News & Press
12-18-07
Position Announcement - President, Children's Alliance of New
Hampshire
1-12-07
Nashua
study reveals 1 in 10 children living in poverty in New Hampshire
June 27, 2006
Annie E. Casey Foundation releases 2006 KIDS COUNT National Data Book.
Related NH media coverage: New
Hampshire Public Radio- Child Poverty on the Rise; New
Hampshire Public Television- Outlook; The
Keene Sentinel Editorial;
Concord Monitor; Union
Leader; Foster's
Daily; Eagle-Tribune
April 15, 2006
Concord Welfare to
Work or Else Concord Monitor,
January 19, 2006
New Report entitled Policy
Matters Highlights Smart Investments for New Hampshire
October 22, 2005
Guest commentary by Jonathan Baird: Protect
consumers from predators
October 21, 2005
Children's Alliance posts oral health issue brief: Watch
your mouth! (pdf)
October 19, 2005
Two-thirds
of Americans oppose Bush Administration's tax and spending cuts
(Hart Research PowerPoint)
October 14, 2005
Child advocates select priorities for 2006
Children's Agenda at 8th annual NH CAN Children's
Summit.
October 5, 2005
Advocates must rally to
turn back federal budget and tax cuts
October 5, 2005
Congress has the wrong priorities! Coalition on Human Needs fact
sheet (pdf) on the federal budget. Children's Alliance urges advocates
to call Congress Oct.
17-18! (pdf)
October 2, 2005
Guest commentary by Jonathan Baird: Consumer
protection? Don't bank on it
September 29, 2005
National Survey of Children's Health posts an online National
Data Center containing a treasure trove of state-level information.
September 29, 2005
Voices for America's Children's guide
to 2006-07 federal reauthorization legislation.
September 21, 2005
New Futures releases report: Recommendations
for Success: New Hampshire's Strategy to Reduce Underage Alcohol Problems
(pdf)
September 12, 2005
Children's Alliance of NH testifies in favor of
helping gay and lesbian parents provide for their children by legalizing
same-sex civil marriage.
September 9, 2005
Commentary by Children's Alliance President Ellen Shemitz: Statewide
poverty data doesn't tell the whole story
August 25, 2005
New report from the National Women's Law
Center says budget
cuts threaten comprehensive health care for children.
August 22, 2005
Children's Alliance opposes NH Dept. of Health and Human Services Medicaid
waiver that would impose an asset test on Healthy Kids families.
August 12, 2005
Child Advocacy Alert! NH Dept.
of Health and Human Services proposes to raise co-payments and premiums
on families whose children are covered by Healthy Kids Silver.
July 27, 2005
KIDS COUNT ranks New Hampshire top state
for well-being of children.
Read Concord
Monitor report.
July 21, 2005
Children's Alliance seeks highly qualified candidates for the positions
of Research Associate and Development
Associate.
July 20, 2005
Concord Monitor
calls on legislature to strengthen child abuse reporting law.
July 18, 2005
State Supreme Court ruling doesn't address clergy responsibility to
report child abuse. Coverage in Concord
Monitor, Nashua
Telegraph .
July 11, 2005
American Academy of Pediatrics offers
40 ways to strengthen
Medicaid for children.
July 11, 2005
Social
Security is a children's issue! Link to the Voices
for America's Children Web site and find out why.
July 11, 2005
E-mail has changed the way we communicate with our Congressmen, but
is it effective? Read these tips
from the Congressional Management Foundation.
July 8, 2005
Guest commentary by Jonathan Baird: How
part-time worker benefits were won.
July 7, 2005
Guest commentary by Grace Mattern: We
need the Violence Against Women Act.
June 29, 2005
Legislature approves 2006-07
state budget; Gov. Lynch will sign it -- Nashua
Telegraph coverage -- Budget
highlights from Associated Press.
June 28, 2005
Central NH Regional Planning Commission releases report: Child
Care Keeps NH Working (pdf)
June 27, 2005
Zero To Three offers Pointers
For Parents info sheets.
June 24, 2005
State budget agreement reached
by NH House and Senate is a mixed bag: Will Gov. Lynch veto?
June 8, 2005
Families
USA report says U.S. health care system shifts costs of uninsured
onto working families and businesses.
June 8, 2005
Children's
Alliance says NH Senate budget will shift health care costs onto
working families.
June 6, 2005
Guest commentary: Jonathan Baird
calls New Hampshire's Medicaid plan a "budget boomerang."
June 5, 2005
Keene Sentinel editorial:
Proposed school funding plan is product of irresponsible leadership.
June 5, 2005
Valley News editorial
contrasts NH's "callous" approach with Vermont's decision
to index minimum wage to the CPI.
May 26, 2005
NH Senate defeats minimum wage bill, 15-9.
May 23, 2005
NH Center for Public Policy Studies
releases analysis of school funding plan passed by the NH House:
"More and
Less: How the House's Education Equity Index Redistributes State Aid.
" (PDF)
May 20, 2005
Child Advocacy Alert! Urge NH Senate
to approve $1 increase in state's minimum wage.
