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Tools
Building the Legacy: IDEA 2004
Web site
A web site that provides resources and information regarding the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), a law which ensures services to children with disabilities throughout the nation.
Child Find
Web site
Resources and information on Child Find programs, which identify young children who may benefit from early intervention or education services.
Child's Day: 2004 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being)
Web site
Provides data on the well-being of children younger than 18, covering children's living arrangements, family characteristics, time spent in child care, academic experience, and extracurricular activities. Includes data for metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas.
DisabilityInfo.gov: Special Education
Web site
Provides access to comprehensive information about disability programs related to special education including services, laws and benefits.
Early Childhood Atlas
Web site
The Early Childhood Atlas facilitates spatial analysis in early childhood services research for the promotion of greater quality and accessibility of early care and education.
Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) Program
Web site
A tool designed to help Medicaid and state maternal and child health (MCH) agencies identify opportunities for working together to ensure children's access to and receipt of the full range of EPSDT program services.
Fatherhood First
Web site
A website to help service agencies and early childhood educators-including Head Start and Early Head Start-develop or enhance an existing responsible fatherhood program and integrate services specifically for fathers.
Foundation Resources on the State Children's Health Insurance Program and the Debate on Its Reauthorization
Web site
Provides links to many resources on the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) including interactive resources, fact sheets, reports and testimony.
KIDS COUNT Data Center (KCDC)
Web site
Provides child well-being data by state and county.
Knowledge Paths Index
Web site
Resources and tools of new developments and research on maternal and child health-related topics. Includes links to Web sites, electronic publications, databases, and discussion groups, and citations for journal articles and other print resources.
Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program
Web site
Works to stimulate the birth and growth of parent-to-parent interventions that improve health and child development for low-income families in urban and rural areas.
National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities
Web site
Provides resources on pregnancy, infants, children, people with blood disorders, and people with disabilities.
Rural Mental and Behavioral Health: A Web Portal for Rural Communities
Web site
Works to help communities to enhance social and emotional outcomes for children and families in rural and frontier areas.
Regulations, Forms & Other Useful Documents
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators Children's Well-Being 2008
Sponsoring organization: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Provides an accessible compendium of selected indicators drawn from the most reliable official statistics across 22 Federal Government agencies. It presents background measures and well-being indicators organized into seven sections: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment, behavior, education, and health. The report includes figures and tables.
Date: 2008
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2007
Sponsoring organization: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
A compendium of 38 key indicators on important aspects of children's lives—drawn from the official statistics—illustrative of both the promises and the difficulties confronting our Nation’s young people.
Date: 07 / 2007
Child Health USA 2007
Sponsoring organization: Health Resources and Services Administration
Reports on the health status and service needs of America’s children.
Date: 2008
Child Maltreatment 2006: Summary of Key Findings
Sponsoring organization: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Includes national and state level findings about perpetrators of maltreatment, workforce workload, preventive and post-investigation services, and statistics and data.
Date: 2008
Child Poverty in Rural America: New Data Shows Increases in 41 States
Author(s): William P. O'Hare, Sarah Savage
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Rural child poverty rates increased between 2000 and 2005 in 41 of the 50 states (data were not available in four states). The child poverty rate is the most widely used indicator of child well-being because poverty is closely linked to undesirable outcomes in areas such as health, education, emotional welfare, and delinquency.
Date: 2006
Children in Central Cities and Rural Communities Experience High Rates of Poverty
Author(s): William P. O’Hare, Sarah Savage
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Presents new data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Date: 2008
Children Living with Substance-Dependent or Substance-Abusing Parents: 2002 to 2007
Sponsoring organization: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Compiles and interprets findings of the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NDSUH), revealing that over 8.3 million children under 18 lived with at least one parent who was dependent on or abused alcohol or an illicit drug during the past year.
Date: 04 / 2009
CHIPRA 101: Overview of the CHIP Reauthorization Legislation
Describes the Children’s Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA) and its affect on the existing CHIP (Children’s Health Insurance Program) program. CHIPRA will work to increase participation among eligible uninsured children.
Date: 03 / 2009
Disparities in Children's Health Care Quality: Selected Examples from the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports, 2008
Sponsoring organization: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
This fact sheet discusses differences between groups in terms of relative rates, which is the ratio of the comparison group (e.g., Black) to a baseline group (e.g., White).
Date: 06 / 2009
Employment Rates Higher Among Rural Mothers than Urban Mothers
Author(s): Kristin Smith
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Describes that rural mothers with children under age six have higher employment rates than their urban counterparts, but have higher poverty rates, lower wages, and lower family income, placing rural mothers and their children in a more economically vulnerable situation than urban mothers.
Date: 2007
Enrolling Uninsured Low-Income Children in Medicaid and SCHIP
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Outlines issues in outreach and enrollment for Medicaid and SCHIP. Provides a profile of eligible but uninsured children, discusses the greatest barriers to enrollment, and offers strategies to improve enrollment.
