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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.

	The Positive Impact of Social and Emotional Learning for K-8 Students 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.

	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.

	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.

	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.

	Collecting Data from Preteens This report, comissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and prepared by Education Training Research (ETR) Associates, provides a summary of research on eight common methods used to collect data from children ages 9 to 13, including surveys (computer-based, PDAs, paper and pencil), diaries, interviews (phone, in person, focus groups), and observational methods.

	Report Sheds Light on Children's Dental Health Dental decay is the most prevalent disease among California children. This year, a law goes into effect requiring that kids have a dental screening before the end of their first year of school. As this new mandate brings attention to an often hidden health issue, kidsdata.org takes a comprehensive look at dental health conditions for children in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. The report describes local and state programs and initiatives, and offers a list of regional resources.

	What Issues Concern Bay Area Parents? For the second year in a row, Bay Area parents have put their children's emotional health at the top of their worry list, highlighting a less-recognized yet crucial aspect of children's well-being. In a wide-ranging survey, parents across economic, geographic, and racial/ethnic lines indicated that on a day-to-day basis stress, depression, weight, and the fallout from family conflict outrank other concerns about their children's health.

	Bay Area Survey: Children's Health Top Concern The well being of children and education and the schools outrank 11 other issues as chief concerns for local residents, regardless of their parental status, gender, income level or political affiliation. More than seven in 10 Bay Area respondents (71 percent) report being "extremely concerned" about the well being of children, according to a survey commissioned by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.

	Foundation Hosts Ethnic Media Briefing More than 20 representatives from ethnic media outlets throughout the Bay Area visited the foundation July 13, 2006, for a briefing on local children's health issues. The briefing was coordinated by New America Media, and included representatives from the Latino, Vietnamese, Iranian, Korean, Chinese, Filipino, Russian, Ethiopian and youth press.

	Supporting Cultural Competency The foundation's information and grantmaking programs offered a workshop on cultural competency in December 2006. The event featured a panel of experts and included an issue brief developed by California Tomorrow about how organizations can become culturally competent, as well as a list of resources for cultural competency.

	www.kidsdentalhealth.org This website offers facts, news, and resources regarding children's oral health. In 2003, 17 percent of children in Santa Clara County and 11 percent of children in San Mateo County did not have dental insurance. Across the state, about one in four children suffer from tooth decay that goes untreated, according to a new statewide assessment by the Dental Health Foundation.

	'Survival Guide' Tackles Stress, Divorce "The Parent Survival Guide," a KTEH pilot series that is funded in part by our foundation, aims to meet the needs of Silicon Valley parents by addressing their problems and putting them in touch with a wide variety of parenting resources. The two-part pilot, which addressed student stress and divorce, aired in early May 2005.

	Children's Health Tops Californians' Concerns Californians rate "the well-being of children" as their chief concern, outranking the cost of living, taxes, the war in Iraq and terrorism, according to a new poll conducted by the Field Research Corporation for the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health. Locally, San Mateo County and neighboring Santa Clara County recently released reports on the state of children's health.

	'Preteen Health Talk' Website Launched in October 2004 by the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, with support from our foundation, "Preteen Health Talk" offers health information for children ages 9-12 and their parents, on topics ranging from divorce to nutrition to puberty.

	Student Stress Is Focus of Conference "SOS: Stressed Out Students," a conference co-sponsored by the Stanford School of Education and our foundation, addressed stress among students in middle school, high school, and college. Schools that participated in the event assembled later in the year to report on progress in alleviating stress at their schools.

	Children of Alcoholics Approximately one in four children in the U.S. is exposed to alcohol abuse and/or alcoholism in the family. To raise awareness of this important topic, our foundation co-sponsored a broadcast of the award-winning documentary, Lost Childhood: Growing Up In An Alcoholic Family, on PBS stations throughout the country.

	Preteen Emotional Health Tops Parent Concerns A Foundation survey suggests that issues related to emotional well being are the chief concern for local parents, though most say their children are doing well overall.

	Childhood Matters Radio Shows These Childhood Matters and Nuestros Niños call-in radio shows, funded in part by our foundation, will focus on how to understand and encourage preteens during these key transitional years. This series of shows about preteens began Sunday, Feb. 6.