Local Data Available Related to National Report on Kids' Well-Being

June 11, 2008

Contact: Andy Krackov, senior director of public information, at (650) 736-0677 or andy.krackov@lpfch.org, if you have any questions.

The Annie E. Casey Foundation is scheduled to release its annual KIDS COUNT Data Book tomorrow, summarizing a number of national trends in child well-being.

If you need related local data for your coverage of this story, visit www.kidsdata.org, a wide-ranging online clearinghouse of information about the health and well being of Bay Area children. The website, provided by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, offers facts on nearly 50 topics, and includes local data summaries for the hundreds of cities and school districts in six Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara). Users can view data as maps and tables, or bar, trend and pie graphs.