Media Coverage

• Family Scholar House: changing lives, families and communities through education
  March 2010
  Conducive Chronicle
  Barry Comer
• A welcome step: Retaking the measure of U.S. poverty (letter to the editor)
  March 2010
  Washington Post
  Janice L. Cooper
• Who's poor in America? US tweaks how it defines poverty.
  March 2010
  Christian Science Monitor
  Husana Haq
• Supporting Parents of Young Children in the Child Welfare System
  March 2010
  Docuticker - Docuticker is a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo’s, think tanks, and other groups.
  
• CWLA Releases National and State-by-State Statistics Providing a Snapshot about the Plight of America’s Children
  March 2010
  Business Wire
  
• How poverty alters a child's brain
  March 2010
  Mother Nature Network
  Jenn Savedge
• Getting African American Children Back in School Before It's Too Late
  February 2010
  L.A. Watts Times
  Kamala Harris
• Completing the picture in child welfare
  February 2010
  CivSource
  Jeffery Smith
• Black America can't rely on Obama alone
  February 2010
  CNN
  Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
• Doing Something About Maternal Depression
  February 2010
  VNA CEO (Visiting Nurse Association)
  Rey Spadoni
• Offering of Letters (Video)
  February 2010
  Bread For The World
  Bread For The World
• Day care issue is a game of numbers
  January 2010
  Buffalo News
  Matt Spina
• Medfield helps children in need with Cradles to Crayons
  January 2010
  
  
• Number of Children in Poverty in U.S. Increases By 2.5 Million Since 2000
  January 2010
  Democracy Now
  
• Who Are America’s Poor Children? The Official Story
  January 2010
  Docuticker - Docuticker is a daily update of new reports from government agencies, ngo’s, think tanks, and other groups.
  
• Three Things You Can do Now to Help Kids and Families
  January 2010
  Child and Family Blog
  Christine Johnson-Staub
• “Dnt Txt & Drv” Program Aims to Teach Youth about Dangers of Texting while Driving
  January 2010
  Injury Board.com
  Jim Lewis
• Presidential lecture coming up at Tougaloo
  January 2010
  
  
• Students get lesson in 'dnt txt & drv'
  January 2010
  
  Meghan Cooke (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Obama hosts Big Brothers military mentors to celebrate nonprofit mentoring
  January 2010
  The Daily Tell
  Charlie Curnow
• Students get lesson in 'dnt txt & drv'
  January 2010
  
  Meghan Cooke (McClatchy Newspapers)
• There's No Place Like Home
  January 2010
  Center for American Progress
  Alexandra Cawthorne, Jessica Arons
• Encuentro para Enfrentar la Pobreza en Delaware
  January 2010
  El Tiempo Hispano
  
• One in four local kids in poverty, report says
  December 2009
  Daily Comet (Thibodeaux, La)
  Abby Tabor
• Child poverty rates highest in decade
  December 2009
  Ball State Daily News
  Holly Gilham
• Using Part C Services for Social-Emotional Well-Being
  December 2009
  Children's Bureau Express
  U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Students go through texting-and-driving program
  December 2009
  Arizona Republic
  Meghan Cooke (McClatchy Newspapers)
• The Status of States' Policies to Support Evidence-Based Practices in Children's Mental Health
  December 2009
  Psychiatric Services (APA)
  Cooper, Aratani
• Child poverty rate on the rise
  November 2009
  Democrat and Chronicle (ROC Now website)
  Gary McLendon
• Children living in poverty increases in Middle TN
  November 2009
  Nashville Tennessean
  Janell Ross
• As decade’s end nears, 20 percent more U.S. children live in poverty
  November 2009
  The Louisiana Weekly
  NCCP (release picked up verbatim)
• Capt. Tim Hegarty of Riley County Police Department : Problem with driving 'divided attention'
  November 2009
  Kansas State Collegian
  
• Column: A plethora of pet peeves
  November 2009
  
  
• HALF OF AMERICA’S CHILDREN WILL GET FOOD STAMPS
  November 2009
  truthdig (blog)
  
