Arkansas, Oklahoma KIDS COUNT Affiliates
Release Report on Rural Children and Families
OCT. 12, 2004 | The Arkansas and Oklahoma affiliates of KIDS
COUNT have released a report on rural children in those states.
“Rural Kids Count” examines employment, transportation,
housing, child care, health care services, and other aspects of
rural communities.
The researchers conducted focus groups, interviewed key
informants, and visited seven rural communities with high child
and family poverty. They noted that few datasets were available
to indicate the benefits of rural life or available or missing
services to children and families.
KIDS COUNT is a project of The Annie E. Casey Foundation that
presents an annual state-by-state picture of the status of
children in the United States. Along with the national report,
the Foundation funds a network of state KIDS COUNT projects,
which provides a comparison of the same child health and
well-being indicators on a county-by county basis.
In Oklahoma and Arkansas, the KIDS COUNT affiliates are the
Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy and the Arkansas Advocates
for Children and Families, non-profit child advocacy
organizations that serve as catalysts for children and families.
These two agencies form the collaborative partnership for the
Rural Kids Count Project.
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