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Child advocates across Connecticut are imploring Gov. Ned Lamont to increase state funding for subsidized preschool and child care slots. It would offset the impacts of a new law, which requires children to be five years old before Sept. ...
Children of color and from low-income families in Ohio and across the nation are not only exposed to more dangerous toxic chemicals including lead, tailpipe and other air pollution, plastics and pesticides; they also experience disproportionate harm to brain development compared to their white and higher income peers, according to a new report. Devon Payne-Sturges, associate professor of environmental health at the University of Maryland and the report's co-author, said five decades of data show poverty exacerbates the effect of pollution. "Studies have found that the combined exper...
For young people with serious behavioral health challenges, a new report showed Pennsylvania's congregate-care settings may be the best option. The report's authors surveyed 20 providers of congregate care, in facilities housing from about a dozen kids to almost 300. Jaclyn Kreshock, director of children's behavioral health services for the Pennsylvania Council of Children, Youth and Family Services and the report's co-author, said there is a growing movement to transition youth to more community-based and homelike settings. ...