2016 Annual Impact Report
July 2017
Download our 2016 Annual Report to celebrate the big policy wins we achieved for kids in North Carolina. Thanks for being a voice for children!
NC Child produces publications that document trends in child well-being and the impact of public policy decisions on children and families.
Download our 2016 Annual Report to celebrate the big policy wins we achieved for kids in North Carolina. Thanks for being a voice for children!
When children come to the attention of the child welfare system, they have invariably experienced significant trauma that demands a robust array of services and support to help them recover. Just weeks ago, North Carolina passed sweeping child welfare reform legislation to improve our state’s level of care for these children. Unfortunately, pending federal health care reform threatens to undermine our state’s good work to protect children from abuse and neglect and to help victims recover.
The Senate budget (SB 257) includes a provision that would restrict pathways to SNAP eligibility for children and families and unnecessarily increase the program’s administrative burden. If enacted, this change would result in the loss of SNAP assistance for 133,000 North Carolinians—including more than 51,000 children.3
How do children in your community fare? The county data cards below provide local snapshots of child well-being.
The North Carolina Child Health Report Card tracks key indicators on access to care, healthy births, safe homes and neighborhoods, and health risk factors over time and by race and ethnicity.
2017 Legislative Policy Agenda: end the unfair prosecution of youth as adults for minor crimes, protecting health coverage for children, prevent youth suicide, reduce infant mortality, increase investment in NC's early childhood education, and improve the NC child welfare system
In 2015, we expanded our partnerships, added highly qualified staff to help us carry out our mission, changed the dialogue in our state to focus on our most important priority -- our children, and influenced policies to ensure their wellbeing, their safety and their access to services. This work was only possible because caring supporters like you believed in and invested in children. Thank you.
Your support allowed children to benefit from policy victories such as restoring access to affordable child care, increasing funding for infant mortality prevention and setting new safety regulations to prevent poisoning from e-cigarettes.
Higher education is an important ladder to financial success and stability for children. College graduates earn more, are more likely to be employed, and are less likely to live in poverty than those with a high school diploma. In North Carolina, 4 percent of adults who have a bachelor’s degree or higher live in poverty, compared to 21 percent of adults who have a high school diploma or less.
One promising approach to expand educational and economic opportunity for low- income children and strengthen their college-bound identity is Children’s Savings Accounts (CSAs)
This session legislators took some positive, incremental steps toward safeguarding child well-being, particularly in the areas of child health and safety. While we applaud those actions, we must also point out that the policies and budget decisions approved by legislators in 2016 were largely insufficient to meet the myriad challenges faced by North Carolina’s children and families.