The overall infant mortality rate in Wisconsin has declined slowly over the past two decades, but our state continues to have an alarmingly high infant mortality rate among African-Americans. Although the infant mortality rate for African-Americans has dropped significantly in Wisconsin since the early 2000s, it is nearly double the...
A recently released website is an exciting and creative tool for tracking some basics about juvenile justice across states. The Juvenile Justice GPS - which stands for Geography, Policy, Practice, and Statistics - brings together data previously available in annual publications across a variety of practice areas and puts them all in one...
New national data released today show that there has been a sharp increase in Medicaid enrollment since last September, and that trend continued in April. The new figures, which are from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, provide the enrollment change by state in April and also the amount of growth relative to the average...
There is an awareness of the increasing frequency of child sexual exploitation and sex trafficking and an increasing recognition that our systems are not as well-prepared as we need to be to respond to these situations. In a short brief, Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Minors in Wisconsin, we've outlined just some basics about the...
As we’ve highlighted before, youth who commit status offenses, behaviors prohibited only by age, have better long-term outcomes when they are kept in their communities and receive appropriate services and support. Youth who run away, skip school, or self-medicate with alcohol are often responding to larger issues at home or in their...
Advocates and Policymakers Await Data on How Many Transition to Marketplace Coverage Data released on May 19 by the Governor's Office indicate that nearly 63,000 people have lost BadgerCare eligibility this year because of state policy changes. The vast majority of them lost their BadgerCare coverage on April 1 because of eligibility...
Limited data is available on the scope of Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Wisconsin, but the research that does exist indicates that it is a pervasive problem.
Research and conversations on child and family well-being often focus on the risk factors that contribute to poor outcomes. Though it is critical to understand risk factors, it is equally important to understand protective factors. Protective factors are conditions or attributes of individuals, families, and communities that help buffer...
WCCF has previously blogged about the research link between reductions in children's exposure to lead (removing lead from paint, unleaded gasoline, etc.) and reductions in youth crime. Some researchers have gone as far as suggesting that nearly two-thirds of the youth crime reduction can be attributed to reductions in exposure to lead....
Governor Walker and the Department of Health Services (DHS) released data today relating to BadgerCare enrollment in April. According to the Governor’s press release, the state was serving an additional 81,731 childless adults below the poverty level in April, but 62,776 people with income above the poverty level lost their BadgerCare...
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