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  • 01/17/12
    Achieving Educational Stability for Foster Youth in Ohio and the Impact of the Fostering Connections Legislation Issue Brief
    The nearly 800,000 children placed in substitute care often face unique educational challenges. Not only are they forced to deal with the trauma resulting from abuse and neglect, they must also confront many other barriers to school success: removal from their homes, separation from their families and friends, and multiple placements into temporary homes and new school environments.
  • 07/07/11
    Ohio's KIDS COUNT: 2010 Data Book
    The Ohio’s KIDS COUNT: 2010 Data Book, provides the most current and accurate data that tracks and compares the well-being of children in Ohio and its 88 counties.
  • Ohio's KIDS COUNT: 2009 Data Book
    The Ohio’s KIDS COUNT: 2009 Data Book, provides the most current and accurate data that tracks and compares the well-being of children in Ohio and its 88 counties.
  • Story Bank Form
    Tell us your story.
  • Children Who Witness Domestic Violence
    CDF-Ohio released the issue brief, Children Who Witness Domestic Violence, to increase awareness of the effects of domestic violence on those children who are witnesses to the violence.
  • Promising Practices
    Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this book emphasizes activities and initiatives that showed promise in enrolling children into Healthy Start Healthy Families by focusing on outreach, simplification, and coordination.
  • Rethinking Juvenile Detention in Ohio Issue Brief
    The Children's Defense Fund - Ohio, the Children's Law Center, Inc., Voices for Ohio's Children and the Juvenile Justice Coalition - Ohio are collaborating to increase awareness and support among key stakeholders and the general public for juvenile pretrial detention reform in Ohio.
  • Ohio's KIDS COUNT: 2008 Data Book
    Ohio's KIDS COUNT: 2008 Data Book is a compilation of the most current and accurate data that tracks and compares the well-being of children in Ohio and its 88 counties.
  • Employer Tool-Kit
    Funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this collection of resources educates employers about Healthy Start Healthy Families and encourages them to share the information with their employees. This effort seeks to enroll eligible children who are not enrolled in the state's healthcare system.
  • Ohio & Kinship Care: The Challenge for Grandparents & Other Caregivers
    Ohio & Kinship Care: The Challenge for Grandparents & Other Caregivers is the first in a series of issue briefs being published and released by the CDF-Ohio KIDS COUNT program. The series of issue briefs will provide information and data that will help with advocacy, policy development, and decision-making affecting the well-being of Ohio's children.
  • Juvenile Detention Reform in Ohio Fact Sheet
    The Children's Defense Fund - Ohio, the Children's Law Center, Inc., Voices for Ohio's Children and the Juvenile Justice Coalition - Ohio are collaborating to increase awareness and support among key stakeholders and the general public for juvenile pretrial detention reform in Ohio.
  • "Held Captive": Child Poverty in America
    Today, 15.5 million children are living in poverty in America -the highest child poverty rate the nation has seen since 1959. Nearly four million Americans fell into poverty last year and worst of all, children experienced the steepest rise in poverty and the largest single year increase since the 1960s.
  • The Face of Health Disparities Among Children in Ohio
    The Face of Health Disparities Among Children in Ohio exposes significant health disparities and inequitable access to health care among Ohio's racial minority and low-income children.
  • Ohio's KidS COUNT: 2007 Data Book
    Ohio's KIDS COUNT: 2007 Data Book is a compilation of data that tracks and compares the well-being of children in Ohio and its 88 counties. The data book focuses on 14 indicators of child well-being in the categories of economic security, health, education and safety. These indicators are monitored annually to track the status of how well children fare in Ohio.
  • Halting the Loss of Millions of Dollars in Earned Income Tax Credit Benefits from Ohio
    Halting the Loss of Millions of Dollars in Earned Income Tax Credit Benefits from Ohio is an issue brief published and released by the CDF-Ohio KIDS COUNT program.
  • Status of Ohio's Children: Juvenile Justice for Ohio's Children
    "Status of Ohio's Children: Juvenile Justice for Ohio's Children?" provides state and county data and information about Ohio's juvenile justice system. Ohio has improved its support of children in recent years but continues to lag behind most states in terms of juvenile justice because minorities are disproportionately represented and there is a lack of basic treatment services for all children.


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