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Download full textRubinstein, Gwen – 1999
This report helps state and local decision makers understand the range of services ordinarily needed and provided in alcohol and drug treatment programs serving women and families receiving welfare and how those services support the goals of welfare reform. The model programs profiled here tend to the needs of women on welfare and their families…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Children, Drug Education, Family Programs
Lazere, Edward B. – 1996
Children are among the poorest of Maine's residents. Nearly 1 in 5 children under the age of 18, 19.3%, lived in families below the federal poverty line in the early 1990s. Most of these poor children lived in working families. The working poor are often missing from policy debates, but their numbers are likely to increase with welfare reform…
Descriptors: Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Employment Patterns, Minimum Wage
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 1999
This Kids Count Report details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children, with particular focus on child health care access. The statistical portrait is based on a variety of indicators in five areas: (1) child health care access; (2) physical and mental health; (3) community and family environment; (4) social and economic…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse, Child Health
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 2000
This KIDS COUNT Report details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on a variety of indicators in the areas of: (1) physical and mental health; (2) social and economic opportunity; (3) education and learning; and (4) child health care access. The report contains a special section on Maine…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
Jelcich, Susan, Ed. – 2003
This Kids Count data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators in the areas of physical and mental health, including insurance enrollment, adolescent health and safety, and child welfare; social and economic status, including poverty, unemployment, and teen pregnancies; and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Health
Maine Children's Alliance, Augusta. – 2002
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. Following a brief overview of the data book and a summary of indicators, state trend data are presented in the areas of: (1) poverty; (2) child and adolescent suicide; (3) public high school dropouts; (4) teen pregnancy; (5) public high school graduates…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Advocacy
Davey, Lynn – 2001
This KIDS COUNT data book details statewide trends in the well-being of Maine's children. The statistical portrait is based on a variety of indicators in the areas of: (1) physical and mental health; (2) social and economic opportunity; (3) education and learning; and (4) child health care access. The data book presents state level trend data, a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Birth Weight, Births to Single Women, Child Abuse
