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Publications The Costs of Disinvestment: Why States Can’t Afford to Cut Smart Early Childhood Programs Doing Better for Children Kids’ Share: An Analysis of Federal Expenditures on Children Through 2008 Video: Brain Architecture The Impact of Early Adversity on Children’s Development The Science of...

Smart Investing: Communities Thrive When Children Thrive is a conversation about what North Carolinians want for their youngest children and for the future of the state. It is an opportunity to talk about the future of our communities and...

Action for Children North Carolina, had a great op-ed in the News and Observer. “264,000 of North Carolina's children are still uninsured. That's enough to reach from Greensboro to Wilmington, holding hands . . . North Carolina is losing employer-sponsored...

Nutrition rules for child care centers were included in the14 recommendations put forth by the Legislative Task Force on Childhood Obesity last week. The Task Force, which consists of six House members and six Senate members, spent four months...

How does your state measure up in terms of policies that affect the health and well-being of the youngest low-income children? The National Center for Children in Poverty has developed profiles that highlight states’ policy choices alongside other contextual data...

Obesity can be detected in infants as young as 6 months, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. Until very recently, pediatricians really haven’t been focusing on obesity in babies,” said...

Vivian Muzyk used to think tales of children refusing to eat vegetables were widely exaggerated. Then she watched her son gag at the taste of anything green — from steamed spinach to pureed peas, she says. As the communications and...

Healthy Tomorrows: A Guide to Health Check and NC Health Choice Insurance for Children

About 16 percent of children have developmental delays, but of these the vast majority (70 percent) are not diagnosed until they enter school. This means, by the time kindergarten begins, these children are already behind their peers. The sooner challenges...

Childhood obesity is now considered an epidemic in the United States according to the National Institutes of Health. In North Carolina, children ages 2 to 4 who are overweight or at risk for becoming overweight has increased by 45%...