Municipal leaders are invited to participate in a Web seminar on
how to use the Annie E. Casey Foundation's KIDS COUNT Data Center
to find city- and community-level data on more than 100 measures of
child well-being.
Sponsored by NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, and
Families (YEF Institute), the Web seminar will take place on Tuesday,
June 24, at 2:30 p.m. Eastern Time. To register, visit www.nlc.org/iyef.
The KIDS COUNT Data Center compiles information from the U.S.
Census Bureau, the National Center for Health Statistics, the National
Center for Education Statistics and other agencies to present data in a
clear, easy-to-understand.format.
To visit the KIDS COUNT Data Center website, go to
www.kidscount.org/datacenter.
City and Community-Level Data
Users of the Data Center website can compare data for each state
and the nation's 50 largest cities, or by topics such as poverty,
education, employment and income, youth risk factors, population and
family characteristics, health, health insurance and children in
immigrant families. The center's data can be displayed numerically,
as maps or as graphs that show the data's trend line for the past
several years.
Recently, this website has been made even more powerful by
providing county, school district and other community-level data for
each state using state-specific information from local sources, such as
health departments, human service agencies and schools.
This Community-Level Information on Kids (CLIKS), available at
www.kidscount.org/cgi-bin/cliks.cgi, can be a powerful new tool for
local officials who want to take a closer look at the local factors that
affect the lives of children and families.
Laura Beavers, senior associate at the Annie E. Casey Foundation,
will explain how local discussions about improving outcomes for children
and youth can be enhanced through the high-quality data available on
this website.
She will also discuss Data Center features that are coming soon,
including data sorted by Congressional districts, content syndication so
that maps and graphs can be displayed and automatically updated on
users' websites, and data for the five largest racial and ethnic
groups by state.
The KIDS COUNT Network comprises state-based KIDS COUNT projects in
50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin
Islands. Network members share the common goal of using data to advance
change on behalf of children and families.
How to Register
While the Web seminar is free, it is available only to a limited
number of participants. Advance registration is required by close of
business on Monday, June 23. A separate registration is needed for each
participant.
To register, visit www.nlc.org/iyef. No phone registrations can be
accepted. Prior to the event, each registrant will receive an e-mail or
fax message with information on the Web seminar.
Details: If you have any questions about the web seminar, please
contact Michael Karpman of the YEF Institute at (202) 626-3072 or
karpman@nlc.org.
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