Climate Change’s Impact on Children and Families

A partnership with Capita explores the data and what policymakers and educators can do to support children and families.

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September 27, 2022

By: Sean Andres

As one of the major education disruptions, climate change is shifting the way young people connect to people and place, impacting their learning, learning environments, safety and stability. KnowledgeWorks partnered with Capita to write about climate’s change’s impact on children and families and what that means for education.

Katherine Prince explores what the 2020 Census data can tell us about young children’s and families’ futures in the context of looming climate migration.
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Joe Waters and Katherine Prince wrote for Charleston’s Post and Courier a piece on climate change threatening the ability of families and communities to provide these foundations, particularly in the American South.
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“Housing has long been insecure for too many,” as Katherine Prince writes. “Climate displacement will worsen the situation, making current divides more dire and threatening the futures of families and children.”
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Katie King’s publication Finding Home argues that young children’s connections to other people and to their hometowns, states and countries are in flux due to shifting family structures and climate change.
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In October 2024, we partnered with Penn State University and Global Schools Program for the Penn State K-12 Sustainability Summit,  a two-day event that brought together 24 Pennsylvania school districts with the Penn State community to collaborate on new pathways to increase sustainability efforts in the K-12 space. 

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Sean Andres
Senior Manager of Marketing and Communications

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