More info on February's E@H
The guest for this month's meeting will be Morton Marcus, Director Emeritus of the Indiana Business Research Center at the IU Kelley School of Business; and Carol Stein, President of the Stein Group.
posted by Indiana Humanities Council @ 12:15 PM
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Thanks to everyone for their interest in the child care and economic development topic! For additional information on Indiana's child care workforce and the struggles they face, please take a look at the 2005 Indiana Child Care Workforce Study and county fact sheets (conducted by the Indiana Association for the Education of Young Children and funded by Indiana FSSA, Division of Family Resources, Bureau of Child Care.)
http://www.iaeyc.org/IndianaChildCareWorkforceStudy/tabid/510/Default.aspx
Additionally, here is some information that reflects our conversations during February's E@H:
1) Netherlands First in Child Well-Being
February 22, 2007
The Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland are at the top and the United States and the United Kingdom at the bottom of a United Nations score card that provides the first comprehensive assessment of the well-being of children and young people in the world’s advanced economies.
The study, "Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries," produced by the UNICEF Innocent Research Centre in Florence, Italy, is based on six dimensions to measure the well-being of children — material well-being, health and safety, education, peer and family relationships, behaviours and risks, and young people’s own subjective sense of well-being. In these six dimensions, there were 40 individual items where nations were rated including such diverse elements as...
-percentage of children living in poverty
-percentage of children reporting less than six educational possessions
-infant mortality rate
-mathematics literacy
-percentage of children whose parents eat their main meal with them
-percentage of children overweight
-percentage of students who agree with the statement, "I feel like an outsider."
The report shows that among all of the 21 countries surveyed in the study there is room for improvement. The report finds no strong or consistent relationship between per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and child well-being. The Czech Republic, for example, achieves a higher overall rank for child well-being (12.5) than several much wealthier European countries. Also no country features in the top third of the rankings for all six dimensions.
The report is intended as a first step towards regular and comprehensive monitoring of child well-being. Its scope is limited by the availability of comparable data, which means that key areas such as mental and emotional health and child neglect and abuse are omitted. But UNICEF hopes it will help to stimulate the collection of more comprehensive and more timely data. To read the full report, go to www.unicef.org/media/media_38299.html.
2) The long-awaited "2005 Child Care Licensing Study" has been released by the National Association for Regulatory Administration, an Exchange Strategic Partner. This comprehensive report compares licensing policies and practices in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Among the key findings:
-There are more than nine million licensed child care slots in the United States.
-More than 70% of these slots (6,634,247) are in centers.
-There are 105,444 licensed child care centers and 213,966 licensed family child care homes in the United States.
-The average licensed capacity for centers in the U.S. is 63 slots.
-19 states exempt preschools operated by the public schools from licensing; 12 states exempt centers operated by religious organizations.
-In some states (not identified), a 14 year old can serve as a teacher and a 16 year old can serve as a center director.
-Only three states require a director to have an associate's degree or higher.
-No states require a teacher to have any training beyond a CDA S(Child Development Associate) credential.
To download the executive summary, or the full report of this study, go to http://www.naralicensing.org/
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