Publication Type: Report

New York State Profile of Young Children in Deep Poverty

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  • Project  Early Childhood Two-Generation State Policy Profiles;  Two-Generation Policies for Young Children and Families in Deep Poverty; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date November 1, 2017

Learn about our Improving the Odds for Young Children project. Young children in families experiencing deep poverty – those with incomes below 50 percent of the federal poverty line — are likely to experience severe early adversities that contribute to poor health and education outcomes. This brief offers information about young children, age birth to […]

Helping Young Children Who Have Experienced Trauma: Policies and Strategies for Early Care and Education

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  • Project  Supporting Young Children's Mental Health; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2017

Learn about our Supporting Young Children’s Mental Health project. In almost every early care and education (ECE) program across the country, there are children who have experienced trauma or who will, during their early childhood, experience traumatic events. Trauma in early childhood takes many forms, including abuse or neglect, witnessing violence, and having prolonged separation […]

State Immigration Enforcement Policies: How they Impact Low-Income Households

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date May 1, 2017

Over seven million U.S. children live with at least one noncitizen parent — and 80 percent of these children are US-born citizens. Close to 5 million US-citizen children live with an unauthorized immigrant parent, potentially subject to deportation. Research has shown that the deportation of a parent has serious deleterious effects on families—emotional distress, behavioral […]

Strong at the Broken Places: The Resiliency of Low-Income Parents

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  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2017

Several organizations are actively promoting two-generation approaches, most notably The Aspen Institute, Foundation for Child Development, and Annie E. Casey Foundation. Social-emotional competence in children – the ability to manage emotions, express needs and feelings, deal with conflict, and get along with others – plays a critical role in their cognitive skill building, mental health, […]

Using Medicaid to Help Young Children and Parents Access Mental Health Services: Results of a 50-State Survey (Updated March 2017)

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  • Project  Medicaid Coverage for Key IECMH Policies: Results of a Series of 50-State Surveys; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2017

Learn about our Supporting Young Children’s Mental Health project. As states work to strengthen supports for young children’s mental health, often with the goal of reducing the incidence of costly conditions at later ages, they face the question of how to finance new or expanded services. This brief examines states’ use of Medicaid as a […]

Fostering Health: The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Youth Transitioning from Foster Care

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  • Project  The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Youth Transitioning from Foster Care; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date October 1, 2016

Learn about our The Affordable Care Act, Medicaid, and Youth Transitioning from Foster Care project. A provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires states to continue to provide health insurance to young people who have aged out of the foster care system until their 26 th birthday.  Although the intent of the provision is to […]

The Florida Minimum Wage: How Much Can It Really Buy, and How High Should It Be?

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date August 1, 2016

Learn about our Making Work Supports Work project. In Florida and across the nation, there is much debate about the adequacy of the minimum wage. The federal minimum wage of $7.25 has not increased since July 2009, and has fallen by more than fifty cents in real terms since then. Adjusted for inflation, the current […]

Preschool Inclusion: Key Findings from Research and Implications for Policy

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  • Project  Research Connections; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date April 1, 2016

Learn about our Research Connections project. An estimated 745,336 children age 3 to 5 have disabilities or developmental delays that entitle them to receive preschool special education services under Part B of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) (U.S. Department of Education, 2015). Federal policy directs school districts to provide preschool special education services […]

Protecting Workers, Nurturing Families: Building an Inclusive Family Leave Insurance Program: Findings and Recommendations from the New Jersey Parenting Project

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  • Project  Making Work Supports Work; 
  • Publication Type  Report 
  • Post date March 1, 2016

Learn more about our Making Work Supports Work project. A high-quality paid family leave policy is a vital investment in the future of young children and their families. Paid family leave allows workers to take time off from their jobs to bond with new children or care for seriously ill family members with some financial […]

Three Policy Reforms to Help Low-Income Children in Ohio

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  • Post date October 1, 2015

Ohio advocates and policymakers have recently proposed important new policy initiatives to help the state’s struggling working families. This policy brief models three reforms that promise to significantly improve the economic security of low-income Ohio families with children. First, we examine the effect of introducing a free and universal prekindergarten program for four-year-olds on families’ […]