May 10, 2005
Children's Alliance testifies
at Senate hearing in support of House
Bill 665 to raise NH's minimum wage by $1. Read Union
Leader coverage of hearing.
May 9, 2005
UNH Survey Center's
Granite State Poll says 60%
of public supports raising cigarette tax to close the state budget
gap.
April 21, 2005
The Annie E. Casey Foundation's Family
Economic Success wheel shows how communities can help train and
move low-income, low-skilled people into good jobs and careers.
April 20, 2005
N.H. House passes state
budget.
April 18, 2005
"Early Childhood Education for All: A Wise Investment,"
a report by the Mass. Institute of Technology and Family
Initiative, makes the economic-development case for investment in
early care and education. Link to the full
report (PDF), executive
summary (PDF), press
release, or news
coverage.
April 15, 2005
Children's Alliance commentary on proposed education standards: "Universal
kindergarten is in New Hampshire's economic interest."
April 12, 2005
Governor John Lynch and Dr. Susan Lynch
honor advocates at inaugural Children's Alliance Awards.
April 8, 2005
Children's Alliance posts tobacco tax Issue Brief: "For
a healthier state, for a healthier budget."
March 30, 2005
State Board of Education
abandons children, fails to require kindergarten, smaller class sizes.
March 30, 2005
CBPP report: U.S. House
budget would slash as much as $115 million from services for vulnerable
NH kids and families.
March 25, 2005
Child Advocacy Alert! Advocate
for a responsible state budget; House Finance hearings are March 29.
March 23, 2005
Superior Court rules that the Catholic
Diocese of Manchester must submit to a full audit of its child protection
policies. Read Judge
Carol Ann Conboy's decision.
March 23, 2005
CDF Action Council ranks N.H. Congressional
delegation 46th for votes on children's issues during 2004.
March 14, 2005
Children's Alliance announces the first
winners of its Children's Alliance
Awards.
March 4, 2005
Federal budget call-in day
scheduled for March 8.
March 3, 2005
Children's Alliance urges
Board of Education not to abandon NH's students by dropping kindergarten
from its proposed state standards.
March 3, 2005
Concord Monitor
reports that state
Board of Education may bow to pressure, drop kindergarten from its proposed
school standards.
March 1, 2005
NH Citizens' Voice Project analyzes
the impact of current targeted aid proposals in new report: Targeted
Aid Plans Don't Fund The Gap, Who Will? (PDF). Also on the NHCVP
Web site, leave your thoughts about school funding on a survey
, and sign on to the Fund
The Gap e-petition.
March 1, 2005
Children's Alliance commentary on proposed federal cuts to children's
health programs: "Keeping our
kids healthy is vital for a better America."
February 23, 2005
Children's Alliance letter
to Sen. Judd Gregg on the proposed federal budget.
February 22, 2005
Children's Alliance letter
to Sen. John Sununu on the proposed federal budget.
February 22, 2005
Children's Alliance news release: "President
Bush's proposed budget would cut vital programs for children and families
while extending and expanding tax cuts to the most affluent."
February 22, 2005
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
posts state-by-state
data on what cuts would be made under President Bush's budget (PDF).
February 15, 2005
Gov.
John Lynch releases his proposed
2006-07 state budget.
January 27, 2005
Children's Alliance
fact sheet: New Hampshire's challenge -- Stop federal cuts.
January 27, 2005
Children's Alliance fact
sheet: Explaining the federal budget timeline and process.
January 18, 2005
New Hampshire Child
Advocacy Network releases its 2005
Children's Agenda.
January 10, 2005
Children's Alliance announces first Children's
Alliance Awards to be presented April 12.
January 5, 2005
State releases financial
projections and assumptions behind its GraniteCare Medicaid plan.
January 4, 2005
Children's Alliance encourages support of tsunami
relief organizations.
January 4, 2005
Concord Monitor: Senate
President Thomas Eaton proposes video poker at racetracks, large hotels.
January 3, 2005
Children's Alliance
urges Health and Human Services Commissioner to abandon Health Services
Accounts plan and to increase support for Healthy Kids.
January 3, 2005
Children's Alliance
proposes revisions in Board of Education's draft standards for public
schools.
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2004
December 29, 2004
Children's Alliance posts printable versions of Child Protection Issue
Brief: "A safe home for every child"
and reports and recommendations
addenda.
December 29, 2004
Concord Monitor article, "Stephen's
Medicaid plan needs new backers," and editorial, "Stephen's
rush: Health commissioner should delay his Medicaid reforms" indicate
slipping support for GraniteCare.
December 23, 2004
How
much did Congress spend on children? Voices
for America's Children calculates the key children's programs in
the federal fiscal 2005 budget.
December 6, 2004
"Medicaid
Modernization: Seeking Answers" (PDF): Douglas Hall, co-Executive
Director of NH Center for Public
Policy Studies, files a Right to Know request under state law for
the data underlying the GraniteCare proposal. You'll also find several
issue briefs related
to Medicaid services and funding in New Hampshire.
December 3, 2004
Commentary by Children's Alliance board member Ross Gittell: "An
education advantage is more important than a tax advantage to a strong
economy."
December 2, 2004
Federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) officials
send feedback on GraniteCare
proposal (PDF file, 625 kb).
