TA Responses: Children and Poverty

TOPIC: Children and Poverty

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Center Materials
Quarterly e-journal/newsletter

The Challenge of Addressing Equity of Opportunity for All Students: Broadening the Work of the Equity and Excellence Commission

Information Resources & Policy Notes

About Addressing Poverty: What’s a School's Role?

About Homeless Youth

About Policy and Practice Trends for Reducing Truancy

Barriers, Buffers, & Youth Development

Determinants of Students’ Problems

Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income College Students

Inequitable Funding in Public Education

Many Schools, Many Students: Equity in Addressing Barriers

Supports for Students Deemed At-Risk

Hot Topic

What is a School's Role in Addressing the Impact of Poverty?

Resegregation?

Quick Finds

Cultural Competence and Related Issues

Diversity, Disparaties

Other Relevant Documents, Resources, and Tools on the Internet
General

Adverse Childhood Experiences of Low-Income Urban Youth

Childhood Residential Mobility and Multiple Health Risks During Adolescence and Adulthood

Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas are Failing America's Children

Children Living in High Poverty, Low Opportunity Neighborhoods

How Does Family Well-Being Vary Across Different Types of Neighborhoods?

Income and Education as Predictors of Children's School Readiness

Inequality in the Built Environment Underlies Key Health Disparities in Physical Activity and Obesity

Mental disorders and disabilities among low income children

Moving beyond correlations in assessing the consequences of poverty

Perpetuating Separate and Unequal Worlds of Educational Opportunity Through District Lines: School Segregation by Race and Poverty

Poverty and Potential: Out of School Factors and School Success

School policies and the success of advantaged and disadvantaged students

Schools Use Multiple Strategies to Help Students Meet Academic Standards, Especially Schools with Higher Proportions of Low Income and Minority Students

Socioeconomic Differences in Adolescent Stress: The Role of Psychological Resources

The Family Liaison Position in High-Poverty, Urban Schools

The Impact of Family Income on Child Achievement

Socio-economic inequality and child and adolescent mental health

Understanding Changes in Child Poverty Over the Past Decade

Understanding the Impact of Trauma and Urban Poverty on Family Systems

Youth from Distressed Neighborhoods

Youth from Low-Income Families

Strategies and Recommendations

APA GUIDELINES for Psychological Practice for People with Low-Income and Economic Marginalization

Beyond a deficiencies approach: Towards a more integral representation of the everyday life of children growing up in contexts of poverty

Engaging the Underserved

Ensuring Opportunities for Disadvantaged Children and Families

Exploring adolescent-adult connections, coping, and safety among minoritized youth in neighborhoods impacted by community violence

Help Youth At Risk for ACEs

Promoting positive parenting for families in poverty: New directions for improved reach and engagement

Protective factors against child neglect among families in poverty

Strategies for Reducing Health Disparities

A roadmap to reducing child poverty

Organizations and Associations

National Center for Children in Poverty

National School Lunch Foundation

Racial and Ethnic groups

Analysis: African American Children in Poverty

Do Parenting and the Home Environment, Maternal Depression, Neighborhood, and Chronic Poverty Affect Child Behavioral Problems Differently in Different Racial-Ethnic Groups?

A Profile of Low-Income Working Immigrant Families

Race, Class, and Disproportionality: Reevaluating the Relationship Between Poverty and Special Education Placement

Research & Statistics

Adolescent Birth Rates, Total Homicides and Income Inequality in Rich Countries
Born to win: Schooled to lose
Economic Research Shows Adverse Impacts on Health Status and Other Social Conditions as well as the Economic Growth Rate

The Enduring Challenge of Concentrated Poverty in America

The New Poor: Regional Trends in Child Poverty Since 2000.

Novice Teachers' Experiences in High-Poverty Schools: An Integrative Literature Review

Poverty and Early Childhood Outcomes

An Overview of Selected Data on Children in Vulnerable Families

The Recession's Ongoing Impact on America's Children: Indicators of Children's Economic Well Being Through 2011

Reducing Disparities Beginning in Early Childhood

Understanding Recent Changes in Child Poverty

Schools and Communities

Community Interventions to Promote Healthy Social Environments

Neighborhood Residence and Mental Health Problems of 5- to 11-Year-Olds

The Relations Between Persistent Poverty and Contextual Risk and Children's Behavior in Elementary School

State Poverty-Based Education Funding

Related Agencies and Websites
The Annie E. Casey Foundation

Child Trends, Inc.

Child Welfare League of America

Children Now

Children's Defense Fund

The Future of Children

The Institute for Children, Poverty, and Homelessness

Institute for Research on Poverty

The National Center for Children in Poverty

Unnatural Causes

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