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General Publications
Early Care and Education
- Virginia Head Start Data Brief - A History of Strengthing Families and Communities (pdf) January, 2008
- The 2006 School Readiness Indicators contains key data indicators that are documented by an impressive body of research as measures of school readiness, and that are currently collected at the state and local levels. The regular reporting of indicators that describe the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive well-being of children enables policymakers and opinion leaders to identify areas most in need of intervention, track the results of their investments, and watch trends over time. School Readiness Indicators 2006 (2 mb, pdf) July, 2006 5mb version
- 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 PowerPoint) April, 2005
- The Special Needs of Infants and Toddlers in Foster Care (pdf) April 5, 2005
- PALS-k (pdf) December, 2004
- The Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry in Virginia (pdf, December 2004) Child care in Virginia is an important social infrastructure that has economic benefits for businesses, government, and workers. Public investments in child care result in immediate economic returns from child care spending in jobs, tax dollars, and increased economic activity. This analysis documents the economic impact of government and private sector investments in child care beyond the more familiar benefits to children and their families.
- Economic Impact of the Child Care Industry - Appendix Explanation of selected charts.
Errata Note: Figure 10, page 14, Average annual cost for tuition and fees for full-time undergraduate at an in-state 4 year college, $5,612 from A SCHEV REPORT, 2004-2005 Tuition and Fees at Virginia State-Supported Colleges & Universities, July 2004 online at http://www.schev.edu/Reportstats/reportsIndex.asp?from=reportstats (data are not from 2002-2003 as incorrectly referenced in Figure 10)
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.
- Join the Self-Sufficiency Standard list serve. Send your email without a message.
- 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.
Foster Care
- Foster Care in Virginia: A Place to Call Home - This data brief highlights the opportunity for foster care reform in Virginia, provides a snapshot of children in foster care, and summarizes recent findings regarding permanency for youth in care in Virginia. (pdf January 2008)
Health
Immigration and Children
Northern Virginia Forum Presentations
KIDS COUNT
- Infant Mortality -Understanding the complexities of death among Virginia's youngest children Virginia KIDS COUNT data brief (June, 2007)- Although Virginia ranks well among states on most indicators of child well-being, Virginia ranks poorly on infant mortality.
- Virginia Head Start Data Brief - A History of Strengthing Families and Communities -(pdf) January, 2008
- Community Level Information on Kids (CLIKs)
This interactive online site allows users to access Virginia city, county, and state data and to create quick custom profiles, maps, and graphs.
- 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.
- High School Dropout and Graduation Rates: What Do the Numbers Tell Us? (pdf, November 2006) A paper produced jointly by Voices for Virginia's Children and the JustChildren Program - This paper examines some of the challenges using graduation rate and dropout rate data and proposes solutions to both the data and dropout problems.
- Data Resource List (pdf, March, 2005) This publication provides excellent sources for additional data related to children.
- Data Guide (pdf, December, 2003) This publication provides basic information about how use data. 2005 Virginia KIDS COUNT book
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