• Bridging the Divide: In Search of Common Ground in Mental Health and Education Research and Policy
  November 2009
  Psychiatric Services (APA)
  Kataoka, et. al.
• Students get lesson in 'dnt txt & drv'
  November 2009
  Charlotte Observer
  Meghan Cooke
• Texting and the city teen: One local college freshman wrecked his first car - Will others learn?
  October 2009
  NY Daily News
  Gina Salamone
• Bridging the Divide: In Search of Common Ground in Mental Health and Education Research and Policy
  October 2009
  APA - Psychiatric Services
  Multiple
• Poor do not deserve negative stereotypes...
  October 2009
  Kansas State Collegian
  Bobby Gomez
• Poverty Study Receives Praise
  October 2009
  The Advertiser (Lafayette, La.)
  Amanda McElfresh
• Opening Doors
  October 2009
  Alton, Illinois Telegraph
  
• Many just can't resist texting while driving
  October 2009
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  Anya Sostek
• Teen Texting While Driving Seen as Widespread
  October 2009
  Education Week
  Katie Ash
• Half of America's Adolescents Text While Driving
  October 2009
  Health News Digest
  NCCP (release picked up verbatim)
• Auto Repair and Maintenance Shops Launch Annual Snug Hugs for Kids™ Winter Clothing Drive
  October 2009
  Reuters
  
• Teens Text While Driving
  October 2009
  Nebraska State Paper
  
• Más pobres en Georgia
  October 2009
  Mundo Hispanico (Georgia)
  Linda Carolina Perez
• They Want to Save Our Kids from an Education
  September 2009
  Bellingham Herald
  Leonard Pitts Jr.
• Reforming New York's Juvenile Prisons
  August 2009
  New York Times - Letters
  Janice Cooper and Susan Wile Schwarz
• Making Welfare Work and Making Work Pay
  August 2009
  CityLimits.org
  Nekoro Gomes
• Even the School Janitor Can Play a Role
  July 2009
  Health News Digest
  
• Flaws Decried in Data on US Children's Well-being
  July 2009
  www.KRISTV.com
  
• For Millions of Workers, a Minimum Wage Increase Still Falls Short of a Living Wage
  July 2009
  New York Daily News
  Albor Ruiz
• Adolescent Mental Health in Crisis
  July 2009
  Columbia: The Magazine of Columbia University
  
• In Memoriam of Jane Knitzer, Ph.D.
  July 2009
  TA Partnership Newsletter
  
• Georgia's Mentally Ill Get More Support with Pilot Program
  July 2009
  The Florida Times-Union
  Walter C. Jones
• New Mental Health Department Seeks to Close Gaps
  July 2009
  Athens Banner-Herald
  Walter C. Jones
• Vulnerable Teens and Mental Health
  July 2009
  Examiner.com
  Heather Sedlock
• Measuring Poverty More Precisely
  June 2009
  North Carolina News & Observer
  C. Nichole Mason
• Health Disparities Across the Lifespan: Where Are the Children?
  June 2009
  Journal of the American Medical Association
  Tina L. Cheng, MD, MPH and Renee R. Jenkins, MD
• Sonia Sotomayor and the Status Quo
  May 2009
  The Indypendent
  Karen Yi
• Despite Sotomayor Nomination, Latino Academic Gap Still Huge
  May 2009
  Huffington Post
  Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco and Carola Suarez-Orozco
• State-based Home Visiting Programs
  May 2009
  Children's Bureau Express
  
• Radio Broadcast: Childhood Poverty and Homelessness
  May 2009
  Hearsay with Cathy Lewis (WHRV FM, Virginia)
  
• District Struggles to Help Chronically Truant Students Return to Classrooms
  April 2009
  Daily Press
  Cathy Grimes
• Radio Broadcast: Budgeting for Basic Needs
  April 2009
  Focus 580 with David Inge
  
