Diversity Data on Children and Youth

Posted by on March 24, 2014

Measures of Child Well Being & Equity

The Institute for Child, Youth, and Family Policy, with help from the Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, has launched diversitydatakids.org, a website that provides data and analysis on child well-being and equity in the US.

diversitydatakids.org is a state-of-the-art research project designed to meet the urgent need for a national, integrated information source that helps us understand:

• Who our children are, by documenting and tracking the rapidly changing demographics of children and families in the U.S.;
• What our children need, by  establishing a system for monitoring not only child outcomes, but also key factors (including opportunities, conditions, and resources) that drive child outcomes;
• How to improve opportunities for all children, especially those that may need the most help, by focusing explicitly and rigorously on issues of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic equity in child health and wellbeing.

http://www.diversitydatakids.org/