Children
Urban Institute is excited to announce the NNIP partners in Boston, Durham, New Haven, and San Antonio selected through a competitive Request for Proposals for $50,000 subgrants from the NNIP... [read more]
In recent months, districts have been moving to integrate updated materials and re-examined practices to ensure a more equitable education for every student. Educators serve an important role in... [read more]
In the fall of 2013, in collaboration with Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH) of Kansas City, CEI was awarded grant funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for research... [read more]
The Pittsburgh Study will follow children in Allegheny County from birth through high school. It is the largest community-partnered intervention study to follow children over time. ... [read more]
At the request of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which funds the KIDS COUNT network, the authors conducted research to explore how these state data efforts couldbring greater benefits... [read more]
IHS looked at data on where the under-18 population in Chicago is growing or declining. We talked to key neighborhood stakeholders to understand why and what... [read more]
At what level does lead exposure become dangerous for children?
Dr. Robert Fischer, Co-Director of the Poverty Center, and Dr. Elizabeth Anthony, Research Assistant... [read more]
The Poverty Center's co-director, Dr. Rob Fischer, was interviewed for an article by the Cleveland Plain Dealer from February 1st, titled "Cleveland... [read more]
Project HOPES is a new effort of the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) that will contract with community-based organizations to provide child abuse and neglect prevention... [read more]
On November 5, 2015, Dr. Claudia Coulton presented the talk "Exploring the Impact of Foster Care and Juvenile Justice Involvement on Future... [read more]
In an editorial to the Cleveland Plain Dealer on November 1, Poverty Center Co-Director Dr. Rob Fischer discussed the magnitude of the... [read more]
In the series "Toxic Neglect", the Cleveland Plain Dealer has been running stories on the problems of lead poisoning on young children. Dr. Robert Fischer, co-director of the Poverty... [read more]
Lead affects Cleveland children even before kindergarten. In an unpublished report completed in June, Case Western Reserve University and Invest in Children examined the effect of lead poisoning... [read more]
The Juvenile Welfare Board of Pinellas County has been hosting Communities of Learning for all of its funded programs. They began by grouping all of their funded programs into four... [read more]
CEI is working with Children's Mercy Hosipital to undersand the effects of housing conditions on child health including lead poisoning, childhood asthma and childhood injury. Currently, CEI is... [read more]
On November 8th, 2014, the Institute for Urban Policy Research in conjunction with several other organizations in the area, hosted the first ever youth summit dedicated to exploring the topics of... [read more]
The Central Falls School District is the grantee with the Urban Institute and ProvPlan playing major roles in terms of project evaluation and data analysis. The NIJ project will be a large-scale... [read more]
In celebration of Attendance Awareness Month, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, The Providence Plan, and the Rhode Island Data
Sharing Project held a special event for educators, policymakers, and... [read more]
Last week we were awarded an implementation grant from the Aspen Forum for Community Solutions for our Oakland-Alameda County... [read more]
Join equity advocates from around the region for a discussion about the region’s key equity priorities, highlighting actions that are being taken – and those that need to be taken – to create a... [read more]
Children's Optimal Health (COH) and Dell Children's Medical Center (DCMC) are excited for the success of their second Transportation-Related Child Injury summit. This event brought together... [read more]
Children's Optimal Health (COH) and Dell Children's Medical Center (DCMC) are excited for the success of their second Transportation-Related Child Injury summit. This event brought together... [read more]
Public Health – Seattle & King County (PHSKC) is developing an Automated Disease Surveillance (ADS) program using Stata statistical software. In addition to being able to analyze the health... [read more]
In collaboration with King County school districts, Public Health – Seattle & King County is developing school district health profiles that will inform school administrators and policy-makers... [read more]
Birth Outcomes as Related to the Physical and Social Environment
Every parent wants to give birth to a healthy baby. In too many instances, children are born prematurely,... [read more]
How does living amid foreclosures, vacant properties, and declining neighborhood stability affect how well a child does in school?
Funded by the... [read more]
The outmigration that resulted in Detroit’s 25 percent population loss between 2000 and 2010 was driven, to a large degree, by families with children. In spite of that loss, children still... [read more]
Children's Optimal Health is pleased to announce that we have launched a new website. Many of our maps and all of our published reports are available for download through the site. There is... [read more]
Providence was named an All-America City by the National Civic League on July 2nd based on its ambitious plan to ensure that more children are reading at grade level by the end of third grade. ... [read more]
San Antonio was among the 14 communities named as All-America Cities by the National Civic League in July 2012. The award recognized the work of a third-grade reading coalition that includes the... [read more]
The RI DataHUB is a multi-agency longitudinal data system for anyone interested in the well-being of people in Rhode Island. The DataHUB brings together data sets from multiple federal, state and... [read more]
InfoWorks is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Department of Education and The Providence Plan. The InfoWorks site is designed as user-friendly, easily accessible resource for anyone... [read more]
The PNCIS and education researchers at the University of Pittsburgh are convening a group of interested stakeholders from education and community development fields to develop a common research... [read more]
Metropolitan Philidelphia Indicators Project released their most recent policy brief on charter school locations and falling enrollment in traditional public schools.
