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  1. Rewards and Roadblocks: How Special Education Students are Faring Under No Child Left Behind
    By National Center for Learning Disabilities; 2007
    Description: This report explores how special education students are faring under No Child Left Behind (NCLB). This report looks at specific requirements of NCLB and their impact on students receiving special education...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35830 (100.00%)


  2. West Virginia Children Need Great Childcare. West Virginia Needs a Childcare Quality Rating and Improvement System.
    By West Virginia KIDS COUNT Fund; 2008
    Description: This document asserts that West Virginia needs a child care quality rating and improvement system (QRIS) that gives parents the information they need to make good child care decisions, provides support...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35677 (100.00%)


  3. Children With Special Needs
    By Vermont Research Partnership; March 2005
    Description: This document from the Vermont Research Partnership presents information on how to help children with special needs succeed at school. Children with significant health or developmental challenges require...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35674 (100.00%)


  4. 2006 Kids Count Data Book
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; 2006
    Description: This book presents statistical data and trends to illuminate the status of America’s children and to assess trends in their well-being for 2006. By updating the assessment every year, KIDS COUNT provides...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35525 (100.00%)


  5. Casey Proposes Major Expansion of Child Care Access and Quality
    By Office of Senator Robert P. Casey, Jr.; May 5, 2008
    Description: This 2008 press release indicates that Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey proposed new legislation to reverse the chronic underfunding of child care and increase the availability of high-quality child care...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35521 (100.00%)


  6. 2008 Kids Count Essay
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; June 2008
    Description: This essay describes six commonplace deficiencies in the operations of the nation’s juvenile justice system: (1) trends in juvenile justice practice blur or ignore the well-established differences between...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35432 (100.00%)


  7. 2008 Kids Count Data Book
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; June 2008
    Description: This 2008 book presents statistical data and trends to illuminate the status of America’s children and to assess trends in their well-being in each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35401 (100.00%)


  8. The Ready by 21 Challenge: All youth ready for college, work and life
    By The Forum for Youth Investment; February 27, 2008
    Description: This guide presents key ideas and resources behind the Ready by 21 Challenge. States and communities are called on to change the odds for children and youth by changing the way they do business. DSLE0074...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35372 (100.00%)


  9. State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth
    By Ian Faigley, Elizabeth Gaines, Karen Pittman; December 2007
    Description: This series is intended to capture and organize the decisions and experiences of more than 20 children’s cabinets and councils and present them against an emerging set of expectations about what policymakers...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35343 (100.00%)


  10. Understanding Your State's Public Policy Process
    By Zero to Three; 2007
    Description: This document indicates that there are commonalities across States when it comes to public policy. In order to make the greatest impact on policies affecting babies, toddlers, and their families, it is...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35203 (100.00%)


  11. Children’s Behavioral Health Primer
    By Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy; 2007
    Description: This booklet addresses childhood mental health and substance abuse issues in Oklahoma. Mental health and substance abuse disorders in children and adolescents are caused by biology, environment, or a combination...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35195 (100.00%)


  12. A Science-Based Framework for Early Childhood Policy: Using Evidence to Improve Outcomes in Learning, Behavior, and Health for Vulnerable Children
    By Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University; August 2007
    Description: This report presents a framework to guide priorities for science-based early childhood policies and practices that are grounded in a combination of cutting-edge neuroscience, developmental-behavioral research,...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35125 (100.00%)


  13. Grandparents Raising Grandchildren: A Call To Action
    By U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Region IV Office; 2006
    Description: This paper discusses the incidence of grandparents raising grandchildren in Region IV; illustrates the collaborative efforts occurring among Federal, State, and local agencies in the Atlanta community...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35084 (100.00%)


  14. ECIC Strategic Activities
    By Judy Samuelson; September 12, 2007
    Description: These documents include a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation and a strategic planning outline for the Early Childhood Investment Corporation (ECIC) in Michigan. The following strategic activities of ECIC...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=35033 (100.00%)


  15. The Timing and Quality of Early Experiences Combine to Shape Brain Architecture
    By National Scientific Council on the Developing Child; December 2007
    Description: This working paper indicates that the foundations of brain architecture are established early in life through a continuous series of dynamic interactions in which environmental conditions and personal...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34973 (100.00%)


  16. How States are Developing Strategic Financing Plans for Local Systems of Care: The Nebraska Family Central Experience
    By Beth Baxter, Dave Hoyt; June 21, 2007
    Description: This Microsoft PowerPoint presentation describes Nebraska’s strategic financing plans for local systems of care that serve children. Region 3 Behavioral Health Services was created in 1974 through the...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34715 (100.00%)


  17. 2007 Kids Count Data Book
    By Annie E. Casey Foundation; 2007
    Description: This book presents statistical data and trends to illuminate the status of America’s children and to assess trends in their well-being for 2007. By updating the assessment every year, KIDS COUNT provides...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34671 (100.00%)


  18. Universal Pre-K: What About the Babies?
    By Samuel J Meisels; January 25, 2006
    Description: This paper suggests that the universal pre-K movement does not take into account children younger than four years. One of the most startling statistics about pre-K programs is that 25 States devote no...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34315 (100.00%)


  19. Build It Right! Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care Response to the Best Start Plan
    By Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care; April 2005
    Description: This document presents a response by the Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care to the Best Start Plan for a provincial child care system. Ways for Ontario’s government to improve Best Start are suggested...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34109 (100.00%)


  20. Show Us, Missouri! New Mexico’s Treatment Program Borrows from a Model of Reform Success
    By Joline Gutierrez Krueger, Albuquerque Tribune; November 9, 2006
    Description: This 2006 paper indicates that New Mexico’s recent mission in juvenile justice is patterned after a successful Missouri program. Basic tenets of the Missouri method include: (1) closing larger “training...
    http://nccic.acf.hhs.gov/library/index.cfm?do=oll.viewitem&itemid=34040 (100.00%)


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