Date: 01 / 2007
Health Matters: The Role of Health and the Health Sector in Place-Based Initiatives for Young Children
Author(s): Amy Fine, Molly Hicks
Sponsoring organization: W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Provides a scan of the role of health and health sector initiatives for young children.
Date: 11 / 2008
Impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on Low-Income Children's Health
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
Reviews the literature and examines the impact of Medicaid and SCHIP on coverage, access to care and health for the nation's low-income children.
Date: 02 / 2009
IPAC: Integrated Health Services for Appalachian Children
Author(s): Candi Helseth
Sponsoring organization: Rural Assistance Center
Discusses IPAC (Interprofessional Partners for Appalachian Children), which focuses on the assessment and comprehensive treatment of behavioral and developmental needs of children ages six and under in 19 university and community health care organizations in Ohio.
Journal citation: Rural Monitor
Date: 08 / 2007
Kids Count Data Book, 2008
Sponsoring organization: Annie E. Casey Foundation
Provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends on the conditions of America’s children and families. Includes graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles.
Date: 06 / 2008
Oral Health Coverage and Care For Low-Income Children: The Role of Medicaid and CHIP
Author(s): Julia Paradise
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
This updated policy brief provides an overview, with statistics and charts, of oral health care access and coverage for low-income children.
Date: 04 / 2009
Poor Birth Outcome in the Rural United States: 1985-1987 to 1995-1997 (Final Report)
Author(s): Eric H. Larson, Elise Murowchick, L. Gary Hart
Sponsoring organization: WWAMI Rural Health Research Center
Found that while progress was made in closing rural/urban gaps, rural residence and residence in a persistent poverty county remained independent risk factors for inadequate care and some adverse birth outcomes, especially postneonatal mortality.
Date: 02 / 2008
Resuming the Path to Health Coverage for Children and Parents: A 50 State Update on Eligibility Rules, Enrollment and Renewal Procedures, and Cost-Sharing Practices in Medicaid and SCHIP in 2006
Sponsoring organization: Kaiser Family Foundation
Results of a new 50-state survey that shows one-third of states (17) increased access to health coverage in 2006 and no state cut income eligibility in Medicaid and SCHIP for the first time in four years.
Date: 01 / 2007
Rural and Urban Parents Report on Access to Health Care for their Children with Medicaid Managed Care
Author(s): Victoria Freeman, Rebecca Slifkin, Asheley Skinner, Robert Schwartz
Sponsoring organization: North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center (Cecil G. Sheps Center)
Reports that states have increasingly turned to managed care as a delivery system for their Medicaid programs. There are many barriers to the implementation of Medicaid managed care in rural areas, including provider resistance, the absence of commercial managed care, inadequate provider supply and lack of networks, limited beneficiaries across whom to spread risk, and lack of legislative or political will.
Date: 12 / 2005
Rural Children Are More Likely to Live in Cohabiting-Couple Households
Author(s): William O ’Hare, Wendy Manning, Meredith Porter, Heidi Lyons
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Focuses on the recent trends among cohabiting households with children in rural America using data from the U.S. Census Bureau.
Date: 2009
Rural Children At A Glance
Author(s): Carolyn Rogers
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Describes demographic, social, and economic characteristics of rural children in families. Includes information on child poverty, health insurance status, and participation in food assistance programs.
Date: 04 / 2005
Rural Children Increasingly Rely on Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Programs for Medical Care
Author(s): William P. O’Hare
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Discusses health insurance coverage for children and reports that the experience of children in small towns and rural areas often differs from the experience of their big-city counterparts. In rural America, more than one-third of all children rely on SCHIP and Medicaid for health care.
Date: 2007
Rural Children Lag in Early Childhood Educational Skills
Author(s): Charles Dervarics
Sponsoring organization: Population Reference Bureau
Reports that young rural children begin elementary school well behind their urban and suburban peers in reading and math skills.
Date: 01 / 2005
Rural Research Needs and Data Sources for Selected Human Services Topics, Volume 1- Research Needs
Author(s): Debra A. Strong, Patricia Del Grosso, Andrew Burwick, Venita Jethwani, Michael Ponza
Sponsoring organization: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
Overviews research on human services issues in rural areas. Includes sections addressing research on work supports for low-income families, substance abuse, and child welfare. Also discusses gaps in the rural health research.
Date: 05 / 2005
State of America's Children 2008 Report
Sponsoring organization: Children's Defense Fund
A compilation of the national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing.
Date: 12 / 2008
State of Human Services in Rural America
Sponsoring organization: RUPRI Rural Poverty Research Center
Provides an overview of the types of human service programs serving rural communities and the challenges they face. Suggests a research agenda for rural America.