• Are Doctors Missing Mental Health Clues in Kids?
  April 2009
  Health News Digest
  Nationwide Children's Hospital
• Can the Pettys Cut Child-care Costs Without Hurting Quality of Care?
  March 2009
  USA Today
  Jason Paul
• Podcast: Paid Family Leave
  March 2009
  Fairness Initiative on Low-Wage Work
  
• Many Find There's More to Life with Less
  March 2009
  Daytona Beach News-Journal
  Deborah Circelli
• How does Children's Mental Health Fit into the National Push for Health Reform?
  March 2009
  Rosie D. and Me
  
• Working Families Toil to Make Ends Meet
  March 2009
  BYU NewsNet
  Abram Jones
• Brookside Family’s Poverty Exercise Becomes a Financial Necessity
  March 2009
  Kansas City Star
  Joyce Smith
• Study: Even Working Families Struggling to Make Ends Meet
  March 2009
  BYU NewsNet
  Abram Jones
• A Simple Message
  March 2009
  A Blog About Healthy Children (Readystart.org)
  Melissa Gardner
• Podcast: Budgeting for Basic Needs
  March 2009
  Fairness Initiative on Low-Wage Work
  
• Website of the Week - National Center for Children in Poverty
  February 2009
  Nonprofit Picks of the Week
  
• How Individual Risk Factors Affect Absenteeism in Early Schooling
  February 2009
  Center for Urban Child Policy
  
• Lege Watch: Senator Files Bill to Guarantee Paid Family Leave
  February 2009
  Austin-American Statesman
  Tara A. Trower
• No More Excuses?
  January 2009
  New York Times
  Charles M. Blow
• Experts Offer Ideas to Lessen Poverty
  January 2009
  The Advocate
  Sarah Chacko
• After 125 Years, Baraboo Weighs Joining 4K Party
  January 2009
  Baraboo News Republic
  Matthew Ryno
• Knowing Your Letters and Colors When you Start Kindergarten
  January 2009
  EarlyStories
  Richard Lee Colvin
• Too Many Children Are Living in Poverty
  January 2009
  National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies
  
• Century 21 Greengarden Monroe and Santa Claus Join Forces for Kids
  January 2009
  NewsBlaze.com
  Jennifer L. Hernandez
• Too Many Children Are Living in Poverty
  December 2009
  Casper Star Tribune
  
• Unclaimed Children Revisited -The Status of Children's Mental Health Policy in the United States
  December 2008
  AFSCME Information Highway
  American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees
• Unclaimed Children Revisited: The Status of Children’s Mental Health Policy in the United States
  December 2008
  Docuticker
  
• U.S. Poverty Reduction Brings Development Home - Poverty in a Rich Country
  December 2008
  The Hunger Report
  Bread of the World Institute
• College is Too Late to Begin to Offer Care
  December 2008
  Baltimore Sun
  Patricia Hrusa Williams
• Poverty May Impoverish Childhood Learning
  December 2008
  Tehran Times
  
• Low-Income Children in the United States National and State Trend Data, 1997-2007
  December 2008
  AFSCME Information Highway
  
• Poverty May Impoverish Childhood Learning
  December 2008
  InjuryBoard.com
  Jane Akre
• Panel's Report Will Tackle Child Poverty
  December 2008
  Barre-Montpelpier Times Argus
  Daniel Barlow
• Council's Report Will Tackle Child Poverty in Vermont
  December 2008
  Rutland Herald
  Daniel Barlow
• Parents Cut Corners in Poor Economy
  December 2008
  ABCNews.com
  Lauren Cox
• Hard Times Reveal the Depth of Our Roots
  November 2008
  GreenvilleOnline.com
  Sybil D. Smith
• Gazette Opinion: Gaps in Kids' Mental-Health Care Persist
  November 2008
  Billings Gazette
  
• New Program Helps with Mental Health Issues
  November 2008
  WBOY.com
  Dee DeLancey
• Little Progress, Many Holes in Kids' Mental Health System
  November 2008
  CNN.com
  Andrea M. Kane
• Survey: States Come up Short on Mental Health Care for Children
  November 2008
  SmartBrief
  
