child care - Digital Library Collections

INDEX
Pell grants, 49
Pennsylvania, 10,26,57,84, 107-123; CHIP in, 34-35; law
enforcement and crime prevention in, 85-86
PEPNet, see Promising and Effective Practices Network
Pittsburgh, 85-86
Polier, Justine Wise, 78
Portland, OR, 35
Poshard, Glenn, xvi
Poverty, xii-xiv, 1,3-5; agenda for action to eliminate, 14-15;
and education, 49-50; facts and figures about, 7; and
housing, 16-20; national trends, 103; societal costs of, I;
state rates of, 107-109; among teen mothers, 97; among
working families, 2
Poverty Mailers: The Cost oJChiid Poverty in America, xii, 4, 17,49
Pregnancy, see Teen pregnancy
Prekindergarten, 43-44, 46
Prenatal care, 23, 33, 34; national trends, 104; state rates, 114
Preschool, 44, 98
President's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and
Quality in the Health Care Industry, 33
President's Ounce of Prevention Council, 84
Presumptive eligibility, 30
Preventing Crime, 84
Primary care case managers (PCCMs), 32
Program Archive on Sexuality, Health and Adolescence, 99
Project LEAD, 81-82
Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet), 90-91
Promoting Safe and Stable Families Program, 70, 74
Protect Ohio project, 73
Public Agenda Foundation, 42
Quantum Opportunities Project, 84
Race, see specific racial groups; Minorities
Rape, 97, 99
Relatives, children in care of, 68-69, 75
Renter households, 16
Report on the Condition ojEducation, 50
Rescuing the American Dream, 17
Respiratory diseases, 17,24-25,29
Rhode Island, 10, 12,30,57,107-123
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 30
Robin Hood Foundation, 98
Rochester-Monroe County Early Childhood Development
Initiative (NY), 45-46
Schools: absenteeism from, 16, 17,24,85; bilingual-bicultural
programs in, 48; breakfast program in, 53, 59-60, 62,111;
children with disabilities in, 48; efforts to improve, 49, 51;
extended day programs in, by state, 119; health services in,
35,97,101; lunch program in, 53, 59, 60, 61, 62, Ill;
physical condition of, 50; poor and minority children in,
49-50; pregnancy prevention programs in, 97, 99-100, 101.
See also After-school programs; Before-school programs;
Preschool
School-ta-Work program, 90
Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance Experiments
(SIME/DIME), 5
Section 8 rental assistance, 18, 19,20
Senate, see U.S. Senate
Sexual abuse, 78, 83, 98, 121. See also Rape
Sexual activity, 96-97
Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), 24, 36, 97, 98
SFSP, see Summer Food Service Program
Sherman, Arloc, xii
Sherwood, Wayne, 16
Sbookhoff, Andy, 85
SIME/DIME, see Seattle and Denver Income Maintenance
Experiments
Single-parent families: child tax credit for, 6; poverty among,
2-3; TANF work requirements for, 10, 1I
Smoking, teen, xviii
Social Security, 3, 6; Act, 32; Administration, 12-13, l24
Sociometrics Corporation, 99
Solow, Robert M., xii
Some Things Do Make a DifferenceJor Youch, 84
South Carolina, 9, 30, 107-123
South Dakota, 8, 10,26,68, 107-123
SSI, see Supplemental Security Income
State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), ix, xxi, xxii.
26, 28-30,35, 36; Pennsylvania's response to, 34-35; state
implementation of, 27-28
State Court Improvement Program, 67
Status offenders, 78, 83
Strong Families/Safe Children Program (MI). 70
Study ojChildren in Family Child Care and Relative Care:
Highlights ojFindings, 39
Substance abuse. see Alcohol abuse; Drug abuse
Suicide, 78, 8l, 82, 83; rates by state, l23
Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), 54, 57, 59, 60. 62;
participation in states. III
Summer programs, 47,85
Summer Youth Employment Program, 89
Supplemental Food Program for Women. Infants, and Children
(WIC). 53, 54, 57-58; participation in states. Ill; proposed
expansion of funding for, 62
Supplemental Security Income (SSI), 7, l2, l3; benefits by
state, 120
Supreme Court, 48. 80, 81
TANF, see Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Tax credits, 6-7, 19.41. See also Earned Income Tax Credit
Taylor, Gardner, xiv
Teacher Education and Compensation Helps (T.EAC.H.) Early
Childhood Project (NC), 45, 47
Teen Outreach Program (TOP), 99-100
Teen pregnancy, 91; agenda for action on, 100-10I; costs of,
97-98; decline in, 23, 93-94; facts and figures about, 98;
international comparisons of, 94, 95; national trends in, 105;
preventing, 97, 98-99; profile of, 94-96; racial disparities in,
95, 96; and teen birth rates by state, lIS; and Teen Outreach
Program, 99-l00
Television, 79, 80
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). 6, 7, 14,61,
69; benefits for immigrants, 12; benefits by state, 110; and
food assistance programs, 11,61; funds used for child care,
42, 43, 45; and kinship care, 68; and movement from welfare
to work, 7; recipients' problems, II; termination of, 7-8;
time limits on, 8-10; work requirements for, 10-11. See also
Welfare law
10 Point Coalition (MA), 85
Tennessee, 8, 9, 30,107-123
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND 129