Journal citation: Perspectives: On Poverty, Policy, and Place Volume 5 Issue Winter Pages: 3 - 6
Date: 03 / 2009
Urban and Rural Children Experience Similar Rates of Low-Income and Poverty
Author(s): Allison Churilla
Sponsoring organization: Carsey Institute
Highlights characteristics associated with economic insecurity in rural communities and central cities.
Date: 2008
WIC and the Battle Against Childhood Overweight
Author(s): Michele Ver Ploeg
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Examines trends in the relationship between WIC participation and weight status by updating the results of Food and Nutrition Assistance Programs and Obesity.
Date: 04 / 2009
WIC Program: Background, Trends, and Economic Issues, 2009 Edition
Author(s): Victor Oliveira, Elizabeth Frazão
Sponsoring organization: USDA Economic Research Service
Describes the WIC program — how it works, its history, program trends, and the characteristics of the population it serves.
Date: 04 / 2009
Journals
Child Welfare Matters
Quarterly online newsletter focused on child welfare.
Future of Children
Promotes effective policies and programs for children by providing policymakers, service providers, and the media with timely, objective information based on the best available research.
Reaching Out
A newsletter of articles focused on child welfare practice in rural communities.
Organizations
2-1-1
Nonprofit/Foundation
Provides callers with information about and referrals to human services for everyday needs and in times of crisis.
ABA Center on Children and the Law
National organization
Organization of attorneys working to improve children's lives through advances in law, justice, knowledge, practice, and public policy.
Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
Federal government
Funds state, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families. It is part of the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
American Public Human Services Association (APHSA)
National organization
Works to educate members of Congress, the media, and the broader public on what is happening in the states regarding welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.
Casey Family Programs
Nonprofit/Foundation
The mission is to provide and improve foster care as well as work to prevent the need for foster care.
Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP)
National organization
Center helps states and localities implement creative and effective strategies that strengthen disadvantaged communities and families and ensure that children grow up healthy, safe, successful in school, and ready for productive adulthood.
Child Trends
Academic/Research
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to improving the lives of children by conducting research and providing science-based information to improve the decisions, programs, and policies that affect children and their families.
Child Welfare
National organization
Provides an extensive list of child welfare topics that include: adoption, protection services, welfare reports, foster care reports, child poverty, and child advocacy. Includes an adoption directory and adoption photolist by state.
Child Welfare Information Gateway
Federal government
Connect professionals and concerned citizens to practical, timely, and essential information on programs, research, legislation, and statistics to promote the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and families.
Child Welfare League of America (CWLA)
National organization
CWLA is an association of almost 1,200 public and private nonprofit agencies that assist over 3.5 million abused and neglected children and their families each year with a wide range of services.
Children's Defense Fund
Nonprofit/Foundation
Works to ensure that every child has a good start in life and successful passage to adulthood with the help of caring families and communities.
Finance Project (TFP)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Works to support decision making that produces and sustains good results for families, children and communities. Develops and disseminates information, knowledge, tools and technical assistance for improved policies, programs, and financing strategies.
Free To Grow
National organization
A national demonstration project that identifies the best ideas and practices in the field of substance abuse and child abuse prevention and applies them to the early years of children.
National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children (DEC)
National organization
Supports a nationwide network of professionals serving drug endangered children by providing referrals to experts, updated research on topics concerning drug endangered children, and best practice information.
National Child Traumatic Stress Network: Center for Rural, Frontier & Tribal Health (NCTSN-CRFTH)
Academic/Research
Assists rural, frontier, and Tribal communities in the treatment of child traumatic stress through technology-augmented resources.
National Child Welfare Resource Center for Organizational Improvement
National organization
Strengthens and supports organizations committed to the welfare of children, youth and families through research, training, technical assistance and evaluation.
National Children's Advocacy Center (NCAC)
Nonprofit/Foundation
Provides prevention, intervention, and treatment services to physically and sexually abused children and their families within a child-focused team approach.
National Court Appointed Special Advocate Association (CASA)
National organization
Supports court-appointed volunteer advocacy for abused and neglected children so that they can thrive in safe, permanent homes.
National Foster Parent Association (NFPA)
National organization
A national organization which strives to support foster parents, and a strong voice on behalf of all children.
National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA)
Tribal organization
Dedicated to the well-being of American Indian children and families. Works to address the issues of child abuse and neglect through training, research, public policy, and grassroots community development.
Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE)
Federal government
Works to assure that assistance in obtaining support (both financial and medical) is available to children through locating parents, establishing paternity and support obligations, and enforcing those obligations. Part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families.
Terms & Acronyms
National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) A database of information on all newly hired employees, quarterly wage reports, and unemployment insurance claims in the United States. Maintained by the Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement.
State Lead Agency (CCDF) The State Lead Agency under the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) is designated by a state or territory to administer and/or implement, and maintain overall responsibility of child care programs. The agencies also serve as a contact for all child care issues.
Subsidy (child care) Anything that either reduces the cost of providing care for children or that allows parents who normally could not afford care to enroll their children in a particular day care center.
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