Children's Alliance of New Hampshire

The Children's Alliance of New Hampshire promotes policies and practices that enable all children to lead healthy and productive lives and to reach their full potential. Please contribute - Join Us in Raising Our Voices for children and help New Hampshire meet its promise: thriving children and a thriving economy.
KIDS COUNT The Annie E. Casey Foundation released its annual Kids Count data report July 25. *New Hampshire falls into second* place after maintaining first place for the past four years. When it comes to child health and well-being, the 2007 Kids Count National Data book reflects concern for New Hampshire's children who live in poverty. Based on 2005 data, 9% of NH's children live in poverty, compared to 6% in 2000. Roughly 28,000 NH children live in poverty (income below $19,806 for a family of two adults and two children in 2005). This data link (CLIKS) allows for users to access state-specific inventories of data from local sources, such as health departments, human services agencies, and schools. We believe this can be a powerful new tool for New Hampshire's community leaders, policymakers, service providers, parents and others who want to take a closer look at the local factors that affect the lives of children and families. The content of this material is determined by the Children's Alliance and is an ongoing work in progress - with updates being added all the time. Our thanks to the Verizon Foundation for support of this data presentation. The Kids Count New Hampshire 2007 data book was released on January 11. Provided here is the Kids Count book Executive Summary. Thank you to our Prime Sponsor:** Our sincere thanks goes to all of our Kids Count sponsors whose generosity has made this book possible: The Annie E. Casey Foundation Endowment for Health, NH Charitable Foundation, and HNHfoundation. Corporate support is provided by Washington Mutual, Bank of America, Harvard Pilgrim HealthCare, Verizon, Anthem, Sovereign Bank,Stonyfield Farm Yogurt, Lincoln Financial, Nobis Engineering, and Davis Towle Morrill & Everett.	NH CAN The New Hampshire Child Advocacy Network, now nearly 200 partners, only becomes stronger by its membership. Please join the network using this NH CAN Brochure and raise your voice for children. NH CAN released its: 2008 Priorities for New Hampshire's Children. Along with this release, please note the links to the NH CAN Fact Sheets below. 2008 Priorities Fact Sheets Childhood Obesity Awareness Banning Expansion of �Alcopops� Juvenile Justice for Youth Foster Home Smoking TANF Housing Payday Lending Rate Cap Foster Youth Transition Costing an Adequate Education We thank our NH CAN sponsors: New Hampshire Bar Foundation, Oleonda Jameson Trust, Northeast Delta Dental, Share Our Strength, HNHfoundation, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and the Endowment for Health.
Data treasures The National Survey of Children's Health maintains an online National Data Center containing a treasure trove of state-level information. Bookmark this one: The National Center for Children in Poverty Web site includes data reports on NH's demographics, economic conditions and policies affecting poor children and families.	Current issues When most people think of "welfare", they do not leap immediately to thoughts of opportunity, hard work, and the American Dream. Children's Alliance Press Release on HB 1331 in Support of the Governor's Decision and the Executive Order HB1331 (pdf)
Advocacy tips Use our Legislative Action Center to write an e-mail or letter to a decision-maker of your choice Congressional Management Foundation report contains tips for communicating with Congress (PDF) Open our Advocates Tool Box! The Children's Alliance is a member of the National