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Reports: Health

A National Profile of Youth and Young Adults
Annie E. Casey Foundation, October 2024
Presents data related to more than 60 indicators on the health and well-being of young people ages 14 to 24, including employment, poverty, education, health, mental health, and family and community issues. Many of the indicators are available by race and ethnicity, and are also provided by state and, in some cases, by territory, city and congressional district. more info >

America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being
Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, September 2024, 118 pp.
Reports data on a set of indicators of child well-being. Indicators included are in the categories of family and social environment, economic categories, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education, and health. This is an annual report. more info >

Kids Count Data Book: State Trends in Child Well-Being
Annie E. Casey Foundation, July 2024, 54 pp.
This annual report provides data on 10 indicators of child well-being, by state and for the U.S. States are ranked on each indicator and compared to previous years. more info >

Recent Trends in Children’s Poverty and Health Insurance as Pandemic-Era Programs Expire
Kaiser Family Foundation, January 2024, 6 pp.
This issue brief examines recent trends in children's poverty rates and the impact of expiring federal aid, including the loss of Medicaid coverage for many children. more info >

State of America’s Children Report
Children's Defense Fund, January 2024
This report summarizes the status of America’s children in 11 areas: child population, child poverty, income and wealth inequality, housing and homelessness, child hunger and nutrition, child health, early childhood, education, child welfare, youth justice, and gun violence. more info >

The State of America's Children
Children's Defense Fund, December 2023, 86 pp.
A compilation of national and state-by-state data on poverty, health, child welfare, youth at risk, early childhood development, education, nutrition and housing. Report is compiled annually. more info >

Creating Equitable Ecosystems of Belonging and Opportunity for Youth
Forum for Youth Investment, September 2023, 9 pp.
This guide is designed to help public- and private-sector leaders build ecosystems that are better suited to help young people thrive. It is specifically intended to support coordinated initiatives where multiple youth-serving organizations or agencies are already working together. more info >

U.S Child Poverty Has Significantly Increased
First Focus on Children, September 2023, 8 pp.
The year 2023 saw a significant increase in child poverty, with 12.4 percent of children living in poverty in 2022 compared with 5.2% of children in 2021. This represents a more than doubling of child poverty in 2022 from 2021 - a record one-year increase due largely to the expiration of improvements to the Child Tax Credit included in the American Rescue Plan Act. more info >

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Outcomes Are Declining Despite Continued Improvements in Well-being Indicators
Child Trends, August 2023, 10 pp.
Recent trends in child and adolescent mental health show worrying increases in depressive and anxiety symptoms and suicide among youth. This brief summarizes these findings and suggests that strong population-level monitoring of mental health — especially through robust data collection — is a vital step toward explaining the divergence between social indicators and mental health outcomes in children and youth. more info >

Diagnosed Developmental Disabilities in Children Aged 3–17 Years: United States, 2019–2021
National Center for Health Statistics, July 2023, 8 pp.
Results from the National Health Interview Survey indicate that during 2019-2021, a significant increase in the prevalence of any diagnosed developmental disability in children aged 3-17 was observed. more info >

Cultivating Purpose in Adolescence
National Scientific Council on Adolescence (NSCA), June 2023, 23 pp.
This report reviews research about why a sense of purpose is important during adolescence, and how adults, schools, and communities can help young people cultivate this internal resource. more info >

Children’s Health Coverage Trends: Gains in 2020-2022 Reverse Previous Coverage Losses
ASPE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, May 2023, 23 pp.
Issue brief on children’s health insurance coverage trends and access to health care services. more info >

Parenting in America Today
Pew Research Center, January 2023, 44 pp.
A research survey on American families reveals that parents' biggest concern is their children's mental health, including anxiety and depression. For lower-income parents and Hispanic parents, children's physical safety is a major concern. more info >

