Provides the views of 4 experts who offer commentary on how policymakers, advocates, stakeholders, and practitioners can promote the healthy development, productivity, and well-being of children, given recent dramatic demographic changes and increased diversity in the United States. Collaborative approaches are critical to improving conditions for immigrant and minority families and for providing opportunities for success for their children. The range of recommendations includes: (1) enhancing the employment prospects of the parents of immigrant children, by repealing restrictions on public benefits eligibility for legal immigrants, developing integrated training programs that combine job-skills training and language acquisition, and structuring career counseling, vocational assessment, and other services to meet the needs of job seekers and workers with limited English proficiency; (2) strengthening math and science public education for both boys and girls of all races and socioeconomic groups and exploiting broadband applications such as e-learning that can help children expand their horizons; (3) recruiting, training, and promoting minority and immigrant candidates to expand political participation; and (4) promoting an integrated, intergenerational life-cycle approach to developing and implementing services that meet the needs of diverse generations of children, parents, and grandparents.
