Wisconsin is among the many states in which the rate and number of youth confined in institutions has dramatically declined over the past decade. This trend is highlighted in a recent release from the Annie E. Casey Foundation, titled Reducing Youth Incarceration in the United States. While still confining youth at higher rates than...
Often as we work with youth in the juvenile justice system, we find out too late that they are dealing with undiagnosed mental health challenges. Child Trends recently released three briefs in the Adolescent Health Highlights series. These briefs, which focus on issues related to adolescent mental health, highlight that:Resiliency has a...
Another Head Start Impact Study is leading to discussions about the effectiveness of the program. The latest study, Third Grade Follow-up to the Head Start Impact Study Final Report, is a third grade follow-up to the earlier Head Start Impact Study final report.The overall findings can be summed up in two parts, which seem...
Pregnant Women or Children First? -- States Are Faced with Grim ChoicesThe Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program (WIC) is one of many federally funded services that will take a big hit because of sequestration. A new paper issued today by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) examines the effects and the...
Walker Administration Counts on Health Exchange Working Well Next Year, Yet Predicts It Won’t Last Tuesday at the annual HealthWatch conference, the outbound DHS Secretary, Dennis Smith, expressed strong doubts about whether the federal government can get a health insurance exchange established and running effectively in Wisconsin by...
Health care advocates got some good news this week – albeit for a part of BadgerCare coverage that few people realized was at risk. A Wisconsin State Journal article by David Wahlberg sums up the story: “Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget would reduce Medicaid coverage for many pregnant women, but state health officials say that...
Children involved in child welfare and juvenile justice systems often have many disadvantages throughout their lives, which decreases the likelihood of their wellness and success. Not the least of these challenges is dealing with unmet education needs. We know that:The rate of unemployment was highest for those without a high school...
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie announced today that he would use the Medicaid funding provided by the Affordable Care Act to improve access to health care for low-income adults in his state. Christie joins his GOP colleagues in seven other states – Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, and Ohio – who have...
Results regarding serous juvenile offenders, male and female, ages 14 – 18, are offered in a summary by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), titled, Highlights from Pathways to Desistance: A Longitudinal Study of Serious Adolescent Offenders. Edward Mulvey’s work provides the most comprehensive data set...
I don’t recall hearing the Governor talk about child poverty in his speech tonight. I suppose that’s not surprising because the growth in that poverty rate wouldn’t have fit well in the narrative of success that the Governor was attempting to convey. He argued that positive economic indicators justify more of the tax cutting and...
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