National and State Estimates of Children Living with Parents Using Substances, 2015–2019
ASPE, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, January 2023, 27 pp.
This brief presents estimates of the number and percentage of children whose parents engage in problematic substance use, including past-year substance use and SUD by substance type and child demographics. It discusses how living with a parent with an SUD increases children's risk of emotional, cognitive, behavioral, and social problems. more info >

School Health Profiles: Characteristics of Health Programs among Secondary Schools
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, December 2022, 200 pp.
Summarizes results from a national survey measuring school health policies and practices. Profiles include information about health education, physical education, health services, healthy and safe school environment, and family and community involvement. Surveys are conducted every two years. more info >

Breastfeeding report card -- United States, 2022
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2022, 9 pp.
This report card provides both national and state-level data which enable communities to monitor breastfeeding progress. more info >

Research Update on Peer Support for Youth and Young Adults
Pathways to Positive Futures, Portland State University, July 2022, 5 pp.
This report summarizes research on peer support for youth and young adults who experience serious mental health conditions. more info >

Gaps in Coverage: A Look at Child Health Insurance Trends
Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families, November 2021, 10 pp.
The number of uninsured children was on a downward trajectory for many years, but in 2017 started going back up. This issue brief examines the incidence and characteristics of children who experienced a period of uninsurance over the course of a recent year, including by race and ethnicity, and examples some of the negative consequences of gaps in health insurance coverage. more info >

North Dakota Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Priorities 2021-2025
North Dakota Department of Health, October 2021, 9 pp.
This report focuses on the health care needs of different population groups within North Dakota, including pregnant women, mothers and infants to age 1; children and adolescents; and children and youth with special health-care needs. It provides an overview of the state’s challenges and a description of the state's selected priority needs. more info >

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): Preventing Early Trauma to Improve Adult Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, August 2021, 4 pp.
A analysis providing comprehensive estimates of the potential to improve Americans’ health by preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). Preventing ACEs could potentially reduce chronic diseases, risky health behaviors, and socioeconomic challenges later in life. more info >

Uninsurance Rose among Children and Parents in 2019: National and State Patterns
Urban Institute, July 2021, 34 pp.
Using data from the American Community Survey (ACS), this brief finds that children's uninsurance rates rose between 2016 and 2019 both in states that had implemented the ACA's Medicaid expansion and those that had not. However, the increase was larger in nonexpansion states on average: 7.6 percent of children in nonexpansion states were uninsured, compared with 3.8 percent of children in expansion states. more info >

Poverty and Child Health in the United States
American Academy of Pediatrics, April 2021, 16 pp.
Almost half of young children in the United States live in poverty or near poverty. Poverty and related social determinants of health can lead to adverse health outcomes in childhood and across the life course, negatively affecting physical health, socio-emotional development, and educational achievement. This report consists of a policy statement and a technical report describing current knowledge on child poverty and the mechanisms by which poverty influences the health and well-being of children. more info >

Facts about Low-Income Children: Children under 18 Years
National Center for Children in Poverty, March 2021, 9 pp.
These fact sheets describe the demographic, socioeconomic, and geographic characteristics of children and their parents. They highlight important factors that appear to distinguish low-income and poor children from their less disadvantaged counterparts. more info >

Food Insecurity and Child Health
American Academy of Pediatrics, October 2019, 9 pp.
Addresses the relationship of food insecurity and health among children, finding that household food insecurity was related to significantly worse general health and health care access for children. more info >

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, June 2019, 162 pp.
National survey that monitors six categories of health-risk behaviors among youth and young adults (grades 9-12). The study addresses violence, tobacco and drug use, sexual behaviors, dietary behaviors, and physical activity. Includes state-by-state comparisons. more info >

Universal Approaches to Promoting Healthy Development: The Future of Children Spring 2019
The Brookings Institution and Princeton University, March 2019, 270 pp.
Includes a variety of articles that look at how society can best support parents, beginning early in their children's lives, describing several ways that local communities have tried to provide such support by implementing new interventions, reforming existing systems of care, and improving the coordination and planning of services. more info >

