals. Learn more about this research, and use our interactive, online tool to evaluate a Web site to see how well it meets underserved users' needs.

Parents Guide to Children's Safety Online

The Children's Partnership is committed to helping parents, regardless of education or income, guide their children safely on the Internet. In conjunction with the National PTA and the National Urban League, in 1996 we published the comprehensive Parents Guide to the Information Superhighway: Rules and Tools for Families Online. A PowerPoint, titled A Parent's Guide to Online Kids, was also developed in 2006 to provide additional information for use by parents.

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