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Resource
Guide: Tools to Strengthen After-School Programs
This companion guide to the report Putting It All Together: Guiding
Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens, was
updated in December 2009. |
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The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and the Preteen
Alliance commissioned the Collaborative for Academic, Social,
and Emotional Learning (CASEL) to synthesize the research on effective
strategies to promote social and emotional skills among elementary
and middle school students. |
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First-Ever CA Index of Child Well Being Reveals Decade of
Improvement
The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health has released the
first-ever "California
Index of Child and Youth Well Being." The index shows a consistent
pattern of improvement in how children have fared over the last decade,
but warns that the present economic recession could undermine and
possibly even reverse those gains. The index is based on data from
kidsdata.org, which recently expanded to offer data on children's
health and well being for all cities, counties, and school districts
in California. |
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California Ranks 20th in KIDSCOUNT DataBook
Annie E. Casey Foundation's just-released 2009 KIDSCOUNT DataBook
ranks California 20th in terms of how children are faring. The annual
DataBook profiles the well-being of America's children on a state-by-state
basis and ranks states on 10 key measures. Accompanying the DataBook,
KIDSCOUNT released
an essay on the importance of making data-driven decisions regarding
children. View
the DataBook profile for California. |
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New
Website Promotes Healthful Eating
Obesity
has reached epidemic proportions in the United States, according to
the U.S. Surgeon General. The Get Healthy San Mateo County Task Force
has launched a new website that offers resources, data and information
about childhood obesity. See how local
kids are shaping up, and find advice on keeping families fit. |
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Bay
Area Autism Diagnoses on the Rise
The number of Bay Area public school students diagnosed with autism
has been rising in every county and nearly every school district in
the Bay Area for which data are available, according to a new fact
sheet from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. The
complete fact sheet, Autism Diagnoses on the Rise, can be
found online at www.kidsdata.org/autismbrief. |
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Kidsdata.org Expands Statewide!
Kidsdata.org now offers data for all counties, cities, and school
districts in California -- nearly 1,600 regions. Data are available
for dozens of topics measuring the health and well being of children,
and much more data will be phased in over the coming months. (See
www.kidsdata.org/statewide
for a complete schedule.) |
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