Child Abuse & Neglect
Home Visiting Programs are Preschool in Earliest Form
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Caleb Cantres-Maldonado was all of 6 weeks old and just stirring from a nap when his mother propped him up and pointed him in the direction of a picture book.
“Look what I have! See the book?” said Milenka St. Clair, a family support worker who visits Caleb’s Manassas home once a week. “It’s a drum! What else do you see?”
Caleb’s head flopped to one side. St. Clair tapped the page loudly, then moved it left and right and up and down. The baby’s eyes, still cloudy and a little crossed, followed her movements.
CT Association for Human Services KIDSCOUNT Report
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KIDSCOUNT Report
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April, 2013
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CAHS released its 2013 KidsCount Report on April 30. KIDSCOUNT is an annual look at important data points, over time, including population, race and ethnicity, child poverty, Care4Kids, Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Family Assistance (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Pre-K Experience, Mastery Test Scores in CT, CT Academic Performance Test Scores (CAPT), graduation rates, late or no prenatal care, low birth weight, infant mortality, HUSKY A & B (ages birth to 19), teen births, substantiated cases of abuse and/or neglect, child death and preventable teen deaths.
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KIDSCOUNT Report
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April, 2013
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CAHS released its 2013 KidsCount Report on April 30. KIDSCOUNT is an annual look at important data points, over time, including population, race and ethnicity, child poverty, Care4Kids, Earned Income Tax Credit, Temporary Family Assistance (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Pre-K Experience, Mastery Test Scores in CT, CT Academic Performance Test Scores (CAPT), graduation rates, late or no prenatal care, low birth weight, infant mortality, HUSKY A & B (ages birth to 19), teen births, substantiated cases of abuse and/or neglect, child death and preventable teen deaths.
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PRESS RELEASE: CT Early Childhood Alliance Applauds Governor's Call for an Early Childhood Office
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Today, Governor Dannel Malloy released his early childhood plan to better coordinate services aimed at improving outcomes for Connecticut’s youngest children. The plan is the result of legislation passed in 2011, Public Act 11-181, which received strong, bi-partisan legislative support in both chambers of the General Assembly.
Hartford Courant: Child Health Experts, State Officials to Meet at Forum
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The Child Health and Development Institute will meet Friday with officials in the legislature and various state departments to discuss the health of young children in the state and ways to improve it.
