This page features a listing of Action for Children's Early Care Publications, featured in chronological order (most recent first). To
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New! Emerging Issues Report: Children in Immigrant Families - February 2010
 All children deserve access to good health, safety, a sound education and the stability that comes with family financial security. And yet, Action for Children's newest report finds that access to these basics has been denied to far too many of the 340,000 children in immigrant families in
North Carolina. Although children in immigrant families make up 15 percent of the child population of the state, and the vast majority of them are U.S. citizens, many of them are blocked out of the health care system, pushed out of school, and relegated to the economic margins. Click here to read the full report.
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Action for Children North Carolina's 2009 North Carolina Children's Index offers a wealth of child and youth well-being data that demonstrate the state's public policy successes as well as missed opportunities. The report shows that important investments in children's services pay off, that sound research enhances the ability to build effective programs and that, despite progress in addressing children's needs, geographic and racial disparities persist.
Action for Children North Carolina has printed a limited number of the 2009 North Carolina Children’s Index due to considerations of the environment and economic context. Click here to download the 2009 North Carolina Children's Index.
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 Research tells us that children really need to be on grade level by third grade to see good long-term educational outcomes. Action for Children's first-of-its-kind Putting the Pieces in Place: A North Carolina Schol Readiness Report explains that school readiness is really about working with all the key pieces of the puzzle—children, the schools, and families and communities—to ensure that those crucial first 8 years of life are filled with the kinds of resources, interactions and experiences that make for school and life success.
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2006 Children's Index - May 2006
 The 2006 North Carolina Children's Index includes more than 75 indicators of child and youth well-being in the following areas: child health and safety, economic (in)security, early care and education, child maltreatment, juvenile justice and demographics. The 2006 Index also includes a special section highlighting how the children and youth of
North Carolina are developing in positive ways.
Copies of the Children's Index are free. If you would like to order multiple copies of the Index, we do ask that you pay postage costs. Please email your name, organization, mailing address and phone number to admin@ncchild.org
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 North Carolina children who live in families above 200% of the federal poverty line—about $38,700 for a family of four—are more likely to enjoy excellent physical and dental health, more likely to be read to as young children, more likely to participate in after-school activities and sports, and less likely to repeat a grade than their lower-income peers.
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