• Two New Reports from the National Center for Children in Poverty
  November 2008
  NECTAC eNotes
  National Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center
• The Kids Aren't Alright
  November 2008
  The Hartford Courant
  Susan Campbell
• States Lacking in Children's Mental Health Care
  November 2008
  USA Today
  Marilyn Elias
• Coverage & Access | Children With Serious Mental Health Problems Do Not Receive Adequate Care in One in Five States, Survey Finds
  November 2008
  Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report
  
• Washington's Mental Health Care For Children is Above Average
  November 2008
  KVEW.com
  
• It's Time for a Change
  November 2008
  The REACH Institute
  Peter S. Jensen
• Poverty line numbers don’t add up in 2008
  November 2008
  Buffalo News
  Charity Vogel
• Schools address absenteeism through rewards, empowerment
  November 2008
  Jackson Hole Star Tribune
  JASA SANTOS
• Staying Afloat in Tough Times: States attempting to do more to help low-income families
  November 2008
  Times West Virginian
  Jessica Legge
• District 6 focuses on attendance
  October 2008
  The Tribune, Greeley, Colorado
  Christopher Ortiz
• Child Poverty Awareness Week at the U Oct. 20-24
  October 2008
  Media Newswire (service)
  
• What's Missing From Our Early Education Classrooms? An Awful Lot of Disadvantaged Kids Who Should Be There
  October 2008
  New America Foundation
  Sara Mead
• School absenteeism: Dropout road
  October 2008
  Jacksonville, Fla Times Union
  Tonyaa Weathersbee
• Absences in Early Grades Tied to Learning Lags
  September 2008
  Education Week
  Linda Jacobson
• "Reading First" is a costly failure
  September 2008
  
  
• Rethink Poverty Calculation
  September 2008
  The Lakeland (Florida) Ledger
  
• "Reading First" is a costly failure
  September 2008
  Fresno Bee
  Derek Boucher
• Educators won't let Ike stop enrollment work
  September 2008
  Houston Chronicle
  Jennifer Radcliffe
• Study: Chronic Absence Affects Academic Success
  September 2008
  Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
  Morris Ardoin (from his release)
• Conference centers on adolescent brain development
  September 2008
  
  Tammie Sloup
• How poor is poor?
  September 2008
  The Gainesville Sun
  Editorial
• Higher chances of poverty even with h.s. diploma
  September 2008
  
  Sara Goldenberg
• Tarrant County after-school programs put emphasis on homework, tutoring
  September 2008
  Ft. Worth Star-Telegram
  Patrick McGee
• Colorado poverty by the numbers
  September 2008
  Rocky Mountain News
  
• High employment cited as factor in low N.H. child poverty rate
  September 2008
  The Citizen / Laconia, NH
  
• Anti-Poverty Proposals
  August 2008
  Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
  
• Poverty's punch: Stress, uncertainty haunt children in poverty
  August 2008
  The Janesville Gazette
  Stacy Vogel
• Study: States differ widely on responses to wages vs. necessities gap
  August 2008
  Seacoastonline.com
  
• What is Poverty?
  August 2008
  Gazettextra.com
  
• Tough times in Happy Valley
  August 2008
  Vail Trail Weekly
  Tamara Miller
• City's Poor Look Different Through New Assessment
  July 2008
  City Limits Website
  Neil deMause
• Letters to the Editor: To Help Those on the Lowest Rungs
  June 2008
  New York Times (print and web)
  Nancy K. Cauthen
• Father's Day is more than a Sunday in June
  June 2008
  Beaufort Gazette (South Carolina)
  
• VIDEO: American Children Face Poverty
  June 2008
  CBS Early Show
  
• How many more children have to die?
  May 2008
  Denver Post
  Jerry Yager
• EDITORIAL: On the level: Federal poverty standard doesn't translate well for today's families
  May 2008
  Trading Markets Website
  
