New National Scorecard on Children’s Progress Shows Troubling Obstacles to Reaching Key Milestones

At our free clinic in Barre, we treat hundreds of patients from nearly 50 different towns in central Vermont.

When Tara Scribner is sick, she can take the day off and not worry about it affecting her income.

In Vermont, we both celebrate the protections that the Family and Medical Leave Act provides and recognize that the law doesn’t go far enough.

Voices for Vermont’s Children is partnering with the Annie E. Casey Foundation in the release of a new KIDS COUNT® data snapshot, Early Reading Proficiency in the United States.

At Hen of the Wood, we call ourselves the Hen Family. That’s not just a figure of speech — we’re serious about building a business that supports everyone who helps make it successful.

“Between 2007-2012, we’ve seen this increase in child poverty. Up to 15.5% of children in Vermont live in poverty right now. So that’s a 25% increase,” said Sarah Teel, Research Associate at Voices for Vermont’s Children.

Voices for Vermont’s children has released its new children’s health report: The State of Our Children: KIDS COUNT in Vermont Health Report.

Voices for Vermont’s Children will be having its annual meeting on Thursday, December 19th from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

SNAP Nationwide Call-In Day was Wednesday, Dec. 4.  If you couldn’t call, here’s something else you can do to help protect SNAP benefits for the Vermont children and families who need them

Gov. Peter Shumlin won’t say yet whether he’ll support passage of a paid sick days bill that could become a cornerstone of the progressive agenda in Montpelier next year.

In 2007, state leaders created a high-profile task force and gave it a daunting challenge: Cut childhood poverty by half in 10 years.

On Oct. 5, the Burlington Free Press called for public accountability and oversight of our child protection system in an editorial (“DCF report needs emphasis on transparency”).

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program cuts will impact nearly 47 million people including 22 million children nationwide.

Read the op-ed published in the Rutland Herald

For Voices 2013 Wrap-Up of the 2013 Legislative Session

The 2013 KIDS COUNT Data Book, an annual publication of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, tracks the well-being of America’s children, ranks Vermont as 2nd in the nation for overall child well-being.

The rate of youth in Vermont between the ages of 16 and 24-years-old who are neither in school nor working jumped 50 percent between 2000 and 2011.

An article in The Bennington Banner illustrates the importance of consumer advocacy in the fight for oral health for all.

Here’s what happened in the 2012 Legislative Session.