Reports & Research

This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT spotlights the nation’s disconnected youth, describes the barriers they face towards becoming financially stable, and draws attention to the supports they need to become engaged and connected.

This fact sheet covers California’s unique approach towards implementing its federal Race to the Top - Early Learning Challenge (RTT-ELC) grant, which builds on local and statewide successes.

An interactive, online report, the 2012 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being delivers a current and comprehensive picture of children’s condition in every one of California’s 58 counties.

This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation provides state trends in children’s well-being.

A complete, concise analysis of the updated 2012-2013 California state budget proposal’s impact on children.

This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT highlights the vulnerabilities experienced by children whose caregivers are extended family members and close family friends.

This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation finds that one in eight U.S. children in high-poverty communities lives in California.

A concise analysis of Governor Brown’s 2012-13 budget proposal’s impact on children’s well-being.

This report by The Annie E. Casey Foundation, which ranks every state on the well-being of its children, finds California improving slightly overall in children’s well-being.

This policy brief covers the intersections of childhood obesity and dental disease, and offers solutions that can promote the prevention of both.

The 2011-12 California Report Card breaks new ground by providing The Children’s Agenda, the top ten policy actions that should be taken to support children. The Report Card also analyzes and grades the key domains of children’s well-being.

To promote inquiry and action, the 2010 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being measures counties’ progress in enabling children to be healthy, safe and ready to learn and provides insightful comparative data.

This policy brief covers new California state funding to support teacher recruitment and training through the California Gang Reduction, Intervention and Prevention (CalGRIP) initiative.

This report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, which ranks every state on the well-being of its children, finds California improving slightly overall in children’s well-being.

This guide is a resource for California policymakers and advocates, to help them navigate the state’s programs, services and available funding streams.

This KIDS COUNT Special Report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation highlights the need to increase the number of children reading at grade level by the end of third grade, a critical academic milestone that can predict whether or not children graduate from high school.

This policy brief provides the case for expanding career ladder approaches in the afterschool field.

This 68-page report identifies critical issues affecting children’s well-being and threatening to compromise public health and the economy.

This study reveals the failure of the food and beverage industry’s “Better-for-You” initiative to achieve promised improvements in the nutritional quality of foods advertised to children.

This portfolio highlights 11 success stories about covering children through Medi-Cal and Healthy Families.

This policy brief covers recent cuts to children’s oral health services, best practices in other states, and policy recommendations.

This policy brief provides useful resources for new and existing programs in California.

This 24-page policy brief explores the concept of kindergarten readiness observation tools and their benefits to local and state level stakeholders.

A 56-page report presenting a clear case for prioritizing smart investments in children’s health and education.

This report found that the educational quality of children’s educational/informational programs on commercial broadcast television is at its lowest level since it was first measured in the 1990s.

To promote inquiry and action, the 2008 California County Scorecard of Children’s Well-Being measures counties’ progress in enabling children to be healthy, safe and ready to learn and provides insightful comparative data.

This policy brief provides recommendations for increasing full-day, full-year preschool opportunities.

This policy brief covers what California should know about other states’ and federal funding efforts, and outlines key policy recommendations.

This policy brief covers the state’s challenges in meeting staffing needs for its publicly-funded after school programs.

A 40-page report detailing how California children are faring and informing the agenda for critical children’s health and education policy improvements needed in 2008.

The Effects of Interactive Media on Preschoolers’ Learning: A Review of the Research and Recommendations for the Future summarizes current research and practice regarding the use of educational interactive media to teach preschool children.

The study compares the quantity of children’s programming in eight different markets across the country in 1998, before the FCC allowed the formation of duopolies, and in 2006, after duopolies were permitted in some markets.

This policy brief covers the oral health needs of pregnant women, new mothers and young children, and outlines key policy recommendations.

Children in Immigrant Families: A California Data Brief presents the most current data available on the health, education and family well-being of children in California’s immigrant families, who represent 51% of the state’s total child population.

The 2007 California County Data Book provides the most comprehensive county-level data on children’s health, education, and economic well-being available to the public. This new online resource illuminates the vast differences between counties that are masked by statewide figures.

