Child-Friendly Cities
Child Well-Being Index (CWI)
Indicators
Kids Count
State of America's Children Report
100
The international agreement that concerns the freedoms and protections of children that make up many of the elements of a child-friendly city
What is the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
100
This domain includes child poverty, regular employment of the parents, health insurance for children, and the middle annual income of families with children, taking all of these this indicator is worse than 1975 rates
What is the Family Economic Well-being Domain
100
Choose one: Indicators are often ahead, behind, or on track with the year they are presented/published.
What is behind
100
One of the top five states that needs to work on child wellbeing
What is Arizona, Louisiana, Nevada, New Mexico, or Mississippi
100
In the list of industrialized countries the United States is known to be here in the list of countries for child poverty rates
What is second to the last before Romania (p. 18 of State of America's Children Report 2014)
200
In a child-friendly city, children should be seen and__________ in ways that transform policies and living conditions in a child friendly city
What is "heard" or listened to (or another synonym for these terms) (p. 7 of "Building Child Friendly Cities)
200
this domain has also fallen since 1975 and includes suicide rates, being part of religious institutions, and ratings relating to how much religion is important
What is Emotional/Spiritual Well-being
200
the age group that is the poorest in the nation
What is children (State of America's Children Report p. 22 Child Poverty Section)
200
Native Americans and rates of health insurance and the number of heads of Latino heads of households with a high school diploma follow this trend in comparison to the national average
What is worsening compared to the national average (p. 18 of Foreword in Kids Count 2014)
200
The United States and Somalia both have this same policy related to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child
What is non-ratification of the Convention (p. 18 in State of America's Children Report)
300
one building "block" of a child-friendly city
What is any of the following: a budget focused on children; a legal/policy focus on children; child participation; a children's rights focus embedded in a city's everyday operations; special government agency whose sole attention is on building and adjusting a city to be child-friendly; regular evaluation and reports (including a specific report) on children's wellbeing; an annual report on child wellbeing in a community; community education about children's rights; a non-governmental "watch dog" or oversight of the city government on children's rights (p. 4 of "Building Child Friendly Cities)
300
even though infant mortality rates have improved since 1975, the number of low weight births of infants have increased which impacts the following indicator
What is Children's Quality of Health
300
the poverty level of a family of four (which more families are facing after the recent recession)
What is $23,492 ($1958 a month or $452 per week) [[State of America's Children Report p. 22 Child Poverty]
300
African American children and rates of health insurance, Native American families and housing costs, and Latino babies born with a healthy weight follow this trend compared to the national average
What is better than the national average (p. 18 Foreword of Kids Count 2014)
300
In terms of African American child wellbeing and low infant mortality rates, the United States ranks here
What is below 72 other industrialized countries (p. 18 of State of America's Children Report)
400
one guarantee of Child Friendly Cities that features access to outdoor environments.
What is "Have green spaces for plants and animals," or "Live in an unpolluted environment, " or "Drink safe water and have access to proper sanitation" (p. 1 of "Building Child-Friendly Cities")
400
The rate of this domain that includes the number of children and teenagers who have left school and are not working work which has improved since 1975
What is Community Engagement
400
One of the organizations which work on children's issues and tracks well being
What is UNICEF, Children's Defense Fund, Annie E. Casey Foundation, or Foundation for Child Development
400
The childhood poverty rate for African Americans was this many times higher than White children
What is three times higher (p. 24 Kids Count Report 2014)
400
the age group most impacted by childhood poverty
What is the "youngest children" (p. 22 of State of America's Children Report)
500
the one guarantee of a child-friendly city that is not blind to disadvantage based on some of the social identities that society uses as the basis to stratify and create inequalities
What is "Be an equal citizen of their city with access to every service, regardless of ethnic origin, religion, income, gender, and disability" (p. 1 "Building Child Friendly Cities) [Note that race is missing here while the State of America's Report and Kids Count emphasize the inequalities and disparities experienced by children from racialized groups]
500
missing demographics in the Child Wellbeing Index that would be important for Ethnic Studies
What is race and ethnicity
500
the racialized classification of children who experience the worst levels of poverty according to statistical pictures
Who are African American children, Native American children, Latino children, especially children under five years old (p. 22 of the State of America's Children/Child Poverty section)
500
The percent of children living in poor families in 2012
What is 23 percent (p. 24 Kids Count Report 2014)
500
Statistically, White households have this much more wealth than African American households
What is seventeen times more wealth (p. 24 of State of America's Children Report)
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