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1. Foster Care

   What about the kids? What can happen when parents are deported

   February 3, 2012 | Leslie Berestein Rojas | Southern California Public Radio: Multi-American

   Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System , Children of Immigrants, Child Welfare, Rights and Safety

2. Child Health

   CHIP has been a great success

   February 3, 2012 | Bruce Lesley | The Charleston Gazette

   Childrens Health Insurance Program and Medicaid

3. Early Childhood Education

   Get Off Our Butts!

   February 1, 2012 | Mark Shriver | Huffington Post

   Childhood Obesity, Early Childhood, Child Poverty and Family Economics

4. Asset Building

   Child Well-Being as a Guide for State Policy & Budgets

   January 30, 2012 | Hannah Lythe | SparkAction

   Child Well-Being Indicators, Poverty Reduction Targets, State Child Well-being Research, Child Poverty and Family Economics, Advancing Research and Data

5. Foster Care

   Immigrant Children Face Uncertain Futures, Foster Care

   January 25, 2012 | Marjorie Valbrun | Huffington Post Education - Via America's Wire

   Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System , Immigrant Children in the Child Welfare System, Child Welfare, Rights and Safety

6. Child Welfare, Rights and Safety

   Collateral Damage: Children and Prison Reform in California

   January 24, 2012 | Karin Drucker | BeyondChron (California)

7. Higher Education for Immigrant Students

   Maryland Dream Act

   January 23, 2012 | The Kojo Nnamdi Show (NPR)

   Children of Immigrants

8. Conference's simple message: ‘Welcome the stranger'

   January 20, 2012 | By Laura Vallejo | Intermountain Catholic

9. Press conference addresses deported parents of child citizens

   January 18, 2012 | Fox 11 (Arizona)

10. Child Well-Being Indicators

    Recession's toll touches children

    January 14, 2012 | Michael Martinez | Reno Gazette Journal

    Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Cash Assistance, Poverty Reduction Targets, State Child Well-being Research, Measuring Poverty, Children of the Recession, Nutrition Assistance, Child Poverty and Family Economics, Advancing Research and Data