This week (April 6-12) is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, a week to highlight the impact that crime has on victims and our community and to advocate for more resources to help serve those affected by crime. The National Juvenile Justice Network has just released A House Divided No More: Common Cause for Juvenile Justice Advocates,...
It’s not news that research has consistently shown that brain development is an on-going process that continues through adolescence and into the early 20s. The structures of the brain responsible for reasoning and cognitive functioning are often not fully developed until several years after reaching legal status as an adult. Given what...
The Discipline Disparities: Research-to-Practice Collaboration recently released a series of briefing papers covering policies, interventions, and research aimed at reducing disparities in school discipline. The collaboration consists of 26 researchers, advocates, policy, analysts and educators working towards reducing discipline...
Urban Institute Says 5.4 Million Adults Gained Insurance between September 2013 and March 2014 A New York Times editorial Thursday morning assesses the success of the ACA. It focuses on the number of sign-ups for private coverage through the Marketplace, which recently surged past 7 million. However, the editorial also cites the...
The 3 Rs or Recess? The authors of a recently published piece say we can have it both ways--a solid core curriculum embedded in an active, child-centered, developmentally appropriate environment. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Temple University & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, University of Delaware discuss the research on both sides and argue for...
Race for Results, a new policy report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, shows that children of color face immense barriers in nearly every category of well-being, and the status of African-American children in Wisconsin is the worst in the nation.
A number of important changes to BadgerCare take effect tomorrow, April 1. At the top of the list are the following two changes: Cutting in half the income eligibility ceiling for parents and caretakers, as well as childless adults in BadgerCare Core, by reducing the income cap to the federal poverty level (from the current limit of...
At a time when bipartisan agreement is often difficult to find, legislative agreement for a joint resolution on early childhood brain development is a welcome sign. Five Republicans joined 15 Democrats to sponsor Senate Joint Resolution 59, which passed both the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly on January 17, 2014. The resolution states...
Today, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the UW Population Health Institute released their annual County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. The annual ranking of Wisconsin counties was initiated by the UW Population Health Institute many years ago, and this became a national project with the RWJ Foundation five years ago. It now ranks...
Decline in Number of Children Served: Down 10,888 over Four Years Children served by the Wisconsin Shares child care subsidy program are receiving financial assistance so working low-income parents can afford child care services. Over half of the children served live in families in poverty, and over 90% of children are in families with...
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