Topics

Topics: Better Results for Kids and Families

This website focuses on four broad policy priorities related to children and families.  Under each of these priority areas, specific topics are examined in detail using a results-based framework that links data on child and family well-being to specific policy strategies.

The content of this website is being developed in phases.  The following list provides links to the topics currently presented and identifies those under construction:

 

Ensuring Children are Healthy and Prepared to Succeed in School

• Improve early grade-level reading.
• Reduce teen and unplanned pregnancies.
• Under construction:  Reduce low-weight births.

Improving Family Economic Success

• Reduce child poverty.
• Reduce home foreclosures.
• Under construction:  Reduce prison reentry.

Building Strong and Stable Families

• Increase exits from foster care to permanence.
• Under construction: Reduce child abuse and neglect.   

Preparing Youth to Succeed in Life

• Reduce juvenile detention.
• Reduce teen and unplanned pregnancies.
• Under construction: Increase high school completion.

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