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Develop eligibility and enrollment standards across all income-based children’s programs and facilitate more effective inter-agency cooperation.

Establish a Children’s Cabinet.

Promote health homes for children.

Provide school-based preventive health care and other support services to children.

Allow counties and local agencies to blend funding streams that serve children.

Strengthen the linkage between environmental protection and children’s health initiatives.

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Stepping Up for Kids: What Government and Communities Should Do to Support Kinship Families, 2012

May 22, 2012

Download file: casey_kinship_report_2012.pdf

The time-honored tradition of kinship care helps protect children and maintains strong family, community and cultural connections. When children cannot remain safely with their parents, other family and friends can provide a sense of security, positive identity, and belonging. Over the past decade, the number of children living in kinship care nationally has increased almost 18 percent, to more than 2.7 million children.

The KIDS COUNT policy report highlights what advocates, particularly those in California, worry about, which is that critical services serving these children may not be prioritized as counties look to meet the many needs of children coming in contact with the Child Welfare System.

Children Now is The Annie E. Casey KIDS COUNT grantee for the state of California.

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