Families

CURRENT NEWS

Right Start report for Michigan. 2011. Kids Count.

• Annual Report. 2008. Aware, Inc.

• Annual Report 2009. Council for the Prevention of Child Abuse & Neglect (CPCAN).

• Annual Report. 2008. Michigan Coalition Against Domestic & Sexual Violence.

• By the numbers: the public costs of teen child-bearing in Michigan. 2006. The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy.

• Child abuse and neglect on the rise in Jackson County.  January 12, 2010. Jackson Citizen Patriot.

• Child Care Network demographics. Annual report. 2008. Child care average hourly rates.

• Child Trends Data Bank.

• Community Needs Assessments. 2010. 2008.  Community Action Agency. 2005.

• Community Report Card. 2008. United Way of Jackson County.

• Divorces, marriages on steady decline in Jackson County.  August 2009. Jackson Citizen Patriot.

• Family environment & family literacy.  National Institute for Literacy.

• Family Facts. Social science research on family, society & religion. The Heritage Foundation.

• Family Index. Provided by Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.

• Five graphs show state of American women. Collected from Yahoo March 1, 2011. Keywords: age, birth, education, bachelor's degree, earnings, activities, hours, obesity, race, ethnicity.

• Green Book Report of Key Program Statistics, February 2009. Michigan Department of Human Services. Includes county figures for Family Independence Program, Food Assistance Program, State Disability Assistance, Child Day Care, Medicaid, State Emergency Relief statistics, broken down by numbers of cases, recipients, payments as well as age distributions of children.  Also includes home help services, foster care and juvenile justice statistics.

• Hidden Health Tax: Americans pay a premium.  2009. Families USA.

• Highfields. Annual Report 2009. Technology Plan 2009-2012. 990. Audit 2009. Consumers served. Continuous quality improvement.

• Kids Count 2010. Michigan Profile.  Jackson County. Jackson Community. Kids Count 2009. Jackson 2009. Jackson 2008.  Michigan League for Human Services. Includes data on economic support and security, special needs, child care & early education, access to health care, child safety (e.g., child abuse & neglect), and child health.

• Marriage and Divorce: 50 state tour. October 2009. Pew Research Center.
  

• Marriage Matters Jackson.

• Marriage Survey.  2006. United Way of Jackson County.
  

• Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth: Family Domain. 2008. Jackson County. 

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• Michigan children and families: how they fare in the FY10 budget.  March 2010. Michigan League of Human Services.

• One-two punch: unemployed and uninsured. 2009. Families USA.

• Parental involvement in learning. National Institute for Literacy.

• Parents and Families. Michigan Department of Education.

• Parents and teens attitude tracking study report. March 2, 2010. Partnership for a Drug-free America.

• Right Start. 2011. 2010.  2009: Maternal and Infant Well-being in county groups. The Right Start in Michigan, a review of maternal and infant well-being, is based on eight indicators of maternal and infant well-being. Kids Count in Michigan annually updates these measures for the state, its 83 counties, and the 69 communities with population over 25,000. These measures are all related to the life prospects for a newborn.

• Self-sufficiency Report. 2007, revised. Michigan League of Human Services.

• Social Demographics. 3 year estimates. American Community Survey. US Census.

• The state of our unions: marriage in America 2010. The National Marriage Project.

• Trends in the characteristics of women obtaining abortions, 1974-2004. Guttmacher Institute. Keywords: pregnancies, trends, marital status, age, race, ethnicity, gestation, legal abortion, providers, incidence.

• Trends Report. 1996-2007. Children's Protective Services. Michigan Department of Human  Services. 2007 Statistics. Includes child abuse & neglect case breakdown by age and race of child, types of perpetrators, complaint sources, and also includes changes to laws, policies & procedures.

• United States Census Data: a snapshot of Michigan poverty, income and health insurance in 2008. 2009. Michigan League of Human Services.