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05/15/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "National Foster Care Month"
May is National Foster Care Month and this year is a good time to reflect on the progress we can make in improving the lives of children and youths in foster care by implementing the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act (Fostering Connections Act). -
05/13/09
2009 Children's Sabbaths Lesson Plan - Christian
The 2009 Children's Sabbaths Christian Lesson Plans to accompany your National Observance of Children's Sabbaths celebration. -
05/13/09
2009 Children's Sabbaths Lesson Plan - Baha'i
The 2009 Children's Sabbaths Bahai Lesson Plans to accompany your National Observance of Children's Sabbaths celebration. -
05/08/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Insurance CEOs Get Rich While Denying Health Coverage to Children"
Katie Hebert, age 4, is a very sick little girl. She gets severe seizure-like attacks that can last 11 hours from an undiagnosed neuro-developmental disorder. She is deaf in one ear, has a feeding disorder and requires daily medication for asthma... -
05/01/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "The National Day to Prevent Teen Pregnancy"
After falling for many years, the teen pregnancy rate is again on the rise. According to a report released in March by the National Center for Health Statistics, the teen birth rate increased 5 percent between 2005 and 2007. And a 2007 Centers for Disease Control Youth Risk Behavior Survey reveals that the declines in teenage sexual activity and increases in teenage contraceptive use have come to a standstill. -
05/01/09
Children in the States Factsheets
These factsheets provide basic stats and rankings regarding poverty, health, hunger, child welfare, early childhood development, education and youth at risk for children in 2008 in each state. -
04/24/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "Whatever It Takes"
Whatever It Takes. That's the title of the recent book by New York Times Magazine editor Paul Tough about Geoffrey Canada, a vice chair of the Children’s Defense Fund's board of directors and the visionary creator of the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ). "Whatever it takes" is Canada's philosophy about serving and saving the thousands of children in the nearly 100-block radius that constitutes the Harlem Children's Zone Project. -
04/17/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "National Child Abuse Prevention Month"
April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month—a good time for us to look at the child abuse and neglect crisis in America. The statistics are shocking: A child is abused or neglected every 40 seconds. During 2007, an estimated 794,000 children were determined to be victims of child abuse or neglect, and almost 3.2 million children were subjects of abuse or neglect investigations. -
04/10/09
Marian Wright Edelman's Child Watch® Column: "A Public Health Insurance Plan Can Cover All of Our Children"
It’s plain that our nation's health insurance system is broken: 46 million people in America lack health coverage—nine million of them children—and the number of uninsured is growing during the current recession. -
04/08/09
In Harm's Way - True Stories on Uninsured Texas Children
In Harm's Way - True Stories of Uninsured Texas Children, documents the personal stories of 16 families from across Texas whose children are uninsured.
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