Utah Children

Kids Count

KIDS COUNT, a project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children. By providing policymakers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT seeks to enrich local, state, and national discussions concerning ways to secure better futures for all children. At the national level, the principal activity of the initiative is the publication of the annual KIDS COUNT data book, which uses the best available data to measure the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children. The Foundation also funds a national network of state-level KIDS COUNT projects that provide a more detailed, community-by-community picture of the condition of children.

Voices for Utah Children is the KIDS COUNT grantee in Utah. Our primary publication is entitled Measures of Child Well-Being in Utah and is published annually. This data book provides county-by-county information from the Utah State Department of Health, Utah Department of Workforce Services, Administrative Office of the Courts, Utah State Department of Human Services, the Utah State Office of Education, and the Census Bureau. It is the best comprehensive source of information in Utah and covers the developmental range from prenatal care through high school graduation.

Downloads:

Head Start in Utah: A Family Friendly Policy That Makes Sense

Preterm Postcard

Then and Now: Ten Years of Kids Count

Basic Family Budgets: How Much Does it Take to Get By?

2006 Kids Count Databook

2006 Measures of Child Well-Being in Utah

All-Day Kindergarten: Understanding the Issues and Proposed Solutions

Principal/Teacher Survey responses

Kindergarten Curriculum

2007 KIDS COUNT Data (from the Data Wheel)

This is an excel file with all the data used on our 2007 KIDS COUNT wheel plus information on Headstart and Juvenile Justice that is only available at the state level