Below are helpful tools to get you started using child & youth impact assessments in your community.
Key Tools
- Fact Sheet: Child & Youth Impact Assessments—Putting Kids Front and Center in Policy Decisions
- Fact Sheet: Child & Youth Impact Assessments—Helping Elected Officials Improve the Lives of Children & Youth
- Planning Checklist: Child & Youth Impact Assessments (CYIAs)
- Child & Youth Impact Assessment Template Forms
- Mock-Up Assessments Completed by Kids Impact Initiative
- City/County Level: Housing Support, Clark County/Las Vegas, Nevada
- State Level: Broadband Access, Texas
- Fact Sheet: Youth Engagement—A Key Ingredient for Effective Youth Impact Assessments
Additional Tools for Using Child & Youth Impact Assessments
These resources from Kids Impact and other organizations provide additional tools to help you get started with child & youth impact assessments.
- Top Tools at a Glance: Youth Impact Assessment Tools for Local Communities & States
- Key Decisions Roadmap: How to Design a Child Impact Assessment Initiative That Best Fits Your Community
- Starter Guide: Using Child Impact Assessments in Your Community or State
- Action Brief with Examples of YIAs: Child Impact Assessments—A Missing Piece to Spur Progress for U.S. Children
- Q & A with Leader Who Has Implemented Impact Assessments: Video Conversation with Dana Bunnett, Santa Clara County, California
- Additional Template Forms:
- Child Impact Assessment Tool, New Zealand Government
- Racial Equity Analysis Tool, Seattle Public Schools
- Children’s rights and wellbeing impact assessments: template, Scottish Government
- Graphic of Child Impact Assessment, New Zealand
- Examples of Completed Impact Assessments for Youth
