Craft stories that help young people thrive
What’s New at CSS
BORROW MY EYES: An Oral History Series About Teen Friendship and Social Media
Borrow My Eyes is a project that invites adolescents to offer a first-person account of their daily social media use patterns and, especially, how they use social media to maintain their friendships on and offline. Click here to learn to learn more about Borrow My Eyes.
The AIR 2.5 Report highlights case studies of selected movies to provide holistic insight into titles that scored highly on AIR. Our findings from this follow-up highlight the value of continuing this research to understand the full scale of AIR. Click here to learn more about the AIR 2.5 Report.
AIR 2.5 Report
Toolkit for Storytellers: Character Strengths in Adolescent Programming
Storytellers can help adolescents thrive and grow by authentically promoting character strengths in media. This Toolkit for Storytellers focuses on three character strengths: curiosity, gratitude, and humility. Click here to view the toolkit.
Get to Know Us
“ I founded CSS to build a bridge between the siloed worlds of researchers, content creators and young people. ”
As a former movie executive, I know there are passionate creators who want to have positive impact with their storytelling. Our understanding of the creative process and the business of storytelling informs our approach.
Some of the Ways We Can Partner With You
Testimonials
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“I'm a consultant for UNICEF, designing an SBCC model to drive Acceptance of Diversity in Egypt. We'd love to reference the AIR report and have a link to your data.”
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UNICEF
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"I've been working on a retelling of a classic story through a modern lens. Reshaping the female character's identity was the main focus, until I saw the CSS tip sheet. I then understood that in order to fully realize what I hope for in this story, there is the need to reshape the male characters as well."
Benj Pasek
La La Land, Dear Evan Hansen, The Greatest Showman
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"We recently completed a research study on Underserved and Underrepresented audiences and would love to supplement our findings with this information."
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hulu
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"I'm a development executive at Cartoon Network - this is an important area of work for us! Thank you so much!"
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Cartoon Network
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“We definitely were inspired by the workshop. When we looked at the broad spectrum of diversity of the season 2 ensemble, we asked, how can we make sure that characters who are historically seen as sidekicks, friends, etc have more robust family lives and backgrounds? So I felt for me it was more retrospective and the workshop really inspired that for me in our show.”
Tim Federle
Showrunner and Executive Producer of High School Musical: The Musical Series created for Disney+
