Drive-Thru Event Recognizes Foster Care Families, Particularly Amidst Pandemic

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Drive-Thru Event Recognizes Foster Care Families, Particularly Amidst Pandemic

A first-time, drive-through event for foster families will be held at The Village for Families & Children in Hartford, as part of Foster Care Awareness Month. Participants include Village staff and dozens of foster care families participating in the Therapeutic Foster Care Program, which provides nurturing foster homes for children ages 6-18 who have been exposed to trauma. Village staff will distribute food, supplies and gifts to the foster parents and children.

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Call for Comprehensive Reform of Childcare, Post-COVID

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Call for Comprehensive Reform of Childcare, Post-COVID

Connecticut Voices for Children (CT Voices) released a report that examines the structural barriers to access, quality, and stability of early child care in Connecticut. The report, “The State of Early Childhood During the COVID-19 Pandemic,” offers six short-term and seven long-term recommendations Connecticut can use to reimagine the child care industry as an essential public service and infrastructure, in order to address the longstanding barriers to child care and industry stability that have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Connecticut Is A Leading State in Children's Health

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Connecticut Is A Leading State in Children's Health

In a new analysis of data ranking the states in children’s health, Connecticut had a number of bright spots, ranking 3rd in the highest percentage of children with excellent or very good health, 3rd in the highest percentage of children with recent medical and dental checkups, and 3rd in the highest percentage of children with excellent or very good teeth.

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Effort Underway to Relocate Children's Museum from West Hartford to Hartford

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Effort Underway to Relocate Children's Museum from West Hartford to Hartford

The West End Civic Association (WECA), a non-profit devoted to the improvement of Hartford’s West End Neighborhood, is seeking community support to bring the Children’s Museum, now located in West Hartford, to their adjacent Hartford neighborhood, less than two miles from the current location.

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Connecticut Invention Convention Names New Leader; Prep Underway for 2021 Event

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Connecticut Invention Convention Names New Leader; Prep Underway for 2021 Event

STEM educator Christine Lawlor-King has been named the new executive director of the Connecticut Invention Convention (CIC), the nation’s oldest and largest continuously operating invention education program for student inventors. For 2021, student invention applications are now being judged over a period of several weeks via a virtual portal system. A virtual "award ceremony" will take place on May 23 at 6pm, via YouTube and Facebook.

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Percentage of Children with Disabilities Increased in Past Decade, CT Higher Than National Average

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Percentage of Children with Disabilities Increased in Past Decade, CT Higher Than National Average

Over three million children – a total of 4.3% of the under-18 population in the United States - had a disability in 2019, according to newly released data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The childhood disability rate in the United States was higher in 2019 than in 2008, up 0.4 percentage points. Connecticut was slightly higher.

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Legislature Considers Plan to Allow Municipalities to Open College Savings Accounts for Students

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Legislature Considers Plan to Allow Municipalities to Open College Savings Accounts for Students

To improve the likelihood of low-income Connecticut youngsters graduating high school and entering college, a local resident has enlisted State Senator Dennis Bradley of Bridgeport to introduce legislation that would for the first time in state history permit municipalities to put seed money into specialized savings accounts, where the funds would accrue until they are used for college.

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Proposal Would Require State to Study Impact of Second-Hand Smoke in Multi-Family Dwellings

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Proposal Would Require State to Study Impact of Second-Hand Smoke in Multi-Family Dwellings

Legislation proposed at the State Capitol would establish a task force to study and make recommendations concerning protecting and safeguarding occupants and residents of mixed-use buildings from harm caused by secondhand smoke, especially residents and occupants who suffer from impaired respiratory function or another respiratory disability.

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