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Working in conjunction with Child Action Inc., Community Link is creating a demographic profile with resident population characteristics and details of the licensed child care providers located in... [read more]
Floodlight: See and show your community in a new light
Your story matters. Without it, nothing happens. Floodlight is a new, free web-based storytelling project that gives... [read more]
Marion County Commission on Youth, Inc. coordinates the strategic planning and service delivery of the EIP initiative, which involves hundreds of youth and family service providers, data providers... [read more]
Urban Strategies Council facilitated the Oakland Promise Neighborhood grant application and continues to coordinate Promise Neighborhood planning as the project director for the citywide... [read more]
Community Information Now (CI:Now) is a data and communications partner in San Antonio's Eastside Promise Neighborhood partnership planning grant, assisting in gathering baseline data and... [read more]
Representatives from the Boston Foundation and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council are on the Initiative's data committee.
Since 1984, the Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI)... [read more]
The PNCIS is supporting the work of the Homewood Children's Village, an initiative working to improve the environment for children and families in the Homewood neighborhood. The PNCIS is being... [read more]
Public Health - Seattle & King County provided data support and served on the leadership team for the coalition that submitted a Promise Neighborhoods proposal led by Southwest Youth and... [read more]
Morehouse School of Medicine and the United Way of Greater Atlanta worked together to secure a $500,000 planning grant from the Promise Neighborhood Initiative. Neighborhood Nexus collaborated on... [read more]
Data Drive Detroit (D3) provided data support for three applications: Black Family Development, Focus:Hope, and the Samaritan Center. D3 continues to serve on the data committee of the Black... [read more]
DataHaven is assisting the New Haven Promise Neighborhood Collaborative in their efforts to collect neighborhood-level indicators that help illustrate children's academic success, community and... [read more]
Starfish Family Services, headquartered in Inkster, Michigan, asked D3 to conduct an external evaluation of the most pressing needs of young children and families living in poverty, as well as the... [read more]
CBANA directly helped Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association in developing their Promise Neighborhood proposal, and was written in as data partner on Promise Neighborhood grant proposals for six... [read more]
In late 2010, the Urban Strategies Council and Oakland Unified School District, in partnership with the East Bay Community Foundation, launched a bold new initiative aimed at addressing the... [read more]
MPIP is providing data and mapping assistance to the ArtsRising project being implemented by a combination of arts and children’s organizations. In conjunction with five Philadelphia middle... [read more]
UI/NeighborhoodInfo DC provided data and research support to the DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative (DCPNI) in their successful application for a federal planning grant. They continue to serve as... [read more]
Urban Strategies Council facilitated, with the Oakland Unified School District, a nine-month planning process with the multi-stakeholder Full Service Community Task Force. We produced a... [read more]
The Ochs Center research on education and early childhood intervention was the basis for a proposal to create the Chattanooga Promise Zone. The Community Foundation was the lead applicant for the... [read more]
Providence was part of the coalition that submitted a proposal led by the Family Services of Rhode Island.
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MPIP participated in writing the Promise Neighborhood proposal submitted by Universal Community Homes, and is providing data support to four community-based work groups that are drafting plans to... [read more]
The Center for Urban Families' (CFUF) in partnership with the Baltimore City Office of the Mayor, Baltimore City Public Schools, KIPP Baltimore, the Park Heights Renaissance, Social Solutions, DLA... [read more]
The Miami Children's Initiative is receiving planning support from the Florida legislature from 2008 to 2011 to create a community-based service network that develops, coordinates and provides... [read more]
The proposed Promise Neighborhood for Miami Beach planned to build upon the existing Miami Beach Service Partnership, which provides comprehensive services to youth at risk for truancy and their... [read more]
D3 is providing a baseline profile of the Brightmoor community’s needs and assets. It includes an account of current conditions in Brightmoor covering multiple dimensions; an inventory and mapping... [read more]
The Skillman Foundation requested that D3 prepare a white paper on the overall well-being of Detroit's children, with a sub-analysis specific to boys of color. This report presents a broad set of... [read more]
With a commission from The Skillman Foundation, D3 collaborated with George Galster of Wayne State University to create a report that developed and analyzed a set of quantitative indicators for... [read more]
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