• Federal poverty measures due for overhaul
  May 2008
  Sun Herald
  Megha Satyanarayana
• Research group questions how U.S. measures poverty
  May 2008
  Chicago Tribune
  Megha Satyanarayana
• Research group questions how U.S. measures poverty
  May 2008
  Kansas City Star
  Megha Satyanarayana
• Research group questions how U.S. measures poverty
  May 2008
  Charlotte Observer
  Megha Satyanarayana
• State Agency Looks to Us for Direction
  May 2008
  Oregon Live.com
  
• NCCP's Nancy Cauthen on Iowa Public Radio
  April 2008
  Iowa Public Radio
  Podcast
• Single parents go it alone
  April 2008
  
  
• Views: Thomas Beatie's pregnancy: What does it change?
  April 2008
  Yasmin Nair
  
• New! Social and Emotional Health in Early Childhood
  April 2008
  Brookes (publisher) website
  
• Regional Profiles for Early Childhood Policy
  April 2008
  National Association of Counties Newsletter
  
• DHS Recognized for Improving Kids' Mental Health care
  March 2008
  Salem News (Oregon)
  
• Family Risk Factors Seen Contributing to Chronic Absence
  March 2008
  Education Week
  
• New facility will enable Crossroads of Michigan
  February 2008
  C&G Newspapers
  Michelle Moran
• Maternal Depression: A Needed Shift in Public Policy
  February 2008
  Be in the kNOw NJ
  Ellen
• Saginaw included in national children's mental health survey
  February 2008
  The Saginaw (Mich.) News
  
• Maternal Depression Impacts School Readiness
  February 2008
  Grants and Funding.net
  
• Postpartum Progress
  February 2008
  Katherine Stone
  
• Trend: Whites make up less of student body
  February 2008
  The Moultrie Observer
  Lori Glenn
• Re “Mayor Bloomberg Tackles Poverty” (letter to the editor)
  January 2008
  New York Times
  Jane Knitzer, Nancy K. Cauthen
• Fundrasier Donates New Shoes for Kids in Need
  January 2008
  
  
• Strategy for an economic rebound
  January 2008
  
  
• Mark Caserta: More must be done to keep kids out of poverty
  January 2008
  herald-dispatch.com
  Mark Caserta
• La. plan: SToP poverty
  December 2007
  2theadvocate.com
  Sarah Chacko
• Sole purpose: Carlsbad couple starts nonprofit to buy kids new shoes
  December 2007
  nctimes.com
  Ruth Marvin Webster
• Dad's use of force on trial
  December 2007
  Bangor Daily News
  Eric Russell
• Foundation Provides New Shoes for Needy Children
  December 2007
  PR.com
  
• NCCP Redesigns Family Resource
  December 2007
  NACO
  
• State's child-poverty rate on rise
  November 2007
  Indianapolis Star
  Staff
• NYC TO LEAD COUNTRY IN REMAKING POVERTY GAUGE
  November 2007
  City Limits Website
  Tram Whitehurst
• Michigan Early Childhood Challenge Summit - Dr. Jane Knitzer
  November 2007
  VideoPlayr
  
• Upper Nyack man leads group focusing on dads and daughters
  November 2007
  Lower Hudson Online
  
• "Transitions program will help children with anger, aggression"
  November 2007
  whig.com
  Kelly Wilson
• "Hot Parenting Trend: More Involvement"
  November 2007
  CBS News
  Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor
• "Financial Education, More Federal Aid Urged for Needy"
  October 2007
  Omaha World-Herald
  Erin Grace
• Elementary Absenteeism: A National Portrait of Chronic Absenteeism in the Early Grades
  October 2007
  Education Week
  
