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State Policies that Support Healthy Schools

WebEvery state had at least some shifts in codified healthy schools policy from 2017 to 2019, with Tennessee and Wyoming experiencing the most changes. Changes …

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Using Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to …

WebUsing Policy to Create Healthy Schools: Resources to Support Policymakers and Advocates

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Newark’s South Ward Can Help Us Understand Health …

WebThis brief highlights the current health care needs, access to health care, and health care experiences of Black families with children living in the South Ward, a …

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Being Healthy and Ready to Learn is Linked with …

WebThe Healthy and Ready to Learn National Outcome Measure. The pilot Healthy and Ready to Learn Title V Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant …

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Child Well-Being

Web5 In this paper, we propose a set of child well-being constructs (factors that represent important dimensions of child development) for children ages 0 to 8.

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Promising Practices for Expanding Students’ Awareness …

WebSchool-based health centers (SBHCs) remove financial and logistical barriers that prevent young people from accessing primary and preventative health care, …

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Are the Children Well

Webpage 6 . VULNERABLE POPULATIONS . The economic burden of business-as-usual . The cost of the . status quo . as it pertains to the mental health of young …

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Being Healthy and Ready to Learn is Linked with Family

WebThe Purpose of Healthy and Ready to Learn. As more communities, states, and philanthropists invest in young children and their families during the earliest years of …

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Creating Policies to Support Healthy Schools: …

WebInitiatives focused on improving aspects of students’ well-being in schools—such as addressing childhood obesity, preventing bullying, and restricting …

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Developing a School-Based Health Educator Program to …

WebHealth fairs: Each health educator hosts one health fair per year in their school (to plan a health fair, see this resource: How to Plan a Health Fair).The fairs are composed of …

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Family Planning Clients’ Experiences With Providers Can

WebMethodology and Data. This brief is part of a larger research study on trends in publicly-funded family planning services. From February 2020 to January 2021, Child …

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A Comprehensive School Employee Wellness Approach Can

WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has taken a significant toll on the well-being of school staff nationwide, with nearly one in four teachers indicating that they would likely …

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More than One in Four Latino and Black Households with Children …

WebEven among those with the same job, significant wage gaps rooted in discrimination mean that Hispanic and Black workers, on average, take home less …

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Data on Families With Low Incomes Across America Can Inform …

WebUsing the 2021 data, we then look more closely at families in households with low incomes and document some of their demographic and family characteristics, …

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Knowing the Strengths and Limitations of Poverty Measures Can …

WebIn 2021, the OPM poverty thresholds were $21,831 for a family of one adult and two children and $27,479 for a family of two adults and two children. Based on the …

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Research Shows How Developmentally Appropriate Practice Helps …

WebIn 1987, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a professional membership organization for early childhood educators, …

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Recommendations for Creating Equitable and Inclusive Paid …

WebParental leave is leave taken for the addition of a new child to a family through birth, adoption, or foster care placement.. Parental leave is often a subset of the broader …

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