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Breaking News: BORN TOO SOON

Born Too Soon: The Global Action Report on Preterm Birth, released by the World Health Organization (W.H.O.), spells out how far the United States and the international community must go to birth healthy babies. The lessons for Florida are significant.

baby feet The W.H.O. report estimates that 15-million babies, or one in ten, are born prematurely worldwide each year. The leading cause of newborn deaths is prematurity (babies in the first 4 weeks of life), the second leading cause of death in children (after pneumonia).

In a story about the report, the New York Times pegs the percentage of preterm births in the United States at 12%, on par with developing countries such as Kenya and Thailand. By contrast, Australia and Canada have preterm birth rates as low as 7%.

Pre-term deliveries in the United States have risen by about a third over the past three decades. This troublesome outcome brings into serious question the commitment and level of resources aimed at maternal health.

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2012 Candidate Connection Kicks Off

Every election year since 1992, The Children’s Campaign has sponsored the Candidate Connection, providing the latest facts and analysis about Florida’s 4-million children. This non-partisan educational effort reports the facts without bias. This year’s effort aimed at candidates is requiring a special database – listing more than 600 who have opened accounts to run for [...]

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The Watchdog: Putting Advocates in Our Place?

In its Sunday, March 25 editorial, the Ledger, headquartered in Lakeland, was prudent to counsel Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd to take seriously the alleged abuses of children in his jail. The charges were brought forward in a federal class action lawsuit by the highly regarded Southern Poverty Law Center. I, too, was disturbed by [...]

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The School House to Jail House Pipeline

The Advancement Project, New Media Advocacy Project and Power U Center for Social Change have released a compelling video raising awareness about juvenile arrests in Florida public schools. The creators say School-to-Prison Pipeline was produced as a conversation starter. One portrayal was a child in Miami-Dade who spent 3 weeks in detention for throwing a [...]

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Map the Meal Gap

Feeding America first published the Map the Meal Gap project in early 2011, with the generous support of the Howard G. Buffett Foundation and The Nielsen Company, to learn more about the face of hunger at the local level. In August, 2011, with the support of the ConAgra Foods Foundation, child food insecurity data was [...]

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FL passed up $200M for uninsured kids

By Carol Gentry 05/04/12 © Health News Florida Over the past two years, Florida did such a good job of enrolling uninsured children in KidCare that the state could have qualified for as much as $200 million in federal bonuses – money that could have helped get more children into care. But the state did [...]

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Daycares hire Bogdanoff to run trade organization

State Sen. Ellyn Bogdanoff has a new job title today: the de facto executive director of the statewide organization representing child care and early learning facilities. Bogdanoff said the ink has barely dried on her contract with the Florida Association for Child Care Management. The organization hired her consulting company, Enterprising Business Strategies, to help [...]

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