This Kids Count databook is the seventh annual profile examining statewide trends in the well-being of Rhode Island's children. The statistical portrait is based on 43 indicators in 5 areas: (1) family and community (including child population and children in single-parent families); (2) economic well-being (including median household income, secure parental employment, child poverty, child support, children in the Family Independence Program, children in families receiving food stamps, and children receiving school breakfast); (3) health (including children's health insurance, dental care access, mental health, WIC, prenatal care, birthweight, infant mortality, lead poisoning, asthma, births to teens, and alcohol, drug, and cigarette use by teens); (4) safety (including child and teen deaths, homeless children and youth, juveniles referred to family court, child abuse and neglect, and out-of-home placement); and (5) education (including infant/preschool child care, Head Start enrollment, school-age child care, child care subsidies, special education enrollment, fourth-grade reading skills, school attendance, and high school graduation). The report defines each indicator, describes its significance and trends, provides information on intervention programs, and presents relevant data for the state, 39 cities and towns, and an aggregate of the 5 cities with the highest child poverty rates. The report concludes with a description of the methodology, a list of Kids Count committee members, and acknowledgements. (KB)
Related Organizations
- Authorizing Institution
- Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, Providence.
- Location
- Rhode Island
- Peer Reviewed
- F
- Publication Type
- ['Numerical/Quantitative Data', 'Reports - Descriptive']
- Published in
- United States of America
- Sponsor
- ['Annie E. Casey Foundation, Baltimore, MD.', 'Rhode Island Foundation, Providence.', 'United Way of Southeastern New England, Providence, RI.', 'Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Princeton, NJ.', 'Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Lab. at Brown Univ., Providence, RI.', 'David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Los Altos, CA.']
Table of Contents
- Medan Househoki 19
- Drug and Cigarette Use 61
- Teen Deaths 68
- 147 75
- 148 76
- ChHe. Abuse and Neeect 78
- Abuse and Meelect 79
- ChM. Abuse and Neglect 80
- 156 80
- 157 80
- Out-of-Mome Placement 83
- Children M Out-of-Rome Placement 84
- Children in Out-of-Home Pllacement 85
- 167 85
- Care 92
- 180 92
- Adren ReceMng C 95
- Chfldren Enroned 100
- 196 100
- Fourth-Grade Reading sullis 103
- 203 103
- 207 105
- Graduation 108
- 219 111
- 226 115
- COL MT Commatees 116
