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General Publications

Annual Report 2006
Annual Report 2005
Annual Report 2004

Abuse and Neglect

Virginia KIDS COUNT on Child Abuse and Neglect (2000)

Early Care and Education

High School Dropout and Graduation Rates: What Do the Numbers Tell Us? (pdf, November 2006)
School Readiness Indicators 2006 (pdf, July, 2006) (2 mb version or 5mb version)
Early Childhood Mental Health: Ensuring Healthy Social-Emotional Development of Infants, Toddlers and Pre-School Age Children. (pdf, May 2005)
Professional Development (pdf, July, 2005)
Tiered Reimbursement (pdf, July, 2005)
Universal Pre-K (pdf, July, 2005)
Early Learning Left Out: Investments by Child Age on Education and Development (pdf, April, 2005)
Early Learning Left Out: Closing the Investment Gap for America's Youngest Children (pdf, April, 2005)
No Time to Waste - Indicators of School Readiness - 2004 Virginia Data Book
Indicators of School Readiness Supplement (pdf, 2004) errata (pdf, 2004)
Childcare Workforce Study in Metro Richmond (pdf, 2004)
Maternal Education (pdf, December, 2004)
PALS-k (pdf, December, 2004)
The Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry in Virginia (pdf, December 2004)
Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry - Appendix (pdf, 2004)
Business and Child Care white paper (pdf, June 2001)
Affordability and Accessibility of Child Care in Virginia (pdf, 2001)
Quality Child Care in Virginia white paper (pdf, 2001)

Family Economic Success

The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Virginia calculates how much money working adults need to meet their basic needs without subsidies of any kind. Unlike the federal poverty standard, the Self-Sufficiency Standard accounts for the costs of living and working as they vary by family size and composition and by geographic location.

• Self-Sufficiency Standard calculations for all family types for Virginia localities (excel, August, 2006). Some of the localities are grouped into Metropolitan Statistical Areas. You may need to conduct a "find" to locate your locality.
• Self-Sufficiency Standard Modeling Tables (Adobe pdf, August, 2006) This document explains the various work supports (for example, food stamps or child care subsidies) and also shows the impacts of different wages on work supports. These modeling tables might be helpful for work on minimum wage issues.
• Self-Sufficiency Standard Appendix (Adobe pdf, August, 2006) This document provides the assumptions used for the calculations as well as the sources for the data.
• Self-Sufficiency Standard for Virginia Description and History (Adobe pdf, July, 2002, 110 pages)
• Budget Exercise – This worksheet enables participants to estimate the costs of basic needs and compare them to actual costs.
• Family Budget Calculator from the Economic Policy Institute. The Family Budget Calculator lets you determine the income needed for particular types of families to make ends meet. Because costs of goods and services vary across the U.S., the calculator customizes the budgets for every U.S. community—over 400 in all. Technical documentation is available on this web site so you can update each budget item.

Children of the Working Poor (pdf, 2004)
Virginia KIDS COUNT on Single Parents (pdf, 2003)
Virginia KIDS COUNT on Poverty Statistics (pdf, 2003)

Health

Infant Mortality - Understanding the complexities of death among Virginia's youngest children (pdf, June, 2007)
Increasing Access to Prenatal Care through the FAMIS Moms Program (pdf, February, 2006)
Issues in Children's Mental Health (pdf, October 2000)
Lack of Adequate Community-Based Services (pdf, October 2000)
Fragmentation of Services (pdf, October 2000)
Lack of Information and Support for Parents (pdf, October 2000)
Gaps in Coverage (pdf, October 2000)
Bounced between Medicaid and Famis (pdf, January, 2003)
Inadequate Coverage for Mental Health Services (pdf, January 2003)
Virginia KIDS COUNT on Dental Health (pdf, 2003)

Immigration and Children

• All Our Children: Ensuring a Bright Future for Virginia The purpose of this brief is to better understand the assets and challenges all immigrant families in Virginia face today and to consider the best ways to meet the needs of children and families who will play a role in Virginia ’s future. (PDF, March 2008)
• Immigrant Legal Status & Public Benefit (PDF, May, 2007)
• Snapshots of Children in Immigrant Families (PDF, May, 2007)
• Selected Research on Immigrant Families (PDF, May, 2007)
• The Changing Face of Northern Virginia Counties (PDF, May, 2007)
• Selected Immigrant Serving Organizations, Northern VA & Metro DC (PDF, May, 2007)

KIDS COUNT

• 2007 National KIDS COUNT Data Book and Online Database
  Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2007 KIDS COUNT Data Book are now available in their easy-to-use, powerful online database, "State Level Data Online", that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or, download the entire data set as delimited text files.