This report on California’s “border kids”—the 800,000 children living in San Diego and Imperial counties—challenges many commonly-held stereotypes. A comprehensive set of indicators of border kids’ health, education and economic well-being is provided.

This 10-page report provides a summary of Children Now’s conference in 2006 on marketing and advertising to children, including outcomes and next steps.

A 40-page report presenting key indicators of how California’s children are faring and policy recommendations in the areas of health, education and family well-being.

This 8-page report highlights disparities in child well-being in several areas of San Diego County with highly concentrated Latino residents and Mexican immigrants.

This 34-page report highlights innovative, local preschool efforts throughout the state of California.

This 24-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, with letter grades assigned to each children’s policy area.

This 208-page report includes California county ranking charts and indicators.

This 8-page brief covers interactive technology and its potential to revolutionize how children watch television.

This 45-page report answers why financing after school programs matters for the state of California.

This 4-page report is part of a new four-state report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation that provides a picture of how all children along the U.S.-Mexico Border are faring.

This 28-page brief provides research that confirms children, families, and programs benefit when parents are involved in their child’s preschool learning.

This 44-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, with special focus on children in immigrant families.

This 6-page report provides the public policy implications of DTV and an overview of new FCC rules and recommendations.

This 84-page report summarizes research on preschool benefits, state and county enrollment rates, recent voter polling, and demographic data.

This 224-page companion to the California Report Card includes California county ranking charts and indicators.

This 52-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, with special focus on health.

This 16-page study on media duopolies in Los Angeles suggests that changes to current ownership rules will seriously impact children’s programming nationwide.

This 12-page report provides a benchmark, five-year analysis of the networks’ progress to increase diversity on their shows.

This 108-page companion to the California Report Card provides data on children’s critical early years.

This 52-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, with special focus on children’s early years.

This 48-page study finds broadcast networks have made minimal progress in presenting a more diverse prime time picture, despite stated commitments for greater on-screen diversity.

This 36-page study finds most top-selling video games for children violent, offering little or no racial and gender diversity.

This 170-page companion to the California Report Card includes county-by-county indicators and charts.

This 44-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, such as economic security, health, safety and early care.

This 20-page study finds local television news often overlook positive stories about children in favor of crimes committed by and against children.

This 11-page brief looks at California children’s lack of access to quality after school care.

This 36-page study finds a prime time dominated by white male characters. Does it send mixed messages to children about the status and value of women and minorities?

This 36-page report provides an overview of issues facing California’s children, with special focus on the new generation of California teenagers.

This 64-page companion to the California Report Card focuses on a number of teen issues.

This 30-page study uncovers many disturbing trends in the “best” examples of diversity on prime time television.

This 68-page study provides a detailed vision of how health plans can improve adolescents’ health and well-being.

This 28-page study finds many actors of color playing guest roles or non-recurring characters, undermining the need for true racial diversity on television.

This 167-page companion to the California Report Card includes data not available in individual county profiles.

This 24-page report outlines the many difficulties boys face in an era of highly-publicized acts of violence by young males.

This 28-page companion report analyzes the role that entertainment media plays in boys’ development.

This 16-page companion report analyzes the role that sports figures play in boys’ development.

This 8-page report focuses on a media landscape where coverage of minority children and the issues they face remains sparse.

This 12-page report provides an in-depth view on how children perceive racial and class inequities in the media.

This 6-page report focuses on Native American children’s views on race and class in news and entertainment media.

This 8-page booklet offers practical tips for talking openly with young children about violence.

El folleto contiene recomendaciones y técnicas eficaces y prácticas para hablar abierta y fácilmente con sus hijos de 8 a 12 años de edad sobre algunos de los temas más difíciles: el sexo, el VIH/SIDA, la violencia, las drogas y el alcohol.

This 44-page booklet offers practical, concrete tips and techniques for talking with young children about sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, drugs and alcohol.

A 67-page companion to the 1998 California Report Card reviews the past decade.

This report analyzes the conditions facing California’s children and provides a special review of changes over a decade.

This report covers a range of media where women and girls are depicted as concerned with romance and dating over work or school, and where physical appearance is valued over talent.

This survey shows that children across the board are interested in change from the news media.

This 4-page summary contains the first major analysis of national news content devoted to child-related topics to be reported from the academic community.