Publication Type: Report

NH’s Workforce Recovery: COVID-19, Child Care, Benefit Programs, and Employment (Report)

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  • Project  Family Resource Simulator; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date February 18, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic created a range of health, economic, and social policy challenges for New Hampshire. Changes in economic conditions have deepened existing challenges for vulnerable populations and communities, while other households have faced new challenges around decisions regarding employment and child care that they had never anticipated. As New Hampshire seeks to accelerate its […]

Supporting Social-Emotional and Mental Health Needs of Young Children Through Part C Early Intervention: Results of a 50-State Survey

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  • Project  PRiSM: Promoting Research-informed State Infant-Early Childhood Mental Health Policies and Scaled Initiatives; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2020

This report examines features of states’ Part C Early Intervention programs that help them identify and serve infants and toddlers with social-emotional delays and mental health conditions. A 50-state survey conducted by the National Center for Children in Poverty and Georgetown University Center for Children and Families asked state Part C Coordinators about their programs’ […]

Young Children in Deep Poverty: Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Child Well-Being Compared to Other Income Groups

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  • Project  Two-Generation Policies for Young Children and Families in Deep Poverty; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date October 10, 2020

Nine percent of young U.S. children live in deep poverty, with state rates ranging from 17 percent in Mississippi to 4 percent in Utah. The families of these children have incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line, or less than $10,289 for a family of one parent and two children. These figures, based […]

The Voices of Michigan’s Early Care and Education Teachers: Children’s Challenging Behavior, Expulsion, Disparities, and Needed Program Supports

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  • Project  Early Care and Education Suspension and Expulsion Prevention Policy; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 6, 2020

Michigan policymakers have a long history of leadership in addressing the social-emotional needs of the state’s infants and young children so that they can learn and thrive in their homes and in early care and education programs. The state’s investments in healthy social-emotional development of very young children include home visiting services by infant mental […]

Family Resource Simulator Policy Impact Case Studies

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  • Project  Family Resource Simulator; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2020

Twenty-eight million working families and individuals rely on public benefits, such as childcare subsidies, SSI, Medicaid, SNAP, free school lunch, EITC, or free pre-K to make ends meet; however, public benefit programs sometimes penalize families as they earn more. Program administrators and policymakers have the power to improve and streamline program rules, but they need […]

Information Collection & Dissemination for Immigrant Serving Organizations

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  • Project  Economic and Social Challenges of Immigrants in Long Island ; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date June 1, 2020

This report is the final of three that describes the social and economic needs of low-income immigrants in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, New York, commonly referred to as Long Island. It was supported by a 3-year grant from the New York State Office for New Americans (ONA) Community Navigator Program, through a subcontract with the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). This third and final report synthesizes […]

Plan to Improve Access to Oral Health Care for Adults with IDD in NJ

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  • Project  Improving the Odds for Adolescents; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2020

This report is the culmination of an 18-month New Jersey Council on Developmental Disabilities (NJCDD) research grant awarded to Columbia University College of Dental Medicine and the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) to identify barriers to oral health and health care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and to develop a […]

Do States’ Immigrant-Friendly Policies Improve Health of Children of Immigrants?

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2020

This study examines the health impacts of local and state immigration-related policies that support undocumented immigrants and their families. The research question we sought to answer in this study was “Do sanctuary policies and driver’s licenses for undocumented immigrants increase the chances that children of these immigrants receive adequate medical and dental care?” We focused […]

What Policymakers in Georgia Need to Know About Infant-Toddler Social-Emotional Health

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  • Project  Supporting Young Children's Mental Health; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date September 1, 2019

This brief, produced by GEEARS and NCCP, examines the concept of infant-early childhood mental health and its role in key child outcomes, including school success. Several examples of IECMH innovations in other states are described such as: the use of DC:0-5 for diagnosis of mental health conditions, Medicaid coverage of dyadic treatment and parenting programs […]

Low-income Immigrants in Long Island

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  • Project  Economic and Social Challenges of Immigrants in Long Island ; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date June 1, 2019

This report is the second of three that describes the social and economic needs of low-income immigrants in Suffolk and Nassau Counties, New York, commonly referred to as Long Island. It was supported by a grant from the New York State Office of New Americans (ONA) Community Navigator Program, through a subcontract with the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN). […]