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Child Welfare Research Data & Publications

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05/02/08

Child Watch® Column: "We Must End Child Hunger Now"

"In America, millions of low-income families struggle each month to obtain a minimally adequate diet. In 2006, 12.6 million children and 22.9 million adults lived in households struggling against hunger, and those numbers are expected to grow amid a weakening economy..."

04/18/08

Child Watch® Column: "Join the GrandRally and Help Grandparentsand Other Relatives Raising Children"

"What happens to the children of a single mother who becomes so disabled by mental illness or substance abuse that she can't take care of them? Or to the children of a parent who gets killed in a car accident? Who takes care of the children when both parents are called up for military duty overseas?.."

03/28/08

Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide

Cradle to Prison Pipeline Campaign Discussion Guide, Case Studies from the Pipeline with discussion questions

03/04/08

Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Campaign Take Action Pyramid

Key immediate action steps for individuals, families, communities, organizations and government agencies to protect and reroute children from the pipeline.

02/01/08

Child Watch® Column: "A Child Next Door May Need Your Help"

The past year has been a tumultuous and uncertain one for many Americans. Each day's headlines brought worrisome news: the collapse of Wall Street; massive home and job losses; and a spreading global economic crisis. We all felt enormous fear and insecurity for our family's and children's futures...

01/25/08

Child Watch® Column: "Dr. Bill Cosby's Message to Parents: We Need to Listen"

"Beloved educator, entertainer, and author Dr. Bill Cosby is a man on a mission: turning the Black community around. It's the key theme of his new book, Come On People: On the Path from Victims to Victors, co-authored with Harvard psychiatrist Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint...."

01/11/08

Child Watch® Column: "The Parent Institute For Quality Education: Solutions That Work"

"At the national summit on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Crisis convened by the Children's Defense Fund at Howard University in September, we had the opportunity to hear from a number of national experts about solutions that are working to keep at-risk children off the track to prison and on the path to success....."

10/10/07

America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline^SM Report

This CDF report documents America's Cradle to Prison Pipeline, an urgent national crisis at the intersection of poverty and race that puts Black boys at a one in three lifetime risk of going to jail, and Latino boys at a one in six lifetime risk of the same fate.

08/01/07

State Factsheets for Grandparents or Other Relatives Raising Children

Kinship care state fact sheet for grandparents and other relatives raising children. Provides information on state-specific data, public policies, and local resources and programs for kinship families.

05/25/07

Marian Wright Edelman's La Columna Child Watch®: "La detención injustificable de un menor de edad"

??Qu?? pasa por la mente de un polic??a cuando le est?? poniendo las esposas a un ni??o? No es una pregunta ret??rica. El 13 de marzo, un agente de la polic??a arrest?? a Gerard Mungo, Jr., un ni??o de siete a??os de edad, en su domicilio en un humilde vecindario afro americano de Baltimore, Maryland.

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