Keeping Track
Citizens’ Committee for Children Launches Keeping Track Online
Contact: Stephanie Gendell, sgendell@cccnewyork.org, 212-673-1800 ext. 17 Phoebe Plagens, pplagens@cccnewyork.org, 212-673-1800 ext. 19 Citizens’ Committee for Children Launches Keeping Track Online Enhanced online tool helps New Yorkers sta …
For Effective Advocacy, Know Your Geography: City Council Districts & Community Districts
Keeping Track includes hundreds of indicators of child well-being at the community level. These data allow advocates, researchers, policymakers, and community members to understand the varying needs of children across New York City. But when we bring K …
Keeping Track: Measuring Risks to Child Well-being Across NYC’s Communities
New York City is home to nearly 2 million children from a diverse mix of racial and ethnic backgrounds. They live in many different household settings, they speak a variety of different languages at home, and they live in communities that are each uniq …
It is National School Breakfast Week!
Breakfast is the most important meal of the day – and in New York City, every public school child can have free breakfast every school day! By providing children with nutritious meals to jump start their school days, the School Breakfast Program (SBP) …
Concentrations of Risk: Asthma and Poor Housing Conditions
In New York City, over 39,000 children under the age of 15 visited the emergency room because of asthma in 2010. About 7,400 children – five out of every 1,000 – had cases that were serious enough that they needed to be hospitalized. It is estimated th …
Where Does NYC Stand in Achieving Universal Access to Early Education?
Last week in his state of the union address, President Obama made the case for universal access to high-quality early childhood education. He noted that while we know that early education improves outcomes for children, financial and other barriers pre …
