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:

Children are Healthy

• Reduce teen and unplanned pregnancies.
• Prevent childhood obesity.  
• Promote children's social, emotional and behavioral health.

Children Enter School Ready to Learn and Prepared to Succeed

• Improve early grade-level reading.      

Children Grow Up in Safe, Supportive and Economically Successful Families

• Reduce child poverty.
• Reduce home foreclosures.
• Increase exits from foster care to permanence.
• Prevent child abuse and neglect .
• Promote affordable housing.
• Promote workforce strategies for reintegrating ex-offenders.
  
• Under construction: Support engaged fathers.

Youth are Prepared to Succeed as Adults

• Increase college completion.
• Increase high school completion.
• Promote youth civic engagement
• Reduce juvenile detention.
• Reduce teen and unplanned pregnancies.
• Support youth transitioning from foster care.
• Under construction: Prevent juvenile delinquency; reduce teen substance abuse. 

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