Georgia KIDS COUNT Briefing available on YouTube.com
On July 28 Georgia Family Connection Partnership
celebrated 20 years of KIDS COUNT and revealed Georgia's
national ranking of child well-being via a live online briefing.
Funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, KIDS COUNT tracks
how well children are faring in health, education, and economic
well-being nationally and across 50 states.
Our briefing featured guest speakers who challenged us all
to take the KIDS COUNT data to a higher level and create
the kind of action that will allow Georgia to leapfrog to
a place where there are quality opportunities for every
child. Their presentations and the KIDS COUNT data briefing
can be viewed at youtube.com/user/georgiakidscount.
A few changes have been made, primarily in the collaborative
development and family engagement sections–to tie Self Assessment
language more directly to the Standards indicators they
are used to measure. Remember that submission is via CIMS
only. The CIMS version should be ready by early August.
The submission due date is Sept. 30.
Georgia Drops in national KIDS COUNT Ranking to 42
Georgia is now 42nd in nation in child well-being. Read
more about the Georgia Study that shows Georgia is at a
tipping point for improving the lives of our children and
on the verge of becoming a majority-minority state.
Visit our newsroom
for the media release and new
report, Georgia at the Tipping Point: Making 20 Years
of Data COUNT for KIDS and Families.
The
Annie E. Casey Foundation has new tools to help you share
KIDS COUNT data on your Web site.
Add data to your website, desktop, or blog with the new
KIDS COUNT web widget. The widget provides state rankings
for overall child-well being and state data on the status
of children for 10 key indicators included in the 2009 KIDS
COUNT Data Book. You may customize the widget to display
data for any state or indicator.
GaFCP's Indicators of Child and Family Well-Being Project
Wins International Innovation Award
Georgia Family Connection Partnership's Georgia KIDS COUNT
project, "Georgia Indicators of Child, Family, and Community
Well-Being: Decision-Making by the Numbers," took second
place in the 2008 Community Indicator Consortium (CIC) Innovation
Awards. CIC presented the award in June at its Sixth International
Conference in Arlington, Va.
CIC celebrates programs from around the world that use
indicators to measure needs and progress, and then effectively
use that data to make positive improvements in their communities.
Obesity is adults' No. 1 concern about children's health,
but not among Hispanics In 2008, adults consider obesity
the top health problem for children, although Hispanics
rated the issue much lower despite being at greater risk
for obesity than other groups.
Georgia
KIDS COUNT Briefing on YouTube.com
