Share of California children with special health care needs who missed 11+ school days/year due to illness or injury was 19%—about 5.5x higher than their peers.

Read more about impacts of disability and medical complexity on children and their families:
https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=11313

New research finds "eviction reduces high school graduation" and that the "disruptive effects of eviction appear worse for older children and boys"

Read now:
https://www.census.gov/library/working-papers/2025/adrm/CES-WP-25-34.html

LGBTQ+ youth are twice as likely to be homeless (compared to straight peers). We need to talk about it.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/06/30/lgbtq-youth-black-trans-homeless-crisis/84358279007/

🚨 ATTN: Our RAPID RESPONSE DATA BRIEFING on the American Time Use Survey is TOMORROW at 2:30 PM EDT! 🚨

If you've got 30 minutes and an interest in the future of the ATUS, make sure to join us. Special guests will include....

➡ Brigid Schulte (author, journalist, Director of the Better Life Lab at New America)
➡ Denice Ross (Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist)
➡ Liana Sayer (Chair and Professor of Sociology, Director, Maryland Time Use Lab, at University of Maryland)
➡ Meghan Maury (consultant, former Senior Advisor for Data Policy at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy)
➡ Beth Jarosz (PRB, Association of Public Data Users (APDU))

🔗 Register here: https://bit.ly/46sOA0z

"Going forward, it will be important to develop disability questions under the leadership of disabled researchers, in partnership with the US disability community, and that align with US standards."
https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/measuring-disability-do-not-abandon-established-us-standards

Do you care about childcare research and policy?

Do you care about how families spend their time?

Tune in to this Rapid Response webinar from our friends at PRB, APDU, and dataindex to learn--in just 30 minutes--how you can help protect the American Time Use Survey, which is a critical resource for these topics.

Register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BTZIChP9SAm-2mc-Ol7k1g?mc_cid=898746e9fc&mc_eid=UNIQID#/registration

The share of California CSHCN who missed 11 or more school days in the previous year due to illness or injury was 19%—around 5.5 times higher than the share of children without special health care needs.

Learn more in our June blog: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=11313

Families know best how Medicaid services help them and their children with disabilities. The USC Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) is seeking family stories to help lawmakers understand what could happen if services change or are eliminated.

Share your story here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdCbxgJSylZRqX2bcUtm_M_WpfU7OFZ17Lp8XWmRz4mLfG_Ig/viewform

In lecture at Stanford Pediatrics Grand Rounds, Tasha Faruqui, DO (pediatrician & parent of a child with medical complexity), discussed family experiences of living with and caring for a child with complex medical needs.

She noted the financial and emotional burdens this can place on families and siblings, and outlined difficulties in navigating complex care systems. Faruqui encouraged her physician colleagues to challenge their perceptions of patients with complex needs.

You can watch the recording of her discussion here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXtw5vBcWnE

The NHPI Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research has launched state- and county-level data dashboards focused on the social determinants of health for Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities.
https://healthpolicy.ucla.edu/our-work/nhpi-data-policy-lab/nhpi-data-policy-lab-data-dashboards

No Place to Hide: Children Will Be Hurt by Medicaid Cuts

A recent report with an accompanying webinar from Manatt Health and Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health, estimates how Congressional proposals would affect federal and state Medicaid spending, children’s access and care, and, where applicable, estimated children’s coverage.

Read the report, watch the recording, and skim the slides here:
https://lpfch.org/resource/national-medicaid-defense-webinar-assessing-the-impact-of-medicaid-cuts-on-children-and-youth/

High housing cost affects kids: Long-term exposures to high housing cost burden are linked to lower achievement in math and reading standardized test scores, as well as higher levels of behavior problems in children.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38609311/

There are many ways in which health conditions affect children and their families.

Read about 10 of them.
https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=11313

What Investment Offers a 60-Fold Return?
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You'll find the (surprising) answer here:
https://www.prb.org/articles/what-investment-offers-a-60-fold-return-food-stamps/

New from AECF
The 2025 KIDS COUNT® Data Book is here! This annual report uses national and state data across four domains to assess how kids and families are doing in each state. Check out the link below to download the full report and learn more. https://bit.ly/2025KCDB-BS

Webinar: Preparing for Census 2030 – Mobilizing Advocates for Impact
July 29, 2–3pm ET / 11-noon PT

Join the Count All Kids coalition for a webinar focused on why the census is critical for children, what advocates should be doing now to improve the count of young children, and how to make the case for funding this work.
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_SCaOYLkoTXySKPGitgtFFg#/registration

Feels like a good time to re-share our blog from January...

"Immunizations are among the most successful and cost-effective preventive health care interventions... Among U.S. children born between 1994 and 2023, an estimated 500 million illnesses will be prevented and more than 1.1 million lives saved by routine childhood vaccinations, at a net savings of nearly $2.7 trillion for society."

https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=11225

"Only around one in four California children with working parents had access to a licensed child care space in 2023."

Read our guest commentary from California Child Care Resource and Referral Network:
https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=11273

Being "out" in high school being out in high school is associated with higher levels of community connectedness and lower rates of internalized homophobia. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/38546568

Eviction has ripple effects for schoolchildren, finds a new analysis by @evictionlab

Kids facing eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school—often one with less funding, more poverty & lower test scores.

They’re also more likely to miss school, & those who transfer are suspended more often.

“It’s … worth reminding people that 40% of the people at risk of losing their homes through the eviction process are kids." https://bit.ly/45Bs3hy