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Two Percent of Rhode Island Children are in Kinship Care
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A new report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that 6,000 children in Rhode Island (2% of all children) and 2.7 million children in the U.S. (4% of all children) are in kinship care, which means they are cared for by relatives or close family friends because their parents can no longer care for them.
The report, Stepping Up For Kids: What Government and Communities Should Do To Support Kinship Families, recommends steps that can be taken to improve financial stability, housing, health care, legal services and education supports for kinship families. Children in state-supervised kinship foster care represent 26% of the total foster care population in both Rhode Island and nationally. |
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Data in Your Backyard Series to Kick Off in Pawtucket
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Rhode Island KIDS COUNT is kicking off its 2012 Data in Your Backyard series with a data presentation in Pawtucket on June 4, 2012. The event will be held at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 50 Park Place, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Click to view the invitation or the RSVP form.
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Juvenile Justice Data Presentation and Discussion
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Of the 669 youth held at the Rhode Island Training School in 2011, 385 (58%) were from Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls or Woonsocket.
This was just one data point discussed at a juvenile justice-focused presentation held at AS220 in Providence on May 3, 2012. Sponsored by Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, AS220 and the Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), the presentation was followed by a panel discussion about the best ways to serve Rhode Island's adjudicated youth.
View the presentation and photos of the event.
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Preterm Births Discussed on Rhode Island KIDS COUNT TV Show
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Check out the May episode of the Rhode Island KIDS COUNT TV Show! Dr. Betty Vohr, Pediatrician at Women and Infants Hospital, and Nancy Roberts, President & CEO of VNA of Care New England, joined host Elizabeth Burke Bryant to discuss federal funding Rhode Island just received to help preterm infants transition from hospital to home and the importance of home visiting programs for new moms. |
