Health & Human Services
Support Funding for Children's Developmental Service Agencies
2010 Legislative Session Outcome: No additional funding was allocated to support Children's Developmental Service Agencies.
Children's Developmental Service Agencies are the local lead agencies for the North Carolina Infant-Toddler Program, under Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. These agencies provide early screening and intervention for children with mental illness and developmental disabilities.
Fully Fund Child Advocacy Centers
2010 Legislative Session Outcome: $375,000 was cut from Child Advocacy Centers.
Child Advocacy Centers exist to provide a more sensitive environment to respond to children who have been the victims of abuse. Often children who have been abused have to re-live the trauma through multiple redundant interviews by multiple agencies. The Child Advocacy Centers protect the child from these redundant interviews.
Fully Fund Infant Mortality Programs and Services
2010 Legislative Session Outcome: Senate Bill 1147 passed and Infant Mortality Programs and Services were funded.
$350,000 was allocated to the March of Dimes to continue the NC Folic Acid Campaign
to decrease neural tube defects
$150,000 was allocated to the Healthy Start Foundation to continue the SIDS and Safe
Sleep Campaign
$97,000 was allocated to the UNC School of Medicine for 17P distribution to help
prevent pre-term births
$460,000 was allocated for the Healthy Start Foundation to reduce infant mortality and
improve maternal health
Mecklenburg County had an infant mortality rate of 6.6 deaths per 1,000 births in 2008. Expansions in Medicaid coverage, enhancements in the perinatal care service system and implementation of evidence-based programs such as Nurse Family Partnership is shown to help reduce the infant mortality rate and improve birth outcomes. However, continuous budget cuts and elimination of services will negatively influence the impact of the infant mortality rate.
Fully Fund N.C. Health Choice and Raise the Health Choice Enrollment Cap 2010 Legislative Session Outcome: $6.5 million was allocated for NC Health Choice which will allow additional children to enroll.
North Carolina Health Choice for Children is a comprehensive health care program for children whose family income is too high to qualify them for Medicaid but too low for them to afford rising health insurance premiums. Raising the enrollment cap will allow more children to access affordable quality health care.
Support Case Management for Children with Special Needs2010 Legislative Session Outcome: The State Board of Education shall allocate an additional $3,598.55 per child for children with disabilities.
It is critical that children at-risk for developmental disabilities and chronic illnesses be identified early and that their families receive the support services necessary to maximize health and developmental outcomes.
Require the Child Care Commission and the Division of Child Development of the Department of Health & Human Services to Develop Improved Standards for Child Care Facilities and to Recommend Guidelines for Increased Levels of Physical Activity in Child Care Facilities
2010 Legislative Session Outcome: House Bill 1726 passed and was presented to the governor on July 9, 2010 to become effective December 1, 2010.
The Commission shall adopt rules for child care facilities to ensure that all children receive nutritious food and beverages according to their developmental needs.
The nutrition standards shall include all of the following:
● A prohibition against serving sugar sweetened beverages to children of any age
● A requirement to serve reduced fat milk to children older than two years of age
● A prohibition against serving more than four to six ounces of juice per day to
children over one year of age
Juvenile Justice Raise the Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction 
