[3] Child Trends was founded in 1979 and in 2014 added the Child Trends Hispanic Institute,[4][5] now the National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families, with partnership from Duke University, University of North Carolina, and University of Maryland.

[6] The organization developed a tool for estimating agencies' kinship diversion practices.

In 2019, Fortune named the organization as #5 on its list of 25 Best Small and Medium Workplaces for Women.

[7] Child Trends studies children and teens at all stages of development and provides research, data, and analysis to advocacy groups, government agencies, and other institutions including program providers, the policy community, researchers and educators, and the media.

The Child Trends DataBank is an online resource for national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being.