• Alleviating Poverty
  October 2007
  EPI website
  
• "Child Care Expert Previews Presentation to Lawmakers"
  September 2007
  Tulsa World
  Andrea Eger
• "Barely Getting By: Stories of America's Working Poor"
  September 2007
  Humankind Media
  David Freudberg
• "Economy Grows But Leaves Some Behind"
  September 2007
  Savannah Morning News
  Brandon Larrabee
• "Forced Family Breakdown"
  June 2007
  TomPaine.com
  Kinsey Alden Dinan and Nancy K. Cauthen
• "Programs Address Low Income, Stress"
  May 2007
  The Advocate
  Emily Kern
• "Growing Number of College Graduates in South Florida Classified as Poor"
  April 2007
  South Florida Sun-Sentinel
  Jamie Malernee
• "New Measures of Poverty" (letter to the editor)
  April 2007
  The New York Times
  Nancy K. Cauthen
• "Poverty Rate for Children on the Rise in County"
  April 2007
  The Olympian
  Heather Woodward
• Single-parent moms struggling to make it
  March 2007
  Linda Conley
  
• "Some of County's Families Walking Fine Financial Line"
  February 2007
  Colorado Springs Gazette
  Perry Swanson
• "Poverty Benefits in Need of Policy Changes"
  January 2007
  The Coloradoan
  
• "Child Poverty is Found to Portend High Adult Costs"
  January 2007
  The New York Times
  Erik Eckholm
• "State Has Slight Dip in Child Poverty"
  September 2006
  The Courier Journal
  Marcus Green
• "Back to School for Lunch"
  September 2006
  WBGO Journal
  Matt Hackworth
• "Rebuilding the American Dream"
  August 2006
  Conscience
  Jane Knitzer
• "Editorial: Welfare Reform's Unfinished Agenda"
  August 2006
  Star Tribune
  
• "Children in Poverty"
  July 2006
  WILL-AM (an NPR affiliate) Focus 580
  David Inge
• "A View from Low-Wage America - Using the Family Resource Simulator to Make Work Supports Work" (podcast)
  June 2006
  Fairness Initiative on Low-Wage Work
  John O'Leary
• "Post-Katrina Dialogue on Poverty Fizzles"
  April 2006
  Associated Press
  Allen G. Breed
• Immigrant Children: America’s Future
  March 2006
  TomPaine.com
  Nancy K. Cauthen and Kinsey Alden Dinan
• "Advocates For the Poor Place Hopes in Next Governor's Hands"
  March 2006
  The Legislative Gazette
  Kelly Smith
• "Hunger Problem Hits Children Hardest"
  March 2006
  Worcester Telegram and Gazette
  Rushmie Kalke
• "Katrina Has Failed to Kindle Dialogue on Race and Class"
  March 2006
  St. Petersburg Times
  Eric Deggans
• "Bush Expands on Competitiveness Initative During Maplewood Visit"
  February 2006
  Minnesota Public Radio News
  
• "Facing Families in Poverty"
  January 2006
  Connect for Kids TalkTime Live!
  
• "Economic 'Good News'"
  December 2005
  FAIR CounterSpin
  
• "Sure Start: Success or Failure?"
  November 2005
  BBC Woman's Hour
  
• "All the Cool Kids Are Eating Healthy"
  November 2005
  St. Petersburg Times
  Mary Spicuzza
• "Despite Working Parents, Many Immigrant Children Are Poor"
  November 2005
  Hoy Nueva York (Reprinted and translated in Voices That Must Be Heard)
  Igor González
• Support Working Families
  October 2005
  The Press Enterprise
  Jane Knitzer
• "Post-Katrina Anti-Poverty Agenda"
  October 2005
  WBUR On Point
  
• "Cuts Proposed to Fund Katrina Aid: Anti-Poverty 'Bold Action' Hopes Fade"
  October 2005
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  Bob Kemper
• "A Poverty of Understanding"
  September 2005
  TomPaine.com
  Nancy K. Cauthen
• Privatizing Survivors, Abandoning Children
  March 2005
  TomPaine.com
  Nancy K. Cauthen
• "Child Poverty Rises in the World’s Richest Countries"
  March 2005
  Minnesota Public Radio Midmorning with Kerri Miller