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 Child Poverty in North Carolina: A Preventable Epidemic highlights the stunting effect poverty has on children’s cognitive development, academic success, health outcomes and opportunities to improve economic circumstances.
Specifically, Child Poverty in
North Carolina: A Preventable Epidemic recommends that
North Carolina policymakers work to:
- Support families with decent wages; affordable, high-quality child care and housing; and access to tax credits and health insurance.
- Strengthen communities through increased access to traditional banking services, improved public and adult education, environmental clean-up efforts and strategic economic development investments to attract socially responsible businesses.
- Invest in children’s futures through increased opportunities for asset creation, such as appropriate savings vehicles, affordable financial education for adults and children, greater support for small businesses and increased access to homeownership.
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 Action for Children and State Farm Insurance have launched a safety awareness campaign to increase familiarity with two new vehicle laws passed by the 2006 N.C. General Assembly. The campaign features an easy-to-understand fact sheet, highlighting two new laws: the backseat safety belt law and the teen driver cell phone ban. 200,000 fact sheets were distributed statewide to teenage drivers.
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 Action for Children's newest report discusses the latest scientific research on adolescent brain development, showing that while teenagers may physically resemble adults, neurologically, their brains are still developing and are extremely susceptible to environmental influences. The report also finds that in
North Carolina youth who serve adult time are more than twice as likely to be reconvicted of crimes as youth who receive juvenile services. |
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Resources for Young Advocates
Visit our Resources for Young Advocates section of our Young Advocates Toolkit to help you on your way to becoming involved in civic work and being an advocate on behalf of children and youth in our state. This resource guide offers a listing of national and state resources and their contact information.
Youth Policy
Action
Center (YPAC)
Take action close to home! Action for Children has partnered with the
Youth
Policy Action
Center so that you can contact
North Carolina’s Governor, state legislators and local officials.
Other Resources for Young Advocates
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 More Than Safe: Achieving Positive Outcomes for Foster Youth concentrates on outcomes for children who have been involved in the system. Specifically, the report focuses on children in N.C. Division of Social Services (DSS) custody by assessing stability in out-of-home placements, length of time in care and transitions when aging out of the foster care system.
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