Council on Children and Families

A Place to Call Home

When children are separated from their homes, they often are also separated from other family members, their peers, teachers and others who may provide them with a sense of support and stability. This brief highlights the factors that play a role in family and youth homelessness and the type of supports that can prevent or reduce the likelihood of this experience.

The NYS 2011 Touchstones/KIDS COUNT Data Book (please allow time for download) provides a wide range of information related to six key areas of child well-being through the lens of diversity and disparity. This data book highlights disparities that impact child outcomes. By looking more closely at these data and identifying where disparities occur, we can more effectively target resources.

Previous Touchstones/KIDS COUNT Data Books are available in our archive section.

New KIDS COUNT Brief: Identifying High Needs Communities in New York State

Young children’s well-being can be compromised by a range of risk factors associated with children, their families, the quality of schools they attend and their communities; it is also well-established that these risks can be offset by early supports to children and families. Therefore, identifying communities where young children are disproportionately exposed to factors that can compromise their development enables us to align and mobilize resources that promote their well-being and offset factors that place them at risk. This research brief describes the method used to identify high need communities in New York state, with particular emphasis on children from birth to age 5 years.

The Council on Children and Families is pleased to join the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a 2011 KIDS COUNT Data Book outreach partner. The annual data book is a comprehensive resource on the status of U.S. children, featuring state-specific data on ten key indicators of child well-being. Please visit the Data Book home page to download the report and create maps, graphs, and charts at the national, state, and local level. The new mobile Data Center offers hundreds of measures of child well-being available on any smartphone: http://mobile.kidscount.org.

KIDS COUNT Brief: Nourishing New York's Kids

Proper nutrition, the building blocks for children’s health, cognitive development and overall growth, is essential for children’s healthy development. This brief describes the status of food insecurity in New York, provides an overview of programs intended to target this issue and presents county-level data on many of the factors that contribute to inadequate nourishment.