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The needs of children don’t stop when
legislators leave the state capitol - “The Child
Advocate Insider” is a bi-weekly update during
the summer and fall months to keep you informed on new
children’s policy research, federal updates from Capitol
Hill, interesting media articles, as well as local events and
advocacy opportunities in Kansas & Missouri.
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Back-to-School immunization clinic Aug.
8
The City
of Kansas City, Mo., Health Department is holding a
"Back-to-School” immunization clinic on Saturday, Aug. 8,
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 2400 Troost Ave., Suite
1100. No appointments are necessary.
Participants should plan to arrive early.
Parents
and guardians will need to present a copy of their child’s
shot records or a letter from the child’s school stating
what shots are needed. If the child has previously had shots at
the Health Department, parents and guardians may get a copy of
the shot record when they register at the
event.
Immunizations are free for children who have no
insurance, who have limited insurance that does not cover
immunization or who are eligible for Medicaid’s Vaccine
For Children program.
For more
information about this event, call the Health Department at
(816) 513-6042. For more information on childhood immunizations,
visit their Web site at http://www.kcmo.org/health.
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August 6,
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News from
Missouri
- Looming Budget Cuts: Sign the
Petition
- Speak Out on National Health
Reform
News from
Kansas
- KAC
Report: "What Will it Take?"
-
Kansas Kids Count Ranking Improves
News from
Washington
- Early Learning Child
Fund
- Child Care Background
Checks
New
Resources
- 2009 KIDS COUNT
Data Book Released
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Looming budget
cuts – sign
our petition
If you haven’t already, join the
nearly 1,000 Missouri voters who have
signed the petition to Governor Nixon asking him to make kids a
priority in the state’s budget.
Speak out on National Health Reform –
Coffee with Cleaver this Saturday in Lee’s
Summit
Opponents of Health Reform are making their voices
heard more loudly as congressional leaders take their summer
break. Don’t
be left out in the cold on this important issue. Be there this Saturday
to show your support for kids through national health reform by
attending this forum on Saturday.
What: Coffee with Congressman
Cleaver
When: 8 am to 10 am, Saturday, August 8,
2009
Where: JP Coffee; 3390 SW Fascination
Drive, Lee’s
Summit, MO
From our friends at Kansas Action for
Children:
A
Report from Kansas Action for Children – “What Will
it Take?” – Analysis of KIDS COUNT
data and provides information on how Kansas
can improve the health, education and economic security of
Kansas Children.
Kansas KIDS COUNT Ranking
Improves - Kansas ranked 13th among the 50 states on the well-being
of its children, according to a study recently released. The state’s
ranking was the best it had achieved in the past several years.
According to the 2009 KIDS COUNT Data Book, produced for the
Annie E. Casey Foundation, Kansas improved over the past
eight years on four of the 10 measures of child well-being. It
backslid on four measures, and saw no change on
two.
Early Learning Challenge
Fund
On July
21st, the House Education and Labor Committee
approved an historic new Early Learning Challenge Fund as part
of a major student loan reform bill. The grants will offer $1
billion a year for 8 years on a competitive basis to states to
build comprehensive, high-quality early learning systems that
ensure more disadvantaged children enter kindergarten ready for
success. Read more
>>
Child Care Background
Checks
Two bills were introduced
recently in Congress to require states to conduct comprehensive
background checks on all child care providers in order to be
licensed and to receive child care subsidy funding. Currently,
only half of the states conduct a state and national fingerprint
check for child care providers – and Missouri
isn’t one of them. Without a national check, an individual
convicted of a felony in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, or Arkansas could easily cross the state line
and care for children at a licensed center in Missouri.
Read more
about:
H.R. 3287, the CARE
for Kids Act
H.R. 3315, the Child
Care Criminal Background Check Act of
2009
2009
Kids COUNT Data Book Released
Last week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation (AECF)
released the 2009
KIDS COUNT Data Book which contains the most
recent information on the well-being of our nation’s
children and families. Ten key indicators measure everything
from low birth-weight babies to the percent of children in
poverty. Although some areas of child well-being have
improved, such as high school dropout rates and child death
rates, others have worsened, including children living with
jobless or underemployed parents and children in single-parent
families. The Data Book shows that while positive steps have
been made to improve child well-being there is still a long way
to go.
Untill next time,
Carrie
Shapton & Jeremy
LaFaver
Policy & Outreach
Coordinators
Partnership for
Children
infopfc@pfc.org ~ 816-531-9200
www.pfc.org
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