Announcing Our 2025 Annual Report
Our 2025 annual report highlights CDA’s new projects, events, and resources, as well as our immense growth and our impact over the past year.
Downloadable PDF: 2025 Annual Report
2025 Annual Report
Over the past year, we worked to integrate developmental science into the research, policies, programs, and public discourse that support young people and advance an understanding of the importance of adolescence. Our annual report highlights CDA’s new projects, events, and resources, as well as our immense growth and our impact in 2025.
In this report, you will find our updated mission and vision statements. We’ve also included our new theory of change, showing what we strive to achieve, how we aim to do it, and who we connect with to ensure that the people working on behalf of adolescents have the research-informed information they need to help all of our young people build meaningful, purposeful lives.
As we begin 2026, we remain focused on using what we know from science to continue our collective work of ensuring that all young people have what they need to build thriving futures and communities.
Highlights from 2025 include:
- 40,000+ new website users
- 5,400+ Adaptivity podcast downloads
- 450+ youth-facing judges and legal professionals trained on the core science of adolescence
- 2,600+ attendees of CDA lectures and events
- 40+ state and federal legislators briefed
- 1.3M+ views on CDA and CDA-supported videos published in 2025