Local Workforce Development Boards and Child Care: Insights from Five Site
Urban Institute, August 2018, 40 pp.
This report explores how workforce development programs can help address child care barriers and meet the needs of parents seeking education and training. more info >

State Level Trends in Children's Health Insurance Coverage
SHADAC Data Center, June 2018, 36 pp.
This report examines data from the American Community Survey (ACS) to compare health insurance coverage from 2013 to 2016 for children nationwide and at the state level. more info >

Health Insurance Coverage Status for Children in North Dakota
Kids Count North Dakota, June 2018, 4 pp.
Health insurance coverage statistics for children in North Dakota. more info >

Toward A More Equitable Future: The Trends and Challenges Facing America's Latino Children
National Council of La Raza, September 2016, 52 pp.
This data book offers an overview of national and state-level trends in the characteristics and well-being of Hispanic children. It shows that while Latinos have made important gains in several key areas of well-being in the last decade, Hispanic youth continue to lag behind white youth on other key social and economic indicators. more info >

Hispanic Children Least Likely to Have Health Insurance: Citizenship, Ethnicity, and Language Barriers to Coverage
Carsey School of Public Policy, June 2016, 6 pp.
This policy brief examines health insurance coverage of Hispanic children and its relationship to their citizenship status, their parents’ citizenship status, parents’ insurance coverage, language spoken at home, and their state’s Medicaid expansion policies. more info >

Arts-Based Programs and Art Therapies for At-Risk, Justice-Involved, and Traumatized Youths
National Endowment for the Arts, U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, February 2016, 9 pp.
This report focuses programs and art therapies for at-risk, justice-involved, and traumatized youths, exploring recent research on arts-based programs and arts therapies. Programs were considered arts-based if at least one of the main components was an arts-related activity, or if there was a deliberate use of arts in the program to bring about a change in behavior. more info >

Many Eligible Children Don't Participate in School Nutrition Programs: Reauthorization Offers Opportunities to Improve
Carsey School of Public Policy, July 2015, 4 pp.
This brief uses data from the 2013 Current Population Survey's Food Security Supplement to document levels of participation in school nutrition programs by region and place type to identify areas of expansion. more info >

State Indicator Report on Physical Activity
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, May 2014, 15 pp.
Includes state-level data about individual behaviors related to physical activity, as well as the presence or absence of physical features and policies that can make being physically active either easy or hard to do. more info >

Overview of Adverse Child and Family Experiences among North Dakota Children
North Dakota Department of Health, May 2013, 2 pp.
Prevalence of adverse child or family experiences for North Dakota children. more info >

Blind Spot: The Impact of Missed Early Warning Signs on Children's Mental Health
Center for Children's Advocacy, March 2013, 24 pp.
This study analyzed school records in an effort to identify patterns that could be helpful in designing or strengthening identification and intervention strategies to reduce or prevent serious mental health issues in early adolescence. more info >

Results-based Public Policy Strategies for Promoting Children's Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health
Center for the Study of Social Policy, March 2012, 19 pp.
Presents three overarching policy strategies for ensuring that children's mental health needs are identified and addressed. The paper includes specific examples and ways to ensure and sustain success. more info >

Web sites

CDC Adolescent and School Health
Information, data, and statistics on youth health topics. more info >

America's Children and the Environment
Presents national data on children's environmental health. Indicators cover conditions in the environment such as air pollution, contaminants measured in children such as blood lead levels, and health conditions such as asthma. more info >

Kids Count North Dakota
North Dakota KIDS COUNT is a statewide resource for data on the well-being of children in North Dakota, addressing six domains: demographics, health, education, family and community, economic well-being, and safety. more info >

diversitydatakids.org
Presents measures of child wellbeing and policy analysis for states, counties, large cities, and metropolitan areas. more info >

Child Welfare Information Gateway
The Child Welfare Information Gateway connects child welfare and related professionals to comprehensive information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. It features data and resources on topics from prevention to permanency, including child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption. Includes child welfare-related laws and policies, adoption agencies, support groups, and other information for each state. more info >