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New from CFPC:
Beyond Either/Or Thinking: The Obama Administration and the Opportunity for New Child Policies
This article initially appeared as an Op Ed piece in the Des Moines Register. This version includes both the Op Ed and a longer description of possible policy changes in health, school readiness, school success, child safety, and family economic success policy.
Children and the 111th Congress: Meeting the Challenge for Children
When a new President takes office and the 111th Congress convenes, children's issues could take on new prominence or be relegated to the background. This CFPC paper and PowerPoint presentation outlines five challenges that must be addressed if children are to receive the attention they deserve in federal budgeting and policy making: (1) the aging of society and trends in the demand for public funding; (2) the growing diversity of the child population; (3) federal budget issues, expiring tax cuts, and PAYGO rules; (4) current recognized gaps in investments in young children; and (5) the absence of a clearly articulated investment agenda for children.
click here to download the paper click here to download the presentation
From Health Coverage to Healthy Child Development: SCHIP Reauthorization and Improving Children's Health
Improving children's health starts with health insurance coverage, but it goes well beyond that to providing needed services that will improve children's healthy development. A growing body of research shows the importance of incorporating quality primary, preventive, and developmental services within pediatric practices. At the federal level, SCHIP reauthorization provides the opportunity to promote such effective practices. A pediatric health policy expert panel met in December 2006 to explore how such practices could be encouraged as a part of SCHIP reauthorization. Click here to access the synthesis of this discussion and policy options.
The Child & Family Policy Center has developed a Healthy Child Story Book that provides the rationale for such a comprehensive approach and describes the evidence base on exemplary pediatric practices to improve children's healthy development, and identifies the leadership role that the federal government can take in this process. Click here to access this Story Book and its policy options.
New from SECPTAN:
School Readiness Resource Guide and Tool Kit: Using Neighborhood Data to Spur Action
by Charles Bruner with Amy Pettine, Sandra Ciske, Tom Kingsley, Kathy Pettit, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Ewing and Marion Kauffman Foundation
Village Building and School Readiness: Closing Opportunity Gaps in a Diverse Society
by Charles Bruner with Michelle Stover Wright, Syed Noor Tirmizi, and the School Readiness, Culture, and Language Working Group of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, with commentaries by Lynson Moore Beaulieu, Hedy Nai-Lin Chang, Dr. Robin Jarrett, Dr. Audrey Jordan, G. Thomas Kingsley, Dr. Jane Knitzer, Dr. Ken Seeley, Ralph R. Smith, and Yoland Trevino, January 2007
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