Posted on April 18, 2019
Children who experience traumatic events at an early age, known as adverse childhood experiences or ACEs, are exposed to stressors that can have more long-term consequences. As a result, they are more to vulnerable behavioral problems, which could lead to learning difficulties in school.
Watch recent segments from our Right From The Start NJ partner about ACES below.
Posted on April 16, 2019
ACNJ’s President, Cecilia Zalkind, appeared as a guest writer in the spring edition of the New Jersey Pediatrics Journal. The article highlights how pediatricians, parents’ most trusted source for medical and developmental advice on babies, are well positioned to inform families about why quality matters in a child care setting and what to look for in their search.
njaap_quality_child_care_a_prescription_for_lifelong_successPosted on April 8, 2019
ACNJ invited renowned national child care financing expert, Louise Stoney, to New Jersey to meet with legislators, policymakers, stakeholders, and funders to discuss elements needed to better finance high-quality infant-toddler child care in the state. Stoney’s recommendations challenged the traditional business model for providing child care and urged the state to establish new policies and funding streams aimed at supporting sustainable, high-quality services.
Listen to Louise Stoney talk about why child care is a public responsibility.
Posted on April 3, 2019
According to Hunger Free New Jersey, New Jersey’s most impoverished schools are reaching less than half of their low-income students with federally-funded school breakfast, mainly because many continue to serve breakfast before school when most children have not yet arrived, according to a report released today.
That why Advocates for Children of New Jersey and
Read and share the report by clicking here.
Read the press release from Hunger Free New Jerseyhere.
Posted on April 3, 2019
New 10-year Data Snapshot with State-by-State Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation Shows Progress, and Some Failures, as National Rates Improve
In New Jersey, 94 percent of children in foster care are placed with families rather than in group placements, putting the state in an optimal position to begin implementing the Family First Prevention Services Act, a 2018 federal law which focuses on placing children who need foster care in family-centered settings. New Jersey is one of four states that placed 73 percent or more of teenagers in families and 20 percent or fewer teenagers in group placements in 2017, according to “Keeping Kids in Families: Trends in Placement of Young People in Foster Care in the United States,” a new data snapshot released by the Annie E. Casey Foundation as part of its KIDS COUNT® project. View release.
Access report at www.aecf.org.