December 1, 2004
Children's Alliance of NH's 2005 Agenda for
Children.
December 1, 2004
Public hearings on the Board of Education's proposed public school standards
begin Dec. 15. Deadline for written comment is Feb. 18, 2005. Link to
the NH Dept. of Education's Revised
Public School Rules page.
November 30, 2004
New
Hampshire Citizens' Voice Project launches "Fund
the Gap" campaign for education funding.
November 30, 2004
Children's Alliance urges advocates
to attend forums and oppose GraniteCare.
November 23, 2004
Dept.
of Health and Human Services announces three public forums on GraniteCare
proposal Dec. 6-9.
November 23, 2004
Fiscal Committee votes to allow DHHS Commissioner to continue
discussions of GraniteCare Medicaid reform (read Concord
Monitor coverage).
November 19, 2004
Children's Alliance, state partners, request
that
Fiscal Committee put off vote on GraniteCare.
November 16, 2004
State Supreme Court could shed light on whether religious leaders have
a duty to report child abuse. Concord
Monitor coverage.
November 16, 2004
State releases suicide
prevention plan.
November 10, 2004
DHHS Commissioner presents GraniteCare
Medicaid "modernization" proposal to Legislature.
October 28, 2004
Disability Rights Center study finds
that kids with
disabilities are treated more harshly in New Hampshire's juvenile justice
system (PDF).
October 27, 2004
Children's Alliance posts Child Protection Issue Brief: "A
safe home for every child." Links to related reports
and recommendations.
October 27, 2004
Red
Sox win World Series
Hell freezes over
October 25, 2004
Commentary by Children's Alliance President Ellen Shemitz: Benson
administration's GraniteCare proposal for Medicaid looks to families
like Rock and a Hard Place.
October 20-21, 2004
Concord Monitor leaks details of state's Medicaid plan:
"Medicaid
overhaul outlined" (Oct. 20); "Stephen:
Plan not finished" (Oct. 21); "Among
the Medicaid report's proposals" (Oct. 21).
October 21, 2004
Children's Alliance releases new report: Making KIDS
COUNT in Rural New England. Link to PDF
file, press release or Children's
Alliance President Ellen Shemitz's remarks.
October 5, 2004
Commentary by Children's Alliance President Ellen Shemitz: "Full-day
kindergarten is an essential part of education choice."
September 28, 2004
New Hampshire's Board
of Education includes in its proposed
public education standards the requirement that every school district
"offer" kindergarten. (See ED. 306.25)
August 26, 2004
Who's for kids? Who's just kidding? Here are some questions
to ask state, federal candidates.
August 26, 2004
New Census figures
show more NH children
and families living in poverty.
August 20, 2004
Concord Monitor: Gov.
Craig Benson proposes system of kindergarten vouchers.
August 13, 2004
Union Leader: Superior Court
judge upholds new education funding law.
July 30, 2004
Gov. Benson orders agencies
to budget for
10- and 8-percent cuts for 2006-07.
July 27, 2004
Concord Monitor: Cities go to Superior
Court to challenge new education funding formula.
July 24, 2004
Commentary by NH CAN steering committee member Jonathan Baird: NH's
Medicaid "modernization" is smoke and mirrors.
June 22, 2004
NHPR reports that federal
Section 8 cuts endanger housing for thousands of NH families.
June 4, 2004
Children's Alliance opposes
rules changes that could decimate NH Healthy Kids Corp.
June 3, 2004
NH Center for Public Policy Studies
forecasts a $300-million
state deficit by July 1, 2007.
June 3, 2004
NH ranks second for children's well-being in national 2004 Kids
Count Data Book.
April 7, 2004
Children's Alliance
opposes prohibition on legal recognition of same-gender marriages.
May 28, 2004
Claremont Coalition urges lawmakers to fund
the gap.
May 25, 2004
Legislature passes new state
education aid plan.
May 25, 2004
NH CARES warns of
revenue cliff, human service cuts in 2006-07 budget.
May 13, 2004
NH Attorney General Peter
Heed says both the current and proposed education funding plans are
unconstitutional.
May 11, 2004
Gov. Benson vetoes ban on juvenile death
penalty; override unlikely -- Union
Leader.
May 7, 2004
Children's Alliance endorses efforts
to raise federal minimum wage by $1.50
May 4, 2004
Portsmouth Herald calls for permanent
education fiunding solution
April 1, 2004
NH CAN homeless advocate Martha Yager honored
by Families in Transition.
February 27 and March 5, 2004
What's more reckless -- spending on children or ignoring
their needs? The Union Leader
and Children's Alliance exchange views.
February 13, 2004
NH Congressional delegation named 2nd
worst on children's issues by Children's Defense Fund.
January 31, 2004
Division for
Children, Youth and Families (DCYF) releases accreditation
report required by the Kassidy
Bortner Child Protection Accountability Act.
January 16, 2004
Commentary by Children's Alliance board member Walter Peterson: "Education
funding amendment is an assault on New Hampshire's Constitution."
November 14, 2003
New Hampshire fares poorly in federal Child
and Family Services Review (HTML
or PDF).
