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Healthy children have the best opportunity for success in school and in life. All children need access to quality affordable health insurance, preventive health care, a medical home, and specialized services when necessary.

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Children's Health Insurance Coverage

Action for Children works to ensure that all children have access to high-quality, affordable health insurance coverage by advocating for Medicaid, Health Choice and N.C. Kids Care -- public programs that expand children's access to care.
High-Risk Health Behaviors

All children and adolescents need knowledgeable adults to guide them towards smart decisions about their health and behaviors.

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Latino Children in North Carolina

Latino children comprise the fastest growing segment of North Carolina’s child population, jumping 34 percent in just three years. As the state’s schools and other institutions serve this growing group of children and youth, it is...
Who's for Kids and Who's Just Kidding (2010)

Who's for Kids and Who's Just Kidding provides North Carolinians with fast facts about child well-being followed by questions to ask candidates on a range of issues: health and safety, early care and education, child abuse and...
Place Matters: Where Children Grow Up Can Help Determine Health Outcomes (2010)

Children’s health outcomes are influenced by the communities they live in. Place Matters: Where Children Grow Up Can Help Determine Health Outcomes suggests that indicators of children’s health such as low birth...

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