Facts
This number represents the percentage of young children in the US who lives in poverty or near poverty.
What is 50%?
Food insecurity has a 2 question screening tool, the questions being these.
What is: In the past 12 months: -we worried whether our food would run out before we got the money to buy more AND -the food we bought didn't last and we didn't have the money to buy more.?
Through this partnership, physicians and attorneys partner to help patients with social and legal issues.
What is Medical-Legal Partnership?
Medicaid and CHIP have decreased the rates of uninsured children from almost 30% of US children to just over 6%, meaning that more children are likely to have these visits.
What is: Preventive visits, or Well Child visits, or Health Supervision visits.
This program used in the medical home advances reading readiness by approximately 6 months when compared to controls.
What is Reach Out and Read?
These three minority groups are 3 times as likely to live in poverty than are white and Asian children.
What are African American, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaskan Natives?
These are the 6 items that the IHELLP screen screens for.
What is: income, housing, education, legal, literacy, personal safety?
This resource has been shown to increase the frequency with which parents and children read together, increase the number of children's books present in families' homes, and improve children's expressive and receptive language scores.
What is Reach Out and Read?
This program serves pregnant women and postpartum women and children younger than age 5 years whose incomes are less than 185% of the federal poverty line.
What is WIC?
This federal program shows many benefits for children including improvement in the rate and duration of exclusive breastfeeding.
What is WIC?
This organization defines the social determinants of health as the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age, and the wider set of forces and systems shaping the conditions of daily life.
What is the World Health Organization?
Name 3 of the listed screening tools in the table of the Berman article.
What is (any 3); Accountable Health Communities, Food Insecurity/Hunger Vital Signs, Health Leads, Help Steps, IHELLP, SWYC, WE CARE, WellRx?
These 3 resources are utilized in our clinic in certain ages or certain conditions, or when necessary.
What is: Help Me Grow, ROR, The United Way?
This is a direct cash benefit that provides tax refunds to low-income working families who pay payroll taxes but might not owe federal income tax.
What is the child tax credit?
School readiness and academic performance of children are sensitive to family income. These are the results of a $1000 increase in family annual income.
What is statistically significant increases in math and reading performance?
This is what is meant by Persistent Parental Economic Advantage.
What is: a son's income is strongly influenced by his father's income.
*This is an indication of low social mobility.
This screen is a national program funded by corporate and private donors in which patients who screen positive are referred by their providers to advocates in the clinics who connect them to community resources as well as government benefits programs. This has been successful in ensuring patients social needs are met.
What is Health Leads?
This phone line is accessed by dialing 211 and is available to families to find resources for housing, employment, food, and health care, including addiction, trauma, and mental health services.
What is The United Way?
This is a refundable federal tax credit that helps low income families. This helps reduce poverty by incentivizing employment and supplementing income for low wage workers.
What is the EITC (Earned income tax credit)?
This type of strategy has been a recent focus to reduce poverty and improve outcomes for low income families and focuses on helping children and their parents simultaneously.
What is 2-generation strategy?
Research by the Rand Corporation (2005) found that for every $1 spent on early childhood interventions, we get a return of investment in this wide range.
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What is $1.80 to $17?
This screener asks 6 questions addressing parent education, employment, child care, housing instability, food security, and utilities and can be self-administered.
What is WE CARE?
This program focuses on child development and parenting skills and has been shown to enhance them along with improved quality of care. A program specialist meets with families during well cares to discuss development, behavior, and safety.
What is Health Steps for Young Children?
Your 3 year old patient with Down Syndrome lives in a family whose income is below the federal poverty level, and as a result, he qualifies for this federal program.
What is Supplemental Security Income or SSI?
SNAP, which provides an electronic benefits card to provide nutrition assistance to low income families shows this result.
What is: it decreases both the rate and the depth of poverty?