Publications

To keep Silicon Valley Children’s Agenda Network members and interested community members informed, KIC has made available this online clearinghouse of information regarding the wellbeing of children in our community. Here you’ll find policy reports and evaluations, relevant news articles, issue briefs and more, all ready to download in easy-to-read PDF formats.

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Issue Briefs:

Each month Kids in Common publishes an issue brief on one of the data indicators of the Children's Agenda. Each issue brief will give background on the Children's Agenda, why the indicator is important, current indicator data and what it is telling us, and actions that can be taken to improve the indicator. We hope that you will find these issue briefs helpful in your work on behalf of children.

All Issue Briefs

Developmental Assets

Third Grade Reading Scores

Early Social Emotional Development

Childhood Hunger

Child Abuse & Neglect

Routine Access to Health Care

Healthy Lifestyle

Community Values Youth

Positive Behavior Supports

Children's Report:

2007 Santa Clara County Children’s Report:

Key Indicators of Well-Being

This 2007 Children’s Report, published by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, gives you a snapshot of how children are faring. For more data on how Santa County children are doing you can go to www.kidsdata.org.

2005 Santa Clara County Children’s Report:

Key Indicators of Well-Being

This report provides the community with extensive data about the wellbeing of our children and highlights disparities across health, social welfare, education, and juvenile justice indicators by age, gender, and ethnicity.

Greenbook Initiative

Final Evaluation Report of the Santa Clara County Greenbook Initiative: Toward a More Coordinated, County-wide Response to Family Violence.

In 1998 the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, Family Violence Department brought together a group of national experts to write a policy blueprint to design effective interventions between Child Welfare Services, domestic violence agencies, and the juvenile dependency court. Because of its green cover, the policy manual became fondly referred to as the "Greenbook." In December of 2000 and January of 2001, the U.S. Department of communities under an Inter-Departmental demonstration initiative: "Collaborations to Address Domestic Violence and Child Maltreatment" to implement guidelines from the Greenbook. Santa Clara County applied for and was selected as one of six pilot sites around the country to implement policies from the Greenbook. In Santa Clara County, project management was provided by Kids in Common.

For a copy of the Final Evaluation Report please send an email to info@kidsincommon.org